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Notes on not knowing: male ignorance after #MeToo 关于不知道的笔记：#MeToo之后的男性无知

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-22 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211014756

Rachel O’Neill

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Crashing bodies: towards an intersectional assemblage theory of domestic violence 碰撞的尸体:走向家庭暴力的交叉组合理论

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211014764

Paddy Farr

引用次数: 2

Abolition of the family: the most infamous feminist proposal 废除家庭：最臭名昭著的女权主义提案

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-05-18 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211015841

Kathi Weeks

引用次数: 13

Rape and social death 强奸和社会性死亡

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-29 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211012940

Bonnie Mann

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Women’s ‘exchange’ in Western and Amerindian societies: a feminist critique of perspectival anthropology 西方和美洲印第安人社会中的女性“交换”：透视人类学的女性主义批判

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-27 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211009006

Romina Wainberg

引用次数: 1

Antigone re-imagined: uprooted women’s political narratives Antigone重新想象：被连根拔起的女性政治叙事

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-15 DOI: 10.1177/14647001211005298

Maria Tamboukou

引用次数: 0

Remembering Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘ethics of ambiguity’ to challenge contemporary divides: feminism beyond both sex and gender 记住西蒙娜·德·波伏娃的“模糊伦理”，挑战当代的分歧:超越性别和性别的女权主义

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/1464700120988641

L. Nicholas

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引用次数: 11

Queer parents, gendered embodiment and the de-essentialisation of motherhood 古怪的父母、性别化的化身和母性的去本质化

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/1464700121989226

K. Averett

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引用次数: 16

Feminist diagrams 女权主义图表

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/1464700121997182

Sam Mcbean

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Introduction: ‘Remembering Feminist Theory Forward’ 引言：“记住女权主义理论前进”

IF 2.1 3区社会学

Feminist Theory Pub Date : 2021-04-01 DOI: 10.1177/1464700120988636

L. Nicholas, Shelley Budgeon

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