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a journal examining the multi-faceted links between resurgent religious fundamentalism and gender. Free and open access. Banner Image: Shaheen Bagh
Jan 23, 2023 6 tweets 1 min read
Salil Tripathi writes about Women and Online Harassment

journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/femi… The promise of social media platforms on the internet was the creation of a level playing field that would enable users equal access to express themselves online.
Jan 22, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Janet Afary reviews Awake: A Moslem Woman’s Rare Memoir of her Life and Partnership with the Editor of Molla Nasreddin, the Most Influential Satirical Journal of the Caucasus and Iran, 1907-1931 by Hamideh Khānum Javānshir in Feminist Dissent 6 journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/femi… In 1906, a group of intellectuals and artists in Tiflis (Tbilisi in modern-day Georgia) began to publish an Azerbaijani-language satirical journal called Mollā Nasreddin.
Jan 22, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Teen Brides, Migrant Husbands and Religious Schooling
An Analysis of Young Women’s Experiences of Marriage and Schooling in Rural Bangladesh by Marzana Kamal free to download in Feminist Dissent 6 #Bangladesh #feminism

journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/femi… Kamal challenges the optimism about the rapid growth in girls studying in madrassa schools . She contests the claim, backed by some western feminists that religious schools and early marriage facilitate rural women’s agency.