Emerging feminist research: courage and determination

Abstract

This volume is the third edition of Dearcadh journal. When we issued our first call for papers in November 2019, we did not know that the journal’s first three editions would all be carried out in the context of a global pandemic and associated public health restrictions. The past two years have seen far-reaching social interventions with specific, disproportionate impacts on women and girls, quite separate to the impact of the burden of disease and death brought by the pandemic. They have brought pre-existing issues to the fore, including global inequality (not least gender inequality), social polarisation, and the limitations of democratic processes at times of crisis.