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Drafting injustice: overturning Roe v. Wade, spillover effects and reproductive rights in context. 起草不公正：推翻罗诉韦德案，溢出效应和背景下的生殖权利

IF 1.9 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1177/14647001221114611

Candace Johnson

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Countertopographies of copper: Martha Rosler, Chris Kraus and the Great Arizona Copper Strike of 1983–1986 铜的计数器图：玛莎-罗斯勒、克里斯-克劳斯和 1983-1986 年亚利桑那铜矿大罢工

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-17 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209873

Myka Tucker-Abramson

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Social Reproduction Feminism and World-Culture: Introduction 社会再生产女性主义与世界文化：导言

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-06 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209864

S. Deckard, Kate Houlden

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Between familism and neoliberalism: the case of Jewish Israeli grandmothers 家庭主义与新自由主义之间：以色列犹太祖母的案例

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI: 10.1177/14647001221075538

Nitza Berkovitch, S. Manor

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Domestic service and Chilean literature: fictional experiments in narrating the household 家政服务与智利文学：叙述家庭的虚构实验

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-26 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209902

Daniella Sánchez-Russo

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Social reproduction, struggle and the ecology of ‘women's work’ in world-literature 世界文学中的社会再生产、斗争和 "妇女工作 "生态学

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-16 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209901

S. Deckard

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Unruly magic: Global resource extraction, witchcraft and resistance in Yaba Badoe's The Witches of Gambaga (2011) and Wolf Light (2019) 不羁的魔法：亚巴-巴多埃的《甘巴加的女巫》（2011 年）和《狼光》（2019 年）中的全球资源开采、巫术和反抗

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209900

Treasa De Loughry

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Tracking the monstrous gendered precarity of neoliberalisation through novels and films of 1980s England and contemporary Ireland 通过20世纪80年代英国和当代爱尔兰的小说和电影追踪新自由主义的可怕性别不稳定性

3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-09 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209904

Kate Houlden

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Narrative reproduction: plotting land in Yvonne Owuor's Dust 叙事再现:伊冯·奥沃尔《尘埃》中的土地绘制

3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231209890

Christine Okoth

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Consent-deception: a feminist cultural media theory of commonsense consent 同意-欺骗:常识同意的女性主义文化媒介理论

3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1177/14647001231206026

Sarah Cefai

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