Gender: The Key Concepts

297 Pages·2012·1.645 MB·English

by  Mary Evans (editor), Carolyn Williams (editor)

GENDER
This invaluable volume provides an introduction to the major theories
andconceptsinGenderStudies.Eachofthe37entriesprovidesacritical
definition of the subject, written by an expert in the field, examining its
genesis, usage and major contributors. Taking an interdisciplinary and
global view of Gender Studies, concepts covered include:
(cid:1) Agency
(cid:1) Body
(cid:1) Class
(cid:1) Diaspora
(cid:1) Feminist Politics
(cid:1) Gender Identity
(cid:1) Heteronormativity
(cid:1) Performativity
(cid:1) Reflexivity
(cid:1) Subjectivity.
With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout
the text, Gender: The Key Concepts explores the relationships between
different aspects of the field defined as gender studies, and is essential for
all students of Gender Studies.
Mary Evans is a Centennial Professor at the London School
of Economics, based at the Gender Institute. She has written studies of
feminist theory, Jane Austen and Simone de Beauvoir and is currently
working on issues related to the continuation of gender inequality.
Carolyn H. Williams has worked in international development and
feminism since 1981. She holds a PhD from the Gender Institute,
London School of Economics, where she works as a guest teacher, and
is currently researching changing forms of intimacy in the context of
migration and multiculturalism.
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GENDER
The Key Concepts
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CONTENTS
List of Key Concepts vi
Contributors vii
Introduction xiii
GENDER: THE KEY CONCEPTS 1
Bibliography 223
Index 259
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LIST OF KEY CONCEPTS
Affect Heteronormativity
Agency Interdisciplinarity
The Body Intersectionality
Care LGBT Politics
Class The Male Gaze
Citizenship Men, Masculinity and
Cultural Difference Masculinities
Cyberspace New Reproductive
Diaspora Technologies
Disability Performativity
Femininities Postcolonialism
The Feminization Postfeminism
of Poverty Power
Feminism and Reflexivity
Psychoanalysis Representation
Feminist Economics The Sexual Division
Feminist Epistemology of Labour
Feminist Politics Subjectivity
Gender and Development Transnational Feminisms
Gender based Violence Women’s Studies/Gender
Gender Identity Studies
Gender Mainstreaming
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CONTRIBUTORS
Sunila Abeysekera is visiting scholar at the Institute of Social
Studies in The Hague. She is Executive Director of INFORM,
a leading Sri Lankan human rights non governmental organi
zation, and since 1992 has worked with the Global Campaign
for Women’s Human Rights and other global feminist networks.
Rachel Adams is professor of English and American Studies at
Columbia University. She is the author of Sideshow USA: Freaks
and the American Cultural Imagination and Continental Divides:
Remapping the Cultures of North America.
Suki Ali is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the London School
of Economics. Her research explores processes of racialization,
kinship and postcoloniality. Publications include Mixed Race, Post
Race:Gender, NewEthnicities and Cultural Practicesand The Politics of
Gender and Education: Critical Perspectives.
Floya Anthias is Professor of Sociology and Social Justice (Emeritus)
at Roehampton University and Visiting Professor of Sociology at
City University. Her books include Rethinking Anti Racisms: From
Theory to Practice and Female Migrants in Europe: The Paradoxes of
Integration.
Gwendolyn Beetham is an independent gender scholar living
and working in New York. She currently edits The Academic
Feminist at Feministing.com. Her work appears in The International
Handbook of Gender and Poverty, The Women’s Movement Today: An
Encyclopedia of Third Wave Feminism, and various journals.
Claire Blencowe is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the
University of Warwick. Her publications include Biopolitical
Experience: Foucault, Power & Positive Critique and she has published
various articles in Theory, Culture and Society.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Jonathan Dean is Lecturer in Political Theory in the School of
Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds. He is
author of Rethinking Contemporary Feminist Politics and has pub
lished on issues relating to gender and politics.
Nikita Dhawan is Director of the Frankfurt Research Center for
Postcolonial Studies, Cluster of Excellence ‘The Formation of
Normative Orders’ at Goethe University. Publications include
Decolonizing Enlightenment: Transnational Justice, Human Rights and
Democracy in a Postcolonial World (forthcoming).
Barbara Einhorn is Emeritus Professor of Gender Studies at
the University of Sussex. Her recent publications include
Citizenship in an Enlarging Europe: From Dream to Awakening and
‘Democratization, Nationalism, and Citizenship: The Challenge of
Gender’ in Gender Politics in Post Communist Eurasia.
Sarah Evans works at The British Library and publishes sociological
pieces in her spare time, following her PhD, which she completed
in 2008. Her thesis examined the aspirations of a group of young,
educationally successful, working class women. She has published
on higher education and social class, and oral history.
Sarah Franklin is a Professor of Sociology at the University of
Cambridge. She is the author, co author, editor and co editor
of 15 books on social and cultural aspects of new reproductive
technologies, as well as over 150 articles, chapters and reports.
Stéphanie Genz is Senior Lecturer in Media and Culture at
Edge Hill University. She specializes in contemporary gender and
cultural theory. Her book publications include Postfemininities
in Popular Culture; Postfeminism: Cultural Texts and Theories; and
Post feminist Gothic: Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture.
Kristyn Gorton is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre,
Film and Television at the University of York. She is the author
of Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion and Theorising
Desire: From Freud to Feminism to Film. She has published work on
emotion and affect in various journals.
Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University
of York. Her research centres on women’s cultural production.
She is editor of the ‘Research Methods for the Arts and
Humanities’ series, and at present working on a project entitled
Not Owning A Story.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Jeff Hearn holds posts at Linköping University, University of
Huddersfield, and Hanken School of Economics in Finland. His
books include Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities, Sex,
Violence and The Body, The Limits of Gendered Citizenship, and Men
and Masculinities around the World.
Amy Hinterberger is a Research Fellow in the Institute for
Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology
and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. She
received her PhD (2010) in Sociology from LSE’s BIOS Centre.
She has published work on the sociology of biomedicine and
identity.
Ranjana Khanna is Director of Women’s Studies and Professor of
English Literature and Women’s Studies at Duke University. She
publishes on Anglo and Francophone Postcolonial theory and
literature, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist Theory. Her current book
project is ‘Asylum: The Concept and the Practice’.
Elin Lindström holds a MSc in Gender and Social Policy from the
London School of Economics.
Emanuela Lombardo is Lecturer at the Faculty of Political Science
of Madrid Complutense University (Spain). Her research concerns
the analysis of gender equality policies. She co edited The
Europeanization of Gender Equality Policies and The Discursive Politics
of Gender Equality, and has published in various journals.
Clare Lyonette is Senior Research fellow, Institute for Employment
Research, Warwick. Her publications include co editing Gender
Inequalities in the 21st Century; and a chapter in Families, Care giving
and Paid Work: Challenging Labour Law in the 21st Century.
Sumi Madhok is Lecturer in Transnational Gender Studies at
the Gender Institute, London School of Economics. Her recent
publications include Rethinking Agency: Gender, Development and
Rights in North West India. She is interested in contemporary and
feminist political theory, autonomy, rights and citizenship.
Darrah McCracken is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Politics
Department at Willamette University. Her dissertation was
on the world politics of care. She is currently exploring the
history of US efforts to limit international humanitarianism and
the critique of instrumentality in care ethics and immigration
policy.
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