Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-Genocide Rwanda, by Rirhandu Mageza-Barthel Review by Saide Mobayed The image on the cover of Mobilizing Transnational Gender Politics in Post-genocide Rwanda depicts a cubist style grey woman carrying over her head what can be interpreted as a coffin with four skulls: the burden of being genocide victims. They represent hate,…
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Review of Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement, edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan
Corporeality and Culture: Bodies in Movement, edited by Karin Sellberg, Lena Wånggren and Kamillea Aghtan Review by Veronika Schuchter For Rosi Braidotti the “cartography is not the moment of movement [but] the moment of stillness” and functions as a navigational as well as dialogical tool and, most importantly, cartographies need to be exchanged.[1] This edited collection…
Review of Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation by Charlotte Mathieson
Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation by Charlotte Mathieson Review by Lena Wånggren For those of us who enjoyed Charlotte Mathieson’s chapter in the recent collection Transport in British Fiction: Technologies of Movement, 1840-1940 (2015, ed. Adrienne Gavin & Andrew Humphries), her full-length monograph Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation comes as…
Review of Women Workers and the Trade Unions (New Revised Edition) by Sarah Boston
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…
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…
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…