How do Kuwaiti cyberfeminists resist hegemonic and anti-feminist discourses? This article seeks to answer this question by exploring the contestation between Kuwaiti feminists and their Islamist opponents on Twitter.
Read MoreIn this article, Jenna Sapiano and Natasha Singh Raghuvanshi argue that the negotiations leading up to the adoption of the two most recent resolutions of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda of the United Nations Security Council, and the modifications made to the final accepted language, reveal how the mechanisms designed to protect and advance women's rights can also be employed to undermine them.
Read MoreThis article examines the politics of knowledge production and the affective politics of rising anti-genderism in civil society in contemporary Turkey with a focus on two main points: (1) the variety of actors and their different strategies opposing “gender ideology,” and (2) the effects of state–movement dynamics on the political efficacy of those strategies. The findings demonstrate that anti-gender alliances between state and civil society actors display a discursive plurality in Turkey in terms of how they manage the fluidity and heterogeneity of the opposition to “gender ideology” that links a wide range of concerns about feminist ideas, movements, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LGBTI+) rights.
Read MoreThe Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, known as the Istanbul Convention is a contested issue in Central and Eastern Europe. This article investigates this matter further by focusing specifically on Bulgaria and Poland using the most similar systems design; the former country has not ratified the convention, but the latter has.
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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