Austin’s Monstrous Youth demonstrates how monsters have become potent symbols of adolescent deviance and rebellion.
...Book Review
Personal responses to feminist writing and reassessment of canonical, overlooked or forgotten and new/emerging texts from a feminist perspective.
While rather uneven, Gendered Defenders forms a strong contribution to the scholarly debate on the representation of women on the screen.
...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.
...Sweet reviews the collection of essays edited by Frankel which precisely documents new fourth wave feminist trends in representing women in TV.
...Cooke’s collection of essays is a subversive intersectional chorus aiming to decipher the gendered ideologies of the Western culture.
...Kate Ince’s book is a comprehensive study on Mia Hansen- Løve, documenting how her early career impacted the later practice of the filmmaker.
...Sadri ruminates and reflects on This One Sky Day, the magical and important ne...
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