By Esther Nassaris Finding any queer women on television was once like searching for a needle in a haystack: difficult, annoying, and rarely worth it. Even if you did get lucky, chances are the writing would have been terrible and the representation would be ripe with negative stereotypes. Luckily things are changing now. In fact…
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Review of Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City by Kath Browne and Leela Bakshi
Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City KATH BROWNE AND LEELA BAKSHI, 2013 Surrey, Ashgate 256 pp., 978 1 4724 1294 2, hb £65.00 By Alice Elizabeth Whiteoak, University of Hull Ordinary in Brighton? contributes to a relationship that has, for decades, been fraught with difficulty and tensions: the one between academia…
Rants of a Feminine Feminist
By bringitonbeach "Wait, who’s a feminist?” “I said I am a feminist.” “Oh. But you’re not the butch kind so you’re not really a feminist.” Feminism is one of those words that literally no one understands. Those who disregard feminism likely do so because they think that being a feminist is akin to any number of man-hating,…
Review of Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour by Maria Mies
Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour, Maria Mies (Zed Books, 2014) Review by Giuliana Monteverde, PhD candidate at Ulster University Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale is regarded as a feminist classic. This new edition – published 28 years after the original – includes a preface…
It’s A Man’s World: The Implications of Makeup in Mass Effect
By Dawna Perry “Human sperm cells were seen with the earliest microscopes in the seventeenth century. The human egg is several thousand times larger, but — despite earlier postulates — it was not visualized until 1827. […] For something to be found, it must first be imagined and sought.” (Duffin, Jacalyn. A History of Medicine, (Toronto,…
Review of Mad Max: Fury Road: The Feminist Action Film You Didn’t Know You Needed
By The Collective Diva trigger warning for some mention of rape and violence against women in context of the film Some vague spoilers ahead… Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron star in George Miller’s 2015 installment piece to the dystopic Mad Maxfranchise, Mad Max: Fury Road, which opens in theatres across the US today. It’s been thirty years since the hit film and…
Post-graduate Symposium on Occupation, Transitional Justice and Gender
More than forty post-graduates, researchers, scholars, practitioners, and members of the Belfast community came together for a post-graduate Symposium on Occupation, Transitional Justice and Gender on Friday, 8 May 2015 at the Belfast campus of Ulster University. PhD students from the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI), Ulster University coordinated the event after receiving funding from…
Review of Masculinities and Place, edited by Andrew Gorman-Murray, and Peter Hopkins
Reviewed by Katherine Williams, Postgraduate student of International Security and Development at Swansea University You can follow Katherine on Twitter - @polygluttony Masculinities and Place is an impressive body of work which brings together a range of high profile and emerging researchers. The contributors to the text aim to consolidate and expand new spheres of interest…
Women in academia… it’s really all about how you dress
By Rachel Handforth This week has seen a particularly depressing image circulating on my Facebook news feed. For those of you fortunate enough to have missed it, here it is. As well as finding it offensive because of its blatant objectification, I find it personally incredibly disheartening. There’s so much written about women in the media that…
Review of Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy by Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby
Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy, by Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby[1] Reviewed by Alexandra Gruian, PhD Candidate, University of Leeds Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby’s book, Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (2014), is an in depth analysis that offers a comprehensive, well-articulated view…