Interdisciplinary journal for researchers of all levels on gender in the humanities, cultural studies and social sciences
Commentary by Lucy Threadgold The article is a piece of new transnational research that brings together histories of colonial legacies in India, gender norms and sexuality, and experiments in psychiatry. This essay is successful in tying these complex topics together to create a cohesive argument and clear writing skills that cover a sizeable time period. … Continue reading Commentary on: Medical Imagination
by Anne, Rebecca L. Focusing on the influence of Catholic church ideology on the political landscape of Poland, this piece explores the desperate state in which Polish women seeking the right to abortion find themselves. The author outlines how after the fall of communism in Poland, women’s healthcare rights were dismantled resulting in the desolate … Continue reading Commentary on Piety, Patriarchy, and Politics
We (This is us) would like to say a few words. We want to make this journal a space for change, understanding this word in a twofold way. First, a place to exchange ideas, works, thoughts, doubts, and experiences. Second, but not far from the first, as a place where those exchanges could go further … Continue reading Before we launch the working paper series …
by Felicity Adams, PhD Candidate, School of Law, Keele University This summer marks 50 years since Black trans people and queer people of colour including Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and Stormé DeLarverie led the Stonewall Rebellion against systemic police violence. As Bassichis, Lee, and Spade highlight: “These early freedom fighters knew all too well … Continue reading Black and Trans Lives Matter: the link between policing, anti-blackness and anti-transness
By Ross Cameron, an AHRC sponsored PhD researching Anglo-American women’s travel to the Balkans based at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. When I began my PhD project last October I was intending on studying the representations of Islam found in British travel writing on the Balkans across a broad swathe of … Continue reading Gendering Anglo-American Travel to the Balkans
by Judith Bachmann, University of Heidelberg Last semester, I finally dared to teach “gender and religion” in a course introducing students to the study of religion and intercultural theology. While not the lowest I had ever seen, attendance was quite low, but I was okay with that. I had just overcome a semester teaching a … Continue reading Teaching Gender and Religion: Some Reflections from Experience
Anna McEwan is a co-founder and editor of En-Gender. She a first-year doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Scottish Graduate School. Like most of us, the impact of COVID-19 absorbed me in a feeling of panic. Last month I was in Berlin … Continue reading A Historian of the GDR on the impact of COVID-19
by Marine Gilis My name is Marine Gilis, I am a PhD student at the University of Angers. I am working on the sexual liberation experience of women's group activists in Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire (the West of France). The women's groups are part of the dynamic of the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF in French), which … Continue reading Interview Methodology in the History of Sexuality
By Leandro Wallace I Women have been part of history since the beginning. That is as true a statement, as there can be. However, what we would consider the academic recollection of history has had a different approach. In this piece, I will do a quick summary of what has been the development of the … Continue reading Do all roads lead to Rome? The nuances of studying gender in Antiquity
by Ivana Hadjievska Down the rabbit hole In the cold and rational world of Science the only thing that matters is result. Quality results from a professionally conducted research that aims to stretch out the state of the art in the field and bring in “the discovery” to the world, do not pre-question the human condition … Continue reading Early career women in research environments: the agony of social capital
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