feminism

The performance artist was a brilliantly subversive pioneer whose work exposed the predicament of women living in a world that was not made for us • Renowned feminist artist and film-maker Valie Export dies aged 85 Punk, intellectual, feminist, theorist, brave as hell, vulnerable, funny, Valie Export was a hero to many women. Since the 1960s, she was driven by a fierce conviction that art and med…

_Bulletin of Islamic Research_ 4 (2):173-188. 2026South Asian Muslim women's fiction remains relatively underrepresented in Anglophone literary scholarship, particularly writing produced in Indian regional languages. This article examines Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp: Selected Stories (trans. Deepa Bhasthi, 2025) to analyze how feminine temporality is constructed and negotiated in South Asian Muslim…

Human communities have always lived in the tension between rupture and repair. This paper proposes that this rhythm is not accidental but structural: rupture is inevitable, and repair is necessary for continuity. While contemporary feminist philosophy has illuminated the politics of care, precarity, and recognition, the universality of rupture and repair has not been fully named. Classical myths …

In the 1970s, the painter shocked the art world with paintings modeled on her own nude body. Now in her 10th decade, she’s celebrated as a feminist pioneer On a life-revivingly sunny day in New York, light pours into the SoHo studio of the 93-year-old painter Joan Semmel. She’s lived in the floor-through railroad apartment since 1970, and she works out of a high-ceilinged room overlooking Spring …

Philosophy of mind has often modeled cognition as an internal process unfolding within insulated individuals, abstracted from relations of power, care, and dependency — including the cognitive labor of care work and the mental load that sustains household and family life. This paper argues that such models cannot remain methodologically coherent when examined through feminist theoretical commitme…

This post originally appeared on Nursing Clio. On December 16, 1975, a group of Washington, D.C. area women’s health activists held the first-ever protest at the headquarters of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The demonstration took the form of a “memorial service” to commemorate the thousands of women who had died from using the […]

When I first started my PhD in neuroscience, a philosophically-inclined friend of mine started expounding on Feminist critiques of science. To most people, this would seem irrelevant to the science I was investigating: theory and modeling on a computer, before moving to hermaphroditic C. … Continue reading →

From Mary Wollstonecraft’s call for chastity as a universal rather than a female virtue in A vindication of the rights of woman (1792), through nineteenth and early-twentieth century writings on the commodification of women in marriage and prostitution and campaigns for rational dress, to fights for women’s reproductive rights and sexual liberation in the 1960s and 1970s, the female body and fema…

On 29th-29th March the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) held a conference on Feminism in/and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. Invited speakers were Rae Langton (Cambridge), Michèle Le Doeuff (CNRS, Paris), and Jennifer Saul (Sheffield). Papers were also given by Elselijn Kingma (Southampton), Karen Margrethe Nielsen (Oxford), Paula Boddington (Oxford), Ema Sullivan-Bissett (