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Book Review: Feminist Research Practice: A Primer

The fully revised and updated Second Edition of Feminist Research Practice: A Primer, edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, draws on the expertise of a wide group of interdisciplinary scholars who aim...

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Book Review: Women and Journalism

In many countries, the majority of high profile journalists and editors remain male. Although there have been considerable changes in the prospects for women working in the media in the past few...

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Book Review: Infidel Feminism: Secularism, Religion and Women’s Emancipation,...

Infidel Feminism focuses on a distinctive brand of women’s rights that emerged out of the Victorian Secularist movement. It looks at the lives and work of a number of female activists, whose...

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Book Review: From Global to Grassroots: The European Union, Transnational...

From Global to Grassroots looks at how transnational activism aimed at combating violence against women is being used to instigate changes in local practice. Focusing on the case of the European Union,...

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Book Review: Cosmopolitan Sex Workers: Women and Migration in a Global City

 Cosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labour in Southeast Asia. Overall, this is a fascinating and...

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Book Review: Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging

Is citizenship is a worthwhile object for feminist politics and scholarship, or should a different language be used to express belonging and equality? Beyond Citizenship? Feminism and the...

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Most-Read Gender Studies Book Reviews of 2013

Since launching in April 2012, LSE Review of Books has published reviews of over 900 books from across the social sciences. Here are the top five most-read gender studies reviews from 2013, covering...

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Book Review: Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions,...

Based on original fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as research material from other conflict zones, Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? aims to challenge the recent prominence...

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Book Review: Fair Shared Cities: The Impact of Gender Planning in Europe,...

Bringing together a diverse team of leading scholars and professionals, Fair Shared Cities offers a variety of insights into ongoing gender mainstreaming policies in Europe with a focus on...

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Book Review: Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies and Futures in...

This book aims to reclaim some of the roots of the feminist movements in the 1960s to 1980s and, additionally, present new initiatives and show how feminism is being experienced today. By providing an...

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Book Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? by Lila Abu-Lughod

Frequent reports of ‘honour’ killings, disfigurement, and sensational abuse have given rise to a consensus in the West, a message propagated by human rights groups and the media: Muslim women need to...

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Book Review: Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate by...

The current 113th Congress has the most women Senators in the body’s 225 year history: 20. Michele L. Swers’ book, Women in the Club: Gender and Policy Making in the Senate, is an in-depth look at the...

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LSE Review of Books publishes its 1000th book review: here are the numbers...

To celebrate LSE Review of Books publishing its 1000th book review since launching in April 2012, assistant editor Anthony McDonnell takes a look at some of the numbers behind the reviews. Identifying...

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Book Review: Feminism and Popular Culture: Investigating the Postfeminist...

Is feminism undead? Feminism and Popular Culture seeks to map the fraught and often unpredictable relationship between popular culture, feminism and postfeminism. From the shadowy city spaces of Mad...

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Book Review: Stitched Up: the Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E Hoskins

Stitched Up considers the environmental, social, and psychological ills that the fashion industry inflicts upon all of us. The Rana […]

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Book Review: Gender and Global Justice by Alison M. Jaggar

Alison Jaggar aims to bring gender to the centre of philosophical debates about global justice with this recent collection of […]

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Book Review: Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China by...

In this new book, Leta Hong Fincher argues that a discourse around young, unmarried ‘leftover women’ in China is propagated through state media news […]

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Book Review: Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection: Cosmetic Surgery,...

Against the background of the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’, Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of […]

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Book Review: Voicing Demands: Feminist Activism in Transnational Contexts,...

Feminist voice is a key pathway to women’s empowerment, argue the contributors to this collection of analytical narratives, Voicing Demands: […]

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Book Review: Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan by Sharon Kinsella

Through exploring the history and politics underlying the cult of girls in contemporary Japanese media and culture, this book aims […]

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