gender

Searching for the Promised Land

Following the Chinese transgender women journeying to Thailand in pursuit of life-changing surgeries...

Mothers for hire

How Colombia has turned into a “paradise for reproductive tourism” We are used to discussing surrogacy in fairly abstract terms. If the neoliberal idea of us being nothing but self-interested...

Women at the frontline of Taiwan’s democratic renewal

From homemakers to activists, Taiwanese women have taken to the streets to protect their democracy from Beijing’s influence. Their movement is reshaping both the nation’s politics and the meaning of...

Legacies of Solitude from Persian Women

Amid Iran’s current turmoil, an essayist remembers two women in history, in an intimate reading of how their solitude birthed future movements of resistance In a moment when Iranian women...

Truth Under Fire

Investigative journalists in North Africa are being hunted, hacked and harassed, but they haven’t stopped telling the truth A troubling wind is blowing across the world. From Europe to the...

Body control

An Italian journalist takes a critical look at the ambient religious and political culture around “natural” methodologies of fertility management. On its website, the secular sounding Italian Confederation of Centres...

Feminising the rural idyll

In Spain, women are challenging the traditionally gendered norms of rural life. Since time immemorial, life in the countryside has depended on sharply defined gender roles. The gruelling labour of...

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