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Gender as “Ebola from Brussels”: The Anticolonial Frame and the Rise of Illiberal Populism by Korolczuk, Elżbieta, Graff, Agnieszka

“…This article examines the recent wave of grassroots mobilizations opposing gender equality, LGBT rights, and sex education, which vilify the term “gender” in…”
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Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis by Cho, Sumi, Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, McCall, Leslie

“…Intersectional insights and frameworks are put into practice in a multitude of highly contested, complex, and unpredictable ways. We group such engagements…”
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Symposium in International Languages

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Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique by Mohanty, Chandra Talpade

“…This essay grows out of a presentation on a panel called “Lost in Translation” at the Critical Race Studies conference in 2010. It is a reflection on the…”
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Colorblind Intersectionality by Carbado, Devon W.

“…In 1989, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw published “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine,…”
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Symposium in International Languages

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Trapped in the Wrong Theory: Rethinking Trans Oppression and Resistance by Bettcher, Talia Mae

“…In this essay, I defend an account of trans oppression and resistance that departs from the prevailing transgender model. While I show why both the “trapped in…”
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Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates by Chun, Jennifer Jihye, Lipsitz, George, Shin, Young

“…The history of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates (AIWA) in Oakland and San Jose, California, over nearly three decades provides a vivid illustration of social…”
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Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns by Bernstein, Elizabeth

“…Over the past decade, abolitionist feminist and evangelical Christian activists have directed increasing attention toward the “traffic in women” as a dangerous…”
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Neoliberal Feminism and the Future of Human Capital by Rottenberg, Catherine

“…This article examines the contemporary embrace of feminism by the mainstream media and among high-powered women. I begin by showing that not only is a…”
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From Patriarchy to Intersectionality: A Transnational Feminist Assessment of How Far We've Really Come by Patil, Vrushali

“…This article examines the general shift in feminist scholarship from the use of the concept of patriarchy to the concept of intersectionality from a…”
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Vulnerability and Victimization: Rethinking Key Concepts in Feminist Discourses on Sexual Violence by Gilson, Erinn Cunniff

“…Vulnerability is both a vexing and vital concept for feminist theorizing about sexual violence and victimization. The concept is widely perceived as…”
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The Infrastructure of Intimacy by Wilson, Ara

“…This essay brings together two different rubrics that are animating recent strands of critical analysis: intimacy and infrastructure. Intimacy has emerged in…”
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Intersectionality as Method: A Note by MacKinnon, Catharine A.

“…This brief note clarifies and expands upon the power and implications of intersectionality on the level of method, focusing upon its use in the hands of…”
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Unsafe Travel: Experiencing Intersectionality and Feminist Displacements by Lewis, Gail

“…Taking as its starting point the success of the concept of intersectionality in generating feminist inquiry in Europe, this article explores the disavowal and…”
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Affective Labor and Feminist Politics by Oksala, Johanna

“…This article discusses the political potential of Michael Hardt’s and Antonio Negri’s influential notion of affective labor for feminist theory and politics…”
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Feminist Refugee Epistemology: Reading Displacement in Vietnamese and Syrian Refugee Art by Espiritu, Y[m] Lê, Duong, Lan

“…Applying a transnational feminist lens to refugee studies, we introduce the concept of feminist refugee epistemology, which posits that gendered displacement…”
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Regretting Motherhood: A Sociopolitical Analysis by Donath, Orna

“…Based on in-depth interviews with twenty-three Israeli mothers, this article seeks to contribute to an ongoing inquiry into women’s subjective experiences of…”
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Necropolitics, Narcopolitics, and Femicide: Gendered Violence on the Mexico-U.S. Border by Wright, Melissa W.

“…In 1993, a group of women shocked Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, with the news that dozens of girls and women had been murdered and dumped, like garbage, around the…”
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The Move to Affirmative Consent by Halley, Janet

“…In “The Move to Affirmative Consent,” I argue that, though affirmative consent has great appeal because of its respect for norms about good sex that we all…”
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