Maria Rashid studies relationships in military households as intimate sites that make visible the everyday practices of war. She argues that the silences and disconnects experienced in them are not a side effect of soldiering and its demands but a deliberate product and requirement of military training and service.
Read MoreRosie Walters and Jenny Rivett explore how adolescent girls in nine countries push back against rules and restrictions that limit their movements and friendships, creatively finding ways to gain a little bit more freedom for themselves and their peers. The findings show how girls resist gender inequalities in their everyday lives and the exciting potential for adults and organisations alike to act as their allies.
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.
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