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Book Reviews
Review of Shell Shocked; Feminist Criticism after Trump by Bonnie Honig
Shell Shocked; Feminist Criticism after Trump by Bonnie Honig Review by Charlotte Mears Bonnie Honig’s Shell Shocked is an act of political protest. From the opening sentences in which she explains the…
Review of Dear Science and Other Storie by Katherine McKittrick
Katherine McKittrick, Dear Science and Other Stories. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 240 pages. ISBN: 9781478011040. £18.99. Paperback. Reviewed by Lena Wånggren. Dear Science and Other Stories by Katherine McKittrick is…
Review of Women Thriving in Academia by Marian Mahat
Mahat, Marian (Ed). Women Thriving in Academia (2021) Bingley: Emerald ISBN 978-1-83982-229-2 Claire Sedgwick, University of Derby Women Thriving in Academia, edited by Marian Mahat, offers a collection of reflections on the…
Review of Gender Theory in Troubled Times by Kathleen Lennon and Rachel Alsop
Kathleen Lennon and Rachel Alsop (2020) Gender Theory in Troubled Times, Cambridge: Polity Press What was intended to become a second edition of their book Theorizing Gender (2002), Gender Theory in Troubled Times overwhelmingly exceeds…
Review of Me Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism by Alison Phipps
Over the past decade, feminism has been increasingly visible in popular culture. Key political events such as the election of Donald Trump in 2020 and the widespread protests that followed…
Review of The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection by Holly Lewis
As the title suggests, Holly Lewis’ The Politics of Everybody falls squarely within an interdisciplinary move. Contrarily though, her book eschews that politics of intersectionality which is centred on the…
Film and TV Reviews
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…
Review of Virgin School
By Chloe Harrison “THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF SEX IS ALSO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RELIGION, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, KINSHIP AND HUMAN RIGHTS” (Donnan and Magowan, 2010) Glad we’ve cleared that up. The next topic I…
Review of BBC’S Queens of Heartache
This post was originally posted here I’m not a fan of music documentaries, but BBC’s Queens of Heartache caught my attention as its subjects are five of my very favourite artists; Edith…
Review of After Porn Ends
by Erin Pearson Using approximately 20 subjects in a ‘talking heads’ format, After Porn Ends relays the stories of former porn stars of various ages (26-70), from their beginnings (in life, and…
Event Reviews
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…
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…
Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Series (May 2014)
by Megan Henesy “This AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) is a series of six workshops, to be held between August 2013 and July 2014. The programme is designed to enable UK-based postgraduate research students and early-career researchers who work in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to…
Third Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Workshops
by Megan Henesy This week the third of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Workshops was held at Leeds Metropolitan University. The theme of the event, ‘Careers and Employability’, allowed for the discussion of our future as postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Humanities. We were given advice, support, and a chance to discuss…
Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Series (January 2014)
by Megan Henesy “This AHRC-funded Contemporary Women’s Writing Skills Development Programme (CWWSkills) is a series of six workshops, to be held between August 2013 and July 2014. The programme is designed to enable UK-based postgraduate research students and early-career researchers who work in the field of contemporary women’s writing to develop an entrepreneurial approach to…