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.
Feminist Organizing Across the Generations
1st Edition
By Karen Bojar
May 31, 2023
Feminist Organizing Across the Generations spans almost 60 years of feminist history and traces the evolution of feminist activism from the 1960s until the present. Using the Philadelphia chapter of the National Women's Organization as a starting point, Karen Bojar explores how feminist organizing...
Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow
1st Edition
By Anna Borgos
January 09, 2023
This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest was one of the main centres of ...
The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future
1st Edition
By Masami Tamagawa
December 30, 2022
This study of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society ...
Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain: Chasing the Rainbow
1st Edition
By Laura Dixon
September 26, 2022
This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a ...
Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Anthea Taylor, Joanna McIntyre
August 01, 2022
This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. ...
The Women’s International Democratic Federation, the Global South and the Cold War: Defending the Rights of Women of the ‘Whole World’?
1st Edition
By Yulia Gradskova
August 01, 2022
This book examines the role of the Women's International Defense Federation (WIDF) in transnational women’s activism in the context of the Cold War, and in connection to the rights of women from Asia, Africa and Latin America. Combining a global history and postcolonial theory approach, this ...
Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebeca Maseda García, María José Gámez Fuentes, Barbara Zecchi
June 13, 2022
Gender-Based Violence in Latin American and Iberian Cinemas rethinks the intersection between violence and its gendered representation.This is a groundbreaking contribution to the international debate on the cinematic construction of gender-based violence. With essays from diverse cultural ...
Bisexuality in Europe: Sexual Citizenship, Romantic Relationships, and Bi+ Identities
1st Edition
Edited
By Emiel Maliepaard, Renate Baumgartner
May 30, 2022
Bisexuality in Europe offers an accessible and diverse overview of research on bisexuality and bi+ people in Europe, providing a foundation for theorising and empirical work on plurisexual orientations and identities, and the experiences and realities of people who desire more than one sex or ...
Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement, 1830–1890: Cumbersome Allies
1st Edition
By Hélène Quanquin
May 30, 2022
This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century, using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women’s rights, as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly...
Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European Cinema
1st Edition
Edited
By James S. Williams
May 06, 2022
This exciting and original volume offers the first comprehensive critical study of the recent profusion of European films and television addressing sexual migration and seeking to capture the lives and experiences of LGBTIQ+ migrants and refugees. Queering the Migrant in Contemporary European ...
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies: Ideals, Anxieties and Ties of the Perinatal
1st Edition
By Ranjana Das
August 02, 2021
Early Motherhood in Digital Societies offers a nuanced understanding of what the digital turn has meant for new mothers in an intense and critical period before and after they have a baby, often called the ‘perinatal’ period.The book looks at an array of digital communication and content by drawing...
Nordic Gender Equality Policy in a Europeanisation Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Knut Dørum
June 30, 2021
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the role Nordic countries have played as exporters and importers of gender equality policies, and of how Europeanisation has framed the development and harmonisation of legislation and politics between the countries, with global consequences.The ...