Feminist scholarship regards the Western scientific revolution and twentieth-century agricultural modernization as patriarchal endeavors and technoscientific regimes as entangled in societal interests and politics. In this article, I engage with these perspectives by focusing on women scientists working in Brazil’s leading agricultural sciences organization, Embrapa. My analysis draws on life history interviews with three women, juxtaposing their personal and career trajectories with the history of the organization, which is a symbol of the triumph of science over nature.
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 MoreWhat work does gender perform within the arms trade? Natalie Jester argues that representations of women within arms manufacturers' social media positions the companies as beacons of neoliberal feminist progress, obscuring the violence of their products.
Read MoreThis article considers how discourses of family are used to categorize immigrants and refugees, determining access to or exclusion from national territory. Drawing on a comparative study of government-led public information campaigns (PICs) in the United States and Australia, the authors expand on this research to explore how the family is framed and mobilized in PICs to produce emotional and affective attachments intended to influence migration-related decisions.
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Read MoreWhy is the zombie apocalypse so terrible for women?
The zombie apocalypse genre relies on existing political and social conditions to articulate anxieties and vulnerabilities and to present avenues for resistance or, as the author argues is the case for WWZ, to reassert the norms of dominant power structures as a kind of salvation. WWZ is a form of everyday theorizing that highlights the connections between militarism, gender, and ontological insecurity and that asserts the need to return to “traditional” (Western-centric, heteropatriarchal) values to save ourselves.
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