By Tim Huzar On September 11th, I presented at the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association 2015 Biennial Conference Everyday Encounters with Violence: Critical Feminist Perspectives. Here’s what I said. In this paper I want to think about the relationship between pain and voice, and I want to do this via Elaine Scarry’s classic text The Body in Pain (1985). I’m interested in…
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Review of Stitching the World. Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education by Judith A. Tyner
Judith A. Tyner, Stitching the World. Embroidered Maps and Women’s Geographical Education, Surrey, England: Ashgate Studies in Historical Geography, 2015. 142 pages, ISBN 978-1-4094-2635-6 Reviewed by Chiara Bernardi. Chiara holds a PhD from the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She s currently undertaking her post-doctoral research and working as a master…
Middle-Aged Heroines: Locating Ageing Women in Victorian Fiction
By Sarah Ross “Old age” was as ambiguous a term for the Victorians as it is for us. Where should one draw the line: between 40.9 and 46, the midway points for average life spans from 1838 to 1900?[1] 50, that modern magic “mid-life crisis” mark? 65, the eventual date of forced retirement and pensions…
Review of The Remaking of Social Contracts, edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano Reviewed by Wilma Garvin. This book has been produced on behalf of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era) which is a group of women from South Asia and was started in Bangalore, India in…
Mary Jane Watson and her Amazing Friends: Marvel Movies, Heroic Women and Postfeminist Culture
By Miriam Kent Feminism and superhero movies have been a hot topic for the last few years, with both fans and cultural commentators drawing attention to the lack of heroic women in a genre which is by now a staple of the blockbuster seasons. Since the beginning of the superhero boom in the early 2000s,…
Review of Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur
Assata: An Autobiography By Tiffany R. Holloman and LaTonia A. Siler-Holloman I felt the spirits of those sisters feeding me, making me stronger . . . struggling and helping each other to survive the blows of life since the beginning of time. The name of Assata Shakur is associated with her status…
Attachment parenting: A rather Feminist upbringing?
By Jennah Evans Attachment Parenting (AP) is a method of nurturing and socialising children which has often attracted the scrutiny and scorn of the Feminist lens. After all, what could possibly be empowering about fostering a state of complete co-dependence between a parent and child? It has to be considered that, overwhelmingly it is still…
Sex-differences and ‘domestic violence murders’*
By Karen Ingala Smith *intimate partner homicides What could we do if we wanted to hide the reality of men’s violence against women? Firstly, we might have a ‘gender neutral’ definition of domestic violence. Maybe like the UK government which uses the following definition: “any incident or pattern of incidents of controlling, coercive, threatening behaviour, violence or abuse between…
Review of Beyond Partition – Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India by Deepti Misri
Beyond Partition - Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial India by Deepti Misri Review by Dr. Michaela Rogers, Salford University Beyond Partition adds to a rich body of work through an ambitious project, drawing on a range of texts and materials, to offer an analysis of postcolonial India. In particular, Misri seeks to illustrate…
Women as horror writers
By Anila H Today I am going to talk about a very sensitive topic, but I felt the need to discuss it with you, my dear bookworms. Everyone has had their fare share of complaining about how women are not seen as good as men in horror writing. I do not want to complain, because…