War is a coherent collection of essays and articles, which speak urgently and eloquently to one of the most persistently vexing themes of human history: war.

By viewing large scale collective war and violence through the prism of gender, the issue aims to contribute to the larger debate in a variety of disciplines on how and why wars come about, the ways in which the structures and semiotics of gender are deployed in war to justify or shape violence, the effects of war on women, and the historical and contemporary feminist challenges to war. Not surprisingly, a significant number of the contributions grapple with the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.

The authors include activists (such as Salma Yaqoob, Elane Heffernan and Lindsey German), well-known authors (such as Jean Said Makdisi, Lynne Segal and V. Spike Peterson) and rising young stars (such as Nadje al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, Roxanne Varzi, Nayanika Mookherjee).

• Issue 88 (April 2008)

This issue of Feminist Review will feature some of the many high-quality submissions to the Journal, which have been accepted following rigorous peer-review.

• Issue 89 (June 2008)

The goal of Gendering Diaspora is to stimulate critical reflection among feminist scholars about the formation of diaspora as a site of political aspiration and solidarity, and as a social, cultural and political framework of analysis. Foregrounding the role of racial and gendered formation in the circulation of global capital, contributors emphasize that diasporic dialogues are never truly equitable, for the politics of transnational exchange are thoroughly embedded in the same material and ideological networks of power from which they emerge.

Gendering Diaspora emerges from papers given at the conference 'Diasporic Hegemonies' at Duke University, USA, in Autumn 2005 and is part of an ongoing discussion about what constitutes both diaspora and feminist analysis from a transnational perspective.