FEMINIST TRIANGLES: A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

The article presents a critical analysis of some feminist concepts concerning women's co‐operation, that is, strategic partnerships, triangles of empowerment and velvet triangles. Pointing out their empirical, methodological and epistemological limitations, the author argues for an enwidened understanding of what she terms ‘women's co‐operative constellations'; including the actors, allies and arenas involved in them. She calls for more research on women's co‐operative constellations, precisely because they seem so significant for achieving women's substantive representation and policy change.