50.50 Editorial team

50.50 editorial team

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Rahila Gupta, Anne Marie Goetz, Jennifer Allsopp, Chulani Kodikara, Alice Welbourn, Deniz Kandiyoti, Liz Kelly, Niki Seth-Smith

50.50 founder and editor 2007- March 2017

Jane Gabriel

Previous commissioning editors 2011- 2015

Heather McRobie, Jessica Horn, Cynthia Cockburn, Barbara Gunnell

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Contesting patriarchy

Monsters, jealousy and “sick love”

how Italian media cover violence against women

Women as wartime rapists

exploring 'the impossible'

Re-branding hate?

against sexual and reproductive rights

Frozen progress

beyond the egg-freezing debate

A fatwa against sexual violence

Feminist Dissent

why a new journal on gender and fundamentalism?

Gender at the UN

Double standards in choosing the secretary-general

Behind the murder of Berta Cáceres

corporate complicity

A revolution for our times

Rojava, northern Syria

Forced sterilisation and impunity in Peru

"Visionary and creative resistance"

challenging extractivism – and patriarchy

Gun violence in Trump’s America

how women can fight it

Gendered legacies of communist Albania

Blood brides

Chinese feminists

Wartime rape in Kosovo

Immunity and impunity in peacekeeping

the protection gap

Austerity and domestic violence

mapping the damage

Challenging militarised masculinities

Tunisia's fight against fundamentalism

an interview with Amel Grami

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