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War resistance with a feminist look

UKRAINE: In this romantic fairy tale with a pure Hollywood dream of a man stands Volodymyr Zelenskyj. But we know that this could develop into a new world war.
Marielle Leraand -

Just a feminist?

Sylvana Tomaselli: Wollstonecraft. Philosophy Passion and Politics

FREEDOM: Mary Wollstonecraft wanted a whole new society. Her demands for women's rights were only a consistent part of this. She put her trust in the French Revolution, and went on a red-hot attack on Edmund Burke, a former comrade-in-arms.
Kjetil Korslund -

In memory of Nawal El-Saadawi

Obituary: Uncompromisingly, she spoke the opposite power. Now she is gone, 89 years old. Author, physician and feminist Nawal El-Saadawi wrote for MODERN TIMES from June 2009.
Dag Herbjørnsrud -

A woman's struggle with reality

THE WOMEN OF EUROPE: In our interview series with European women, Sweden's former Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Margot Wallström is last out. She believes that we currently live in a world of autocrats, where Nordic welfare values ​​have poor conditions.
Truls Lie -

Who will own the stories?

Rebecca Solnit: Whose Story Is This?

POWER: Whose Story Is This? encourages each of us to change the world by changing the story we choose to tell and to whom it belongs.
Pinar Ciftci -

Surrogacy is a job

Sophie Lewis: Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Author

FEED MACHINES?: In Full Surrogacy Now, Sophie Lewis wants to change the surrogacy industry. She wants to strengthen the rights of the parties and avoid abuse.
Pinar Ciftci -

Feminism is a dirty concept

Akwugo Emejulu, Francesca Sobande: To Exist is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe

: BLACK FEMINISM: A new anthology on black feminism in Europe gathers ideas and experiences from a struggle that has stood in the shadow of its American counterpart for far too long.
fkhalid@ruc.dk -

Decolonize feminism!

Françoise Vergès: Decolonial feminism

FEMI-IMPERIALISM: The feminists of the West must look up and see that with their own struggles they keep fellow sisters down, is the message in the French political scientist Françoise Vergès' new and well-written book.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

The rise and fall of the feminist

Viktor Nordenskiöld: The Feminists

: What happens when you end up in a position to actually be able to realize the policy you claim to stand for? Director Viktor Nordenskiöld has followed former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström for four years.
Ellen Lande -

The non-feminist women advocates of the Eastern bloc

Kristen Ghodsee: Second World, Second Sex. Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War

WOMEN'S MATCH: American liberal feminists love to hate Kristen Ghodsee, who rewrites the history of women's struggle from the Eastern Bloc perspective.
Nina Trige Andersen -

Women's collective anger

Rebecca Traister: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger Simon & Schuster, USA

#METOO: Good and Mad encourages women to show their minds so that together we can create revolution and rule the patriarchy.
Pinar Ciftci -

Viva la vagina!

Barbara Miller Switzerland: #FEMALE PLEASURE

: The documentary #FEMALE PLEASURE reveals the demonization of the female body and breaks the silence around female sexuality.
Pinar Ciftci -
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UKRAINE / In this romantic fairy tale with a pure Hollywood dream of a man stands Volodymyr Zelenskyj. But we know that this could develop into a new world war.



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