The seed: Infertility is a feminist issue. AlexandraKimball. Coach House Books. Ontario, Canada, 2019. $14.95. Paperback. 135 pp. ISBN : 1552453855

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 398-403
Author(s):  
Christa Craven
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue

scholarly journals Grammatical Gender Trouble and Hungarian Gender[lessness]. Part I: Comparative Linguistic Gender

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 143-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise O. Vasvári
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Cultural Expectations ◽  
The World ◽  
Gender Trouble ◽  
Pronominal Gender

The aim of this study is to define linguistic gender[lessness], with particular reference in the latter part of the article to Hungarian, and to show why it is a feminist issue. I will discuss the [socio]linguistics of linguistic gender in three types of languages, those, like German and the Romance languages, among others, which possess grammatical gender, languages such as English, with only pronominal gender (sometimes misnamed ‘natural gender’), and languages such as Hungarian and other Finno-Ugric languages, as well as many other languages in the world, such as Turkish and Chinese, which have no linguistic or pronomial gender, but, like all languages, can make lexical gender distinctions. While in a narrow linguistic sense linguistic gender can be said to be afunctional, this does not take into account the ideological ramifications in gendered languages of the “leakage” between gender and sex[ism], while at the same time so-called genderless languages can express societal sexist assumptions linguistically through, for example, lexical gender, semantic derogation of women, and naming conventions. Thus, both languages with overt grammatical gender and those with gender-related asymmetries of a more covert nature show language to represent traditional cultural expectations, illustrating that linguistic gender is a feminist issue.

Why Fat is a Feminist Issue

Sex Roles ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 66 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 600-607 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abigail Saguy
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue

The beginning of the sharpness: loyalty, citizenship and Muslim divorce practice

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-317
Author(s):  
Máiréad Enright
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Divorce Law ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Civil Courts ◽  
Financial Outcome ◽  
Feminist Work

AbstractMuslim divorce practice is a feminist issue, insofar as it often departs from core principles of Anglo-American divorce law. When legal feminists have examined the reception of Muslim divorce practice in common-law courts, they have tended to measure those departures in terms of financial outcome. There is a danger that, in consequence, our theory of Muslim women's legal agency is reduced to pragmatic matters of choice, money and advantage-taking. That theory seems hugely impoverished when read against the political background in Britain, where Muslims‘ legal agency upon divorce is bound up with deeper questions of belonging and allegiance. Feminist work ought to be able to advance a theory of citizens’ commitment to civil law in litigation which can give a complex account even of the unsettling litigation of Muslim divorce disputes in civil courts. This article draws on existing work in feminist multiculturalism to sketch the beginnings of that theory.

Thin is the Feminist Issue

The Body ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 115-116
Author(s):  
Nicky Diamond
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Issue

“Cow Is a Mother, Mothers Can Do Anything for Their Children!” Gaushalas as Landscapes of Anthropatriarchy and Hindu Patriarchy

Hypatia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yamini Narayanan
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Feminist Issue ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Economic Capital ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Gendered Violence ◽  
Animal Agriculture ◽  
Indian Nation

This article argues that gaushalas, or cow shelters, in India are mobilized as sites of Hindutva or Hindu ultranationalism, where it is a “vulnerable” Hindu Indian nation—or the “Hindu mother cow” as Mother India—who needs “sanctuary” from predatory Muslim males. Gaushalas are rendered spaces of (re)production of cows as political, religious, and economic capital, and sustained by the combined and compatible narratives of “anthropatriarchy” and Hindu patriarchy. Anthropatriarchy is framed as the human enactment of gendered oppressions upon animal bodies, and is crucial to sustaining all animal agriculture. Hindu patriarchy refers to the instrumentalization of female and feminized bodies (women, cows, “Mother India”) as “mothers” and cultural guardians of a “pure” Hindu civilization. Both patriarchies commodify bovine motherhood and breastmilk. which this article frames as a feminist issue. Through empirical research, this article demonstrates that gaushalas generally function as spaces of exploitation, incarceration, and gendered violence for the animals. The article broadens posthumanist feminist theory to illustrate how bovine bodies, akin to women's bodies, are mobilized as productive, reproductive, and symbolic capital to advance Hindu extremism and ultranationalism. It subjectifies animal bodies as landscapes of nation‐making using ecofeminism and its subfield of vegan feminism.

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