1st Edition

Theorising Cultures of Equality

Edited By Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson, Jimmy Turner Copyright 2020
216 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project. In revisiting and reframing conventional questions about in/equality it considers the processes through which in/equalities have come to be regarded as issues of public concern, the various ways that... Read more

Chapter 1: Theorising Gender and Cultures of Equality

Suzanne Clisby and Mark Johnson

Chapter 2: The Promise of the Human: Gender and the Enlightenment’s Culture of Equality

Laura Brace

Chapter 3: Equality building in Europe: Theorising the Practice of Gender Training.

Athena-Maria Enderstein

Chapter 4: Entangled Theorising: Transgender Depathologisation and Access to ‘Disability’

Lieke Hettinga

Chapter 5: The (Re)production of (In)Equality in Italy: Feminisms and Reproductive Labour in the Era of Populism.

Elisa A.G. Arfini and Beatrice Busi

Chapter 6: Cultures of (In)equality in Poland after 1989

Aleksandra M. Rózalska

Chapter 7: Why We Need Literature, Art, and Fantasy
Susan Stanford Friedman

Chapter 8: Translating homosexuality: Urbanism and the Masculine Bakla in Severino Montano’s The Lion and the Faun

J. Neil C. Garcia

Chapter 9: The City Animated by the Spirit of Patriarchy

Jimmy Turner

Chapter 10: Power From the Peripheries: Art, Culture and Masculinities in Rio de Janeiro

Tatiana Moura, Marta Fernandez, and Victoria Page

Chapter 11: Decolonial Joy: Theorising From the Art of Valor y Cambio

Frances Negrón-Muntaner

Biography

Suzanne Clisby is the Principle Investigator for the Horizon 2020 Marie S. Curie Actions GRACE Project, Director of Postgraduate Gender Studies and Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Hull.

Mark Johnson is Reader in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Jimmy Turner is the Project Manager for, and one of the designers and authors of, the GRACE project, working at the University of Hull (UK).