Blog posts tagged ‘feminist dissertation ’

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Painting of a group of people grieving at the death of one of the characters of the Mahabharata

Who owns the epic? Reimagining the Mahabharata from Below

Completing our 'feminist dissertating' series for this year, Avani Tilekar explores how counter-readings of the Mahabharata unsettle its role in shaping gendered, caste-bound, and nationalist imaginaries.

The Danish flag flying over a collection of sled dog kennels in Ilulissat, Kalaallit Nunaat

A Framework for Understanding Reproductive Oppression in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)

Continuing our 'feminist dissertating' series, Eliza Sinclair Kidd explores the Coil Campaign in Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), initiated by Denmark in the 1960s, through Foucauldian biopolitics and reproductive justice theories and outlines future research needed on reproductive violence.
A person placing pulverised cotton into a sanitary pad mould.

Toxic narratives: patriarchal menstrual discourse in Bollywood’s Pad Man

Next up in our 'feminist dissertating' series, Kaashvi Shah critically examines Pad Man’s portrayal of menstruation, challenging its mainstream feminist framing. Drawing on her research, she reveals how the film reproduces patriarchal, casteist, and neoliberal narratives under the guise of empowerment.
Black and white caricature drawing of President Nixon, with an American flag behind him.

Nixon’s war on the media and the supposed crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America

In our 'feminist dissertating' series, Ruweyda Ahmed explores Nixon’s criticisms of the American media, discussing how Nixon made use of a perceived crisis of masculinity in post-WWII America to negotiate successive political challenges.
The words LGBTQ History Month in write, on a purple background

Investigating How Young People Learnt About Queer Identity in Postwar Britain

At the start of LGBTQ History Month, in this blog Alexandra Wallace summarises her undergraduate research, which explored how young people first learnt about queer identity in postwar Britain, and the implications of her findings for how we think about identity.
‘Storm the NIH’ demonstration ‘die-in’, from Bethesda, Maryland, 1990.

Uncovering ACT UP: the Queer Community and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in Edinburgh

In this blog post, Poppy Watson discusses the HIV/AIDS crisis in Edinburgh in the 1980s-90s, detailing how the queer community experienced the state’s lack of response. Thinking about affect and queer histories, Poppy scrutinizes whose voices dominate the archival material.

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