The status of universalism has been much debated by feminists at the end of the twentieth century. Poststructuralist feminism is readily positioned in these debates as antagonistic to normative universalism. It is criticized as such: how is injustice to be judged and condemned if contestation and the openness of ungrounded universalism are the only ideals? This paper is a ‘sub-philosophical’ en...

Defenders of multiculturalism have been recently criticized for failing to address gender inequality in minority cultures. Multiculturalism would seem incompatible with a commitment to feminism. This article discusses two empirical cases that pose a problem for public policy in the Netherlands: a conflict over wearing headscarves (hijab) and requests for surgical hymen repair. These cases evoke...

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...

This study attempted to reveal the representation of men in a feminist online magazine named Magdalene.co perform transparent relationship between language, social practice, and structure. For data analysis, I combined three-dimensional model from Fairclough (2001) Halliday’s transitivity (2004). Qualitative approach document analysis were conducted towards form articles taken Gender Sexuality ...

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...

Superhero comics books’ reliance on revision has been discussed but the role of gender in relation to these concepts such is yet be explored. This paper examines first story arc Kelly Sue DeConnick’s acclaimed comic book series Captain Marvel (2012) through interrogative lens postfeminist culture, considering how past and present collided within relaunching popular superheroine Ms. (Carol Danve...

This article examines the previously unexplored current of Freethinking feminism in the second half of the nineteenth century. Active in the women's movement of this period, Freethinking feminists were nonetheless viewed as a liability—an attitude that contributed to their exclusion from much of the subsequent historiography. Such marginalisation was due not only to their vocal opposition to al...

In this paper a method for digitally recording four quarter-reference-wave-holograms (by CCD) in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup, and reconstructing the object wave-front by numerical method is presented. The terms of direct transmission, auto-correlation and conjugate wave in the four wave reconstruction are cancelled out and only one original object wave is left after overlapping. Reconst...

The epistemology which we went through up to 1970’s has hardly been gender-sensitive, and with the emergence of feminism, mainly its Second Wave, a group gender-sensitive practitioners feminist philosophy came out declare that our so far cultivated (which is sometimes regarded as “pure” “standard‘) subtly infected viruses patriarchal ideology androcentrism. Taking this gender dimension in mind,...