An unusual and fascinating collection of articles on a broad range of issues relating to South Asia, feminisms and women.

The rapidly changing political and economic scenario in South Asia has brought about huge transformations in which everyday lives are reconceptualized, reconstructed and lived, with new negotiations continually made between the personal and the public. The energy and the volume of work that has marked women’s activism in the region are notable. Feminist activism has engaged with religious fundamentalisms, state repression, sexual violence and livelihood issues while women have been visibly active in all the political movements in this volatile part of the world.

The issue seeks to look at what is new and what has changed in the arena of feminist activism and thinking in South Asia.

• Issue 91 (February 2009)

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. It brings together new feminist writing that intervenes in a range of current debates and issues including: Representations of the woman terrorist; New reproductive technologies and their impact on women; Gender and the anti-globalization movement; Cultural politics of fashion; European citizenship and feminism.

• Issue 92 (June 2009)

Birth brings together new and established feminist scholars from across the disciplines, together with feminist artists, to address the theme and concept of ‘birth’. Together they interrogate the prevailing cultural and sexual politics of reproduction, pregnancy and birth.

This distinctly interdisciplinary special issue consists of a powerful collection of essays, which explore the transforming meanings of birth through a consideration of the racial, ethnic, cultural, sexual, economic, institutional, and national contexts from which birth experiences and representations emerge. What connects the contributions is their concern to explore the webs of often conflicting meanings and power relations which revolve around birth.