Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives
Published by: IDS
Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual...
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Published by: IDS
Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
How and under what conditions does citizen-led social and political action contribute to empowerment and accountability? What are the...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The #MeToo movement that spread across the internet in 2017 sparked a focus on sexual harassment as an international issue. However,...
Published by: Warwick University
In this special issue of Feminist Dissent, we are calling for a new interpretive framework that recognises the multiple genealogies that...
Published by: Warwick University
In this paper, I investigate how binary framings of women’s identity have influenced struggles for women’s rights and the...
Published by: IDS
We live in a highly food insecure world. Although global food supplies are more than adequate, the latest United Nations ‘Report on...
This article looks at how the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has participated in, contributed to, and been shaped by debates...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This introductory article draws out some of the dimensions and dilemmas around women's empowerment that are highlighted in the articles...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA) is 20 years old. This introduction revisits the promises of the Beijing...
Published by: IDS
The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (BPfA), celebrated by feminist activists as a triumph for women's rights, is 20 years old. The world that it once described has changed profoundly in some respects, and yet in others remains surprisingly similar. This IDS Bulletin reflects on those changes and continuities, tracing the trajectories of the Beijing conference in different policy arenas, national settings and domains of practice.