#35-22 Girls’ Future in Uganda … Rebuilding society is a tall order
Women in Uganda’s Parliament are passing new laws that aim to protect children and women, and improve conditions at home,
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Feminism
#33-22 A Kenyan in the World: Maimuna Mwidau on democracy and women
Maimuna Mwidau grew up in a polygamous household. Her father was Mayor of Mombasa and later a Member of Parliament.
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#29-22 Outside In – a political memoir: Canadian MP made hard issues mainstream
From 1980 until 2015, Libby Davies represented the political interests of her neighbours, on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, including homeless and
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#28-22 Linguist Dale Spender: Characteristics of women’s speech, 1989
Spender is an Australian feminist scholar, teacher, writer and consultant with a PhD from University of London. Her early books
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#26 and 27-22 The Stolen Revolution
Iranian women were at the forefront of the 1979 revolution. But after the Shah was deposed, Ayatollah Khomeini’s new regime
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#25-22 DURGA PUJA … Kolkata celebrates a fierce Goddess
Durga is a major Hindu Goddess, whose many powers include motherhood, war, and the destruction of all evil. Puja is
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#23-22 Unlearning patriarchy … War and the dream of an artificial world
In this interview, Professor Claudia von Werlhof states that capitalism is just the latest phase of an age-old patriarchal dream
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#21-22 Privatized Feminism, Commodified Love … Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild in dialogue
Just before Labour Day 2022, renowned US journalist and writer Barbara Ehrenreich died. In 2000, she was about to release
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#20-22 Apostasy is a Women’s Issue … A movement against the hegemony of religion in public life
In a recent edition of the Australian program Accent of Women, host Jiselle Hanna very cautiously takes on the topic
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#13-22 The mother of motherhood studies … Dr. Andrea O’Reilly broke an academic taboo
Around 1997, Dr. Andrea O’Reilly began writing, editing, publishing, and organizing around the study of mothering and brought it forward
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