In treating hijab and other forms of modest clothing as fashion, Reina Lewis counters the overuse of images of veiled women as “evidence” in the prevalent suggestion that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with Western modernity. Participating in the world of popular mainstream fashion—often thought to be the domain of the West—young Muslim women are […]
New Issue of Girlhood Studies: Girls with Disabilities: A Rights Perspectives
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Girlhood Studies has been published by Berghahn Journals. This special volume includes contributions from academics, activists, and service providers who engage with the intersectional domains of disability, gender, and humanitarian praxis. The focus of this special issue is on building more enduring conceptual alliances between disability studies […]
New Issue: Journal of South Asia Women Studies
www.asiatica.org IN THIS ISSUE: Editorial Note: The Journal of South Asia Women Studies: Our First Twenty-one Years – The 2015 Constitution of Nepal Papers: Enrica Garzilli, “Nepal 2013-14: Breaking the Political Impasse” (in PDF – freely accessible) Giorgio Milanetti, “Two wives for a perfect life: Nag’mati and Padmavati in Jayasi’s Padmāvat as symbols of the integration of bhoga and yoga“; Narasingha P. Sil, “The “Fallen” Females of Rabindranath […]
New Issue: Women and Social Movements in the United States
Announcing our new issue. Women and Social Movements in the United States In this issue we publish two new document projects, two scholarly essays and individual activist pages as part of our Black Woman Suffragists collection, and a fifth installment of documents in that collection. Our first document project by Susan Goodier, “How Did Women Anti-Suffragists in […]
Call for Proposals: Mapping Migrations in World History
The Midwest World History Association is happy to announce a call for paper, poster, panel, roundtable, and workshop proposals for its annual conference to be held at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 23th and 24th, 2016. The conference theme is “Mapping Migrations in World History.” Proposals that focus on any period […]
New Film: The Same Difference
THE SAME DIFFERENCE is a documentary about lesbians who discriminate against other lesbians. Director Nneka Onuorah mixes interviews with celebrities such as Lea DeLaria from Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black and actress Felicia “Snoop” Pearson from the critically acclaimed HBO drama The Wire, with members of the community, to shine a light on the relationships and experiences within […]
Biographical Database of Black Woman Suffragists: A Crowdsourcing Project
To complement a recent project to crowdsource biographical sketches of White House picketers for woman suffrage in 1917-1919, the editors of Women and Social Movements in the United States invite history faculty, students, and independent historians to join in preparing biographical sketches of Black women suffragists whose writings we are publishing on our online journal […]
New Film: Don’t Tell Anyone
DON’T TELL ANYONE, which just had its broadcast premiere on POV, is a film about courage, facing insurmountable obstacles and the determination to fight for justice. Since the age of 4, Angy Rivera has lived in the United States with a secret that threatens to upend her life: She is undocumented. The film follows Rivera’s journey from poverty […]
New Film: Learning to Swallow
LEARNING TO SWALLOW is an intimate portrait of a resilient young woman, Patsy Desmond. A charismatic, emerging artist, the “it girl” seemingly had it all: admiring friends and lovers, a prestigious work assignment with an internationally renowned artist in New York City and the potential to successfully realize her dreams. In spite of this, Patsy struggled […]
Women Writing Travel, 1890 – 1939
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Journeys – The International Journal of Travel & Travel Writing has been published by Berghahn Journals. The articles presented in this special issue showcase the most up-to-date scholarship on women writing travel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and demonstrate that thinking about […]
