Book Review: The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience by Rebecca...
The relationship between bodies and images has long occupied feminism, and this book offers an alternative framework for analysis. Thinking through her original empirical research with teenage girls,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Gendered Effects of Electoral Institutions: Political...
An increasing awareness of the under-representation of women in parliaments and business has gone hand in hand with growing debate about gender quotas as a means of rectifying this situation. However,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for...
Women’s rights have progressed significantly in the last two decades, but major challenges remain in order to end global gender discrimination. The Unfinished Revolution outlines the recent history of...
View ArticleBook Review: Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing
In Recoding Gender, Janet Abbate explores the untold history of women in computer science and programming from the Second World War to the late twentieth century. Demonstrating how gender has shaped...
View ArticleBook Review: Behind the Veil of Vice: The Business and Culture of Sex in the...
In Behind the Veil of Vice, Middle East expert John R. Bradley sets out to uncover the truth about the place of sex in countries including Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Yemen. Bradley reports on how...
View Article10 must-read books on women’s rights, history and achievements for...
8th March 2013 marks International Women’s Day: a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. Here at LSE Review of Books we’ve put...
View ArticleBook Review: Gender, Violence and Popular Culture: Telling Stories
This book approaches the interrelation of popular representations of gender and violence and global politics by focusing on the narrative of television shows like Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Impact of Gender Quotas
With the increasing prominence which debates about gender quotas enjoy within public life, it is imperative that we understand how, if at all, they achieve the ends to which they are directed. It is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis
The second edition of the Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis presents both a theoretical and practical approach to conducting social science research on, for, and about women. Emma Smith...
View ArticleBook Review: Women and Wars
In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan,...
View ArticleBook Review: Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings: A...
Youth work with girls has taken inspiration from feminist theory and the women’s movement, with community-based projects seeking to challenge oppression and encourage confidence and inclusivity....
View ArticleBook Review: Presumed Incompetent: the Intersections of Race and Class for...
In Presumed Incompetent, through personal narratives and qualitative empirical studies, over 40 authors expose the daunting challenges faced by academic women of colour as they navigate the often...
View ArticleBook Review: Fat Lives: A Feminist Psychological Exploration
Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this book investigates the embodied experience of ‘being large’ from a critical psychological perspective. Using poststructuralist and feminist...
View ArticleBook Review: Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance
Using case studies from Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Israel and India, Sexuality in Muslim Contexts argues that Muslim religious traditions do not necessarily lead to conservative...
View ArticleBook Review: Remaking Citizenship in Multi-Cultural Europe: Women’s...
This book aims to offer a ground-breaking analysis of how women’s movements have been remaking citizenship in multicultural Europe. Presenting the findings of a large scale cross-national feminist...
View ArticleBook Review: Resonance: Beyond the Words
Resonance gathers together forty years of anthropological study by a researcher and writer with one of the broadest fieldwork résumés in anthropology: Unni Wikan. In its twelve essays, this book...
View ArticleBook Review: Political Power and Women’s Representation in Latin America
In Political Power and Women’s Representation in Latin America, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer examines the causes and consequences of women’s representation in Latin America. She does so by asking a series of...
View ArticleBook Review: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity
Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir also wrote an array of other political and philosophical texts that are less well known. Together, these constitute an original...
View ArticleBook Review: The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern...
In The Subject of Murder, Lisa Downing explores the ways in which the figure of the murderer has been made to signify a specific kind of social subject in Western modernity. Drawing on the work of...
View ArticleBook Review: Making ‘Postmodern’ Mothers: Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and...
This book aims to provide a multi-disciplinary, empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it fits into wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, ‘fat’, feminism, and...
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