This paper is situated within the academic feminist movement that questions universalizing approaches to understanding oppressions of women. In particular, I seek to challenge the hegemony of traditional Western discourse in framing the debate surrounding Female Genital Cutting (FGC). My...

Incommensurability, a term used by Thomas Kuhn to describethe inability for one to judge scientifically which of two distincttheories is better or more true, equally describes the problem ofclaiming moral absolutes in politics. Using selective abortion, where the decision to abort is made...

Feminists claim that women have an affinity for citizenship beyond the nation-state, because of maternal pacifism, the long exclusion from the vote, and the need for transnational resources to pressure nation-states. To systematize why and how Progressive-era feminists developed a notion of...

Reparations for slavery is an unthinkable idea. It is a political nonstarter, critics argue, and it always has been. True though this claim may be historically, I challenge the presumption that engaging the unowned histories of the past inhibits the conception of more democratic ways of living....

In recent years there has been a renewed effort to ground conventional law and economics methodology, with its exclusive focus on efficiency and income redistribution through the tax system, in modern welfare economics ( Kaplow & Shavell 1994, 2001 ). This effort raises a challenge to the...

This paper takes up the notion of freedom that operates in Rawls's theory through the lens of feminist disability theory. The Enlightenment conception of freedom operates from assumptions of certain kinds of ability: for instance, if I am unable to jump 10 feet into the air, it is meaningless to...

Feminist and other heterodox economists have provided a detailed and sustained critique of the standard model of an economic decision maker: Homoeconomicus, or rational economic man. The notions of rationality embedded in this model, its asocial and context-free nature, as well as its complete...

Feminist international relations emerge late in the 1980s, challenging the discipline and reformulating the theories and improving the knowledge of global politics through the inclusion of gender and women's experiences. Prior to this, the study of international relations has been silent on...

More than fifty countries have adopted quota laws to regulate the selection or election of women to political office. This suggests that states have begun to identify quotas as a new state-led strategy for incorporating women into public life and, by extension, for promoting feminist aims to...