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The new episode of anti-gender politics in Turkey
by Alev Özkazanç As we approached the 8 March 2019 International Women's Day, an unexpected and novel occurrence appeared on the horizon of Turkish (anti)gender ...more
KADEM’s ‘Gender Justice’ or the Momentum of Anti-genderism in Turkey
by Tutku Ayhan Sumeyye Erdogan, daughter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and the vice-chair of pro-government women’s organization KADEM said the following during the ...more
‘What really draws men to war?’ Masculinity and conflict in the work of Tim Hetherington
by Daniel Cullen On 20 April 2011, photojournalist Tim Hetherington was killed while on assignment in Libya, amid government forces’ shelling of the besieged city of ...more
Fighting for and against (homo) sexualities in Chile: The case of reparative practices
by Tomás Ojeda I am writing this piece in the aftermath of a series of attacks against women and LGBTQ people in Chile. Numbers speak for themselves: ...more
What the media circus surrounding Shamima Begum can teach us about gender and nation
by Harriet Farnham As the so-called caliphate defends its last stronghold in the town of Baghuz, Shamima Begum is back in the media spotlight. Four years since ...more
Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Posters In and About the British Women’s Suffrage Movement
by Dean Cooper-Cunningham In 2018, the UK celebrated the centenary of (some) women’s suffrage. This came on the back of the Global Women’s Marches that protested ...more
In Defence of Women: Anti-gender Campaigns and Abortion in Chile
by Lieta Vivaldi In Chile the bill that allows abortion on three grounds - when a woman’s life is in danger, when there are foetal anomalies incompatible ...more
Brazilian presidential election: a perfect catastrophe?
by Sonia Corrêa Time to mourn Politics is both reasoning and affect. This is how a first version of this essay, written in the immediate aftermath of ...more
Using Gender to Understand how Daesh/Islamic State Governs
by Katherine E. Brown A destroyed part of Raqqa. Photo Credit: Mahmoud Bali (VOA) Since I wrote that so-called Islamic State (known as Daesh or ISIS) is ...more
LGBT activism and the census: A battle half-won?
by Laurence Cooley In December, the British government published its plans for the next census of England and Wales, to be held in 2021. The white paper ...more
The Institutional and Epistemic Marginality of Gender Studies in the Gulf Region
by Nour Almazidi The institutional and epistemic marginalisation of Gender Studies as a legitimate academic discipline in the Gulf region raises several theoretical and political questions ...more
Varieties of anti-gender mobilizations. Is Turkey a case?
by Selin Çağatay The current decade has seen popular mobilizations against gender equality in Europe and globally. In Turkey, this process is led by the Justice ...more
Anti-Genderism in the Non-West: Looking from the Other Side
by Siran Hovhannisyan Anti-gender mobilizations are one of the recent social movements that have been active in Europe and other parts of the world since the ...more
The consequences of the differing meanings of gender in policy and activism for politics
by Eszter Kováts "If gender quota is necessary for party lists, so what if I identify as a woman, can I run then for a woman’s ...more
Sexual violence against men: enabling disclosure in the face of denial
by Heleen Touquet Last September, I presented at the UN in Geneva a report called Unsilenced, an analysis of the testimonies of 121 survivors of ...more
Why feminisms? Branding our political commitments, just don’t do it
by Melissa Chacón On Wednesday 3 October 2018, LSE Gender PhD students organised an event titled ‘Why feminisms? An open discussion about doing gender research'. During ...more
