By Rukmini Sen and Aishwarya Rajeev Indian community health workers (or ASHAs), provide essential forms of care and labour during a health crisis. Yet their own lives are not safeguarded and they struggle for access to the very resources they need to do their jobs. How are they protesting and what are their demands? This …
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by Sarah Childs In our Friday long read, Professor Sarah Childs explains her ground-breaking work on Gender-Sensitive Parliament audits and invites us into the backstage life of a feminist academic out to both study and change the world. Caption: Prof. Sarah Childs The text came in around 11am on the Thursday; by Sunday I was …
By Rama Salla Dieng and Korka Sall In this blog, cross-posted from African Arguments and part of Rosebell Kagumire’s African Feminisms series examining social and feminist movements on the continent, the authors analyse the role of the magazine AWA: la revue de la femme noire in crafting a pan-African political consciousness through transnational organizing. Introduction Here …
At the end of last year, Afghanistan’s Taliban-run higher education ministry said that female students would not be allowed access to the country’s universities until further notice. In light of this decision, we invited Anushka and Tasha Agarwal to share excerpts from their research on experiences of accessing education for Afghan refugee women who resettled …
Professor Melissa Terras and Elizabeth Crawford write about UK suffragist and campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and the feminist digitisation practices that went into the creation of their newly-published book, Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings.
In this Annual Research Showcase Highlight, doctoral candidate Kate Holliday writes about her research on framing and political polarisation in contentious policy debates, focussing primarily on debates over proposed reforms to the Gender Recognition Act.
Natasha Fricker – Imagining Gender-Just Worlds In recent years there have been many highly publicised demonstrations against pervasive sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) within long-standing western liberal democracies like the United Kingdom and the United States. When it comes to eliminating SGBV within so-called consolidated democracies (where the institutions, rules, and culture of democracy are …
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This blog series showcases the student winners of the Yuan Changying Prize, sponsored by GENDER.ED and SPS’s Gender Politics Research Group. The prize recognises outstanding ‘gender observations’ written by students (and nominated by tutors) in the pre-Honours course Understanding Gender in the Contemporary World, convened by Dr. Meryl Kenny and Dr. Sarah Liu. Gender observations require students to link material from the course to their own day-to-day experiences and observations of ‘doing gender’. The prize is named after Yuan Changying in consultation with students, in recognition of the first female Chinese graduate in the University of Edinburgh’s history. In the first of two winning essays, Heidi Hafner explores the portrayal of masculinities in ‘Montero (Call Me By Your Name)’ by Lil Nas X.
To mark Women’s History Month, GENDER.ED, RACE.ED, CRITIQUE, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) present Rosa Luxemburg at 150, a podcast featuring Dr Mihaela Mihai, Dr Maša Mrovlje, and Dr Jamie Allinson. This episode explores Luxemburg’s life, political and intellectual activities, and asks: what makes Luxemburg stand out as a theorist of social …
An invitation to GENDER.ED’s upcoming event, ‘Disrupting Coloniality in the Classroom? Decolonisation, Feminism and Critical Pedagogies’, organised on the occasion of International Women’s Day.
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