Gender and Sexuality

The Politics of Performance: Gender Identity in Cosplay

Katarina Birkedal • May 22 2016 • Articles

The study of cosplay is important as it informs the study of gender performance and popular culture narratives.

Against State Straightism: Five Principles for Including LGBT Indonesians

Tom Boellstorff • Mar 21 2016 • Articles

Indonesia’s diversity has always included LGBT persons. The question is can they live with freedom, which has been the cry of Indonesian nationalism from its beginnings.

Interview – J. Ann Tickner

E-International Relations • Mar 6 2016 • Features

Professor J. Ann Tickner discusses the vibrancy of contemporary feminist IR, the divide between positivism and postpositivism and the need for IR from the margins.

Using Gender Lenses to Decolonize Trauma and Memory in IR

Erica Resende and Dovile Budryte • Feb 12 2016 • Articles

The intersections of two bodies of literature—feminist perspectives in (and on) IR and the study of traumatic memory in IR—offer a promising avenue for research.

Interview – Nadje Al-Ali

E-International Relations • Jan 30 2016 • Features

Professor Al-Ali answers questions on the difficulties faced by Iraqi female academics, the role of women’s movements in the MENA region, and the academic-activist link.

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.

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