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Published in: 50.50When austerity sounds like backlash: gender and the economic crisisThe 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: 50.50The call of Sudanese women human rights defenders
Women activists challenging the fundamental structures of their communities and calling for new terms of peaceful...
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Published in: 50.50Who's (still) afraid of the word 'vagina'?Recent events in Britain, America and Australia have revealed a fear of the word ‘vagina’ in public discourse, in...
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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...
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Published in: 50.50Undressing Um Ahmad: Egyptian women between the bikini and the burquaa'Egypt's new First Lady is covered, a first in the history of this country. Just as her Muslim Brotherhood husband...
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Published in: 50.50Street sexual harassment: breaking the silence in YemenYoung women’s rights activists are using new media to give a voice to the 90% of Yemeni women who face street sexual...
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Published in: 50.50Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance
For the last month, #SudanRevolt has gripped Sudan. Last Friday, the protests brought the central role of women in...
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Published in: 50.50Don’t bank on gender equality from the UK high street
Women are facing a double-bind, bearing the brunt of banks' practices both in the build up to, and in the wake of,...
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Published in: 50.50Visible players: the power and the risks for young feminists
From the student protests in Chile, to the protests of the 'Arab spring' in the MENA region, the debate among young...
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Published in: 50.50Women defining economic citizenship
How can we empower women to participate in existing economic structures and also transform them? We need a model of...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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Published in: 50.50Crisis in Mali: fundamentalism, women's rights and cultural resistance
In conversation with Jessica Horn, a leading Malian women’s rights activist identifies the roots of the crisis in...
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Published in: 50.50Feminism is funnyArtist Sarah Maple’s new exhibition places feminism firmly at the centre of its work, using comedy to explore 21st...
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Published in: 50.50Egyptian women: performing in the margin, revolting in the centre"We are constantly aware of our gender and of being watched and judged because of it, so we end up "performing". But...
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Published in: 50.50Gender mainstreaming: the future of feminism? Or feminism’s disappearing act?Sylvia Walby’s ‘The Future of Feminism’ makes the case for gender mainstreaming as a successful mechanism for...
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