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Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

Editorial: Racism in the Closet – Interrogating Postcolonial Sexuality

by Henriette Gunkel and Ben Pitcher • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

In September 2007, the liberal German daily newspaper Süddeutsche published an article entitled ‘Migrant kids against Gays’.[1] The article referred to the results of a study initiated by the German Lesbian and Gay Federation (LSVD), investigating attitudes among German students…


Muslim Women in France: Impossible Subjects?

by Catherine Raissiguier • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

Introduction
Current discussions of immigration in France are saturated with sensational narratives about gender and sexuality. The wearing of Islamic scarves, polygamy, forced marriages, female genital cutting, and the sexual victimization of young Muslim women, for instance, receive intense and…


Miniskirts and Kangas: the Use of Culture in Constituting Postcolonial Sexuality

by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi • 2 May 08
Journal: Issues | Postcolonial Sexuality [3]

On the 6th March 2006, South African Deputy President, Jacob Zuma pleaded not guilty to raping a 31 year old family friend, Khwezi, at his home on the 2nd of November 2005. During the highly publicised trial that followed, Zuma…


Nawal El Saadawi – in dialogue

by Sara Wajid • 13 Feb 08
Journal: Interviews

An exclusive interview conducted by Sara Wajid with the author and activist Nawal El Saadawi

Less than a minute in, Nawal El Saadawi, the ideological godmother of Muslim feminists, flouts author interview protocol rather fabulously, by pretending she’s not really…


Infidel: My Life

by Sara Wajid • 16 Aug 07
Journal: Reviews | books

Review of: Infidel: My Life (2007), Free Press.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has hurled herself violently into the eye of the storm with her polemical pronouncements on the threat of political Islam, the dangers of multi-culturalism and the need for…


Transnational Feminism – Terrorism

by Virinder Kalra • 7 May 07
Journal: Files

Transnational Feminism – Terrorism: A round-table discussion between Scholars from the USA and Europe

Organised by Cultural Theory Institute and Sociology, University of Manchester, 23rd March 2006
Speakers: Gargi Bhattacharya (University of Birmingham, President (elect) AUT); Inderpal Grewal (University of California at Irvine); Ronit Lentin (Sociology, Trinity college, Dublin); Jasbir Kaur Puar (Gender Studies/Geography, Rutgers University)


Welcome to Gayatri World

by Vikram Kohli • 21 Mar 07
Journal: Reviews | books

Review of Gayatri Gopinath (2005) Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public, Duke Unvirsity Press.
Welcome to Gayatri World, a place of many myriad shining surfaces in which the globe is shrunk wrap into theoretically dazzling snippets…


Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics – ESF 2004

by Nirmal Puwar • 11 Feb 07

A collection of papers of the Creating Collectivities/Doing Transnational Politics panel presented at the European Social Forum ESF 2004, 16th Oct, Alexander Palace, London. Organised by Feminist Review in collaboration with SCONVEGNO, NextGenderation, BSA Race Forum, and the Torina…