History, War and Independence

• This issue offers a critical review of the anti-colonial wars in Latin America from a gendered perspective.
• The continuities between the militarism and authoritarianism of the nineteenth-century and politics and society today are examined.
• The way the war system produces and exacerbates the gender system, which is then perpetuated throughout the social and cultural fabric, is investigated.

Articles in this issue are written by leading feminist historians, sociologists and literary specialists, whose field of research is Latin America. They focus on militarism and patriarchy from the Wars of Independence from Spain (1810-1826) until today, with special emphasis on Chile and Mexico.

These articles raise important issues regarding the role of women in societies in crisis and gendered constructions of national and continental identities in the transition from colonial to postcolonial dependency.

• Issue 79 (March 2005)

Feminist Review is celebrating twenty five years of academic and political intervention.

Over this quarter of a century the journal and the Collective that edits it have re-invented themselves many times in response to shifting political landscapes both within and beyond the collective. Some of these shifts are reflected in this anniversary issue of Feminist Review, in the ground-breaking articles which we are re-publishing, editorials from past issues of FR which were written at key moments in the history of feminism and in a recent Round Table Discussion. Each of these turning points have involved reflexivity - often painful - challenges and adjustments to the project of feminism. This project is ongoing and in this anniversary issue we are contributing to this continuing conversation by publishing the Collective's reflections on how we tell the history of the journal, of feminism and of the Collective itself.

• Issue 80 (July 2005)

In this vast and ever expanding field this collection presents a sample of some of the latest international research on bodily interventions. The study of the bodily has so often been compartmentalised into disciplinary specialisims. The contributions in this issue present an inter-disciplinary and multi-sited collection, which together consider the body as:

• a site of consumption and production
• a public spectacle and point of engagement
• a poetic asthetics as well as a scientific procedure
• a controlled and experimental phenomena
• a political project of management and assertion.

Drawing on different genres in literary studies, labour markets, political theory and cultural analysis, it is an issue that will help students and specialist scholars to look at the body from different vantage points.

• Issue 81 (November 2005)