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Futures of feminism
Editorial

Futures of feminism

Ivana Milojevic, Karen Hurley and Anne Jenkins
Futures, Vol.40(4), pp.313-318
2008
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2007.08.010
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It has been 18 years since Futures had a special issue on 'Gender and Change' [1]. Magda Cordell McHale, who edited that 1989 special issues, and Peggy Choong, summarised the rationale in the following words: "As we approach the end of the 20th century we seem to be fraught with self-doubts and burdened with unmanaged problems. …The kind of severe disruption and social transformation we are experiencing in this decade seems to suggest that we are coming to the end of an old period and are in the throes of a new era…Clearly, the crises we face today call for a different approach. The principles of 'masculinity' have shown themselves to be limited and deficient. A softer, more caring attitude is required… This new approach, the gender partnership…is an approach that recognizes the quality and values of the entire human race…" [2]. Eighteen years on, the changes have increased in number and magnitude, but in some ways, and in regard to gender issues, 'the more things changed the more they stayed the same'. The above theme-of current crisis, the emergence of a new phase, and the potential for this new phase to be qualitatively and positively different-has been a constant in both futures and feminist literature. But not only have very few feminist visions-qualitatively and positively different futures-been realised over the last two decades, we have also witnessed an increase in the patriarchal 'backlash' against some of the gains that feminist/women's movements have achieved. Furthermore, it seems some areas of western society and some areas of knowledge have come out of the cycle of feminist insurgence and subsequent backlash without a scratch. Is the futures field one of those areas?

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