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Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies Convergences, Divergences, and Pluralities

426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

426 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women’s studies seen 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.... Read more

Introduction: Feminisms and gender studies: Convergences, divergences and pluralities

Anália Torres, Paula Campos Pinto, Tamara Shefer and Jeff Hearn

PART I: Feminisms and gender studies across the globe

1 A commentary written during "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 mass participation

Mónica 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 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 of 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 Conceptualizing and practicing crosscultural gender equality education: The Gest Programme 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, feminist scholarship 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 Sisa Ngabaza

15 Doing interdisciplinarity in Swedish gender studies: Challenges and intellectual excitement

Ann Öhman

16 The skin of the feminist decolonial scholar: 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 Putting theory into practice through feminist interactive research methods

Anne-Charlott Callerstig and Kristina Lindholm

21 The precarious worlds of pornography

Karen Gabriel

22 Being a Trojan horse: Rethinking solidarity in student politics of the Fallist Movement in South Africa

Amanda Gouws

23 Racialising Al-Ajnabiya: On Whiteness and conversion in Jordan

Amira Fretz and Eva Midden

24 Examining changes in gender-based violence prevention policies: Critical discourse analysis in the Turkish political context

Pilar Milagros García

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 the 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, South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.