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[Trigger warning: In this piece I discuss recent high-profile rape cases without linking to stories or describing assaults, however, discussion of sexual assault and rape culture follows.]
My very first thought when scrolling through headlines and op-eds (many involving words like “savages” and “animals”) about the tragic and violent sexual assault case in India was “What [...]
The blog is turning one! What does one get a blog on its first anniversary? I think I’ll break open a bottle of birthday cake vodka myself.
After fledging since OK4RJ began in 2009, we relaunched the blog something fierce last October. OK4RJ has a bit of a
[This discussion of transnational feminism will focus on Inderpal Grewal’s Transnational America. Other well-known authors in this area of study include Gayatri Spivak and Chandra Mohanty.]
Transnational feminism as an area of study and practice came about in the 1990s, as global capitalism was emerging. From this information, you may already be able to [...]
This post is part of our feminist theory series meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
Remember when Sally Field declared that if mothers ruled the world, there would be no war? I don’t know if Field considers herself a [...]
This post is part of our feminist theory series meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
Liberal feminism has dominated mainstream US feminist discourse since what is generally thought to be the beginning of the US women’s movement: The Seneca Falls Convention of [...]
This post is part of our feminist theory series meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
Since this is a feminist theory series, this post will be focused on Judith Butler’s work in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s in regards to poststructuralist [...]
This post is part of a series on feminist theory meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
The good news: you don’t have to read Freud to understand feminist psychoanalysis. Labeled the “father” of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud said a lot of things that [...]
This post is part of our feminist theory series meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
Before getting into specific feminist theories, I think it is helpful to first establish a feminist theory theory, i.e. a general understanding of what feminist theories are [...]
This post is part of a series on feminist theory meant to showcase the diversity of feminist thought. You can find the rest of the series here.
So we here at OK4RJ come from a lot of different backgrounds and have diverse interests, but each of us has encountered feminism and feminist [...]
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