Roundtable Discussion on “Cinema and Social Conflicts”
To celebrate the publication of our sixth volume, on “Cinema and Social Conflicts,” members of […]
Gender
Silent Suffragists: Activism, Popular Cinema, and Women’s Rights in 1910s America
Silent as it was, cinema in the early twentieth century spoke loudly on behalf of […]
The Neglected Spaces of Feminism and Queer in Contemporary Italian Political Cinema
At the end of 2018, one of Italy’s best-known directors, Nanni Moretti, released a documentary […]
Literary and Visual Rememory at the 90th Anniversary of the Banana Massacre in Colombia
Introduction: Remembering the Masacre de las Bananeras 2018 marks the 90th anniversary of what has […]
Food Riots in Bangladesh? Garments Worker Protests and Globalized Subsistence Crises
This paper explores the politics of provisions in Bangladesh through an analysis of the […]
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
In her landmark study of gender, Judith Butler suggests that gender is ‘performed, manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylization of the body’.
By and Beyond “Organised Motherhood”: Feminist Politics and the Emerging German Welfare State
Internationally, there has been a lot of historical research reconstructing the active part women would […]
Gender, Sexuality, and Politics: Rethinking the Relationship Between Feminism and Sandinismo in Nicaragua
Introduction For the political left, the Sandinista revolution in 1979 was once a worldwide symbol […]
Gender and Revolutions: Critique Interrupted
Beginning in December 2010, the events that came to be known as the “Arab […]