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Sexual Politics from July to November 2023
>> Download and read in PDF << First Words This edition of the SPW newsletter covers the main events in sexual politics since July, roughly the second half of 2023. As we have pointed out in previous editions, especially since the pandemic, the sexual politics of the 21st century is indelibly intertwined with the de-democratizing […]
Read moreSexual Politics in 2022: Retrospective
>> Read in PDF << First words In 2022, we adjusted our perspective for monitoring and analyzing sexual politics. In the previous two years, our editorial focus had been the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects. As the dramatic and brutally lethal epidemiological scenarios have abated, we have refocused on the national and transnational dynamics of […]
Read moreSPW’s Sonia Corrêa on the end of Roe: check our videos with her remarks
See our playlist featuring SPW co-chair Sonia Corrêa dedicated to analysing the roots, meanings and effects from the overturning of the constitutional right to abortion in US.
Read moreSexual Politics from March to May 2022
>>> Read in PDF First Words Since April 2020, SPW newsletters have been tracking and analyzing sexual politics in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. After two years of health crisis and after brutal and repeated spikes of mortality spread over several regions and countries, the pandemic is finally ebbing thanks to the immunization achieved […]
Read moreAnti-abortion drive in US: compilation
Anti-abortion trend: macro and political analysis If Roe v. Wade Is Overturned, What’s Next? – New Yorker 2022 State Legislative Sessions: Abortion Bans and Restrictions on Medication Abortion Dominate – Guttmacher Institute Conservatives on Supreme Court Prepare to “Gut Roe v. Wade” as State Abortion Bans Multiply – Democracy Now A Reproductive-Rights Activist Explains the […]
Read moreSexual Politics in Times of Pandemic – 2021 Retrospective
>>> Download the PDF version here. First Thoughts The last 2020 SPW special hypothesized that during 2021, because of vaccines, Covid-19 would no longer be our main topic, but that did not prove to be the case. The pandemic followed its devastating course with the emergence of new, more aggressive variants, and the loss of […]
Read moreSexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: August-October 2021
Since July, when we published our last Special Edition, as you will see in this issue, a lot has happened in the pandemic and in the field of sexual politics. Once again, the pages that follow are quite dense, but we remind you that the sections are relatively autonomous and can be read separately.
Read moreSexual Politics in Times of Pandemic: January-July 2021
First Words In the last 2020 edition of Sexual Politics in Times of Pandemic Special of 2020, we hypothesized that throughout 2021, with the arrival of vaccines, COVID-19 might no longer be our main topic. However, this has not been the case. Since then, south of the equator, infections have continued running their course and […]
Read moreSexual politics in times of pandemic
March and early April 2020 It has been very challenging to prepare the SPW announcement for March/April 2020 due to the abnormality, risks, and losses caused by the dizzying spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. In this troubled context, we thought that it was not sufficient to compile and organize, in our usual categories, the substantial […]
Read moreHarvey Weinstein convicted: news and analisys
Full Coverage: Harvey Weinstein Is Found Guilty of Rape – New York Times ABC’s coverage of Weinstein affair We Didn’t Expect Weinstein to Be Convicted, and We Don’t Know How to Feel – The Cut Harvey Weinstein Sentenced to 23 Years – WSJ
Read moreSexual politics round up in 2019
The year of 2019 has finished and, as traditionally, SPW offers our readers and followers a compilation of the main facts, trends, setbacks and victories in gender and sexuality politics that marked the year and point to the challenges ahead in 2020. TRENDS & FACTS January and February Highlights #GlobalPolicyArenas The UN Committee on Human […]
Read moreSexual politics in April 2019
Highlights Algeria and Sudan: A revived Arab Spring? – Almost six years after the Arab Spring waned under the shadows of the Sissi regime, political upheavals revived in the Arab World. In Algeria, after six weeks of persistent demonstrations, President Bouteflika, in power since 1999, was forced to withdraw from reelection and then to resign. […]
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