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Under Surveillance: Cameras at every intersection

Even in 2018, most queers know something about hiding. We know why you don’t have to be a criminal to need the cover of darkness. So do refugees and migrants, people with dark skin, and people who wear hijabs or turbans.

By Dia Kayali

Social Sorting as a Tool for Surveillance

The female body is constantly under surveillance - in private spaces as well as in public. Surveillance is about power. It is not just about a violation of privacy, but also an issue of social sorting.

By Shmyla Khan

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Women’s bodies have regularly been – and still are – the central target of conservative and fundamentalist ideology and praxis. This essay provides analytical background information for critical and controversial debates and motivation to explore political intervention.

Roadmap to 1325

The UN resolution 1325 It could be a milestone for gender-equitable security policy. This volume contributes to filling the gap in knowledge about approaches both to gender-sensitive peace and security policy.

International Gender Politics

Gender, sexuality, power

Introducing Al-Jumhuriya’s new “Gender, Sexuality, and Power” series, Karam Nachar outlines the intellectual and moral ethos of the initiative, and argues for the urgency of placing gender and sexuality at the center of the political conversation in the Middle East and beyond.

By Karam Nachar

Dossier: Beijing+20

Claiming back the F Word: Feminism and Women’s Glossy Magazines

Women’s magazines have long faced critique for their often narrow and conceptualized portrayal of women and the impact that this has on the consumer. In their paper, Joy Watson and Claudia Lopes explore both harmful and emancipatory  aspects of women's magazines over different periods in time.

By Joy Watson, Claudia Lopes

The Feminist Moment

DDF LogoThe Digital German Women's archive launched for the first time last Thursday, September, 13, 2018. Funded by the Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSJ), the new archive consists of various documents, photographs, video footage, as well as posters from the Women's Movement. The goal of the project is to create a digital platform on which visitors can easily access information about key moments and figures in the Women's Movement — Creator: Digitales Deutsches Frauenarchiv. All rights reserved.