Vol 12, #4, July 2011

Articles

Security through Solidarity: Honduran Women’s Post-Coup Strategies of Support and Survival
By Christine Gervais and Betsy Estevez

Oral History and “Girls’ Voices”: The Young Women’s Studies Club as a Site of Empowerment
Susan Cayleff, Melissann Herron, Chelsea Cormier, Sarah Wheeler, Alicia Chávez-Arteaga, Jessica Spain, and Cristina Dominguez.

Homing Desire, Cultural Citizenship, and Diasporic Imaginings
By Anh Hua

(Not) Higher, Stronger or Swifter: Representation of Female Olympic Athletes in the Israeli Press
By Yair Galily, Nadav Cohen and Moshe Levy

Teaching Aberrance: Cinema as a Site for African Feminism
By Corinna McLeod

Gender Imbalance: The Case of Women’s Political Participation in Turkey
By Aytül Kasapoglu and Necmettin Özerkmen

Relations of Feminization of Agriculture and Women’s Occupational Health- the Case of Women Farmers in the Philippines
By Jinky Leilanie Lu

Gender Dimensions of the Global Crises and Their Impact on Poverty
By Santosh Nandal

Women and Post-Conflict Society in Sierra Leone
By Hazel M. McFerson

Shifts in Treatment of Women's Rights in Egyptian Mediai
By Aliaa Dawoud

Book Reviews

Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma
Reviewed by Maurice Oscar Dassah

Understanding South Korean Economic Growth Through the Eyes of Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labour
Reviewed by George Opendjuru

Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth Century Britain
Reviewed by Sanya Osha

Recognizing Transsexuals: Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment
Reviewed by Desire Chilwane

Gender and the Economic Crisis
Reviewed by Betty C Mubangizi

Women in Leadership: Contextual Dynamics and Boundaries
Reviewed by Faith Rakate

TANU Women: Gender and Culture in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955- 1965, 1997
Reviewed by Estella Musiiwa

Just a Dropped Stitch
Reviewed by Stafford Osuri Osuri

Jackie Cochran: Pilot in the Fastest Lane
Reviewed by Zitha Mokomane

Classed Intersections: Spaces, Selves, Knowledges
Reviewed by Josephine Kiamba