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Apathy by Design: Britain’s Arms Policy in Gaza

This is an excerpt from Jenny O'Donnell's exceptional essay offering a politically urgent and theoretically sophisticated intervention into debates surrounding the UK’s provision of arms to Israel, which won first place in the 2025-26 Yuan Changying prize.
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Performing Gender: Negotiating Identity, Power, and Belonging

In this first of the 2025-26 Yuan Changying prize-nominated essays, Malina Chiddo reflects on her experiences in competitive high school robotics, asking: how does gender, race, and embodiment shape the ways we perform competence, navigate expectations, and negotiate belonging?
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Welcome back!

As Welcome week draws to a close, Kaveri Qureshi and Jayni Makwana sit down to discuss what GENDER.ED got up to over the summer and what beckons in the new academic year.
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GENDER.ED Newsletter - June 2026

Check out our June 2026 newsletter, which captures the highlights of semester 2. We're now off for the summer break: see you next academic year!
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Book Launch: Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation

In this blog, GENDER.ED joins IASH in celebrating the launch of our Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Helen Shutt's new book, Playwriting and the Craft of Audience Participation - an inspiration for both theatre practitioners and indeed, all those who want to adopt care-centred approaches into their work.
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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.

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