Pipelines, dams, gadgets: does water management really need to be all about control and power? Adopting less masculine ideas and working with nature may be more prudent.
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While Mother’s Day is often surrounded by cloying sentiment, Australian mums have a long history of political activism and forcing social change.
This Mother’s Day reflect on why mainstream media doesn’t recognize racialized women-led resistance movements as feminism. On the 12th anniversary of the Gardiner protest, let’s centre Tamil mothers.
With her incandescent anger, sharp tongue and courage, Kate Jennings spoke to power. Her death offers a moment to reflect on the role of writers as forces of social change.
From Emmeline Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union, to Christine Holgate and Brittany Higgins, suffragette white has a long history.
Saudi women are empowering themselves by running businesses and challenging ‘traditional’ gender roles.
Men who identify as feminists self-report more frequent sex and higher levels of sexual satisfaction. The other 60 per cent aren’t having as much fun, according to the findings of a new study.
To understand her contribution to public debate, it’s important to see her in the context of the historical moment that made her work possible, necessary and provocative.
Through history, themes of anger and sorrow have run through women’s marches — but so too have themes of joy, hope and resilience.
After an Indian politician disparaged a woman for her lack of morals because she was wearing ripped jeans, an online protest erupted, reviving the original protest-culture of the ripped jean.
A firebrand activist for women’s rights, her novels espoused truths that made her hugely unpopular with the government.
Chivalry is not an elite men’s club. Women have always been involved.
While the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated gender inequalities, it has also incited women-led initiatives and mobilisations.
Transnational feminism played a huge role in broadening gender studies in most institutions in Nigeria.
In trying to make sense of the recent mass killing in Georgia, it’s important to see that it was more than just violence against women and anti-Asian hate.
Christian Porter on Monday gave notice that he’s determined to stage a fightback, however damaged his ministerial career might appear at the moment.
Ending Canberra’s toxic culture is the rallying point, but women are also taking to the streets because these failures are connected to a systemic culture of sexism in law, politics and policy-making.
The campaign to stop newspapers publishing topless photos of women relied on a special brand of emotional energy.
If the lessons of second wave feminism are any guide, Australian women now need to not only get angry, they need to get organised.
Empowerment can mean different things for different women, but access to information is key. In Mali radio is the main source of information.
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne
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Senior lecturer, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Communication Studies, University of Otago
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Associate professor, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Screen and Cultural Studies, The University of Melbourne
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Lecturer in Communication, University of Southern Queensland
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Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer in Media and Journalism, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Professor of History, Macquarie University
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Professor and Head of Department of Social Work, Monash University
