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Published in: 50.50The Antis: anti-imperialist or anti-feminist?
A recent article on "imperialist feminism" accuses the US women's movement of being a cheerleader for American...
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Published in: HomeImperialist feminism and liberalism
Colonial feminism is based on the appropriation of women’s rights in the service of empire and has been widely...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaRace and racism in modern Turkey
Ninety years since the establishment of the Republic, in an ever more complex society, the limitations and...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaKobane: the struggle of Kurdish women against Islamic State
The international community should support a secular, multi-religious and multi-ethnic Rojava with democratic...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeeing the women in revolutionary Syria
The battle for Syrian women's liberation is multi-faceted; and from first-hand experience, we learn just how often...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWomen’s rights in the new Tunisian constitution
The constitution was voted in during a period when belief in the status quo changing had lost all traction. Due to...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaThe representation impasse: accounting for Egyptian women in the post-Morsi age
To move towards a more accurate account, it is imperative that we dissolve the binaries of tradition and modernity,...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and fury: women and post-revolutionary violence
Putting episodes of post-Arab spring violence against women down to a routine manifestation of patriarchy and its...
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Published in: 50.50The politics of alliances: feminist peace action, drones and Code Pink
Meredith Tax raises significant questions about feminist activism, political alliances and fundamentalism, but her...
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Published in: HomeWomen, democracy and dictatorship
In the early and middle decades of the twentieth century it was always Middle Eastern dictators who embarked on...