In 1999, a record-breaking crowd in California watched the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) win the FIFA World Cup. Between the team’s suspense-filled victories and the unprecedented, ‘girl next door’ media coverage, the ‘99-ers’ popularity appeared to cement the USWNT as a beloved national icon. Eileen Narcotta-Welp[1] argues this legacy was constructed through liberal ‘girl power’ discourses that,Continue reading “Pushing the Boundaries of Sport, Gender and Nationalism? An analysis of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team”
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“Un Violador en Tu Camino”
Re-imagining Citizenship through Transnational Feminist Mobilization On the eleventh of November 2019 the street performance, “Un Violador en Tu Camino,” (“A Rapist in Your Path”), created by feminist collective, Las Tesis, was performed for the first time on the streets of Valparaíso, Chile. The piece references several iterations of violence against women, alleging to state sanctioned violence inContinue reading ““Un Violador en Tu Camino””
Why Betty Bigombe Is Not an Exception: The Invaluable Role of Women in Conflict Mediation
By: Giulia Cacopardo When a successful mediation is compromised by the marginalization of women, it is essential to evoke the past for a fairer future. The story of Betty Bigombe will help us understand what that means. In 1917, Emile Durkheim stated that society is a system of interlinked components that, when in balance, operateContinue reading “Why Betty Bigombe Is Not an Exception: The Invaluable Role of Women in Conflict Mediation”
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