Amanda Heffernan explores necropolitical theory, Latin American feminist scholarship, and the U.S. reproductive justice movement to argue that the reproductive oppression of pregnant migrants by U.S. immigration authorities is gendered necropolitics at work.
Read MoreCandace Johnson explores the end of the maternal health moment in Canada, the complexities of replacing maternal health policies with sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) policies, and the consequences for gender justice.
Read MoreMona Lilja, Mikael Baaz and Filip Strandberg explore how we can understand what is known as the “missing women” problem; that is, the number of women that would be alive in the absence of sex discrimination and selection. In addition to this, the authors investigate various resistance practice and outline some possible ways in which such practices could challenge the phenomena of sex selection.
Read MoreFlorence Waller-Carr explores the instrumentality and power of emotions in policy spaces and frameworks using analysis of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda to argue that language is embedded with emotion and produced in systems of power within historical and cultural contexts.
Read MoreTu Wenyan and Guo Xiajuan argue that women’s lower propensity to tolerate corruption than that of men derives from the exclusion effect of power or clientelist networks on women in the Chinese government.
Read MoreJulia Margaret Zulver’s (she/her/hers) research documents how women’s mobilization in post-Accord Colombia can lead to increased and gendered acts of violence against them.
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