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A guest post fromIda Roland Birkvad. Ida is a PhD student in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her thesis interrogates the concept of Aryanism, which she understands as a set of contingent and contradictory relations connecting India and Euro...
Classical psychoanalysis has become the least commonly practiced form of psychodynamic therapy because of its demands on the patient's time, as well as on his or her emotional and financial resources. It is, however, the oldest form of psychodynamic treatment. The theories that underlie psychoanalys...
He argues that any study of human subjects which ultimately parses humankind into discrete groups must proceed with caution, and uses the concept of "intelligibil- ity" to suggest a framework for queer forms of neuroethics. The second paper was written by Eliza McDuffie, who is a rising ...
To that, the American and French Revolutions added the concept of equality. In reality, the promise of these two concepts was realized in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in parts of the West for only a section of its population: propertied men. It took the liberal feminist movement ...
Until later in the 1980s, ecofeminism remained the purview of academics, but the concept became more mainstream in 1987 with the publication of Ynestra King's article "What Is Ecofeminism?". In this article, King urged everyday people to interrogate how their attitudes toward the environment ...
The main objective of the series is to build on theories on gender and feminism in order to propose a different perspective on legal science and method. In pursuing these tasks, the series aims to engage with the connections between gender identity, gender relations and political systems, and ...
However, the dominant binary heterosexual male-female discourse makes it difficult for people who don’t ‘fit’ into ‘normal’ gender identities to be themselves, and raising awareness of the oppressive nature of the concept of ‘heteronormativity’ and celebrating gender differences and diversity ar...
Feminist pragmatists have relied on John Dewey's concept of experience as philosophical support for a position that holds together the subject and object in a nondualistic epistemology. Jane Duran finds similarities in this to feminist thought: "The epistemic spirit of feminist theorizing has its me...
I was like the proverbial fish who lives and breathes water but doesn’t has a concept of water because it surrounds them 24/7. But nothing prepared me for what it’s like to be a wrinkle in the gender machine, a nail that sticks out, an anomaly, a person who was first assigned ...