{"title":"Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice","authors":"Sasha Costanza-Chock","doi":"10.21606/DRS.2018.679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21606/DRS.2018.679","url":null,"abstract":"Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities structured by what Black feminist scholars call the matrix of domination. Intersecting inequalities are manifest at all levels of the design process. This paper builds upon the Design Justice Principles, developed by an emerging network of designers and community organizers, to propose a working definition of design justice: Design justice is a field of theory and practice that is concerned with how the design of objects and systems influences the distribution of risks, harms, and benefits among various groups of people. Design justice focuses on the ways that design reproduces, is reproduced by, and/or challenges the matrix of domination (white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, and settler colonialism). Design justice is also a growing social movement that aims to ensure a more equitable distribution of design’s benefits and burdens; fair and meaningful participation in design decisions; and recognition of community based design traditions, knowledge, and practices.","PeriodicalId":190902,"journal":{"name":"WGSRN: Other Feminist Theory (Sub-Topic)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131400239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radical Feminist Harms on Sex Workers","authors":"I. Thusi","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2856647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2856647","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the radical feminist literature treats sex work as a static object that can not only be generalized, but globalized, to fit into a one-size-fits-all normative framework. However, after spending nearly two years conducting ethnographic fieldwork in South Africa, I observed how sex work was constantly evolving; and that decriminalization is generally a preferable approach to sex work. Despite this, radical feminists argue that partial criminalization is appropriate to protect all sex workers globally.This Article challenges the radical feminist approach and argues that the harms from the criminalization of sex work far outweigh the structural harms of sex work itself. This Article demonstrates how the production of a criminal law order that criminalizes any aspect of sex work may increase violence against sex workers and further marginalize them. The framing of the harms of sex work in the radical feminist literature is itself a reproduction of patriarchy and white supremacy, by failing to account for the experiences of individuals’ intersectional identities and essentializing sex work; by elevating and strengthening the criminal law as a tool to address the so-called harms of sex work; and by silencing the voices of sex workers themselves.","PeriodicalId":190902,"journal":{"name":"WGSRN: Other Feminist Theory (Sub-Topic)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123799141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feminism and Rethinking Philosophical Categories","authors":"George Thadathil","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3604851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3604851","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to locate the feminist critique of philosophy within the broader feminist goal of seeking equality in society. The argument for achieving the stated feminist goal purportedly begins within the conceptual world. In particular, the paper attempts at unveiling the philosophic core of the feminist project. This is done by showing that both in the analytic as well as the continental tradition of feminist critical theory there is the common concern over issues of gender and sex, social justice and psychoanalytic criticism, and that underlying all three are philosophical premises of the conception of self. The notion of self and subjectivity has further linkage with the traditional philosophy of God is shown with reference to the work done by Grace Jantzen, in paving the way for an alternative feminist philosophy of God. The feminist critique of western philosophical categories attempted in this paper is equally an Indian Christian philosophical critique, located as the latter is within the eastern religio-philosopical matrix, offering a possible rethinking of the approach to the divine.","PeriodicalId":190902,"journal":{"name":"WGSRN: Other Feminist Theory (Sub-Topic)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114293756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}