Global Gender
About the Book Series
The Global Gender series provides original research from across the humanities and social sciences, casting light on a range of topics from international authors examining the diverse and shifting issues of gender and sexuality on the world stage. Utilising a range of approaches and interventions, these texts are a lively and accessible resource for both scholars and upper level students from a wide array of fields including Gender and Women’s Studies, Sociology, Politics, Communication, Cultural Studies and Literature.
The Power in the Intimate: Rethinking Empowerment in Development
1st Edition
By Katalin Zsiga
December 14, 2026
The Power in the Intimate draws on feminist political economy, development studies, and qualitative policy research to examines how intimacy, autonomy, and bodily agency are connected to wider structures of power and inequality. Based on original qualitative fieldwork in Peru, including interviews ...
Muslim Feminist Collective Action Online: Faith, Power, and Digital Resistance
1st Edition
By Sadia Ali
December 01, 2026
Muslim Feminist Collective Action Online: Faith, Power, and Digital Resistance examines how self-identified Muslim feminists use digital spaces to organise, resist, and construct shared forms of identity and activism. Drawing on feminist theory, sociology, philosophy, and digital culture studies, ...
Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education
1st Edition
By Mai Phuc Thinh
September 07, 2026
Queer Aspiration and Emotional Borders in Transnational Education traces the emotional and everyday worlds of queer Vietnamese students moving through transnational education across Southeast Asia. Foregrounding fragments, pauses, and ordinary scenes over success stories, the book introduces ...
Contemporary Perspectives on Girls’ Educational Achievement: What About the Girls?
1st Edition
By Alexandra Allan
July 20, 2026
Contemporary Perspectives on Girls’ Educational Achievement: What About the Girls? offers fresh insights into girls’ perceptions and experiences of educational achievement in the contemporary context. ‘What about the boys?’ is a common exclamation in debates which centre around young people’s ...
Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria
1st Edition
By Oluwatobi Joseph Alabi
November 28, 2025
Gender, Sexuality, and Traditional Aphrodisiacs: Kayan Mata and Intimate Relationships in Nigeria explores how Nigerian women use traditional aphrodisiacs, known as kayan mata, to navigate intimacy, power, and survival in a rapidly evolving society. From Northern Nigeria's aphrodisiac markets to ...
Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo
1st Edition
By Marta Fanasca
April 14, 2025
Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo investigates the novel “emotion business” of dansō escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression. Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions...
#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities
1st Edition
By Keren R. McGinity
December 18, 2024
#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities examines the relationship between sexual harassment, gender, and multiple religions, highlighting the voices of women of different faiths who found their voices and used them for the betterment of their communities. Through ...
Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim
1st Edition
By Yoko Kanemasu
November 28, 2024
This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched...
Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art
1st Edition
By Annie Mendoza
October 09, 2024
This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions. New consideration ...
Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center: Carla's Story
1st Edition
By Jane Juffer, Carla
October 08, 2024
After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, ‘Carla’ was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center. Her letters provide a powerful and unique account of a queer woman’s experience inside America’s asylum system. Letters from Inside a U.S. ...
#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China: Gendered Violence and Scripts of Power
1st Edition
By Li Ma
May 31, 2023
This book focuses on the #MeToo movement in China, critically examining how three competing ideologies have worked in co-opting #MeToo activism: China’s official communism, Western neoliberalism, and an emerging Chinese cyber feminism. In 2018, China’s #MeToo cyber activism initially maintained ...
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway: Same but Different?
1st Edition
Edited
By Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Priscilla Ringrose
May 31, 2023
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens. What can we learn from a comparison between two countries that stand in significant contrast to each other with respect to ...