This essay knits a dialogue between feminist political theory and feminist economy aiming at how to address the multiple challenges of platform economy nowadays. The essay's purpose is to articulate perspectives and tools from feminist economic policy in order to generate a gender equal and...

In early 2022, Germany's development minister Svenja Schulze announced the adoption of a feminist development policy. With this announcement, Germany joins a growing group of governments that have adopted or declared the adoption of an explicitly feminist perspective in their external policies....

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...

Feminist evaluation, as an approach to evaluation that exposes and critically assesses gender and other sources of inequalities, is a new and emerging field in India. Over the last several years, responding to the increased attention given to evaluation in policy circles, there has been a...

Feminist evaluation, as an approach to evaluation that exposes and critically assesses gender and other sources of inequalities, is a new and emerging field in India. Over the last several years, responding to the increased attention given to evaluation in policy circles, there has been a...

The Urdu serial drama first appeared on Pakistani state-controlled broadcast television in 1960. Over the years, the serial drama format and content has undergone significant changes, but one thing has remained constant: its popularity with female audiences. This article examines how...

"Feminist data protection" is not an established term or field of study: data protection discourse is dominated by doctrinal legal and economic positions, and feminist perspectives are few and far between. This editorial introduction summarises a number of recent interventions in the broader...

Feminist theories have extensively debated consent in sexual and political contexts. But what does it mean to consent when we are talking about our data bodies feeding artificial intelligence (AI) systems? This article builds a feminist and anti-colonial critique about how an individualistic...

Feminist theory of justice is important to the character of feminism. Feminism is social, political, the economic movement which aims to achieve equality of both sexes. Feminism began in the 19th century, in current times the impact of feminism is not equally distributed because there are...

COVID-19 exposed the limitations in the current economic system on public and private support for gender equity and the intersecting impact of gender, race, and class in that lack of support. Women of color, particularly those who are Black, Latina, or Native American, were at the intersection...

This article addresses the depiction of violent women in film and questions the feminist analysis of such violence, specifically the view that such depictions are liberating for women. The author discusses film analysis, the role of violence in film generally, and then violence by women in...

This paper constructs a culturally appropriate model for Muslim women's empowerment in management and leadership positions that addresses sustainability goals of quality education, gender equality, economic growth and reducing inequalities, as well as national and cultural differences from...

This paper is an attempt to historicize Frank Plumpton Ramsey's Apostle talks delivered from 1923 to 1925 within the social and political context of the time. In his talks, Ramsey discusses socialism, psychoanalysis, and British women's movement. Ramsey's views on these three intellectual...

To investigate the role of gender norms in household specialisation choices, I conduct a lab experiment with real hetero-sexual couples playing a battle of the sexes game. The salience of gender norms varies across treatments: the Norm group chooses between strategies labelled as a family...

The lack of women's presence in firms' top management positions reflects gender equity problems, especially in South Asia, including Pakistan, and contours a firm's financial behavior. Based on the underpinning of the conceptual framework developed by a combination of fourteen femininity...

“Check your privilege” is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey’s The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness...

In India, for ages Hindu women faced discrimination within the families w.r.t their property rights. Before independence women’s property was divided into 2 heads, stridhan & woman’s estate. Some restrictions were there on her power of disposal, if she was a married woman. The old law of...

The modern economic role of women emerged in four phases. The first three were evolutionary; the last was revolutionary. Phase I occurred from the late nineteenth century to the 1920s; Phase II was from 1930 to 1950; Phase III extended from 1950 to the late 1970s; and Phase IV, the "quiet...

Taking a critical perspective on the question of feminism’s situation, this essay urges feminists to consider the benefits, both theoretical and political, of doing feminism without feminism. Contrary to how this may sound, this is not to recommend the wholesale abandonment of feminism, or...

In this paper we analyze the role of ideologies in developing a culture of work and organization among disadvantaged women in societies entrenched in structures of patriarchy. We draw on evidence from Lijjat, a women’s cooperative in India. Through a careful consideration of the context and...

Classrooms are unlevel knowing fields, contested terrains where knowledge and ignorance are produced and circulate with equal vigor, and where members of dominant groups are accustomed to having an epistemic home-terrain advantage. My project focuses on one form of resistance that regularly...

Meaningful discussions about women at the top' can take place today only because a quiet revolution occurred about thirty years ago. The transformation was startlingly rapid and was accomplished by the unwitting foot soldiers of an upheaval that transformed the workforce. It can be seen in a...

This paper comments on Professor Cristina Tilley's rewritten feminist opinion in Boyes v Kerr (Texas 1993). The Texas Supreme Court in Boyles v. Kerr rigidly refused to extend the state’s negligent infliction of emotional distress (NIED) precedents to permit recovery when the plaintiff was a...

This paper discusses how the platform economy – dominated by a few firms – is extractivist, exploitative and expedient. It is based on an unsustainable model with scant regard for natural resources, and is built on the back of a global division of labor that bears the marks of race, class,...

This paper attempts to locate the feminist critique of philosophy within the broader feminist goal of seeking equality in society. The argument for achieving the stated feminist goal purportedly begins within the conceptual world. In particular, the paper attempts at unveiling the philosophic...

When other measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, the body mass index (BMI) is a biological measure that reflects current net nutrition. This study uses a difference-in-decompositions framework to analyze how women's BMIs varied with the advent of early 20th century social...

The longstanding coined phrase “feminization of poverty” refers to the fact that many women are poor and many of the poor are women, a phenomenon that stems from social, economic, and legal systems which reinforce an antiquated single-earner family model. In response, this Afterword...

Feminist perspectives are not new to tax law. The first academic piece bringing a feminist perspective to bear on tax law dates to the early 1970s, when Grace Blumberg published “Sexism in the Code: A Comparative Study of Income Taxation of Working Wives and Mothers.” Contemporaneously, none...

The novel Coronavirus has spread internationally to more than two hundred countries and territories. At the same time, human trafficking in girls and women constitutes a global oppression in virtually all nations either as the source, transit, or destination. The feminist investigators have it...