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…
Category: Book Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…