Waring reviews Moore’s new book, a compelling critical intervention into the study of the weaponisation of photography against aberrant bodies.
...Book Review
Personal responses to feminist writing and reassessment of canonical, overlooked or forgotten and new/emerging texts from a feminist perspective.
Cassigneul reviews Sheaffer’s book which shows how Woolf’s text and Potter’s film can now be endlessly appropriated.
...In her extended book review, Maguire highlights the feminist significance of Robinson & Yoshida’s research and reflection on the legal systems.
...Sweet offers a detailed feminist commentary on Derfoufi’s book that aims at unveiling persistent racism in video gaming cultures.
...While rather uneven, Gendered Defenders forms a strong contribution to the scholarly debate on the representation of women on the screen.
...Austin’s Monstrous Youth demonstrates how monsters have become potent symbols of adolescent deviance and rebellion.
...Cassigneul reads They Call it Love to praise Gotby for upholding the radical politics of care against heterosexual romantic traditions.
...Sadri reviews a new study of the parallels between newspaper comic strips created by and featuring women, and the feminist movement in the US.
...Neela Bhattacharya Saxena immerses herself in Usha Akella’s newly published powerful volume of feminist poetry.
...Casini’s important new ethnographic study of MRI work and its human and non-human effects, reviewed by Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė.
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WHO SUPPORTS US
The team of MAI supporters and contributors is always expanding. We’re honoured to have a specialist collective of editors, whose enthusiasm & talent gave birth to MAI.
However, to turn our MAI dream into reality, we also relied on assistance from high-quality experts in web design, development and photography. Here we’d like to acknowledge their hard work and commitment to the feminist cause. Our feminist ‘thank you’ goes to:
Dots+Circles – a digital agency determined to make a difference, who’ve designed and built our MAI website. Their continuous support became a digital catalyst to our idealistic project.
Guy Martin – an award-winning and widely published British photographer who’s kindly agreed to share his images with our readers
Chandler Jernigan – a talented young American photographer whose portraits hugely enriched the visuals of MAI website
Matt Gillespie – a gifted professional British photographer who with no hesitation gave us permission to use some of his work
Julia Carbonell – an emerging Spanish photographer whose sharp outlook at contemporary women grasped our feminist attention
Ana Pedreira – a self-taught Portuguese photographer whose imagery from women protests beams with feminist aura
And other photographers whose images have been reproduced here: Cezanne Ali, Les Anderson, Mike Wilson, Annie Spratt, Cristian Newman, Peter Hershey