Volume 28, Issue 1 (2026)
Editors Introduction
Editors' Introduction
Diana J. Fox, Kimberly Chabot Davis, Emma Voelker, and Harley Shiner
Articles
Migration Narratives of Ukrainian Women in South Tyrol: A Comparison of Pre- and Post-War Experiences
Giulia Isetti and Irem Güney-Frahm
Whose Rules, Whose Rights?: Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Legal Protections in Wartime
Sadaf Shabbir
Penal Protection for Women in Jordan: How Compatible Are International Agreements and Jordanian Legislation?
Hasan Altarawneh and Hamzeh Abu Issa
Rural Banditry in North Central Nigeria: The Experience of Women in Affected Communities
Joseph Egidi Igbe, Tersoo Asongo, Evaristus Akpanke Ushie, William Okon Williams, and Patrick Owan Bisong
Collective Memory of Partition: A Study of Trauma, Martyrdom, and Survival in Women’s Post-Partition Fiction
Abi Sarkar and Sandip Sarkar
Feminist Reflexivity in Practice: Addressing Positionality and Building Sisterhood through Fieldwork with Black Migrant Sex Workers in Istanbul
Yeliz Kendir-Gök
“I Painted It This Way Because I Belong Nowhere”: Using Body Mapping to Explore Gender, Subjectivity, and Resilience among Afghan Immigrant Women in Iran
Mina Naji, Ali Mehrabi, Ehsan Aghababaeec, and Treena Orchard
Art and the Good Neighbor Policy: Grace Morley’s Role in the Office of Inter-American Affairs Art Committee during World War II
Andrea Matallana
The Liminal Socioeconomic Status of the “Fallen Woman” in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton
Şebnem Düzgün
The Local Outsider: Sleeping Sickness Drug Trials, Social Exclusion, and Responses of Women in the Uyui District of Tanzania, 1964-2005
Hamisi M. Machangu
Patriarchal Constraints in Everyday Lives: Gender Roles, Matrilineality, and the Status of Contemporary Khasi Women
Mebarisuk Langstieh and Sudhansubala Sahu
Unmarried Women in Bugis Culture: A Phenomenological Study of an Indonesian Ethnic Group
A. Octamaya Tenri Awaru, Syamsu A. Kamaruddin, and Agustinus Ufie
Essay
Mass Rapes in War and Peace: Reflections on Sofi Oksanen’s Same River Twice: Putin’s War on Women
Olivera Simic
Poetry
(What) If I Were a WOMAN?
Errol D. Bean
Hushed Voices
Ayushi Raghuwanshi
Film Review
Book Reviews
Book Review: The Politics of Care Work
Henni Julia Citra Sitorus
Book Review: Shadow of My Shadow
L.M.S. Navodya
Book Review: The Tale of Genji through Contemporary Manga: Challenging Gender and Sexuality in Japan
Minae Savas
Book Review: Freeing Black Girls: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering
Amaarah Kherekar
Book Review: On Women by Susan Sontag
Vaishali Saxena, Sangeeta Sharma, and Sushila Shekhawat
Executive Editors
Diana Fox, Department of Anthropology, Bridgewater State University, USA
Kimberly Chabot Davis, Department of English, Bridgewater State University, USA
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
Elizabeth Rajapakshe, La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Australia
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
Harley Shiner, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA
Nina Hamel, Bridgewater State University, MA, USA