Women's Studies
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In the Greek historiographical tradition, the writings of Herodotus and Saint Luke stand out in a few ways from historians of their times. One way is their inclusion of women in their histories, both quantitatively and qualitatively.... more
The purpose of this study is to provide valuable information about the representation of gender in Moroccan cinema and to offer data to help to find a better strategy to suit the producers and the audience as well.
Mujeres y niñas entre hilos: condiciones de trabajo en la industria textil a principios del siglo XX. Una experiencia de clase generizada* Resumen: En este trabajo se abordan las experiencias de las trabajadoras textiles de principios del... more
It seems that, despite the feminist revival in this post-#MeToo culture, women are still being judged for their appearance. It doesn't matter what is in their heads. All that matters are their headlights.
Olivia Killias carefully studies the process and infrastructure of care migration. Hardly the smooth transnational flows imagined by globalization, opacity, friction, and explicitly national interests and dialectics characterize the... more
Supplement to studies about female saints' martyrdoms.
Il commento alle Lettere e Rime che Chiara Matraini (1515-1604), ottantaduenne, pubblicò a Venezia, presso Moretti, nel 1597, intende fornire un’analisi organica della composizione, del rapporto tra i generi, delle modalità dell’imitatio... more
Mwangaza Mama is a creative storytelling project that was undertaken in collaboration with a small group of cross-border migrant women living in Johannesburg. Inspired by previous MoVE work, the main aim of the two-year project was to... more
The formation of Las “Buenas Amigas” in 1980s offers an opportunity to address the invisibility of the intellectual production on Latina lesbians. Questions that arose at that time are still relevant: What is a lesbian? What do people say... more
This was the first ever feminist anthology in Bangladesh that consisted of various academic, polemic and creative pieces in a single body of edited work. Many original works were translated as well as the original Bangla pieces were... more
A questão dos direitos humanos tem se apresentado como uma problemática de difícil compreensão nos dias atuais, assim como o desafio do reconhecimento das diferenças. Mesmo com a construção de documentos nacionais e internacionais... more
Digital harassment of women leaders is part of the continuum of violence and discrimination against women in the public arena, including women politicians, activists, civil society leaders, prominent feminists or simply female political... more