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Shadow of justice: review on women’s struggle against gender-based violence in Ghana and South Africa
Ghana and South Africa, though distinct in trajectories, share a common commitment to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment. This review...
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Map** gendered spaces and women’s rights in the modern egyptian public sphere
This paper draws on secularisation and feminist theories to analyse the intersection between political, religious and economic factors in defining...
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Women’s Rights in Movement Dynamics of Feminist Change in Latin America and the Caribbean
This book provides an updated comparative overview of women’s movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling some of the gaps left by the...
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Characteristics of Women’s Rights Activism in Kyrgyzstan
This chapter provides an overview of narrative trends that resulted from the analysis of life stories and responses of Kyrgyzstan’s women’s rights...
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Feminists by Default? Women’s Rights and Social Change in Argentina
This chapter looks into the Argentinian women’s movement’s decades-long battles over meanings that made the invisible visible and allowed for the...
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The Struggle for Survival in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century African American Women’s Autobiography: Black Women’s Narrative of Incarceration and Freedom
This study examines the kinship between the female slave narrative and the writing of the female political prisoner during the Black Power Movement....
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Affective Citizenship: Right-Wing Contestations of Women’s and Gender Rights
Affects and emotions build modes of inclusion and exclusion; they define belonging and non-belonging and hence are important elements of citizenship...
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The opportunities and limits of Islamist ideological developments on the rights of non-Muslims and women
Most academic scholars of the Muslim Brotherhood and like-minded Islamist organisations seem to agree that these groups have come to accept the...
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Re-envisioning Women’s Empowerment: A Maqasid Approach to Understanding Women’s Status and Rights in Islam
Like other human rights treatises, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) has elicited...
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Women’s Labor During World War II
The article is devoted to the study of female labor in the USSR during World War II (WWII). During this time, strict legislative norms were...
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No nos callamos más: A Turning Point in Women’s Football and Women’s Rights in Argentina
Football in Argentina, as in most of South America, has traditionally been considered a male sport, built by and for men; however, in recent years,...
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(Trans)Gendering transition and identity struggle in The Danish girl and Nevada
This article investigates transgender women’s social and linguistic issues as well as their identity struggles in American novels have closely...
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From Contraception to Assisted Conception: A History of Women’s Movement for Reproductive Health Rights in India
In India, the issue ofConception/ Contraceptive women’s reproductive health rights surfaced during the second wave of feministFeminism/ Feminist/...
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“Crusade” for African American Civil Rights: Female Rhetoric and Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells is the inspirational autobiography of an African American civil rights leader and black...
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The Muslim Brotherhood and women’s issues under Sadat: dogmas and discussions
This paper examines why the MB was cautious in its revision of views on women under Anwar Sadat when it was, at the same time, changing the way it...
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¡Aborto YA!—Feminist Strategies in the Struggle for Easy, (Legal,) Safe and Free Abortion in Chile
Based on a study initiated in 2018 (Persson, ¡La maternidad será deseada o no será!: En kvalitativ analys av feministiska strategier i kampen för...
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Supporting Academic Women’s Careers: Male and Female Academics’ Perspectives at a Chinese Research University
The persistent gender inequalities in higher education are an ongoing concern among academics. This paper investigates how male and female academics...
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SymptomSpeak: Women’s Struggle for History and Health in Kosovo
What are the linguistic dimensions of pain, and what kind of articulations arise from these painful experiences? How does the language of pain...
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Social Work and Human Rights: Learning from COVID-19
The purpose of this paper is to (1) examine global human rights disparities that were acutely revealed or exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic and...
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Parity, paradigms, and possibilities: a constructive approach to advancing women’s equality
Prompted by the midpoint assessments of achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5 (SDG5), this article considers the pattern...