Religion, power and public self-representation: the case of Bishop Skelton in Canada
When Pat Storey was elected in 2013 as the first female Anglican bishop in the UK and Ireland, news media the world over took notice....
The manipulation of the word “gender” in Italy
The difference between sex and gender is commonly accepted in academia (e.g. Eckert & McConnell-Ginet, 2003; Sunderland, 2004); the first...
Introduction to the Igala Blog
Hello everybody and welcome to the Igala blog! I am Federica and I will be co-ordinating this blog together with other members of the...
Pride and Prejudice
It is an universally acknowledged truth that a researcher in possession of an approved PhD project must be in want of interesting data....
I am a feminist, are you OK with it?
As a 20 year old male from the North West of Cumbria, labelling yourself as a ‘feminist’ can be seen as controversial. Well, I did just...
Should we be studying ‘gender differences’? No – and yes
One of the hardest things about gender study still appears to be the need to challenge the ‘common sense’ view that it is all about...
