We are very pleased to announce that the winning and shortlisted entries from the FSA 2019 Student Essay Competition have now been published in the Journal of International Women's Studies. This special issue showcases the diversity of innovative work that is being carried out by emerging feminist scholars in the UK and Ireland. The FSA…
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Launch of the FSA Student Essay Competition 2020
FSA is delighted to announce that the 2020 FSA Student Essay Competition is now open for applications Deadline: Friday 3 July 2020 To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. After an initial shortlisting…
FSA Student Essay Competition 2019 — Results
We are delighted to announce that the winner of the FSA Student Essay Competition 2019 is Veronica Heney. Veronica’s winning essay is titled: ‘Unending and uncertain: thinking through a phenomenological consideration of self-harm towards a feminist understanding of embodied agency’. Veronica is a PhD student at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health at the University of…
FWSA Essay Competition 2018 – Special Issue Published
We are pleased to announce that the special issue of the Journal of International Women’s Studies featuring the winning and shortlisted essays from the 2018 FWSA essay competition has now been published. The volume entitled "New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2018 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s…
2019 Student Essay Competition Launched
FWSA is delighted to announce that the 2019 Student Essay Competition has now been launched! (Deadline May 10th) To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top seven entries will be judged by…
FWSA Essay Competition 2018 – Results
We are delighted to announce the winner and shortlist for this year's student essay competition. Winner Charlotte Sefton, University of Exeter, ‘Cartographers of Disrupted Belonging: Sudanese Mothers Drawing Maps of Portsmouth (UK)’ Shortlist Isha Karki, Newcastle University, ‘Scripting Resistance: Rape and the Avenging Woman in Hindi Cinema’ Sarah France, Newcastle University, ‘Walking Out of Dualisms:…
*Extended Deadline Student Essay Competition 2018*
*Submissions Deadline Extended to Friday 18th May 2018 * The FWSA has extended the deadline of this year's Student Essay Competition to Friday 18th May. Please share among your networks and with your students. To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in…
FWSA Essay Competition 2016 Publication
The winning essays in the 2016 Student Essay Competition have now been published in the Journal of International Women's Studies. You can read them here. The 2017 Student Essay Competition is now open and more details can be found on our website.
Call for Entries: FWSA Student Essay Competition
The FWSA is delighted to announce that we are now accepting submissions for the 2017 Student Essay Competition. To encourage a new generation of feminist scholars, the FWSA sponsors an annual student essay competition for work which is innovative, interdisciplinary and grounded in feminist theory and practice. The top seven entries will be judged by…
FWSA 2016 Essay competition – winners and shortlist
Winners Jana Cattien, University of Cambridge; “Feminist Epistemology and the question of difference reconsidered: what can Wittgenstein tell us about 'women'?” Eleanor Dobson, University of Birmingham; “Sleeping Beauties: Mummies, and the Fairy Tale Genre at the Fin de Siècle” Shortlist Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani, University of Sussex; ‘Speaking back’ to the self: A call for ‘voice…