Volume 27, Issue 4 (2025) 25th Anniversary Issue
Editors Introduction
Editors’ Introduction: 25th Anniversary Issue of the JIWS
Diana J. Fox, Kimberly Chabot Davis, Priyanka Tripathi, and Catherine Ndinda
Articles
Miss USA Meets Feminism: A Qualitative Study Exploring Contestants’ Thoughts on Feminist Ideals
Julia Van Steenberghe and Sandra Caron
Undoing Gender Performativities in Nawal El Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero
Tobe Levin von Gleichen, U. H. Ruhina Jesmin, and Tasnuva Khair
The Influence of Public Policies for Gender Equality on the Construction of Women’s Autonomy in Northwestern Mexico
María F. Higuera Cota and Teresita del Niño Jesús Carrillo Montoya
Antecedents and Measures of Women’s Financial Empowerment: A Comprehensive and Global Literature Review
Priya Gupta, Mamta Aggarwal, and Meera Bamba
Evaluating Gender Policy in Kazakhstan: A Dual Perspective on Politics and Economics
Elmira Kagazbaeva, Ulzhan Kazybekova, and Madina Axakalova
Between Mothers and Daughters: Female Isolation, Despotism and Fragile Bonds in Anthony Trollope’s "Castle Richmond" and "Lady Anna"
Aleksandra Tryniecka
Being an Inessential Woman: Sexual Fluidity and Migratory Identities in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West
Dhanya V. Sankar and Sarbani Banerjee
Unveiling the Vulnerability of Return Migration: A Feminist Embeddedness Perspective on Bangladeshi Women Workers
Faraha Nawaz and Tania Afrin Tonny
Migration and Work: An Intersectional Perspective on Women Workers in Brick Kilns in the Sivasagar District of Assam, India
Kashmiri Saikia and Sikha Das
Subdued Voices and Marginalized Lives: Reading R. K. Narayan’s Waiting for the Mahatma through Feminist Standpoint Theory
D. Sundar Singh, S. Pressila Daissy, and Roland Rencewigg P.
Homophobic and Transphobic Bullying: Impacts on the Mental and Physical Health of Queer Black Adolescents in Kacen Callender’s Young Adult Fiction
Uthra Devi R.K., C. Jothi, and S. Rema Devi
Recasting Gender Roles: The New Woman and the New Man in Women-Centred Contemporary Malayalam Films
Roshan B. Karimpaniyil and Shashikantha Koudur
Essays
A New Melian Dialogue: Feminist Thinkers on Security Problems of the 21st Century
Heather Rellihan and Michael Coffey
Feminist Reflection
Revisiting “Autobiographical Reflections: My Story”: A Reflection on the Unspoken and Misconveyed
Ronak Karami
Poetry
Men to Mars
Ayesha Perveen
Film Reviews
Film Review: Breasts and Body Politics in B 32 Muthal 44 Vare
Aswathy A. and Meenu B.
Film Review: Marginal Voices in Taare Zameen Par
Ritwika Laskar
Film Review: Tonotwiyat (Women’s Forest)
M. Zaenul Muttaqin
Policy Brief
Advancing Gender-Inclusive Financial Systems: A G20 Policy Agenda for South Africa
Tinuade A. Ojo, M. E. Sotunsa, Diana J. Fox, Karen Carpenter, and Leith L. Dunn
Book Reviews
Book Review: Struggles for Reproductive Justice in the Era of Anti-Genderism and Religious Fundamentalism
Ayushi Raghuwanshi
Book Review: To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s
Jennifer Rycenga
Book Review: Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India
Barnana Baidya and Partha Bhattacharjee
Book Review: Memory, Voice, and Identity: Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Mohammed Yassin Mohd Aba sha’ar
Book Review: Ethical Encounters: Transnational Feminism, Human Rights, and War Cinema in Bangladesh
Masrufa Nusrat
Book Review: Locker Room Talk: A Woman’s Struggle to Get Inside
Sneha V. John and Thahiya Afzal
Book Review: Janet Jagan: Freedom Fighter of Guyana
Suzanne C. Persard
Book Review: The Feminist Pacific: International Women’s Networks in Hawai’i, 1820–1940
Palak Arora and Manshi Yadav
Book Review Essays
Book Review Essay: Reading the Witch Otherwise: Decolonial Reckonings and Epistemic Disobedience in The Witch Studies Reader
Moussa Pourya Asl
Book Review Essay: Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy
Madhavi Venkatesan and Michelle Wong
Executive Editors
Diana Fox, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, USA
Kimberly Chabot Davis, Department of English, Bridgewater State University, USA
Priyanka Tripathi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Catherine Ndinda, Development Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Book Review Editors
Sreejata Paul, Department of English, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India
Ayesha Perveen, Department of English, Virtual University of Pakistan
Film Review Editors
Mohosin Mandal, Department of English, Alipurduar Mahila Mahavidyalay, India
Olanireti O. Falade, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fellowship Coordinator
Priyanka Tripathi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Editorial Assistants
Emma Voelker, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Glen Beaulieu, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Finn Lee, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Harley Shiner, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA