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Published in: 50.50"Don’t talk to me about war. My life’s a battlefield."When we’re looking for the links between war violence and male violence against women in peace time, we need to look...
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Published in: 50.50Australia: the Prime Minister who redefined misogynyThe Australian Prime Minister's recent speech about “repulsive double standards on misogyny and sexism” in the House...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the linesThe Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
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Published in: 50.50The decline in 'missing women' in BangladeshAlarm about the declining ratio of girls to boys in the Indian population, evidence of a particularly lethal form of...
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Published in: 50.50The Handmaid's Tale of Coalition Britain
Jeremy Hunt's recently-voiced and ill-founded opinion on abortion adds insult to injury. Coalition austerity...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of myth making: 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'Myths of human survival that evade questions of gender, race and social relations, won’t help us adapt in a world...
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Published in: 50.50Our Africa: mapping African women's critical resistanceEchoing through analysis on Our Africa over the past year is a recognition and interrogation of women as authors and...
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Published in: 50.50Code Pink, the Taliban and Malala Yousafzai
The US antiwar movement is failing to develop a politics that is critical of both US imperialism and fundamentalist...
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Published in: 50.50Women are the key to the presidential debate and election
In round two of the presidential debates, Biden might have done a better job than Obama of exposing the salesmanship...
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Published in: 50.50Why executions were a gendered affairSusanne Kord takes a look back at executions in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe, arguing that ideas of the...
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Published in: 50.50Everyday feminism vs everyday sexismA debate about the feminist economy cannot be brought to the school gates, but a discussion on sexting, advertising...
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Published in: 50.50Can men be feminists?With men leading on women’s issues, even when we win, we lose. Men shouldn’t be the voices of feminism, but we can...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism: co-opting women’s voicesFeminism is being used by some states as a political proxy to gloss over economic policies that hurt women,...
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Published in: 50.50When austerity sounds like backlash: gender and the economic crisis
The discourse of 'urgency' surrounding the public sector cuts masks their widespread reinvention of a Conservative...
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Published in: 50.50UK feminists: fighting for rights not privilegeThe utter disregard for women that austerity represents has galvanised and united women at a time where we are...
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Published in: 50.50Women in the UK: back to the future
Britain’s Olympic summer is over and now it’s back to reality. Marion Bowman looks at how a ground-breaking play on...
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Published in: 50.50How women are paying for the recession in the UK
It was predictable and in fact predicted. The British Government’s austerity programme has turned back the clock on...
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Published in: 50.50The Women's Library in London: a khôra and a call to armsAt a time in which the word ‘occupy’ has become synonymous with social movements, the threat of closure to The...
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Published in: 50.50Is feminism in Russia a mortal sin?The trial of Pussy Riot is encouraging Russians to talk openly about corruption. But how is their message being...
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Published in: 50.50Who said “We could have it all?”What Anne-Marie Slaughter and so many other privileged women have failed to understand is that the original women’s...
