Feminism and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have often been considered opposing theoretical and intellectual traditions. This paper imagines a meeting between these seemingly divergent fields and considers the theoretical and methodological challenges that ANT and feminism raise for one another. This paper examines an empirical project that calls for an engagement with both ANT and feminism. Throug...

Across popular media and political discourse, subjects are increasingly addressed through the language of resilience – called upon to be positive, show ‘grit, ‘bounceback’ from adversity. In her latest book, Feminism The Politics Resilience: Essays on Gender, Media End Welfare (2020), Angela McRobbie offers an incisive analysis gendered address that this call takes; teasing out its complex rela...

In a recent talk given at a North American University, a prominent feminist scholar from the United States observed that the contributions of Black women in mass political movements have been given short shrift in both conventional male-centred narratives of revolutionary movements (such as the Black Power movement in the USA), and mainstream feminist accounts of women’s activism, because inter...

This study is based on clinical sociological principles derived from Durkheim's and Weber's theories, as well as from contemporary research findings which suggest that religion and feminism can be social sources of empowerment for women. The theoretical orientation therefore incorporates social and cultural influences on behavior, as well as the intrapsychic and interpersonal decision-making pr...

By interviewing Swedish feminist activists who sell commodities to serve purposes, this study focuses on how they articulate their engagement and make it intelligible. To untangle articulations about businesses may stabilise, reshape challenge values engagement, we use theories of popular feminism alongside discourse theory capture its contingencies. The analysis shows that, rather than enhanci...

This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, includi...

Introduction............................................................................................75 I. Defeating Gender Inequality.....................................................79 A. Post-Feminism......................................................................81 B. Neoliberal Feminism............................................................86 II. Perpetuating Gender Inequa...