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Africa Food Security and the WTO
Read more: Africa Food Security and the WTOby Onsando Osiemo The food security dilemma Africa’s food security is ever worsening. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization […]
Chrystal Macmillan: champion for women’s equality, peace and justice
Should we compare the violence of rape, war, racism, and ecocide?
…pacifist feminists have long argued we must by Selina Gallo-Cruz Content warning: mentions of rape and sexual harassment Rape, war, racism, ecocide: a litany of violence. Are they comparable—and, if so, should they be compared? Across generations, feminist pacifists have…
Five Reasons to Read Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Today
by Stephanie Palmer, Myrto Drizou, and Cécile Roudeau The US author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is best known, read and taught as the author of short regionalist fiction set largely in rural New England, a region she depicts in…
The Woman Writer’s Playbook to Fighting Censorship
What is a Sporting Body? (Part 2)
by Holly Thorpe and Joshua Newman Have you read Part 1? If not, get it here! The first issue consists of nine papers, the first by David Howe and Carla Silva, draws upon posthumanism to trouble the implicit and seemingly…
Remembering Sarah Kofman in the 2020s?
By Jacob Bates-Firth Sarah Kofman and the Relief of Philosophy (ed. Bates-Firth and McKeane) is out now as a special issue of Paragraph, 44:1 (March 2021) and concurrently in book form with Edinburgh University Press. Backdrop When John and I began to…
Brigid Brophy: Writer, Critic, Activist
Aristotle and gender: form vs matter?
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary divided between those who determine the social world – men – and those who need to be determined – women…
Promises of Monsters
By Donna McCormack, School of Literature and Languages, University of Surrey The Monster Network has been busy doing collective work and is happy to announce the publication of a special issue of the journal Somatechnics on “Promises, Monsters, Methodologies: The…