Lova Journal of Gender Studies & Feminist Anthropology
ISSUE 40, YEAR 2019
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Jasmijn Rana
EDITORIAL BOARD
Kitti Baracsi, Roos Dorsman, Ina Keuper, Charlotte Knoors, Nikki Mulder
CONTRIBUTORS
Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo, Allison Anne Gray Atis, Ian Samuel Olivier Blom, Suborna Camellia, Gustavo Santos Elpes, Arshi Jahan, Willy Jansen, Ina Keuper, Roxane Kroon, Filipa Oitavén, Marina de Regt, Edda Starck
GRAPHIC DESIGN
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Table of Contents
EDITORIAL
Jasmijn Rana
RESEARCH
Beauty and the beat: Thoughts on female radio DJs, media convergence, and the proliferation of media’s idea of beauty
Allison Anne Gray Atis
Shared pain between a mother and her son: Unsettling clinical encounters through the entanglement of bodies, affects, and pain in Fibromyalgia treatment
Vanbasten Noronha de Araújo
ART and soft activism: An exploration of infertility through physical theatre
Edda Starck
Sex work, sexual assistance, and feminist solidarities
Gustavo Santos Elpes
FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE
A blessing in disguise!
Arshi Jahan
Playing bideshi (western) by a deshi (local) ethnographer in the field: Ambiguities in the ‘insider-outsider’ relationship
Suborna Camellia
BOOK REVIEW
Violence: Ethnographic encounters
Roxane Kroon
INTERVIEW
Three feminists, five decades of feminism, and forty years of LOVA
Filipa Oitavén
Forty years of LOVA, forty years of LOVA Journal
Ina Keuper
How Brazil’s far-right government is adding forces to the global anti-gender crusade
Beatriz Judice Magalhães and Isadora Cardoso
LOVA ACTIVITIES
Gender Moves. Report of LOVA Study Day 2019
Ian Samuel Olivier Blom
LOVA Marjan Rens Master’s Thesis Award 2019
Willy Jansen
Report of LOVA PhD Speed Date
Ina Keuper
Rethinking LOVA’s International Summer School 2019
Nina Gribling and Mina Baginova
LOVA and EASA NAGS Seminar ‘Is Gender Dangerous?’
Ina Keuper and Marina de Regt
LOVA Workshop in January 2020: Feminist Canine Ethnography
Irene Arends and Reinhilde König