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Feminist Theory is an interdisciplinary framework that analyzes the social, political, and economic inequalities faced by women. It critiques patriarchal structures, explores gender roles, and advocates for women's rights and empowerment, emphasizing the importance of gender as a category of analysis in understanding power dynamics and social justice.
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Feminist Theory is an interdisciplinary framework that analyzes the social, political, and economic inequalities faced by women. It critiques patriarchal structures, explores gender roles, and advocates for women's rights and empowerment, emphasizing the importance of gender as a category of analysis in understanding power dynamics and social justice.

Key research themes

1. How does Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) reveal intersectional power dynamics in knowledge production and social research?

This theme investigates the methodological application of Feminist Standpoint Theory (FST) and intersectionality within feminist epistemologies to reveal situated knowledge shaped by gender, race, class, and ethnicity. It emphasizes how FST challenges androcentric biases by centering the knowledge and perspectives of marginalized women, thereby reconfiguring the production of social scientific knowledge beyond dominant male-centric frameworks. This theme matters because it offers transformative approaches to epistemology and research methodologies that make visible historically silenced voices, fostering emancipatory knowledge production and critical sociological insight.

Key finding: This paper empirically demonstrates that applying Feminist Standpoint Theory to the analysis of ten doctoral theses allows for the generation of situated scientific knowledge that explicitly incorporates intersectionality... Read more
Key finding: The paper situates intersectionality as a critical advancement in feminist theory during the twentieth century, highlighting critiques that previous feminist waves generalized women's experiences based on white, middle-class... Read more

2. In what ways do Spiritual Feminist Literature and Theatre constitute innovative genre creation as feminist acts of voice reclamation and cultural transformation?

This theme explores feminist literary and performative innovation through the creation of new genres—specifically Spiritual Feminist Literature and Spiritual Feminist Theatre—originated by M. Dangi. It focuses on the genre-creation process as a deliberate feminist strategy for reclaiming silenced feminine voices, integrating spiritual, ritualistic, and poetic forms to challenge patriarchal literary norms. These genres function as spaces of healing, truth-telling, and structural transformation, connecting literary authorship with feminist legacy and collective empowerment. The theme matters because it highlights genre authorship as a key feminist epistemic and aesthetic intervention that expands the feminist literary canon and disrupts traditional narratives.

Key finding: Although focusing on legal studies and gender violence, this book exemplifies how countercolonial and intersectional feminist theories inform emancipatory practices, parallel to how spiritual feminist literature uses genre... Read more
Key finding: This foundational paper explicitly defines Spiritual Feminist Literature as a newly invented literary genre blending memoir, mysticism, poetry, and cultural memory to restore suppressed feminine voices. It illustrates how... Read more
Key finding: This study builds on the previous work by detailing Spiritual Feminist Theatre as a performative genre extending the literary form into ritualized sacred staging. It describes a unique cyclical structure that embodies... Read more
Key finding: This research conceptualizes genre-building as a sacred feminist act that not only reclaims language but also structurally transforms literary norms. The paper offers case studies of M. Dangi’s creation of Spiritual Feminist... Read more

3. How do feminist critiques challenge normative knowledge production and engage with power dynamics in contemporary sociopolitical contexts?

This theme centers on the praxis and epistemology of feminist critique as a mode of knowledge production that both resists and reconstructs dominant hegemonic frameworks. It foregrounds the notion of 'epistemic generosity' as a way to perform critique that is open, reflective, and self-critical rather than adversarial and combative. The theme also explores how feminist critique engages with intersectionality, decoloniality, and transdisciplinary approaches to challenge androcentric, heteronormative, and colonial epistemologies. It matters because feminist critique shapes feminist worldmaking and knowledge production, influencing methodologies and political commitments.

Key finding: This article reframes feminist critique away from adversarial, militaristic models towards 'epistemic generosity,' an open, receptive stance grounded in listening, slowness, and humility. Drawing on foundational feminist... Read more
Key finding: This editorial introduces feminist engagements with digital and algorithmic systems, highlighting how feminist critique applies to contemporary sociotechnical systems that reproduce systemic inequalities. It invokes concepts... Read more
Key finding: This essay applies feminist affect theory and critical discourse analysis to interrogate how language surrounding 'family' perpetuates heteronormativity and exclusion of non-normative family structures, such as single-parent... Read more

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