Call for Blog Pitches
In autumn 2019 the FWSA will relaunch its website with a range of new features and initiatives. The new website will become a safe hub for conversation amongst and the […]
Read moreThe Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection – Holly Lewis
As the title suggests, Holly Lewis’ The Politics of Everybody falls squarely within an interdisciplinary move. Contrarily though, her book eschews that politics of intersectionality which is centred on the […]
Read moreReview of ‘Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda’
Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda, by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Review by Saide Mobayed The image on the cover of Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-genocide Rwanda depicts a cubist […]
Read moreReview of ‘Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement’
Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement, edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan Review by Veronika Schuchter For Rosi Braidotti the “cartography is not the moment of movement […]
Read moreReview of ‘Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation’
Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation by Charlotte Mathieson Review by Lena Wånggren For those of us who enjoyed Charlotte Mathieson’s chapter in the recent collection Transport in British […]
Read moreReview of ‘Women Workers and the Trade Unions: New Revised Edition’
Women Workers and the Trade Unions: New Revised Edition By Sarah Boston This updated edition of Sarah Boston’s classic study of British trade unionism offers a detailed account of […]
Read moreReview of ‘Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism’
Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism Edited by Helen Hester, Middlesex University, UK and Caroline Walters, BiUK. Ashgate. The editors of “Fat Sex: New Directions in […]
Read moreBook Review: China’s Leftover Women reviewed by Wilma Garvin
To, S. (2015) China’s Leftover Women. London: Routledge. Sandy To is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She did her PhD […]
Read moreBook Review: Stitching the World. Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education by Judith A. Tyner
Judith A. Tyner, Stitching the World. Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education, Surrey, England: Ashgate Studies in Historical Geography, 2015. 142 pages, ISBN 978-1-4094-2635-6 Reviewed by Chiara Bernardi. Chiara holds […]
Read moreBook Review – The Remaking of Social Contracts
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano Reviewed by Wilma Garvin. This book has been produced on behalf of […]
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