Margaret McLaren

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Full) at Rollins College

This chapter assesses the human rights framework as a paradigm for global gender justice. First, it examines the gains made by the “women’s rights as human rights” movement; this movement brought issues of sexual and gender violence under the purview of human rights. Next, the chapter argues for the importance of economic and social rights, and sup...

Introduction to Indigenizing and Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy - Volume 35 Special Issue - Celia T. Bardwell-Jones, Margaret A. McLaren

While increased attention to menstruation as a significant health issue for women and girls is positive, some menstrual interventions promoted by Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) programmes primarily focus on hygiene, infrastructure, and product provision. This focus fails to challenge the social and cultural stigma surrounding menstruation, a...

This chapter argues that cosmopolitanism as a framework for global gender justice fails to capture the rich diversity and the power differences among women. It evaluates two prominent cosmopolitan positions, individualist cosmopolitanism and institutional cosmopolitanism. Individualist cosmopolitanism relies on an abstract and atomistic notion of t...

The reproductive justice framework shifted understandings and analyses of reproductive oppression beyond individual 'choice' by incorporating analyses of structural injustice, racism, and social and economic concerns. In this article, we build on understandings of the reproductive justice framework by integrating a postcolonial lens and bring the p...

Transnational feminism should have normative force and be anti‐imperialist. This article addresses the possibility of an anti‐imperialist transnational feminism in conversation with Serene Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism. Khader argues that the key to an anti‐imperialist feminism is separating universalism from the features that result in imperi...

This chapter describes the work of two grassroots women’s organizations in India, the Self-Employed Women’s Association and MarketPlace India. It provides background on each organization and identifies four themes in their work: Collaboration and Participation, Women’s Leadership, Women’s Empowerment, and Respect for Diversity and Global Connection...

Informed by practices of women’s activism in India, this book proposes a feminist social justice framework to address the wide range of issues women face globally, including economic exploitation; sexist oppression; racial, ethnic, and caste oppression; and cultural imperialism. The feminist social justice framework provides an alternative to mains...

This chapter provides an overview of the book, explains the context of the project, and introduces a feminist social justice framework based on anti-oppression and anti-exploitation. The chapter also outlines a feminist social justice approach drawn from a wide range of feminist work. One feature of this approach is the connection between theory an...

This chapter argues that Iris Marion Young’s approach to unjust social systems and her acknowledgment that each of us is placed differently in those systems provides an important resource for engaging with questions of sexist oppression globally, while being attentive to intersectionality and power relations. After an explication of Young’s theory...

This chapter suggests that we use the broader framework of feminist social justice to analyze oppression and exploitation at the global level. Noting that in real life the ethical and the political overlap, the chapter advocates a dual-track approach to problems of injustice, both individual, immediate aid and long-term systemic changes. Emphasizin...

This chapter argues that cooperatives, because of their focus on both overcoming social oppression and economic exploitation, foster both economic and feminist empowerment for women. First, the chapter discusses the neoliberal economic policies of globalization, which have a disproportionately negative impact on women. Because economic and gender i...

I argue that Iris Marion Young’s concept of political responsibility is well suited for transnational feminism analyses. Young’s work reveals the intersections of ethical, social, and political theory; her model of political responsibility articulates a view of shared social and political responsibility for the structural conditions of exploitation...

In this chapter I offer a Foucauldian feminist framework for analyzing subjectivity in the twenty-first century. I demonstrate that Foucault’s ideas about how power produces subjectivity illuminate the complex and contradictory ways that individuals are situated within power relations, and nonetheless exercise agency. I identify significant feminis...

Hypatia 14.1 (1999) 120-125 The debate about the importance of identity, both individual and collective, is central to contemporary feminist theory. Two notable contributions to this debate are Allison Weir's Sacrificial Logics: Feminist Theory and the Critique of Identity and MorwennaGriffiths's Feminisms and the Self: The Web of Identity. Both We...

This essay examines one of the contributions that Sandra Bartky makes to feminist theory. Bartky critiques Foucault for his gender blind treatment of the disciplines and social practices that create “docile bodies.” She introduces several gender specific disciplines and practices that illustrate that the production of bodies is itself gender coded....

This paper examines the notion of rights discourse and its international application in recent feminist theory. Feminists seem to take at least two contradictory views of rights. On the one hand, some feminists criticize the notion of rights as a highly individualistic, abstract Western idea. They argue that rights are a culture-bound construct tha...

The classical liberal theories of rights overemphasize individual autonomy. Feminists from a variety of approaches criticize this individualistic model. Other feminists argue that rights discourse is essential to help end discrimination against women. However, these proponents of international women's rights too often focus on legal and political r...

Hypatia 18.2 (2003) 205-208 Now more than ever we need a philosophical understanding of violence. In the wake of the attacks of September 11 and in the midst of increasing violent conflict in the Middle East and elsewhere, those of us living in the United States have been challenged to think about violence in new ways. What is the morally and polit...

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Weir's Sacrificial Logics moves deftly through the terrain of French feminism, postmodern feminism, psychoanalytic feminism, and object-relations theory. She argues that the theme of identity as negative—as repression, exclusion or domination—runs rampant in recent philosophy from Simon...