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Most recent FSA Blog posts
Reflections from Pride 2026, Section 28 and the UK Supreme Court Changes
By Kayden Schumacher and Angharad Morgan 24th June 2026 As Pride Month 2026 draws to a close, many LGBTQ+ communities around the world have celebrated…
Abortion Trail Activisms: The Global Projects for Abortion Access
Deirdre Duffy is a Reader in Social Policy at Manchester Metropolitan University. This blog is a truncated excerpt from: Duffy, D. forthcoming. Abortion Trail Activism:…
Roe v Wade Overturned: What abortion access and reproductive rights look like around the world
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Working in the Home – Housework is Work
The lockdown of the UK and other countries across the world due to COVID-19 has revealed much about domestic life and work: from Indian women calling for…
Teaching Women’s History in Schools: Time to Take Action
More young people are studying GCSE history than ever before. As the guardians of our past, history teachers have a tremendous responsibility to ensure that…
Time’s Up: Contraception needs a #MeToo moment
Discussions about consent have entered the mainstream in the last few years, from consent workshops at universities to the open secret of endemic sexual violence…
More on the underrepresentation of women in Psychology journals
In a previous post at the FWSA blog I discussed the underrepresentation of women as authors of articles in academic psychology journals. I presented the…
By Everyday Victim Blaming The identity of Elena Ferrante is a secret well-guarded by her publisher. At the request of Ferrante. Ferrante has made it…
A Feminist Critique: Property as a Philosophical, Legal and Economic Construct
By Mohammed Subhan Hussain They acknowledge no right for you, and they do not credit you with a memory[1]. Introduction Law is an ideologically-driven social construct and not a watertight entity capturing the entirety of life. As such, it…
By Liz Kinnamon The “sensitive guy” should be understood through the lens of what pop psychologists call emotional manipulation, and his proliferation is the result…
Female Underrepresentation in Psychology Journals
By Elin Weiss In comparison to most countries, the Scandinavian countries have extraordinary social policies in regards to parental leave, child care arrangements,…
By Marie Penicaut “For as long as I can remember, strange men and boys have said things to me on the streets” – such was the…
Debating homogenous human identity in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series
By Chloe Dominique ‘Rowling’s world of fantasy is one of hierarchy and prejudice’ (Mendelsohn, 2002:117) Leve argues that there is a ‘specificity of assumptions that underlie…
Doctoral Students’ Perceptions of Academia
By Rachel Handforth Doctoral study has traditionally been thought of as the start of an academic career, with doctoral students working as ‘apprentices’. However, the…