Revisiting Feminist Advocacy
Volume 34, Issue 1 | March 2026
Demonstrations for the 8M in Santiago de Chile. Photo credit: Camiperezsoto, Source: Wikimedia commons
We are delighted to present to you Gender & Development's 100th Issue titled 'Revisiting Feminist Advocacy'. In this special issue, the authors examine feminist advocacy across spaces, constituencies, and processes.
Contributors to this issue include academics, early career researchers, and activists practising diverse forms of feminist advocacy across physical and digital spaces and geographies. The contributions offer insights and experiences from a range of countries and regional contexts – Brazil, Chile, India, Türkiye, South Sudan, Vanuatu, the Great Lakes region in Africa, the LAC region and Europe, as well as across countries that have historical and cultural diasporic relations like India and the Caribbean. This special issue is co-guest edited by Awino Okech and Sohela Nazneen, who have produced valuable scholarship on feminist movement building and leadership for decades.
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Below, you can find free access to the Introduction, four articles, and the Resources and Book Reviews sections of the issue.
For free access to all of the articles, visit the Oxfam Policy & Practice website and search using the article title.

Articles
Revisiting feminist advocacy
Awino Okech & Sohela Nazneen
‘At the table’ and beyond: lessons on advocacy from the South Sudan women’s coalition for peace
Maggie LoWilla & Munyaradzi Mapfumo
Across borders, shifting power: feminist advocacy in the Great Lakes of Africa
Nicole Nyangolo & Julie Théroux-Séguin
Where the future was built: fifty years of feminist advocacy at the United Nations
Stephanie Oula & Sia Nowrojee
Empowered or constrained? Transnational funds and feminist activism in (post-)conflict Syria
Weam Ghabash
Dancing the margins: Launda ke Naach, queer embodiment, and the praxis of Southern feminist resistance
Shazia Khan
From local solidarities to collective voice: women’s cooperatives and grassroots advocacy in Türkiye
Sena Bilen-Gürçay
Voices of (R)existence: Indigenous women, Instagram, and the fight against (fem)genocide in Brazil
Carolline Querino
Transcontinental reflections of feminist advocates: embracing plurality, embodying care, and pushing forward intersectionality
Ana Maria Noguera Duran & Rachel Palmén
Producing feminist health knowledge in Chile: epistemic strategies from the Global South
Javiera Menchaca-Pardow
Reflections from Gender & Development’s journal community
From the GADU Pack to Gender & Development issue 100
Lina Abou-Habib
Resources
Here you can find additional materials related to the issue. These are compiled by Anandita Ghosh and Shivani Satija.
Book Reviews
City of Men: Masculinities and Everyday Morality on Public Transport by Romit Chowdhury. Reviewed by Maya Krishnan
