Women Workers and the Trade Unions: New Revised Edition By Sarah Boston This updated edition of Sarah Boston’s classic study of British trade unionism offers a detailed account of cis women’s role in labour history. Divided into fourteen chronologically organized chapters, taking us from 1874 through to 2010, it manages to cover a huge amount…
Author: Laura Clancy
Domestic Violence Shelter’s in Québec, Canada : The Perspectives of Pioneers and Veterans
By Isabelle Côté This blog post is based on a conference paper which was presented at FWSA 2015 Conference Introduction In the 1970’s, in Britain, the United States and Canada, feminists and grass-root advocates have taken a stand against the patriarchy by challenging men’s violence against women in intimate relationships and developing shelters to help battered…
Review of Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism, edited by Helen Hester and Caroline Walters
Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism Edited by Helen Hester, Middlesex University, UK and Caroline Walters, BiUK. Ashgate. The editors of "Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism" set out with several laudable aims in mind. They are looking to address the gap in fat studies around theorizing fat sex. They acknowledge the…
Review of Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives: an international conference held at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
By Mary Edwards (PhD Student, University College Cork, Ireland) While violence is undoubtedly a powerful tool in the oppression of any group, the manifestation of violence is not always obvious. It is multifarious in nature and never more so than when it is used to oppress persons as a consequence of their gender. At…
Review of Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings Conference
On October 12-13th I had a pleasure to participate at a conference titled “Migrants in the City: New Dynamics of Migration in Urban Settings”, brought by a collaboration between The Sheffield Methods Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences Migration Research Group and the ESRC Applied Quantitative Methods Network. Thanks to the Ailsa McKay Travel Grant…
Encouraging Young Female Voices in Politics
By Stephanie March With only two females out of twenty-one potential candidates in the 2016 Presidential race, it’s safe to say politics is still a male dominated arena. Hillary Clinton and Carly Fiorina certainly have their work cut out for them while the media is busy discussing their outfits instead of their ideals. All it…
The Politics of Skin Bleaching in South Africa
By Ayanda Tshabalala This blog post is based on a conference paper which was presented at FWSA ( Feminist and Woman's Studies Association) Biennial Conference 2015 – 9 Sept 2015 and based on my Masters dissertation at UKZN (University of KwaZulu-Natal). The FWSA Conference offered great exposure to global thought and helped set the tone…
Review of China’s Leftover Women by Sandy To
To, S. (2015) China’s Leftover Women. London: Routledge. Sandy To is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. She did her PhD at Cambridge where she did her PhD research on Chinese professional women’s views on marriage and partner choices. The chapters of the book are based on…
Feminism and the Millennials
By David Coussens Though its achievements continue to bear wild and interesting fruit, feminism (as both a set of aspirations and an intellectual position) faces today a more vicious and well-organised opposition than at any time in its modern history (1). An inter-generational alliance of middle-aged white men and disgruntled millennials seeks to roll back…
Teaching stereotypes: more on stereotypical images in high school textbooks
By Elin Weiss A few months ago, I wrote a piece called Teaching “one-way love” and coercion in school: High Horse´s Courting that discussed traditional gender stereotypes and the questionable content of a story used for teaching English to high schoolers. According to the curriculum used by the school in question it is supposed to…