VOLUME 4(2) • 2014
SEXUAL VIOLENCE JOURNALISM IN FOUR LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE INDIAN PUBLICATIONS BEFORE AND AFTER THE DELHI RAPE
ABSTRACT. The Delhi Rape is the most extensively covered rape case in recent Indian history. This report chronicles a media monitoring exercise of rape reporting before the Delhi incident between January 1, 2012 and August 31, 2012. The report also examines the three-month period after the Delhi Rap..
TRANSFORMING CULTURAL NORMS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
ABSTRACT. A version of these remarks was delivered at the Stoneman/Katz Human Rights, Gender and the Law Conference: The State of Equality in Comparative Perspective, held at Albany Law School in April of 2013. The conference transcript was assembled into a monograph to memorialize the conference it..
HIGHER EDUCATION PEDAGOGIES: GENDERED FORMATIONS, MIS/RECOGNITION AND EMOTION
ABSTRACT. Struggles over the right to higher education have become increasingly entangled with a moral panic over a “crisis of masculinity” and assumptions that higher education has become “feminized.” Such assumptions have contributed to the reproduction of dualistic thinking about gender and a “ba..
SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND THE REFUGEE DETERMINATION PROCESS IN CANADA
ABSTRACT. Egregious human rights violations have compelled some lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people to seek refuge in countries with better human rights protection. This in turn has led some countries to extend refugee protection to men and women who feared persecution in their home count..
“LEFTOVER WOMEN”: POSTPONING MARRIAGE AND RENEGOTIATING WOMANHOOD IN URBAN CHINA
ABSTRACT. In China since the mid-2000s, much media attention has focused on the plight of unmarried, highly educated, urban professional women who are at the forefront of a trend of delaying marriage. Called “leftover women” (shengnü), they are deemed increasingly unmarriageable due to their advanci..
CONFERENCE REPORTS
Intellectual Women: Dissatisfied ModernitiesNEWW International ConferenceComplutense University (Madrid)November 13–14, 2014pp. 151–155 Ramona Mihaila Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest Women Scientists as Global Solution ProvidersCelebrating AMONET’s 10th AnniversaryCalouste Gulben..
BOOK REVIEW
Feminism, Law, and ReligionMarie A. Failinger, Elizabeth R. Schiltz, and Susan J. Stabile (eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013, 444 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-4419-0pp. 158–161 Carmen GhineaSpiru Haret University, Bucharest, Romania..