“If You Smile Sweetly”: Manoeuvring Gendered Experiences in the Field
Encountering Inappropriate and Sexist Behaviours during Fieldwork by Mahardhika Sjamsoe’oed Sadjad “You did not bring the correct letters to request an interview, but if you smile sweetly, ...more
Anti-colonial feminist solidarity and politics of location
by Niharika Pandit Photo credit: Zahra Amiruddin. Republished with permission for this blogpost. This piece is an attempt to think through the complexities and disjunctures in ...more
Finders Keepers: On Sex, Tara the Buddhist Deity at the British Museum and Brownness in the Colonies
by Senel Wanniarachchi “Your victory Was so complete Some among you Thought to keep A record of Our little lives The clothes we wore Our spoons, our knives” —Lenard Cohen, Nevermind I am at the ...more
What should I do? Reflections on the social outbreak in Chile
by Paula Hollstein Barría This article was written during the first days of November 2019, approximately two weeks after the so-called social unrest in Chile had ...more
In labour and in love: Privacy through a gendered lens
by Aastha Malhotra and Arshia Roy Recently, there has been an increased emphasis on an individual’s right to privacy, with more and more nations jumping into ...more
The Dilemma of Beating a Dead Horse in Women’s Empowerment Interventions in Yemen
by Ghaidaa Motahar There is a consensus that war and conflict bring pain and despair, and simultaneously solicit destructive social change. In Yemen’s conflict, where men ...more
The Travel/Trial of Intersectionality
by Manjari Sahay To mark 30 years of ‘intersectionality’ since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the concept in her article ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex’, ...more
Rural women, financial inclusion and community investment funds in Pakistan: A successful pathway to sustainable development?
by Asmat Kakar Patriarchy and sociocultural constraints, chronic poverty, limited access to financial institutions and lack of financial control means women in Pakistan face a litany of ...more
What you want to see is what you get: realities, representations, and reputations of sex tourism in Bangkok
by Angana Narula Each year students on the LSE Gender MSc course Sexuality, Gender and Globalisation present independent research papers at an all-day student conference. This year’s ...more
Whose freedom, and from what?: The child as cipher for a (transnational) politics of ‘traditional values’
by Maria Brock Awareness of increasing (and increasingly politicised) sentiment against so-called ‘gender ideology’ is spreading, and no longer merely confined to academic and activist circles. ...more
