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Published in: 50.50Fundamentalism and educationAt a time when global warming requires that we do our most creative thinking, public education and free thought are...
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Published in: 50.50Ageing men are changing men? The debate on men and crime
As men we have to recognize that our gender is more prone to violence and most sorts of crime. But does this mean we...
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Published in: 50.50From the war on terror to austerity: a lost decade for women and human rightsPatriarchy, militarism and neoliberalism have created a matrix in which women and women’s rights can never flourish...
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Published in: 50.50Militarism and non-state actors: ‘the other invasion’
'What they call transnational development companies. For us they represent death and destruction’, yet when it comes...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging militarized masculinities
It is not that ‘masculinity’ generates war, as the question has been put, but rather that the process of...
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Published in: 50.50Patriarchy and militarism in Egypt: from the street to the government
The lack of institutional concern for epidemic levels of sexual harassment and assault in Egypt is part of the...
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Published in: 50.50To a culture of peace from a culture of war
The culture of war is like a mangrove that takes root in our everyday lives and institutions occupying a dominant...
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Published in: 50.50Italy's inconvenient women: in praise of Laura Boldrini and Cecile KyengeAs the renewed threats against politician Cecile Kyenge show, the problem of the abuse of women in Italy's public...
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Published in: 50.50"Beyond the Fragments": I’m a socialist feminist. Can I be a radical feminist too?
The authors of the re-launched Beyond the Fragments take a feminist approach to healing a divided left. They put...
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Published in: 50.50Legacy of a feminist revolutionary
American radical feminist Shulamith Firestone was a leading theorist of 70s feminism who died a lonely death last...
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Published in: 50.50How to challenge the patriarchal ethics of Muslim legal traditionOne lesson from the 1979 Iranian revolution and the 2011 Arab revolutions is that activists seeking to promote...
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Published in: 50.50Zimbabwe: women debunking the myth of 'merit'
In preparation for Zimbabwe's forthcoming general election, the use of quotas to increase women’s occupation of...
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Published in: 50.50NPT and risks to human survival: the inside story
Doctrines, deployments, and the political value attached to "nuclear deterrence" are being challenged at the NPT...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of sexual harassment in Spain
A scandal related to women’s rights and the socialist party in Spain, PSOE, broke out last month on International...
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Published in: 50.50Questioning the imperative to be gendered
Despite women's progress, the norms that dictate that people should act along gender lines are stronger than ever....
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Published in: 50.50Will academia ever graduate from sexism?From the sexism of fresher’s week to under-employment after they graduate, to the closed walls of the highest...
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Published in: 50.50Performing masculinity: the football ultras in post-revolutionary EgyptThe displays of masculine assertiveness by the football ultras in Egypt and their strongly gendered form of youth...
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Published in: 50.50Dangerous laughter: the mocking of Gender Studies in academia
Gender Studies is an increasingly established and influential area of study and research, however it continues to be...
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Published in: 50.50Vaginal obsessions in Turkey: an Islamic perspectiveRecent controversies over women's sexuality, abortion and reproductive rights in Turkey reveal unacceptable...
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Published in: 50.50'Traditional values' vs human rights at the UN
A dangerous process is taking place in the UN system that threatens the universality of human rights by seeking to...
