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  1. Victims to Saviors: Governmentality and the Regendering of Citizenship in India.Poulami Roychowdhury - 2015 - Gender and Society 29 (6):792-816.
    Gender scholars have argued that legal reforms against violence position women as victims in need of state help. Using data collected from 22 months of participant observation with survivors of domestic violence in India, I urge academics to re-theorize the relationship between legal reforms and women’s citizenship during an era of neoliberal governance. Burdened with administrative tasks, Indian law enforcement personnel manage new rights claims by displacing regulatory duties onto survivors and caseworkers. Women who have access to women’s organizations are (...)
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  • Close Your Eyes and Think of England: Pronatalism in the British Print Media.Myra Marx Ferree & Jessica Autumn Brown - 2005 - Gender and Society 19 (1):5-24.
    Faced with declining fertility rates, media in Britain are reacting with anxiety about cultural annihilation. To look at how nationalism inflects concerns over biological and cultural reproduction, the authors analyze coverage of falling fertility and rising immigration in Great Britain in major newspapers in 2000-2. They find pronatalist appeals to be commonand especially directed at women but varying in how women’s duty to the nation is framed. Appeals characterized as begging, lecturing, threatening, and bribing express different relationships between individual interest (...)
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  • From research on girls to girlhood studies: Exploring Israeli girlhood studies from an international and historical perspective.Einat Peled, Heidi Preis & Einat Lachover - 2019 - European Journal of Women's Studies 26 (2):132-149.
    This review, based on analysis of the abstracts of 271 academic publications, critically examines the development of girlhood studies within a specific sociocultural context – Israeli society. By examining one particular context the authors hope to contribute to the discourse on the worldwide evolution of girlhood studies. The following research questions were posed: How did the body of literature on Israeli girls develop over time? What is the distribution of disciplines and topics represented? Who are the girls at the focus (...)
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  • Over the Law: Rape and the Seduction of Popular Politics.Poulami Roychowdhury - 2016 - Gender and Society 30 (1):80-94.
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