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Why women are increasingly at the mercy of the Ebola outbreak

Across Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone women continue to be infected and killed by Ebola at devastatingly high rates. The reasons behind this are largely recognised; gender roles, understandings and practices lay at the heart. Surprisingly, these are not so detached from those we face in the ‘West’. Although gender dynamics continue to position women …

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How Sweden’s Feminist Party is Changing European Politics

How Sweden’s Feminist Party is Changing European Politics and Possibly the World by Crystal Shepeard Democratic countries tend to believe, at least in theory, in the concept of equality and shared responsibility for society. Whether it is working conditions, voting rights or health care, countries vary on how well they achieve these goals. While the …

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The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

Book presentation The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions Christopher F. Karpowitz & Tali Mendelberg To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10402.html Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the …

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Conservative Christian Crusaders March Against Women in Berlin

Several thousand conservative christian fundamentalists have marched “for life” (code word for banning abortions and banning LGBT rights) in Berlin. Thousands feminists stood up to them. Cops found an excuse to beat and detain 16 of them, and carefully protected the fundamentalists. They also tried to intimidate the media, and even hit a social media photo-journalist. However, the counter-protestors …

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Girls dressed as boys, from Albania to Afghanistan

1) Sworn Virgins: Men by Choice in the Balkans By Daphnee Denis “Sworn virgins” (burrneshas in Albanian) are Albanian women who decide to ignore their female identity and live as men in the Balkans. Photographer Jill Peters traveled to Northern Albania to meet and photograph these women.  The decision to live as men is more related …

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