Postcolonial feminism is an exploration into the interactions of colonialism with gender, nation, class, race, and sexualities in different contexts of women’s lives. Postcolonial feminism or the ‘Third World feminism’ originated as a critique of mainstreams in the Western feminist theorists, investigating the portrayal of women in the literature and society of the colonized countries as margin...

Following the ‘archival turn’ of 1990s and early 2000s, scholars have understood archives as entwined in epistemic hierarchies power. The study gender sexuality, alongside postcolonial approaches were central to this critical shift, advancing methods that both challenged archive a fixed entity historical truth broadened perceptions where history is made. Queer feminist historians since drawn at...

How is it possible to construct a narrative and a reflection about contemporary Brazilian feminism for an international event that intends to conduct a review of feminist theory and activism on a global level, by bringing together feminist researchers from several countries? Even if it is necessary to contextualize some of the central features of Brazilian feminism, I will also try not to repro...

The radical feminist critique of pornography remains the most compelling analysis sexually explicit material available, yet it is routinely marginalized in dominant culture and circles. Why? Patriarchy woven deeply into our lives, denial or avoidance pathology patriarchy common. But men should embrace, not reject, feminism, only for sake women’s liberation but own. power arguments from both jus...

prior to the 1980s, numerous charges of discrimination were noteworthy among women in hollywood. in those years, women were in uncertain situations, so they seemed aimless and vulnerable. in the period that this article focuses on, the female characters are or have become intelligent and therefore open-minded and potentially independent. although, they are still vulnerable and unsure of themsel...