1st Edition
Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities
This handbook is a fundamental contribution to the recent history and contemporary context of feminist, gender, and women’s studies in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area, by examining their multiple configurations in different countries across the world and taking stock of the tensions and controversies that have recently emerged against and within the field. The volume is unique in bringing together essays from renowned feminist and gender studies academics from the global north and global south, as well as early stage, emerging scholars. The diversity of the geopolitical and disciplinary locations and the quality of their reflections provides rich, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary discussions that are rarely found in similar collections, making this an essential resource for advanced students and academics in the field.
Introduction
Anália Torres, Paula Campos Pinto, Tamara Shefer, Jeff Hearn, and Annette von Alemann
Part I: Feminisms and Gender Studies Across the Globe
1. A Commentary in “Dark” Times: The State of The Art of Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies in Brazil
Adriana Piscitelli and Iara Beleli
2. Activism and Gender Studies in Argentina: From Brave Pioneers to Massive Participation
Monica Tarducci
3. Feminisms and Gender Studies in Portugal: History, Context, And Tensions
Anália Torres, Paula Campos Pinto and Rosemary Deem
4. The Institutionalisation of Gender Studies in Germany and the German speaking countries
Annette von Alemann
5. The Czech Feminist Scene: Times of Diffusions and Convergences
Blanka Nyklová and Iva Šmídová
6. The patient is still more alive than dead: The thorny path of the development of gender studies in Russia
Olga V. Shnyrova
7. Teaching The “F” Word: The Dynamics ff Gender and Feminist Studies in The Heis in Albania
Ermira Danaj and Edvin Lame
8. Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University: Embracing Advances and Confronting Reversals
Josephine Ahikire, Amon Ashaba Mwiine, and Peace Musiimenta
9. Facing the State: Mapping the Transformations of the Iranian Women’s Movements Over Four Decades Nazanin Shahrokni
10.GEST — A Transnational Gender Studies Program at the University of Iceland
Irma Erlingsdóttir
Part II: Theoretical Debates, Tensions and Controversies in Feminist and Gender Studies
11. More-than-Human Feminisms
Nina Lykke
12. Rainbow Laces and Safe Spaces: Queer Theory and Higher Education
Louise Morley and Daniel Leyton
13. Broken promises? Trans recognition and the gender order
Pedro Vasconcelos and Sofia Aboim
14. Re-imagining South African Women’s and Gender Studies: In Dialogue with Decolonial, Feminist Struggle
Tamara Shefer and Siza Ngabaza
15. Doing Interdisciplinarity in Swedish Gender Studies: Challenges and Intellectual Excitement
Ann Öhman
16. The Skin of the Feminist Decolonial: Gender Studies and the Arts
Rosemarie Buikema
17. Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities: Enduring Debates, Institutionalization Processes, Divergences and Challenges
Jeff Hearn and Richard Howson
18. Antigenderist Attacks on Gender Studies – How to Respond?
Anika Thym, Andrea Maihofer, and Matthias Luterbach
Part III: Challenging Topics on Gender Research: Reflections, Dilemmas and Plurality of Views
19. ‘Girly Girls’ and ‘Raw girls’: Young Femininities, Gender and Heterosexuality
Deevia Bhana
20. The Use of Dilemmas in Feminist Interactive Research Methods
Anne-Charlott Callerstig and Kristina Lindholm
21. Precarity and Porn Production
Karen Gabriel
22. Being a Trojan Horse: Rethinking Solidarity in Student Politics of the Fallist Movement in South Africa
Amanda Gouws
23. Racializing Al-Ajnabiya: On Whiteness and Conversion in Jordan
Amira Fretz and Eva Midden
24. Changing Attitudes to Gender Equality?: A critical discourse analysis of AKP's gender-based violence prevention policies
Pilar Milagros
25. The Story of RINGS: A Case Study in Transnational Feminist Organizing
Jeff Hearn, Tamara Shefer, and Bethany Gum
Biography
Anália Torres is Full Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, Head of the Sociology Department, founder and director of CIEG (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies).
Paula Campos Pinto is Associate Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of CIEG, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of University of Lisbon.
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.
Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.
