Feminist anthropologyPub Date : 2025-12-12Epub Date: 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1002/fea2.70017
Kamala Kempadoo, Lyndsey Beutin, Amalia Cabezas, April Petillo, Elena Shih
{"title":"Global sex work research collaborations before the anti-trafficking industry: A conversation with Kamala Kempadoo and Amalia Cabezas","authors":"Kamala Kempadoo, Lyndsey Beutin, Amalia Cabezas, April Petillo, Elena Shih","doi":"10.1002/fea2.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fea2.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The special issue co-editors (Lyndsey Beutin, April Petillo, and Elena Shih) sat down with Kamala Kempadoo and long-time collaborator Amalia Cabezas on July 26, 2024, over Zoom to hear about what sex work research was like before the anti-trafficking framework cannibalized the sex workers’ rights movement.</p>","PeriodicalId":73022,"journal":{"name":"Feminist anthropology","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fea2.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist anthropologyPub Date : 2025-12-12Epub Date: 2025-09-14DOI: 10.1002/fea2.70014
Elene Lam
{"title":"My journey with Kamala Kempadoo: Reflections on the anti-trafficking movement and sex work organizing","authors":"Elene Lam","doi":"10.1002/fea2.70014","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fea2.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is a personal reflection on my 25 years of involvement with sex work organizing and the fight against the anti-trafficking movement, which is where I first encountered Kamala Kempadoo's scholarship, research, and activism. Using autoethnography and self-reflexivity, I focus on my journey into activism in the sex worker movement and the fight against the anti-trafficking movement, which began in Hong Kong and extended to countries around the world, to provide a snapshot of sex work organizing and the anti-trafficking movement in Asia, North America, and globally in the last 25 years.</p>","PeriodicalId":73022,"journal":{"name":"Feminist anthropology","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fea2.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist anthropologyPub Date : 2025-12-12Epub Date: 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1002/fea2.70016
Asuna Yoshizawa
{"title":"“Love conquers all?”: Women's narratives on polygyny as an internal critique of intersecting patriarchies","authors":"Asuna Yoshizawa","doi":"10.1002/fea2.70016","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fea2.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article unveils how gender inequality and colonial dichotomy became visible in the practice of polygyny among Muslim-Christian intermarried couples in the southern Philippines. Based on ethnographic research conducted in Iligan, it documents the lived experiences of Christian wives, Maranao Muslim women, and female Muslim converts. While Christian norms have long stigmatized Muslim polygyny, public discussions within Muslim societies in the Philippines have been limited. For women in inter-religious marriages, polygyny provokes painful negotiations that expose intersecting hierarchies of gender, religion, and ethnicity. They described their experiences in their own words, often diverging from the normative discourse, reconstructing the concepts of intimacy and reinterpreting religious teachings in ways that resonate with women in different ethnic and religious positions. Although interpretations and evaluations of polygyny are publicly fragmented by coloniality and normative discourses, these women's experiences reveal underlying alignment. The article argues that their stories constitute an internal critique of the intersecting patriarchies embedded in the Philippine state, Spanish and American forms of ongoing coloniality, and Muslim and Christian societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":73022,"journal":{"name":"Feminist anthropology","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fea2.70016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Feminist anthropologyPub Date : 2025-12-12Epub Date: 2025-08-17DOI: 10.1002/fea2.70013
Henrike Kraul
{"title":"Feelings of female solidarity: An ethnographic account of trans-exclusionary feminism","authors":"Henrike Kraul","doi":"10.1002/fea2.70013","DOIUrl":"10.1002/fea2.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, I argue for an ethnographic engagement with trans-exclusionary feminism. Using my fieldwork in a gender-critical collective in the United Kingdom as an example, I show how feminist anthropology can give insights into the motivations and emotional trajectories of gender-critical feminists. By contextualizing the highly affective emic notion of <i>female solidarity</i>, I show how feelings mobilize the trans-exclusionary view that womanhood can only ever exist for cis women. I argue that it is a responsibility of feminist anthropology to contribute to knowledge that can be useful in disputing exclusionary feminisms. Taking this research as a case in point, I believe that this is done most effectively through an intentional ethnographic engagement with proponents of exclusionary feminist politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":73022,"journal":{"name":"Feminist anthropology","volume":"6 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/fea2.70013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145739744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}