Riverside Stories: Writings From Assam by Banamallika (2024): A Review by Rahul Bishnoi
Riverside Stories: Writings From Assam is an anthology of poetry, prose, illustrations, and graphic art collected by Banamallika and published…
The Feminisms of Our Mothers by Daanika Kamal (2024): A Review by Himaganga Joji
Daanika Kamal’s collection of essays The Feminisms of Our Mothers (published by Zubaan in 2024) introduces us to the complex…
Decolonising Feminist Experiences: Emotions, Subjectivity and Agency: Nasrin Khandoker
Nasrin Khandoker is an anthropologist and feminist who has been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the IRC Laurette project…
Feminist Methodologies in International Relations edited by Brooke A. Ackerly, Maria Stern and Jacqui True (2006): A Review by Mansi Malhotra
International relations as a formal discipline is relatively new and the feminist perspective in it has an even more recent…
Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Srila Roy (2022): A Review by Amya Agarwal
The slogans ‘Naari Sashaktikaran’ (women’s empowerment), ‘Beti Bachaao, Beti Padaao’ (save a girlchild, teach a girlchild) and ‘Nari Shakti’(women power)…
Sexism to Feminism – Evolution of Women in Horror – Prakriti Kandwal
Women are a quintessential part of the horror movie trope. From being the infamous ‘damsel in distress’ to ‘scream queens’…
Pathaan: Fractured Hope for Feminist Fans? – Swati Dyahadroy and Sneha Gole
Link to the editorial note and the panel discussion can be found here. This piece will try to locate anxieties around…
Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions edited by Melanie Heath, Akosua K. Darkwah, Josephine Beouke-Betts and Bandana Purkayastha (2022): A Review by Chiara Chiavaroli
The book Global feminist autoethnographies during COVID-19: Displacements and Disruptions (published by Routledge in 2022) displays a wide collection of…
Feminist Activism and Platform Politics by Verity Trott (2022): A Review by Sukanya Bhattacharya
With technology becoming a significant space of feminist negotiations and activism over the past two decades, Verity Trott’s book Feminist…
Deconstructing Theory: What’s In It? – Shainal Verma
Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We…