Critically Shaping Women, Gender, Feminist, & Sexuality Studies
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Frontiers encourages submissions in all areas of women’s studies that cross or reexamine boundaries and that explore the diversity of women’s lives as shaped by such factors as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and place.
CURRENT ISSUE
Volume 46, Issue 3
This general issue features intersectional feminist literary and historical analyses, studies of activism and academic labor, and art. Amid precarity and bad news, including the addition of equity, inclusivity, intersectionality, and feminism to the growing list of words "banned" by the US federal government as a way to censor discourse and erase experiences, the contributions in this issue continue to grapple with feminist epistemology, stories, and histories of oppression as well as powerful resistance; erasure as well as persistence.
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Book Reviews
Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life
In Redefining the Political: Black Feminism and the Politics of Everyday Life, Alex J. Moffett-Bateau audaciously extends and re-imagines the theoretical and conceptual understandings of politics and the political. While traditional definitions of politics and the political are not inclusive of the unaccounted ways individuals interact with their communities, Moffett-Bateau’s reconceptualization offers new insights into […]
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Book Reviews
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism
The Future that Was offers a necessary historical account of Third World[1] women’s contributions to the field of Gender and Development and Transnational Feminisms. Durba Mitra intervenes by arguing that Third World women’s contributions to knowledge production through attending conferences, writing and research, publishing, and on the ground protests, between 1970 to late 1980s set the […]
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Book Reviews
Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture
Edited by Srirupa Chatterjee and Shweta Rao Garg, Female Body Image and Beauty Politics in Contemporary Indian Literature and Culture is a necessary intervention against the tyranny of beauty rampant in the South Asian socio-cultural paradigm. The editors and the twelve other contributors to the volume initiate a theoretically framed inquiry into female body image […]
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