REVIEWS

The themed issues of the new-look Palgrave Macmillan-published Feminist Review for 2002 and 2003 offer some fascinating reading, especially on the contested topics of globalisation, exile and asylum... After reading such distressing stories (in these issues) it seems trivial to glance at the other themed issues reviewed here on drugs, fiction and theory and fashion and beauty. But Feminist Review has always been diverse in its coverage and it is good to be reminded that our complex theorisations about femininity today offer more playful spaces for feminists, including the beauty parlour ...

Feminist Review, at the cutting edge of contemporary debates, is a lively and informative resource for students and academics in higher education across a range of disciplines. I strongly recommend it.

June Purvis, Times Higher Education Supplement, April 2004

Feminist Review won the prestigious ALPSP/Charlesworth award for Learned Journals, 2003.