Reviewed by Rebecca Booth Femen and Galia Ackerman (2014) Femen, Polity Press. Within Western ideology the term ‘feminism’ is readily associated with Western women and values but is not usually applied when considering Eastern countries. This is due to various historical socio-political factors - too numerous and complex to cite here – that are overshadowed by…
by Dr. Aintzane Legarreta Mentxaka Jill Franks. British and Irish Writers and the Women’s Movement: Six Literary Voices of their Time. Jefferson (NC): McFarland, 2013 What a thrill to anticipate the sight of this band of amazons riding on the crest of the hill. And what an exciting formation – Mrs Dalloway with The Last…
by Emily F. Henderson Institute of Education, University of London Ehenderson01@ioe.ac.uk ioe-ac.academia.edu/EmilyHenderson Miriam E. David. Feminism, Gender and Universities: Politics, Passion and Pedagogies Ashgate (2014) If you take a look at the photograph on the front cover of Feminism, Gender and Universities, you will see a roomful of people at an event, all looking towards…
Jennifer Nicol Loughborough University Rebecca J. Fraser, Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) Rebecca J. Fraser’s Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress is a fine example of careful research and eloquent story-telling. Understood in its…
by Anna Kirsch Upstairs at the Party by Linda Grant is published by Virago, price £14-99. Throughout Upstairs at the Party there is the sense of loss and nostalgia for a period of youth and freedom in an era that lends itself more to mythology than to history. Linda Grant obviously draws on her experience from…
by Katherine Williams Sjoberg, Laura. Gender, War, and Conflict. Polity Press: 2014 It is often the case that most traditional academic works on war, and theories thereof, do not discuss women, or men from a gender perspective, at all. As well as an ongoing silence regarding women as rational actors with political agency, gender has been neglected…
By Dr Nof Nasser Eddin Muhanna, Aitemad. Agency and Gender in Gaza: Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada. Ashgate, 2013 Agency and Gender in Gaza by Aitemad Muhanna provides rich material based on prolonged fieldwork in two disadvantaged sites in Gaza city, the Beach refugee camp and in El-Shuja’ya urban neighbourhood. The research aimed to…
Reviewed by Kim Jezabel Zinngrebe (SOAS, University of London) Gülhan Balsoy. The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013. By the mid- to late nineteenth century the Ottoman Empire had experienced great territorial losses, significant migration movements, and widespread epidemics but also nationalist insurgencies engendering the emergence of expanding provincial…
by Jennifer Militello Inspired at an early age by the lyric’s ability to express life’s grand, inexpressible mysteries and to unite humankind in a shared emotional reality so that each of us might feel less forsaken, I strive to construct poems of this nature myself. An early student of Dickinson, and Lorca, I learned that…
by Sue Tate Pauline Boty (1938-66) trained at the Royal College of Art and was a friend and colleague of David Hockney, Peter Blake and Derek Boshier with all of whom she exhibited. She was an innovative and talented artist and also a beautiful and hip player on the swinging London scene of the 60s.…
