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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Feminist Formations.daily12026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 11, no. 2 (1999) through current issueLatest Articles: Feminist FormationsTWOProject MUSE®Feminist Formations2151-73712151-7363Latest articles in Feminist Formations. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Editorial Introduction
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990069
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This final issue of Volume 37 comes into the world later than intended. Our delay is not incidental but symptomatic of the conditions under which we—editorial team members, contributors, readers—find ourselves working, living, and grieving. The end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026 blurred together as we witnessed a continuing accumulation of violence and loss that make the ordinary rhythms of academic publishing feel both insufficient and necessary. We publish late because we, like so many others, are navigating what it means to continue our work amid profound grief, exhaustion, and uncertainty.As we finalize this issue, news arrives of ICE agents opening fire on protesters in Minneapolis, an act of state violence
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallEditorial Introduction2026-05-12text/htmlen-USEditorial Introduction2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®130932026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12The Law of the Gift or the Gift of Law? A Decolonial Feminist Critique of Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence Against Women Units
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990070
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In the aftermath of two decades of international intervention, Afghanistan’s legal reform efforts, particularly those aimed at addressing gender-based violence, have faced significant challenges. Despite the establishment of specialized legal mechanisms such as the Elimination of Violence Against Women (EVAW) units, these initiatives struggled to gain legitimacy and effectiveness on the ground. Many Afghan women who sought justice through these units encountered bureaucratic obstacles, a lack of institutional support, and resistance from local communities. Rather than fostering inclusive and community-driven legal development, foreign-led interventions imposed external legal frameworks that overlooked local
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallThe Law of the Gift or the Gift of Law? A Decolonial Feminist Critique of Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence Against Women Units2026-05-12text/htmlen-USThe Law of the Gift or the Gift of Law? A Decolonial Feminist Critique of Afghanistan’s Elimination of Violence Against Women Units2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®820362026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Hijas de Sobrevivientes: Daughtering as Intergenerational Healing Praxis in Salvadoran Families and Community
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990071
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During the civil war in so-called El Salvador,1 the United States nation-state spent an estimated $6 billion to finance the army’s repression, supplied military weapons and machinery to the army, provided intelligence specialists, and trained the high-ranking military personnel in counterinsurgency warfare at the School of the Americas; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Armstrong and Shenk 1982). Counterinsurgency warfare tactics also consisted of psychological warfare, including interrogations/psychological torture that the US had previously applied in Vietnam, Argentina, Chile, and Nicaragua.Together, the repression was perpetrated by the Salvadoran government (la junta), the National Police
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallHijas de Sobrevivientes: Daughtering as Intergenerational Healing Praxis in Salvadoran Families and Community2026-05-12text/htmlen-USHijas de Sobrevivientes: Daughtering as Intergenerational Healing Praxis in Salvadoran Families and Community2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®1681562026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Poetry as Feminist Protest in India: The Women of Shaheen Bagh Claim Citizenship
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990072
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On December 13, 2019, students protesting the newly implemented discriminatory citizenship laws, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), which marginalized and disenfranchised India’s minorities, were beaten up by the Delhi police at Jamia Milia University (The Hindu 2019). In response, the working-class and middle-class Muslim women of the Delhi neighborhood of Shaheen Bagh took to the streets in protest on December 15, 2019. In a matter of days, the protest swelled in size and scale as more women joined. The protest site at Shaheen Bagh included a children’s library and a women’s tent which was used as a performance space, while the surrounding walls and buildings were
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallPoetry as Feminist Protest in India: The Women of Shaheen Bagh Claim Citizenship2026-05-12text/htmlen-USPoetry as Feminist Protest in India: The Women of Shaheen Bagh Claim Citizenship2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®1148722026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Living and Loving in the Brackish: A Black Feminist Perspective
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990073
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“. . . they refused to live in its clauses and parentheses.”“Love is abundant, not scarce. Why would we ever want to limit or narrow its flow?”I open this article on Black women’s intimacy with a declaration: I love Black women! To begin here is itself an act of intimacy, a way of locating this writing in longing, desire, and care. My aim is to handle Black women’s lives and histories with reverence, and to frame this article as a contribution to Black feminist love praxis.Here, I metaphorically draw on the concept of the brackish as an example of what I call a Black feminist ecological socio-historiography of Black women’s intimate lives. This approach traces how, despite dehumanization, Black women have
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallLiving and Loving in the Brackish: A Black Feminist Perspective2026-05-12text/htmlen-USLiving and Loving in the Brackish: A Black Feminist Perspective2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®1009722026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12The Illusion of Reform: The Role of Scapegoats and Consultants in the Bureaucratic Management of a Sexual Harassment Scandal
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990074
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On February 17, 2022, Dr. Joseph Castro resigned as Chancellor of the California State University system (CSU), a little over a year after his appointment began and less than a month after USA Today published an investigation into allegations that he had mishandled sexual harassment complaints against a high-ranking administrator when he served as president of Fresno State (Jacoby 2022). In the following months, media continued to report on ineffective administrative responses to sexual harassment across the CSU’s twenty-three campuses (Amaro 2022; Lopez and Shalby 2022a, 2023; Shalby and Lopez 2022a, 2022c, 2022d; Fresno Bee Staff 2022). Almost all of these mishandled complaints occurred during the previous
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallThe Illusion of Reform: The Role of Scapegoats and Consultants in the Bureaucratic Management of a Sexual Harassment Scandal2026-05-12text/htmlen-USThe Illusion of Reform: The Role of Scapegoats and Consultants in the Bureaucratic Management of a Sexual Harassment Scandal2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®1349122026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Academic Regrets, Academics Regret: Precarious Women Scholars Look Back
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990075
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I write this while sitting on a train bound for the other end of the country. I’m travelling for a lengthy job interview at the local university. This would be a permanent lectureship, and recruitment activities spread over several days. So far, the application process (the preparation of materials and documentation, extensive job talks and presentations) has proved excruciating. I’ve been suffering from anxiety and insomnia ever since the call came out. The irony is that this was never the type of academic job I wanted: neither the university, the location, nor the country I dreamed of. Not my first choice, nor my second. And as I scribble, as I look out of the window while the train advances, I wonder: Where did
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallAcademic Regrets, Academics Regret: Precarious Women Scholars Look Back2026-05-12text/htmlen-USAcademic Regrets, Academics Regret: Precarious Women Scholars Look Back2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®932512026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Drive, Baby, Drive
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990076
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after June
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallDrive, Baby, Drive2026-05-12text/htmlen-USDrive, Baby, Drive2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®52842026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12Afterword: (be)longing: sofreh/سفره feminism–gathering to remember, gathering to witness
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990078
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I conclude my graduate degree in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and my time with Feminist Formations with some uncertainty, because endings are not tidy, and neither is this period of time. Endings are in constant flux, subject to change, non-linear. In this afterword, I engage Lila Abu-Lughod’s 2002 article, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” which, despite being over twenty years old, continues to hold relevance because Muslim women requiring saving remains a primary justification for bombing so-called Muslim countries. Additionally, as a piece frequently assigned in women’s and gender studies courses, it is often the sole or one of few assigned readings on Muslim or Southwest Asian/North African (SWANA)
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/146/image/coversmallAfterword: (be)longing: sofreh/سفره feminism–gathering to remember, gathering to witness2026-05-12text/htmlen-USAfterword: (be)longing: sofreh/سفره feminism–gathering to remember, gathering to witness2026-05-122026TWOProject MUSE®691652026-05-12T00:00:00-05:002026-05-12