Gender and Sexuality

Drawing out Rosa Luxemburg’s Gender Identity

Kate Evans • Dec 1 2015 • Articles

Luxemburg’s message only becomes more relevant as another inherent crisis of capitalism looms and the onward march of globalisation and militarism produces more victims.

Review – Emotions, Politics and War

Federica Caso • Oct 26 2015 • Features

This volume explores the nexus between emotions, world politics, and war and argues that IR debates should tackle the political dimensions of emotions.

Are Women Agents? Reading ‘Gender’ in Africa’s Rights Frameworks

Toni Haastrup • Oct 26 2015 • Articles

Feminism is relevant, when engaged, to help see the erasure of other gender identities in the human rights supported pan-African discourse on gender equality/justice.

White Women War Reporters: Interrogating the ‘Third Gender’ Category

Alex Edney-Browne • Oct 9 2015 • Essays

White women war reporters are being classified as a third gender, enabling them to break into the war reporting career, but this only perpetuates patriarchal ideas.

The New Generation of Chinese Feminists

Yaya Chen • Aug 9 2015 • Articles

China’s feminists have launched performances, demonstrations, and a national speaking tour, have organised workshops on different topics, recruited, trained new members.

What Do Chinese Youth Really Think about Gender?

Huili Meng • Aug 6 2015 • Articles

The post 90s Chinese can’t transcend the patriarchal power system, but evidence suggests that gender literacy is having a positive effect, building gender consciousness.

Asylum with Human Face: Angela Merkel, Reem Sahwil and Another Video-Gone-Viral

Joyce Marie Mushaben • Jul 28 2015 • Articles

Merkel accepts the fact that Germany must become a land of immigration and integration. The rest is up to the democratically elected lawmakers.

Personal-Political Imaginations: Feminism, Gender and Security in Serbia

Laura McLeod • Jul 17 2015 • Articles

To understand how particular meanings of ‘gender security’ come about, it’s necessary to pay attention to personal-political imaginations of conflict and post-conflict.

LGBT Pride: Marching on the Front Lines

Elise Carlson-Rainer • Jul 1 2015 • Articles

Pride events remain a critical moment of visibility of the LGBT movement. But the global movement will continue to progress and create new alliances for gaining equality.

Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation in Conflict Situations as a Security Risk

Muna Ndulo • Jun 22 2015 • Articles

Child abuse should be declared a collective security problem. The widespread nature of child abuse in UN missions requires appropriate response from the Security Council.

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