Volume 28, Issue 2 (2026) 11th World Conference on Women’s Studies
Editors Introduction
Special Issue Editors’ Introduction: 11th World Conference on Women’s Studies
Jyoti Rupa Deka, Jaypee S. Yongco, and Noma Mguni
Articles
Girls on Screens and Boys in the Streets: Afrobeats Dance, Gender, and Waithood in Lagos, Nigeria
Gali Kinkulkin, Moshe Morad, and Lynn Schler
Nazneen in Ali’s Brick Lane: Achieving Agency through a Multimodal Praxis of Care
Sarani Ghosal Mondal
Experiences of Women with Neurodevelopmental Disorders in Accessing Sexual Reproductive Health Services in Zimbabwe
Ashely Ropafadzo Tome
What Shapes Maternal Well-Being? A Feminist Conceptualization Using Walker and Avant’s (2019) Concept Analysis Framework
Huyen Thi-Thanh Nguyen, Van H. Le, Keiichi Ogawa, and Manh T. Ta
Does Climate Finance Empower or Exclude Women? Evidence from Bangladesh
Sofia Castelo, Lia G. Antunes, and Md. Ashrafuzzaman
Negotiating Desires for Capital through Culinary Expression in Balli Kaur Jaswal’s Sugarbread
Ira Gore and Aruni Mahapatra
Gender and Stress: Challenges Faced by Women Principal Operators in Agriculture in the United States
Bernadette Marson and Roxanne Bruce
Deconstructing Feminist Perspectives on Work: Insights from Uchoi Indigenous Tribal Women’s Worldview in Northeast India
Linda Uchoi and Biswaranjan Tripura
Reading Indian Newspaper Reports to Uncover Cinematic Misrepresentations of Rape in Mom (2017) and Guilty (2020)
Samikhya Dash and Soumya Jose
Reimagining the Shōjo across Cultures: Gender Performativity, Cosplay, and Self-Presentation of Indian Women in Digital Space
Ashonshok Kachui and Samyukthah Anandhasayanam
Book Reviews
Book Review: #MeToo and the Politics of Transnational Feminism
Muhammad Umer Azim
Book Review: Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed
Jainab Tabassum Banu
Book Review Essay
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
Lora Maslenitsyna, Yale University, USA
Olanireti O. Falade, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Noor Rizvi, Kansas State University, USA,
Fellowship Coordinator
Priyanka Tripathi, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India
Special Issue Editors
Jaypee S. Yongco, Mindanao State University – Iligan Institute of Technology (MSU-IIT), Iligan City, Philippines
Jyoti Rupa Deka, Kampur College, Assam, India
Noma Mguni, University of Derby, UK
Editorial Assistants
Emma Voelker, Bridgewater State University, USA
Nina Hamel, Bridgewater State University, USA
Additional Copyeditors
Sara Audette, Mari Bennett, Essined Colon, Elizabeth Flynn, Porter Kelliher, Emily Knox, Audrey Miller, Kelsi Miller, Jayla Monteiro Almeida, Alex Neff-Gatchell, and Cordelia Thorn, Bridgewater State University, USA