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Feminist Solidarity, Resistance, and Social Justice
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Feminist Solidarity, Resistance, and Social Justice

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Gender Studies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2024) | Viewed by 7867

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Manijeh Daneshpour

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California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University, Irvine, CA 92606, USA
Interests: multiculturalism; social justice; third wave feminism; premarital and marital relationships

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Women around the world continue to grapple with persistent challenges related to systemic gender biases that undermine the full realization of women’s potential, hindering progress toward gender equality. Advocating for women’s rights and dismantling these barriers is crucial for fostering a more just and inclusive global society. Feminist solidarity and social justice should not be just ideals but lived realities. We invite scholars, activists and thought leaders to contribute to our upcoming Special Issue exploring the dynamic intersection of feminist solidarity and social justice. In a world marked by diverse struggles, this edition aims to amplify voices that champion equality, inclusivity and empowerment.

Themes to explore include:

  1. Intersectional Feminism: Unravelling the complexities of intersectionality, examining how different forms of oppression intersect and compound, and proposing strategies for more inclusive advocacy.
  2. Global Solidarity Movements: Sharing insights on international feminist movements fostering solidarity, breaking down barriers and challenging systemic inequalities across borders.
  3. Empowerment Through Education: Exploring the transformative power of education in dismantling gender norms and empowering individuals to become advocates for social justice.
  4. Media Representation: Analyzing the role of media in shaping the perceptions of feminism and social justice, and proposing strategies for a more inclusive representation.

For consideration in this journal, please submit your proposals and any questions to the Special Issue Guest Editor by 30 January 2024. Notification of acceptance will be provided by 15 February 2024. Final papers are due on 30 April 2024 for peer review.

Prof. Dr. Manijeh Daneshpour
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • social justice
  • feminist solidarity
  • intersectional feminism
  • social movements
  • equality
  • global feminism

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Whither Feminist Solidarity? Critical Thinking, Racism, Islamophobia, Gender, Authoritarianism, and Sexism in a U.S. National Sample
by Kyle Killian
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(10), 502; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13100502 - 25 Sep 2024
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Feminist solidarities form when people from a variety of social locations and accompanying power and privilege actively forge alliances across difference(s) to support gender equity and justice and to resist systemic gender bias. While nations from the Global North depict themselves as bastions [...] Read more.
Feminist solidarities form when people from a variety of social locations and accompanying power and privilege actively forge alliances across difference(s) to support gender equity and justice and to resist systemic gender bias. While nations from the Global North depict themselves as bastions of gender equity in comparison to nations of the Global South, countries such as the US, making dubious claims to “post-sexist” and “post-racial” societies, protest too much. Using a representative, national sample in the US, most participants did not disagree with sexist and racist attitudes and beliefs, and six variables accounted for 60.1% of the variance in sexism in a multiple regression model (F = 89.62, p < 0.001): racism, critical thinking dispositions, Islamophobia, conspiracy mentality, gender, and authoritarianism. Implications for educators and social science researchers are discussed. Full article
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Cultural Norm Transmission/Disruption amongst Somali Refugee Women: The Beauty and Privilege of Intergenerational Relationships
by Zamzam Dini, Cawo Abdi, Beatrice (Bean) E. Robinson and Jennifer Jo Connor
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(8), 432; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080432 - 21 Aug 2024
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Since the onset of the Somali civil war in the late 1980s, more than 2 million Somalis have been internally displaced or crossed international borders to seek haven. Yet, research on diasporic Somali women’s intergenerational communication about marriage, sex, and female genital cutting [...] Read more.
Since the onset of the Somali civil war in the late 1980s, more than 2 million Somalis have been internally displaced or crossed international borders to seek haven. Yet, research on diasporic Somali women’s intergenerational communication about marriage, sex, and female genital cutting (FGC) remains scant. This paper draws from data we collected from 15 women over the age of 45 who were part of a much larger project on refugee women and sexual health and well-being. The analysis centers on how Somali women across the generations recalibrate definitions of family. We analyze the new roles that sisters, aunts, and grandmothers occupy in the lives of younger women, as family dispersal often results in the absence of biological mothers. In the new settlement, the findings showcase both continuity and change in how sex, marriage, and female genital cutting (FGC) are discussed among female family members. Our findings support not only the dynamic nature of family roles that women occupy across generations but also the malleability of cultural practices as families navigate changing cultural, legal, and social norms in their new settlements. Full article
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“Our House Was a Small Islamic Republic”: Social Policing and Resilient Resistance in Contemporary Iran
by Alireza Delpazir and Fatemeh Sadeghi
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(8), 382; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080382 - 23 Jul 2024
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In this article, we address a question that has been frequently asked: Why is the Iranian government unable to defeat the struggle by women against the compulsory hijab? What distinguishes women’s resistance from other forms of freedom and justice movements? We address these [...] Read more.
In this article, we address a question that has been frequently asked: Why is the Iranian government unable to defeat the struggle by women against the compulsory hijab? What distinguishes women’s resistance from other forms of freedom and justice movements? We address these questions by highlighting women’s “resilient resistance” within the family domain as both flexible and sustainable. The article examines how the domestication of politics and the politicization of family have interconnected dynamics in Iran, as illustrated by the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement. It shows how women have shifted the Iranian family from a collaborator of oppressive patriarchal power to a more egalitarian structure to accommodate their protests against the compulsory hijab. As the catalysts for this change, they succeeded in discrediting the Islamic Republic’s moral discourse based on the compulsory hijab as a manifestation of modesty for women. They also validated their own morality based on personal choice. Using ethnographic fieldwork, including participatory observation and in-depth interviews with movement participants, this paper shows how women’s invisible yet significant resistance within the family has transformed this institution and profoundly affected the broader political landscape of Iran. It examines a unique case where social transformation drives larger political change. Full article
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Ecofeminism and the Cultural Affinity to Genocidal Capitalism: Theorising Necropolitical Femicide in Contemporary Greece
by Anastasia Christou
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(5), 263; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050263 - 13 May 2024
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Resilient necrocapitalism and the zombie genre of representations of current dystopias are persistent in their political purpose in producing changes in the social order to benefit plutocracies around the world. It is through a thanatopolitical lens that we should view the successive losses [...] Read more.
Resilient necrocapitalism and the zombie genre of representations of current dystopias are persistent in their political purpose in producing changes in the social order to benefit plutocracies around the world. It is through a thanatopolitical lens that we should view the successive losses of life, and this zombie genre has come to represent a dystopia that, for political purposes, is intended to produce changes in societies which have tolerated the violent deaths of women. This article focuses on contemporary Greece and proposes a theoretical framework where femicide is understood as a social phenomenon that reflects a global gendered necropolitical logic which equals genocide. Such theoretical assemblages have to be situated within intersectional imperatives and tacitly as the result of the capitalist terror state performed in an expansive and direct immediate death, exacerbated by the lingering slow social death of the welfare state. The article contends that the scripted hetero-patriarchal social order of the necrocapitalist state poses a unique political threat to societies. With the silence of the complicity of the state, what is necessary is the creation and spread of new political knowledge and new social movements as resilient political tactics of resistance. This article foregrounds an ecofeminist perspective on these issues and considers ways through which new pedagogies of hope can counter the gendered necropolitics of contemporary capitalism in Greece. Full article
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