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Where has gender gone? The big absence in Brazilian presidential elections 2014
Louisa is an ESRC-funded PhD researcher at the LSE Gender Institute where she explores the process of unionization of domestic workers in Brazil and their struggle to be recognised as workers. One...
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The legacy of the coalition government: a double standard on women’s rights
Kady Billington-Murphy (@KadyBM) is a part-time student at the LSE Gender Institute studying towards an MSc in Gender, Policy and Inequalities. She has worked in the human rights sector for several...
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The victory of abortion rights protesters in Poland is likely to be short lived
by Magdalena Mikulak A proposal to increase restrictions on abortion in Poland generated several large protests across the country in early October, with the proposal ultimately being voted down in...
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The consequences of the differing meanings of gender in policy and activism...
by Eszter Kováts “If gender quota is necessary for party lists, so what if I identify as a woman, can I run then for a woman’s place? And what happens if I identify as one of those plenty of other...
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In Defence of Women: Anti-gender Campaigns and Abortion in Chile
by Lieta Vivaldi In Chile the bill that allows abortion on three grounds – when a woman’s life is in danger, when there are foetal anomalies incompatible with life, and in the case of rape – was...
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Is a picture really worth a thousand words? Posters In and About the British...
by Dean Cooper-Cunningham In 2018, the UK celebrated the centenary of (some) women’s suffrage. This came on the back of the Global Women’s Marches that protested the election of Donald Trump following...
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Backlash: A misleading narrative
by David Paternotte (Université libre de Bruxelles)[1] On 13 February 2019, the European Parliament adopted a resolution “on experiencing a backlash in women’s rights and gender equality in the EU”....
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When COVID-19 Becomes a Political Ally: Poland’s Law on Abortion
by Selen Eşençay On April 15, the Polish Parliament enacted the “Stop Abortion” bill. However, the Sejm decided to redirect the bill for further review in parliamentary committees. Although the bill...
View ArticleEngenderings stands in solidarity with Aurat Azadi March organisers in Pakistan
As gender and feminist scholars, and some of us members of the Engenderings collective, we express full solidarity with organisers of Aurat Azadi March in Pakistan, who organised peaceful events in...
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A Feminist Intervention into Critiques of the Human Rights Approach in the...
by Jenifer Elmslie This June, this author had the pleasure of being asked to present at LSE’s Interdisciplinary Knowledge Beyond Boundaries conference; the following is a written piece based on her...
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