Rekha Pande
This article looks at the practice of arranged marriage among women of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin resident in Britain. It examines the conflation of arranged marriages with forced marriages and the assumption that arranged marriages are examples of cultural practices that thwart indivi...
Ann Larson
Journal Article THE SOCIAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AFRICA'S AIDS EPIDEMIC Get access ANN LARSON ANN LARSON Ann Larson researched and wrote this article as a postdoctorial fellow at the Health Transition Centre, Australian National University, and was supported by a Rockefeller Foundation grant to that Centr...
Susan H. Perry, Celeste Schenck
Introduction - practising theory eye to eye, Susan Perry, Celeste Schenck. The feminism of international institutions: the World Bank and women - instrumental feminism, Sophie Bessis international organizations - women's rights and gender equality, Aster Zaoude, Joanne Sandler. The politics of women...
Sarah Akhtar Baz
Engaging in ‘reflexive practice’ throughout the research process (Benson and O’Reilly, 2022) and a ‘reflexivity of discomfort’ (Hamdan, 2009) through an intersectional lens, this article presents a reflective account of accessing and conducting observations and interviews at a South Asian women’s or...
Simon N. Foley
One of the perennial political/philosophical questions concerns whether it is ever justifiable for a third party to paternalistically restrict an adult’s freedom to ensure their own, or society’s, best interests are protected. Wherever one stands on this debate it remains the case that, unlike their...
Nicola Jones, Kate Pincock, Sarah Alheiwidi
This paper discusses how harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) can be effectively explored through feminist methodologies that center the lived experiences of girls and young women affected by these issues. Eliminating harmful practices, which are roo...
Debashis Sarker
Applying qualitative methods and evidence from the field, this paper explores the situation of women with disabilities within Bangladesh’s overall sociocultural, political, and economic contexts. The research found that participating women with disabilities were living in poverty and were disenfranc...
Md Shahrier Haider
This article discusses the theoretical explanation of 'disability' containing various definitions from significant bodies and models that scholars proposed to frame disability studies from different viewpoints. Later, the article proposes a working definition of disability consulting the World Healt...
Khalid Abartal, Soumia Boutkhil
This paper studies the involvement of Moroccan women in political leadership in the light of the new family code and constitution. It starts with analyzing Fatima Mernissi’s the Forgotten Queens of Islam to refute the belief that Muslim women were never political leaders and can never be. Then, it e...
Abdul Alim
Family life and personal law in India express together a complex blend of historical, philosophical and political aspects. Family law is setting out a framework for thinking about how personal life affects the most profound aspects of our lives and communities. But the political issues are facing pr...
How dominant patriarchal structures permeated the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—and women’s multiple and varied experiences of and resistance to these structures. Feminism and COVID-19 explores different but common themes related to women’s experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Julia Smit...
Fatema Tuj Johora, Md Mostafizur Rahman, Kazi Tausin Islam
This study provides an in-depth analysis of the gender justice challenges faced by transgender individuals in Khulna, Bangladesh through the lens of just city theory. Despite the legal recognition of the Transgender community in 2013, they continue to experience social isolation, violence and system...
Gobinda Chandra Mandal, Shima Zaman
This article reconstructs how “marriageable age” in Hindu law was made across doctrinal, institutional, and evidentiary registers. It traces the shift from a guardianship- centred kanyādāna framework, where puberty and household competence acted as proxies, to a modern regime organised around consen...
Sadia Rehnuma Ferdous, Abir Mahmud Abir
This paper investigates how women’s identities are gradually transformed and manipulated at the very beginning of their lives in the post-colonial Egyptian era under intersecting power structures through the character Firdaus in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero, drawing on Foucauldian ideas of...