Book Review: Salma: Filming a Poet in her Village
Tania Bhardwaj is studying for an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE’s Gender Institute. In her spare time she loves to read, dance and travel, and in the future, she hopes to work...
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Nazreen Fazal is Assistant Editor of the LSE Review of Books. Nazreen graduated from the University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus) with a degree in International Communication Studies with English...
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Dr Kalpana Wilson is Senior LSE Fellow in Gender Theory, Globalisation and Development. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include the relationships between neo-liberalism, gender and...
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by Anjora Sarangi In a time when developments in science and technology are far outpacing human evolution, ethical dilemmas crop up with the commercialization of each new phenomenon. Surrogacy in India...
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View ArticleWhy feminism: some notes from ‘the field’ on doing feminist research
by Rishita Nandagiri On Wednesday 27 September 2017, LSE Gender PhD students organised an event titled Why feminism? An open discussion about doing gender research. During this event, PhD and MSc...
View ArticleBook Review: Salma: Filming a Poet in her Village
Tania Bhardwaj is studying for an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the LSE’s Gender Institute. In her spare time she loves to read, dance and travel, and in the future, she hopes to work...
View ArticleFive Minutes with Meena Kandasamy: “I think propaganda can be very beautiful...
Nazreen Fazal is Assistant Editor of the LSE Review of Books. Nazreen graduated from the University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus) with a degree in International Communication Studies with English...
View ArticleBritain must end its support for sterilisation in India
Dr Kalpana Wilson is Senior LSE Fellow in Gender Theory, Globalisation and Development. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include the relationships between neo-liberalism, gender and...
View ArticleCommercial Surrogacy in India
by Anjora Sarangi In a time when developments in science and technology are far outpacing human evolution, ethical dilemmas crop up with the commercialization of each new phenomenon. Surrogacy in India...
View ArticleWhere is the $2 billion for Indian mothers?
by Swati Narayan Babloo is too short for his age. In India, and especially in the poor eastern state of Bihar, that is unfortunately not unusual. Two of every five pre-school children are stunted. But...
View ArticleWhy feminism: some notes from ‘the field’ on doing feminist research
by Rishita Nandagiri On Wednesday 27 September 2017, LSE Gender PhD students organised an event titled Why feminism? An open discussion about doing gender research. During this event, PhD and MSc...
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by Priyadarshee Mukhopadhyay Are they listening? The dreadful condition of sex-workers in India has always been a burning issue. While gender equality and human rights movements in India are at an...
View ArticleMilitarisation, misogyny and gendered violence in Kashmir
by Samreen Mushtaq On August 14 this year, a solidarity team comprising four Indian civil society activists held a press conference at the Press Club of India in Delhi to share their findings from...
View ArticleThe Travel/Trial of Intersectionality
by Manjari Sahay To mark 30 years of ‘intersectionality’ since Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the concept in her article ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex’, the Department of Gender...
View ArticleIn labour and in love: Privacy through a gendered lens
by Aastha Malhotra and Arshia Roy Recently, there has been an increased emphasis on an individual’s right to privacy, with more and more nations jumping into adopting privacy legislations and...
View ArticleAnti-colonial feminist solidarity and politics of location
by Niharika Pandit Photo credit: Zahra Amiruddin. Republished with permission for this blogpost. This piece is an attempt to think through the complexities and disjunctures in undertaking anti-colonial...
View ArticleWelfarist Dilemma? The Politics of Gender in West Bengal’s Cash Transfer Schemes
by Proma Ray Chaudhury Notwithstanding criticisms, Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) schemes as a means of poverty alleviation and social justice in countries with higher levels of socio-economic...
View ArticleDomestic Violence – The Shadow Pandemic
by Aniket A. Panchal and G Vishal ‘Home is where the heart is’ is an adage that has been prevalent in society since time immemorial. Humans built shelters to protect themselves, and as time went by, a...
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