oD support open standards:

About Rahila Gupta

Rahila Gupta is a freelance journalist and writer. Her work has appeared in The Guardian and New Humanist among other papers and magazines. Her books include, From Homebreakers to Jailbreakers: Southall Black Sisters ed. (Zed Press, 2003), Provoked (Harper Collins, India, 2007) and Enslaved: The New British Slavery (Portobello Books, 2007).

Normal 0

Articles by Rahila Gupta

Wednesday 4th January

Has neoliberalism knocked feminism sideways?

Rahila Gupta, 4 January 2012

Feminism needs to recapture the state from the neoliberal project to which it is in hock in order to make it deliver for women. It must guard against atomisation and recover its transformative aspirations to shape the new social order that is hovering on the horizon, says Rahila Gupta

Monday 23rd May

Lush – cosmetic or real?

Rahila Gupta, 23 May 2011

The EU is on the point of turning its back on the Schengen agreement. Welcome to the World Passport: 'this document confirms that its bearer is a human being, and not an alien'. Rahila Gupta reports on the campaign for open borders

Tuesday 8th March

Feminism and the soul of secularism

Rahila Gupta, 8 March 2011

Secularism, as a concept, appears to be in danger from both the left and the right. Among feminists, it tends to be only some minority women scrambling for the soul of secularism. It is time for all feminists to muck in, says Rahila Gupta

Wednesday 23rd June

Dangerous liaisons

Rahila Gupta, 23 June 2010

We cannot afford the direct or indirect legitimisation of extremist religious forces especially by organisations claiming the progressive mantle. The slippage is constant and must be guarded against

Monday 19th April

The religious lobby and women’s rights

Rahila Gupta, 19 April 2010

None of the main political party manifestos tackle the encroachment of religion on our society. As more and more public spaces are devoured by religious interests creating particular problems for women, Rahila Gupta argues that it is time to end state funding of religion and faith based organisations as service providers.

Thursday 19th June

The pull factor

Rahila Gupta, 19 June 2008

The imminent UK ratification of a European convention which describes women in the sex trade as the victims of trafficking is to be welcomed, not least because it will lead to more prosecutions. Isn't it time that the government criminalised the buyers of these services?

Monday 26th November