Beyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slinging: Jo Littler interviews Angela McRobbie

In this wide-ranging interview, which took place in spring 2021, Angela McRobbie talks about her work in relation to social politics, the contemporary conjuncture, cultural studies, decolonisation and feminism. Beginning with a discussion on her experience of Covid, it contextualises these reflections through a discussion of anti-welfarism and the scapegoating of dependency, drawing from her new book Feminism and the Politics of Resilience. It moves on to discuss different forms and experiences of feminism: including the neoliberal Anglo-German academic context; the legacies of queer theory and radical feminism; the ‘mud-slinging’ of social media which ‘does not allow us the time and space to rehearse what is really going on’; the need to engage with social policy alongside cultural theory; and the ongoing intersectional work of rewriting the curriculum.

Deny None of It: A Biocultural Reading of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has predominantly been read as a critique of patriarchy, a feminist dystopia. This article amends the feminist analysis by applying a biocultural approach to the novel, taking as its point of departure three problems that have troubled the feminist reading: Offred’s perceived passivity, the novel’s subtly critical stance towards its feminist characters, and the open ending. By taking into account the environmental context-a fertility crisis-the biocultural reading is able to analyze char­acter in terms of survival and reproductive strategies. Recognizing that the characters are negotiating male and female mating strategies under extreme conditions leads to a deeper comprehension of the way the contrasting philosophies of radical feminism and sociobi­ology inform sexual politics in the Republic of Gilead.

Supremasi Perempuan Dalam Novel Renjana Dyana Karya Adimodel : Kajian Feminisme Radikal

This study aims to describe the form of supremacy shown by female characters and the factors that cause female characters to become radical in the novels being analyzed. This research is descriptive qualitative in nature. The data of this research are in the form of words, phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that reveal the contents of the story in the novel. The data source of this research is the novel Renjana Dyana by Adimodel published by Elex Media Komputindo in 2015. The approach used is the study of radical feminism. The results of this study indicate that first, the form of supremacy shown by the female character in the novel Renjana Dyana is the effort of the Dyana character to make a change in society to end and destroy all male power which is represented in the form of freedom of attitude, action and thought as well as character courage. Dyana takes a fight against men from the aspect of sexuality. Second, apart from women's supremacy, there are factors that cause female characters in Adimodel's Renjana Dyana to become radical, triggered by three factors, namely patriarchy, religion, and economic conditions.

MAIN CHARACTER’S STRUGGLE AGAINSTS WOMAN OPPRESSION IN “MARLINA THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS” MOVIE

This study dealt with the struggle of the main character in Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts movie. The objectives were to find out the oppressions that the main character experienced, the struggles against the oppression, and how the main character struggled against the oppression. This study used descriptive qualitative as the method to analyze the data. The researcher used Young's (1990) theory to analyze the data from the movie's script. Marlina, as the movie's main character, suffered from three kinds of oppression; marginalization, powerlessness, and violence. Marlina suffered oppression because she was powerless; she lived in poverty and patriarchal culture in Sumba. Marlina also struggles against oppression by doing feminism; they are; liberal feminism and radical feminism.

Grievance, ideology and prejudice: On the tripartite nature of identity politics and its relation to left-wing authoritarianism

Identity politics based on a group-centric interpretation of society as a system of power and privilege are increasingly influential within left-wing parties and movements, although little is known about their psychological background. In this article, we report two quantitative studies (N = 1684), focused on radical feminism, cultural feminism, and critical race theory. The reported results suggest that these instances of identity politics encompass a tripartite content domain composed of perceived grievance, identity-based ideology, and prejudice toward groups perceived as privileged, which is related to authoritarian forms of social justice-seeking.

Getting Radical: Feminism, Patriarchy, and the Sexual-Exploitation Industries

The sexual-exploitation industries, including prostitution and pornography, are patriarchal institutions that are inconsistent with dignity, solidarity, and equality. Radical feminism offers a compelling analysis not only for women but also for men striving to be fully human.

New menstrual terminology in the context of Judith Butler's gender theory

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the new menstrual terminology in the context of certain principles of Judith Butler's gender theory. Over the last few years, it has been emphasized, in public and academic discourse, that menstruation is not exclusively a feminine question, but it also affects people who do not feel or identify as cis women. It is about trans, intersexual, genderfluid, and non-binary people. Menstrual movements are formed to plead the linguistic reformulation of menstrual terminology and its gender neutrality. We will briefly expose the elements of Judith Butler's gender theory that are relevant to this topic. We will focus on Butler's thesis that sex and gender are socially, performatively constructed categories and that language is the main field of its origin and reformulation. We will study the origins and causes of this terminology, its consequences, and how the new menstrual concepts affect the redefinition of female and gender identities in general, considering the arguments of the trans movement and the arguments of radical feminism.