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Feminist Theory is an international peer reviewed journal that provides a forum for critical analysis and constructive debate within feminism. Feminist Theory is genuinely interdisciplinary and reflects the diversity of feminism, incorporating perspectives from across the broad spectrum of the humanities and social sciences and the full range of feminist political and theoretical stances. View full journal description

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Erotic attachments and cruel optimism: Sexual fantasy as affective impasse

  • Maha Khawaja
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Interruption as a process of affective reckoning: A critical duoethnography on the continuum of violence

  • Safeera Jaffer
  • Karen Andrews
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Making difference profitable: Extraordinary homonormativity and corporate queer visibility

  • Shreeta Lakhani
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Popular feminism in China: The politics of the ‘popular’

  • Yan Tan
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The rage of tradwives: Affective economies and romanticizing retreat

  • Sarah Banet-Weiser
  • Sara Reinis
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Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation

  • Sarah Banet-Weiser
  • Rosalind Gill
  • Catherine Rottenberg
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A tale of two angers: The manosphere, the femosphere and the gender politics of mediated rage

  • Jilly Boyce Kay
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Call it misogyny

  • Rachel Loewen Walker
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Mediating menopause: Feminism, neoliberalism, and biomedicalisation

  • Shani Orgad
  • Catherine Rottenberg
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The question of feminist critique

  • Rachelle Chadwick
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