Written by We are very pleased to announce that the winning and shortlisted entries from the FSA 2019 Student Essay Competition have now been published in the Journal of International Women’s Studies. This special issue showcases the diversity of innovative work that is being carried out by emerging feminist scholars in the UK and Ireland.
The FSA Student Essay Competition 2020 is now open for entries. If you are a student at or recent graduate of a university in the United Kingdom or Ireland, please do consider entering the competition for a chance to have your essay published in 2021.
Congratulations to all the emerging scholars on the publication of their entries.
Contents
Introduction
Articles
Postfeminist Hegemony in a Precarious World: Lessons in Neoliberal Survival from RuPaul’s Drag Race
Phoebe Chetwynd
Liminal Space and Minority Communities in Kate O’Brien’s Mary Lavelle (1936)
Amy Finlay-Jeffrey
The Communal Violence Bill: Women’s Bodies as Repositories of Communal Honour
Zara Ismail
A Critique of Anti-Carceral Feminism
Amy Masson
The Pussyhat Project: Texturing the Struggle for Feminist Solidarity
Katja May
Masculine Failure and Male Violence in Noah Hawley’s Fargo
J. T. Weisser