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Butch or Femme? A brief history of British 1960s lesbian subculture and gender stereotypes

For Pride Month, India Williams examines 1960s British lesbian subculture. In a time before pride parades and marriage equality, these lesbians were laying the foundation for queer culture as we know it today.

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Introducing the new GENDER.ED Undergraduate Summer Intern

Jayni Makwana introduces herself as the new GENDER.ED summer intern and discusses the exciting projects she will be working on.
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Introducing our second GENDER.ED-IASH Postdoc for 25/26 - Dr. Emily Clifford

Hello Emily! GENDER.ED and IASH are delighted to have you as incoming Postdoctoral Fellow. What do you make of Edinburgh so far?I am loving Edinburgh so far; I arrived at […]
Painting of a group of people grieving at the death of one of the characters of the Mahabharata

Who owns the epic? Reimagining the Mahabharata from Below

Completing our 'feminist dissertating' series for this year, Avani Tilekar explores how counter-readings of the Mahabharata unsettle its role in shaping gendered, caste-bound, and nationalist imaginaries.

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A Framework for Understanding Reproductive Oppression in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

Continuing our 'feminist dissertating' series, Eliza Sinclair Kidd explores the Coil Campaign in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), initiated by Denmark in the 1960s, through Foucauldian biopolitics and reproductive justice theories and outlines future research needed on reproductive violence.
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Toxic narratives: patriarchal menstrual discourse in Bollywood’s Pad Man

Next up in our 'feminist dissertating' series, Kaashvi Shah critically examines Pad Man’s portrayal of menstruation, challenging its mainstream feminist framing. Drawing on her research, she reveals how the film reproduces patriarchal, casteist, and neoliberal narratives under the guise of empowerment.
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Nixon’s war on the media and the supposed crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America

In our 'feminist dissertating' series, Ruweyda Ahmed explores Nixon’s criticisms of the American media, discussing how Nixon made use of a perceived crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America to negotiate successive political challenges.
A male Community Health Volunteer in Isiolo, northern Kenya, bends down to assess a seated pregnant patient.

Stepping Up or Stepping Down? Gendered Health Labour in Kenya

The face of care work, both paid and unpaid, is famously female. However, in northern Kenya, the majority of Community Health Volunteers are men. Kathy Dodworth and Brenda N. Mukungu explore shifting labour norms in this part of Kenya.
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Book Forum: Hemangini Gupta's Response to Readers - Experimental Times

Dr Hemangini Gupta reflects on three readers' generous and productive engagements with Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Alex Taylor on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Dr Alex Taylor shares memories of his own research in Bangalore and how it relates to Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Rahul Rao on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Dr Rahul Rao engages with the core arguments and theoretical framework of Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times, which GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI launched last year.
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Book Forum: Janaki Srinivasan on Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times

Last year, GENDER.ED, CRITIQUE and the Critical Data Studies Cluster of EFI hosted a book launch for Hemangini Gupta’s new book Experimental Times. In this blog, Dr Janaki Srinivasan discusses her own experiences of researching start-up capitalism and ethnographic research.

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