TAG: gender
New Gender and Social Movements Policy Briefs
BRIDGE – development and gender has launched the guide Supporting social movements to advance women’s rights and gender justice – an approach for donors. Read it here.
Read moreDeclaration of women’s and feminists movements
At the VI Summit of President of BRICS We, the networks and the feminist movements of the global South, that gathered in Fortaleza, 14-16 July on the occasion of the VI Summit of the Heads of State of the BRICS countries, are committed to social transformation and the construction of truly democratic secular states that […]
Read moreHomicide and Gender
The Cranky Sociologists website publishes an article arguing, according to a global map of gender murders, that homicides are gendered social fact. Here.
Read moreGender, Justice, and Neoliberal Transformations – new issue of Scholar & Feminist Online
This new issue of The Scholar & Feminist Online, edited by Elizabeth Bernstein and Janet R. Jakobsen, forges new ground by weaving together issues of gender and sexuality, usually sidelined in conversations about neoliberalism, with questions of the economy and political processes. Emerging out of a 2012 international workshop on the mutual imbrication of economic, […]
Read moreThe limits of German law allowing a “new third-gender”
Read New Statesman’s article about a German law that lets a birth certificate to be left blank in cases where the child is neither obviously male nor female. “it will take far more than a bureaucratic fix to remove the stigma of “abnormalit”, says the author. Click here. Here an article from Advocate.com that reminds […]
Read moreHuman Rights Council 24th session report
Read the report of the 24th session of the Human Rights Council which concluded last week. Among the issues discussed, gender integration was one of them. Click here.
Read moreThe Queer Art of Whistle Blowing
Read the article “The Queer Art of Whistle Blowing”, about the place that gender is occupying on the context of the “Manning case. Click here.
Read moreABEH (Brazilian Association of Homoculture Studies) releases the call for papers and schedule of the VI International Conference of Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity
The Brazilian Association of Studies on Homoculture (ABEH) released the first version of the schedule, the menu of group themes, and the composition of the scientific commission of the VI International Conference of Studies on Sexual and Gender Diversity that is going to take place at UFBA (Federal University of Bahia) in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, on August 1st, 2nd and 3rd, 2012.
Read moreInterview: Cai Yiping and Pei Yuxin
In late September 2011, SPW promoted an Inter-Regional Dialogue about Sexuality and Geopolitics. Cai Yiping, a feminist activist based in Beijing, who is a member of the Executive Committee of DAWN – Development Alternatives with Woman for a New Era, and Pei Yuxin, assistant Professor of the Department of Social Work, Sun Yat-sen University (in Guangzhou) have also participated. They were interviewed by SPW team and shared their knowledge of sexuality research, activism and related public debates in China. Read the interview.
Read moreThe connections between China and the world
SPW: How do you see the connections between China and the rest of the world in terms of sexuality research and activism? Pei: As I see it the connections are very weak China and the international academia. Language is a main problem. I can listen to English and I can talk, but I feel very […]
Read more:: Main challenges for research and activism on sexuality
SPW: What about challenges? Pei, what are the main challenges for research in sexuality in China? What are the main obstacles? What are the opportunities? Pei: I think the most important challenge in terms of research is the difficulty in accessing governmental funding. Today the government has a bulk of resources to support high education. […]
Read more:: Critical sexuality issues in Chinese society
SPW: What do you see as the most critical issues concerning sexuality and sexual rights, broadly speaking, in China today? Pei: As a researcher, I think the most critical issues on sexuality in China are related to how we look at the value of marriage, in a very practical sense. “Marriage” is undergoing much transformation […]
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