Announcement

The Feminist Review Collective wishes to announce that it will commence publishing with SAGE from 1 January 2019. Feminist Review has a proud history of leading global feminist debates and innovation in publishing. In SAGE we have found a publisher who is closely aligned with our approach, mission and publishing goals – supporting innovative research across multiple disciplines. The Feminist Review looks forward...

We Inter Are: Identity Politics & #MeToo

BY LATA MANI I Circa 1980’s, USA The politics of location Theory in the flesh The privilege of partial perspective Oppositional consciousness El Mundo Zurdo Cables, esoesses Conjurations & fusil missiles Make (r)evolution irresistible Polyvocal multilingual Poetry prose polemic fiction Displace reframe and recompose The single as the multi-verse Even then Bambara warned that wholeness...

Call for applications – “Weathering as Intersectional Feminist Praxis” with Astrida Neimanis

In conjunction with the publication of Feminist Review Issue 118 – Environment, we are pleased to co-host a workshop with the Centre for Feminist Research (Goldsmiths) on the theme of environmental humanities and feminism with Astrida Neimanis* at Senate House (University of London) on Wednesday 24th October 2018, 2-5 pm. The workshop will explicitly take...

Speaking up in the Age of #MeToo and Persistent Patriarchy or What can we learn from an elevator incident about anti-feminist backlash

BY SIMONA SHARONI Two women walk into a crowded elevator at a large academic conference… This is not the first line of a joke. Rather, it is the beginning of a troubling ordeal that sheds light on everyday sexism in academia as well as the growing backlash against decades of feminist and social justice activism,...

Paris is Burning

BY NIGEL CLARK and KATHRYN YUSOFF Asking the question `what does it mean to be oriented?’ Sara Ahmed invites us to think about spatial orientation and sexual orientation together, as we follow familiar paths or attempt to carve out new pathways through the world. One way to trouble the path-taking process, she suggests, is to...

Child’s Play

BY MAYU IIDA Hazel: […] I felt like I could see it the radiation hanging in the air a sort of filthy glitter suspended and I don’t like it. I’m not a silly woman and of course my background would suggest that I could but I couldn’t I couldn’t stand it any longer. On 3...

‘Connatural’ read by Anthony Anaxagorou

Listen to poet Anthony Anaxagorou perform his piece 'Connatural', which appears in Feminist Review Issue 118 - Environment.   Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot award-winning poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He has published nine volumes of poetry, a spoken-word EP and a collection of short stories. His poetry and fiction have...

AnnMarie Wolpe: 1930–2018

BY MAXINE MOLYNEUX AnnMarie Wolpe who died in February, was a Sociologist and one of the founding members of the Feminist Review Editorial Collective. In the early years after FR was founded in 1979, the Collective often met in Michelle Barratt’s house in ‘Cally Road’ as Caledonian Road was known. The meetings were on Sundays, starting...

STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH UCU ON USS

Feminist Review is a peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journal committed to  contributing to conversations on feminist values, theory, methods and activism. Our editors are a collective and many work for universities, having come to academic life later and through several non-traditional routes. Our contributors and reviewers also include academics who work for pre-1992 universities. The journal would not...