Gender studies, gender groups Books

Book SynopsisThis book investigates what women enjoy about consuming, and in some cases producing, gay male erotic media–from slashfic, to pornographic texts, to visual pornography–and how this sits within their consumption of erotica and pornography more generally. In addition, it will examine how women’s use of gay male erotic media fits in with their perceptions of gender and sexuality. By drawing on a piece of wide-scale mixed methods research that examines these motivations, an original and important volume is presented that serves to explore and contribute to this under-researched area. Trade Review“Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys … is a sort of 50 shades of gay for the modern woman.” (The Sunday Times Style magazine, January 20, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter One: Welcome To The Freak Show.Chapter Two: Boys on Film.Chapter Three: The Joy of Slash.Chapter Four: Don't you know that it's different for girls.Chapter Five: Sometimes it's hard to be a woman.Chapter Six: ‘…Always should be someone you really love'.Chapter Seven: 'It's a Mixed Up Muddled Up Shook Up World'.Chapter Eight: 'You give me the sweetest taboo'.Chapter Nine: The times, they are a changin'.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the untold stories of Gypsy and Traveller girls living in Scotland. Drawing on accounts of the girls’ lives and offering space for their voices to be heard, the author addresses contemporary and traditional stereotypes and racialised misconceptions of Gypsies and Travellers. Marcus explores how the stubborn persistence of these negative views appears to contribute to policies and practices of neglect, inertia or intervention that often aim to ‘civilise’ and further assimilate these communities into the mainstream settled population. It is against this backdrop that the book exposes the girls’ racialised and gendered experiences, which impact on their struggles as young people to realise their potential and future prospects. Their narratives reveal the strengths of a distinct community, and the complexity of their silence and agency within the patriarchal structures that pervade the private spaces of home and the public spaces of education. This study also invites the reader to reflect on how the experiences of Gypsy and Traveller girls compares with young women from other social backgrounds, and questions if there is more that binds us than divides us as women in the modern world. Gypsy and Traveller Girls will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology, education, gender studies and social policy. Table of Contents1.The Outsiders Within: Stereotypes, Definitions and Boundaries.- 2. Power and Silence: The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers.- 3. Gypsies and Travellers in Education: Hidden, Deviant or Excluded.- 4. Gypsies, Travellers and Intersectionality.- 5. ‘I am not big, fat or just Gypsy’: The Racialised and Gendered Experiences of Gypsy and Traveller Girls in School.- 6. ‘Honour Thy Father and Mother’: Love, Freedom and Control at Home.- 7. Power in Agency: Ambitions, Aspirations and Success.- 8. Conclusion: The Power of Inequality.

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Book SynopsisThis edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice. With a feminist perspective on transport policy and planning, the volume insists on the political character of transport planning and policy, and challenges gender-blindness in a policy area that impacts the everyday lives of women, men, girls, and boys. The chapters discuss everyday mobility as an embodied and situated activity in both conceptual and theoretical ways and suggest practical tools for change. The contributions of this collection are threefold: integrating gender research and transport planning, combining quantitative and qualitative gender research perspectives and methods, and highlighting the need to acknowledge the politicization of transport planning and transport practice. Table of Contents1. The political in transport and mobility – toward a feminist analysis of everyday mobility and transport planning, Tanja Joelsson and Christina Lindkvist Scholten2. Are we still not there yet? Moving further along the gender highway, Clara Greed3. Travel choice reframed: "deep distribution" and gender in urban transport4. Gendered perspectives on Swedish transport policy-making – an issue for gendered sustainability too, Lena Smidfelt Rosqvist5. How to apply Gender Equality Goals in transport and infrastructure planning, Lena Levin and Charlotta Faith-Ell6. Til Work Do Us Part: The Social Fallacy of Long-distance Commuting, Erika Sandow7. Measuring mobilities of care, a challenge for transportation agendas, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga and Elena Zucchini8. The 'I' in sustainable planning – constructions of users within municipal planning for sustainable mobility, Malin Henriksson9. Towards an intersectional approach to men, masculinities and (un)sustainable mobility: the case of cycling and modal conflicts, Dag Balkmar10. Hypermobile, sustainable or safe? Imagined childhoods in the neo-liberal transport system, Tanja Joelsson11. Gendering mobilities and (in)equalities in post socialist China, Hilda Roemer Christensen12. Towards a feminist transport and mobility future – from one to many tracks, Tanja Joelsson and Christina Lindkvist Scholten

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Book SynopsisThe Managed Body productively complicates ‘menstrual hygiene management’ (MHM)—a growing social movement to support menstruating girls in the Global South. Bobel offers an invested critique of the complicated discourses of MHM including its conceptual and practical links with the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) development sector, human rights and ‘the girling of development.’ Drawing on analysis of in-depth interviews, participant observations and the digital materials of NGOs and social businesses, Bobel shows how MHM frames problems and solutions to capture attention and direct resources to this highly-tabooed topic. She asserts that MHM organizations often inadvertently rely upon weak evidence and spectacularized representations to make the claim of a ‘hygienic crisis’ that authorizes rescue. And, she argues, the largely product-based solutions that follow fail to challenge the social construction of the menstrual body as dirty and in need of concealment. While cast as fundamental to preserving girls’ dignity, MHM prioritizes ‘technological fixes’ that teach girls to discipline their developing bodies vis a vis consumer culture, a move that actually accommodates more than it resists the core problem of menstrual stigma.Trade Review“The author effortlessly links postcolonial feminist thinking to MHM, which is commendable for a book that hails from the global north.” (Aysha Farhana Chakkampully, Gender and Research, Vol. 22 (2), 2021)“The Managed Body would be a valuable addition to courses on gender and health, embodiment, critical development studies, medical anthropology, and reproductive health and rights. This book’s accessible style also makes it appropriate for a much wider audience, and The Managed Body belongs on the reading lists of development professionals, feminist activists and anyone else interested in gender, health, and development.” (Leigh Senderowicz, Gender & Society, Vol. 20 (10), 2020)“This book will not only appeal to those interested in the topic but also to those who research race, globalization, transnationalism, rhetoric, feminism, public health, gender, activism, or economics.” (Berkley Conner, Affilia, December 6, 2019)“The book is a timely, important and provides a fascinating read about contemporary feminism, activism and capitalism.” (Camilla Mørk Røstvik, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 32 (4), November, 2019)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: What a Girl Needs….- Part I: Context.- Chapter 2: The Girling of Development.- Chapter 3: Making Menstruation Matter in the Global South: Mapping a Critical History of the Menstrual Hygiene Management Movement.- Part II: Framing the Problem: Stories of Risk, Risk of Stories.- Chapter 4: “Can You Imagine?” Making the Case for a Bloody Crisis.- Chapter 5: The Spectacle of the ‘Third World Girl’ and the Politics of Rescue.- Part III.Framing the Solution: Developing the ‘Good Body’.- Chapter 6: “Dignity Can’t Wait”: Building a Bridge to Human Rights.- Chapter 7: Disciplining Girls through the Technological Fix: Modernity, Markets, Materials.- Chapter 8: Beyond the Managed Body: Putting Menstrual Literacy at the Center.- Appendix A: Methods.- Appendix B: Notes on Language.

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Book SynopsisThis book represents a comprehensive effort to understand discrimination, racialization, racism, Islamophobia, anti-racist activism, and the inclusion and exclusion of minorities in Nordic countries. Examining critical media events in this heavily mediatized society, the contributors explore how processes of racialization take place in an environment dominated by commercial interests, anti-migrant and anti-Muslim narratives and sentiments, and a surprising lack of informed research on national racism and racialization. Overall, in tracing how these individual events further racial inequalities through emotional and affective engagement, the book seeks to define the trajectory of modern racism in Scandinavia. Trade Review“The book can be recommended to everyone who is studying and who is engaged with issues of racism in the Nordic countries and whether inside or outside the academia as the chapters taken together offer the reader a relatively comprehensive overview of how race operates in different ways in contemporary Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland.” (Tobias Hübinette, Nordic Journal of Migration Research NJMR, Vol. 9 (2), 2019)Table of Contents1. Introduction: Racialization in the Nordic Countries: An IntroductionSection I: Debating Racism and Racialization 1. Racial Turns and Returns: Discrediting Danish Research on Racism in Public Media Debates2. Racialized Rape and the Politics of Fear: Intersectional Reading of the Kempele Rape Case3. Identity Constructions of Muslims in Western News Media4. White Fear: The Fantasy of a White Fearing Public as Catalyst for the Racialization of Terror in Television NewsSection II. Denials of Racism and Racialization 5. Justification and Rationalization of Attitudes Toward Interracial Relationships in Color-blind Sweden6. The Proliferation of ‘Entitlement Racism’: A Study of Denials and Trivialization of Racism and Discrimination in Danish Public Discourse7. Racialization in Humanitarianism: Conditionality of Suitable Victims in Asylum Seekers’ ProtestsSection III. Examining Anti-Racism 8. Do Antiracist Efforts and Diversity Programs Make a Difference? Assessing the Case of Norway9. Communicating Anti-Racism: Social Movements, Non-profit Organizations and their Mediated Claims-Making in Finland and Sweden10. (Re)Framing Racialization: Djurs Sommerland as a Battleground of (Anti)Racism11. Resisting/Resistant Islamophobia: Norway and the Securitization of Muslims in the Post 22/7 2011 Era12. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book is situated at the intersection of queer/gender studies and theories of acting pedagogy and performance. It explores the social and cultural matrix in which matters of gender are negotiated, including that of post-secondary theatre and drama education. It identifies the predicament of gender dissident actors who must contend with the widespread enforcement of realist paradigms within the academy, and proposes a re-imagining of the way drama/theatre/performance are practised in order to serve more fairly and effectively the needs of queer actors in training. This is located within a larger project of critique in reference to the art form as a whole. The book stimulates discussion among practitioners and scholars on matters concerning various kinds of diversity: of gender expression, of approaches to the teaching of acting, and to the way the art form may be imagined and executed in the early years of the 21st Century, in particular in the face of the climate crisis. But it is also an aid to practitioners who are seeking new theoretical and practical approaches to dealing with gender diversity in acting pedagogy. Trade Review“Acting Queer was written for post-secondary theatre educators, especially practitioners, but I would suggest sharing it with department and college administrators also. … he also intends the book for ‘students themselves who may be asking troubling though perhaps productive questions … who is teaching them? What are they being taught and why?’ … . I look forward to asking these questions alongside students and discovering what may be possible when heteronormative gender roles are actively subverted in our pedagogy.” (Emily Finck, Theatre Topics, Vol. 32 (1), March, 2022)Table of Contents1. Introduction: ‘Straight-looking, Straight-acting’2. ‘You’re Soaking in It’: the Influence of Hollywood3. Gender Dissidence and Its Prohibitions4. Gendered Movement and “Physical’ Acting5. The Subversion of Realism6. Queer-looking, Queer-acting7. Extensions and Excursions: Acting Queer Ecology

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for both its progressive ideologies and its anti-immigrant practices. Grindr and similar platforms connect newcomers with not only dates and sex, but also friends, roommates and other logistical contacts. But these socio-sexual platforms also become spaces of racialization and othering. Weaving together analyses of real Grindr profile texts, immigrant narratives, political rhetoric, and popular media, Immigrants on Grindr provides an in-depth look at the complex interplay between online and offline cultures, and between technology and society.Table of Contents1. The Politics of Rescuing Gay Immigrants in Denmark: "We all have a responsibility... to save them...".- 2. Reflections on Ethnographic Work About and Via Grindr: "Your skin is white... You will receive like 14 messages in one hour".- 3. Newcomers and Logistical Uses of Socio-Sexual Media: "Looking for friends and maybe more".- 4. Racist Speech in a Socio-Sexual Culture: "Looking for North Europeans only".- 5. Drop-down Menus, Racial Identification and the Weight of Labels: "White is a colour, Middle Eastern is not a colour".- 6. Challenging Political and Socio-Sexual Online Cultures: "Vi Hygger Os".

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Book Synopsis“Women’s sports have typically been grossly under-represented in sports media coverage. Although elite lesbian athletes far outnumber ‘out’ male athletes, media scrutiny of their experiences remains largely non-existent. Largely situated in the context of improved cultural attitudes toward sexual minorities across the West, Bill Cassidy’s Sports Journalism and Women Athletes: Coverage of Coming Out Stories is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the study of sports journalism and media, offering – for the first time – a dedicated and detailed account of the coming out of some of sports’ most high-profile lesbian athletes.”- Dr. Rory Magrath, Solent University, UKThis book examines sports journalism coverage of the coming out stories of three prominent women athletes: tennis legend and feminist icon Billie Jean King, Basketball Hall of Fame Member Sheryl Swoopes and WNBA champion Brittney Griner. When King was outed in 1981 it marked a pivotal moment in which journalists were forced to discuss lesbian athletes in sports for the first time. Swoopes’ 2005 coming out was hailed as a historic moment due to her status as one of the best women’s basketball players of all time, while Griner’s casual public acknowledgment of her sexuality came during what many have called a more receptive environment for gay and lesbian athletes. By directly analysing and comparing the media attention given to these three superstars, Cassidy provides a comprehensive overview of how journalists have historically addressed women and lesbian athletes in professional sports. This book will appeal to readers interested in sports journalism, the role of sport in society, and media coverage of gay athletes.Trade Review“Cassidy’s book is meticulously researched and firmly grounded in established theory and practice. … Cassidy’s research quantifies what many may have already suspected about differences in how male and female sports figures are treated in sports media and in particular how the coming-out stories of male and female athletes differ in quantity and perhaps quality. Thus, Sports Journalism and Women Athletes meaningfully expands previous analysis of news coverage of gay and lesbian athletes … .” (Michael Tsai, Biography, Vol. 45 (1), 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1—From Scandalous Outing to Casual Acknowledgement.- Chapter 2—Media Coverage of Lesbian Athletes.- Chapter 3—Comparing Coverage of King, Swoopes and Griner.- Chapter 4—It’s About the People

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a feminist psychological analysis of contemporary resistance to sexual harassment in and around #MeToo. It explores how women’s assumed empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourses has shaped understandings of sexual harassment and social responses to it. This exploration is grounded in the trajectories of feminist activism and psychological theory about sexual harassment. Lazard addresses the gendered binary of female victims and male perpetrators in contemporary victim politics and the treatment of perpetrators within postfeminist and neoliberal frames. In doing so, the author unpacks the cultural conditions which support or deny who gets to speak and be heard in #MeToo politics. This book will be a valuable resource not only for scholars and students from within the psychological sciences and gender studies, but for the wider social sciences and anyone interested in the psychological grounding of the #MeToo movement.Trade Review“Lazard effectively demonstrates how entrenched assumptions around normative heterosexuality are, and how extensively neoliberal ideologies and intersecting power relations have shaped our understanding of sexual harassment and victimisation. Accordingly, readers are provided with effective conceptual tools with which to analyse the #MeToo movement and its impact on society. This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on sexual violence and feminist thought and deserves a place on every researcher’s bookshelf.” (Lois Catrin Donnelly, Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 32 (1), 2022)“This book would be of greatest interest to those who want to learn more about feminism, postfeminsm and neoliberal feminism and the approach of each to victimization.” (Renata Miljević-Riđički, International Journal of Emotional Education, Vol. 14 (1), June, 2022)Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction -#MeToo and feminismsChapter 2: Workplace Harassment, Hollywood’s Casting Couch and Neoliberalism Chapter 3: Women, Sexual Harassment and Victim Politics Chapter 4: The Sexual Harassment of Hollywood Men Chapter 5: Sexual Harassment and Sexual Predators in Neoliberal Times Chapter 6: Conclusion - Sexual Harassment and Speaking Rights

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Book SynopsisThis book presents chapters that have been brought together to consider the multitude of ways that post-2000 popular music impacts on our cultures and experiences. The focus is on misogyny, toxic masculinity, and heteronormativity. The authors of the chapters consider these three concepts in a wide range of popular music styles and genres; they analyse and evaluate how the concepts are maintained and normalized, challenged, and rejected. The interconnected nature of these concepts is also woven throughout the book. The book also seeks to expand the idea of popular music as understood by many in the West to include popular music genres from outside western Europe and North America that are often ignored (for example, Bollywood and Italian hip hop), and to bring in music genres that are inarguably popular, but also sit under other labels such as rap, metal, and punk.Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 : Should Real Love Hurt? The Eroticisation of Dominance, Submission and Coercive Control in Contemporary Pop Music Chapter 2: Featuring…Nicki Minaj Chapter 3 : Misogyny and Erotic Pleasure in Bollywood’s “Item Numbers” Chapter 4 : From Pimpology to Pimpologia: A Comparative Analysis of Pimp Rap in the United States and Italy Chapter 5 : How Female is the Future? Undoing Sexism in Contemporary Metal Music Chapter 6 : See the Signs—Justin Timberlake and the Pretence of Romance Chapter 7: Immortal Technique and the Radical Reimagining of Masculinity on the Street Chapter 8 : The Initiation: Re-negotiating Masculinity in Queer Music Video Chapter 9 : Let It Enfold You: Screaming, Masculinity, and the Loss of Emotional Control in Post-millennium Emo Chapter 10 : The Power of Boy Pussy: The Dichotomy Between Liberation and Objectification in Queer Hip-Hop/Rap in the 2000s Chapter 11 : “All Of My Life, Just Like I Was One Of Them”: Trans itioning Punk Chapter 12 : Lady Lazarus: The Death (and Rebirth) of a Gender Revolutionary Chapter 13 : Like a Lollipop: Toxic Masculinity and Female Sexual Pleasure in Hip-Hop Afterword

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Book SynopsisThis open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core narratives of supporters and opponents of surrogacy, in order to understand this reproductive practice in light of some of the essential elements of contemporary societies, such as the “child at any cost” culture, individualism, technology and female emancipation. This book appeals to scholars, policy makers and all those who want to understand the controversial debate on this unprecedented method of family formation and life production.Table of ContentsChapter 1: An introduction to the problems of surrogacy and the demands from civil society.Chapter 2: The study's origins and methodology.Chapter 3: Features of a booming reproductive practice. The medical process, the market, the antecedents and the risks. Chapter 4: Sociological perspectives across individual experiences, social structures and representations. Chapter 5: Surrogacy in the United States: the horse is out of the barn. Chapter 6: The Mexican case: the differences between autonomy and radical feminism.Chapter 7: The Italian case: a strong opposition in the name of women’s sexual identity and motherhood.Chapter 8: Abolitionist and Regulatory Arguments into perspectives.Chapter 9: Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book breaks new ground in gender and politics research by studying the multiple ways in which gender and intersectional equalities shape and are shaped by social partners representing employers and employees in Europe, as well as the relationships between those social partners. Little critical attention has been paid to these organizations, yet, as this volume illustrates, social partners are important actors in relation to gender and other inequalities at the level of both individual European countries and the European Union. The chapters in this volume explore the impact of social partners on (in)equalities in a variety of 21st-century political contexts, taking into account phenomena such as neoliberalisation, austerity, and the COVID-19 crisis. This volume adds a crucial dimension to studies on gender inequalities in the labour market, contributing to research on issues such as domestic work, the gender pay gap, and the persistent undervaluation of women’s labour and feminized reproductive labour, in particular care work. It also represents a significant contribution to the literature on gender equality policy. The book’s focus on social partners provides important insights that help to explain the persistence of gender inequalities and the difficulties of adopting and implementing policies to combat them. This volume should appeal to students and researchers of gender studies, politics, European politics, employment relations, and international relations, as well as to policymakers engaged in addressing gender inequalities in the labour market.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction (İmren Borsuk Eroğlu, Pınar Dinç, Pınar Sayan, Sinem Kavak). - Chapter 2. Civil Society and Latent Mobilization under Authoritarian Neoliberal Governance (Bilge Yabanci). - Chapter 3. Online and Offline Spaces Intertwined: Post-Occupy Intersectional Visual Activism in Turkey (Özge Özdüzen). - Chapter 4. Persistence in Resistance: Purge of Academics for Peace under Authoritarian Neoliberal Turkey (Zeynep Özen Barkot and Lülüfer Körükmez). - Chapter 5. Women’s Work and Life Strategies in a Gendered Agribusiness in Western Anatolia, Turkey: Achievements and Limitations from a Feminist Perspective (Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy). - Chapter 6. The Need to Look Beyond the Right to Property: An Assessment of Constitutional Court of Turkey Judgements on Urgent Expropriations for Hydropower Plants (Kutay Kutlu). - Chapter 7. Displacing Resistance in Kurdish regions: The Symbiosis of Neoliberal Urban Transformation and Authoritarian State (Diren Taş). - Chapter 8. Earthquake Risk-Driven Urban Transformation in Istanbul: A Relational Work Analysis of Changing Economic and Community Relations (Ladin Bayurgil). - Chapter 9. Education for the Marginalized as Resistance under Authoritarian Neoliberalism: The Case of People’s Houses Summer School (Ezgi Murat). - Chapter 10. Resistance or Survival? Rethinking Challenges to the Authoritarian Neoliberal Order in Turkey (İmren Borsuk Eroğlu, Pınar Dinç, Pınar Sayan, Sinem Kavak)

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the career aspirations, achievements and consequent social mobility of a group of British Pakistani women. It uses Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital to analyse how these women, living in a segregated Pakistani community located in a deprived northern town in the UK with poor employment opportunities, acquired the resources to pursue further and higher education, obtain qualifications and enter professional careers. The author discusses and analyses how cultural capital features in homes, schools and workplaces, as well as how the women navigate and modify intersecting gender, ethnic and class identities in order to create specific career trajectories. Illuminating the rich intersections of biography, history and society, the author captures important qualitative data which acts as a microcosm for contemporary discussions on social mobility, multiculturalism, Muslim communities, race, and gender in Britain. Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis textbook takes a gender inclusive and intersectional feminist approach to examining key topics related to gender, crime and justice. It provides an overview and critical discussion of contemporary issues and research in this area suitable for use in undergraduate and postgraduate degree modules. A key feature of the book is its use of films, television series and documentaries to illustrate the concepts and findings from criminological research on gender, crime and justice. After outlining the meaning of gender and the perspective of intersectional feminism, it has chapters focused on interpersonal and sexual violence, sex work and the night-time economy, street crime, crimes of the powerful, policing and the courts, prison and community penalties and a final chapter on extreme punishment and abolitionist futures. It speaks to students and academics in criminology, sociology and gender studies. Table of Contents​ 1. Introduction 2. Interpersonal Violence 3. Sexual Violence 4. Sex Work and the Night-time Economy 5. Street Crime, Gangs and Drugs 6. Crimes of the Powerful 7. Policing and the Courts 8. Prison and Community Penalties 9. Extreme Punishment and Abolitionist Futures

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Book Synopsis2022 Winner of the Palestine Book AwardsRooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance. Ashjan Ajour examines how these prisoners use their bodies in anti-colonial resistance; what determines this mode of radical struggle; the meanings they ascribe to their actions; and how they constitute their subjectivity while undergoing extreme bodily pain and starvation. These hunger strikes, which embody decolonisation and liberation politics, frame the post-Oslo period in the wake of the decline of the national struggle against settler-colonialism and the fragmentation of the Palestinian movement. Providing narrative and analytical insights into embodied resistance and tracing the formation of revolutionary subjectivity, the book sheds light on the participants’ views of the hunger strike, as they move beyond customary understandings of the political into the realm of the ‘spiritualisation’ of struggle. Drawing on Foucault’s conception of the technologies of the self, Fanon’s writings on anti-colonial violence, and Badiou’s militant philosophy, Ajour problematises these concepts from the vantage point of the Palestinian hunger strike. Table of Contents1: Introduction.- 2: Hunger Strike Resistance: A Brief History.- 3: Field Work and Reflection on Challenges: Feminist and Decolonial Approaches.- 4: Producing Knowledge and Understanding Subjectivity through Lived Experience.- 5: Theoretical Framework: Theories of Subjectivity and Subjectivation.- 6: Dispossession of Humanity: The Pre-hunger Strike Stage.- 7: Reclaiming Dispossessed Humanity: The Decision to Hunger Strike.- 8: The Embodiment of Humanity: Technologies of the Self and Resistance in the Hunger Strike.- 9: ‘Strength’, Conflict, and the Body in Pain.- 10: Self-Determination and the Struggle with Death.- 11: Strength, Continuity and Steadfastness (Sumud).- 12: The Meaning of Victory: Sovereignty Over the Body in the Hunger Strikers’ Philosophy of Freedom.- 13: Conceptualising a Limit-Experience: The Hunger Strike as a Near-Death.- 14: Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume presents new and original approaches to teaching the French foreign-language curriculum, reconceptualizing the French classroom through a more inclusive lens. The volume engages with a broad range of scholars to facilitate an understanding of the process of French (de)colonization as well as its reverberations into the postcolonial era, and a deeper engagement with the global interconnectedness of these processes. Chapters in Part I revist the concept of the "francophonie," decenter the field from “metropolitan” or “hexagonal” and white France and underline how current teaching materials reproduce epistemic and colonial violence. Part II adopts an intersectional approach to address topics of gender inclusivity, trans-affirming teaching, queer materials, and ableism. Finally, Part III presents new ways to transform the discipline by affirming our commitment to social justice and making sure that our classrooms are representative of our students’ enriching diversity. Trade Review“Diversity and Decolonization in French Studies serves as a hands-on guide for educators, providing tools and strategies to transform pedagogies. ... it remains an indispensable compendium for those looking to transform their teaching approaches in line with diversity principles.” (Eric Essono Tsimi, Language Policy, November 9, 2023)Table of ContentsIntroduction: Siham Bouamer & Loic BourdeauPart I: Dismantling the ‘Francophonie’: Language, Race, and Empire1. Multilingual Texts and Contexts: Inclusive Pedagogies in the French Foreign Language Classroom2. Unlearning Francophonie: Legacies of Colonialism in French Language Textbooks3. Making the Colonial Present Audible to our Students and Ourselves4. Racism, Colonialism, and the Limits of Diversity: Analyzing the Francophone “Other” in French Foreign Language Textbooks5. Blackness and Social Justice in the French ClassroomPart II: Intersectional French Studies6. Harmful Grammar: Fatphobia and Ableism in First-Year French7. Language Policy & Change in the Classroom: Teaching the Feminization of Professional Titles8. Teaching Trans: Examples from an Intermediate French Course9. Teaching French Feminism from an Intersectional PerspectivePart III: Beyond the Textbook: New Teaching Strategies10. De-canonizing Contemporary Culture Courses: Teaching Culture on Twitter11. Approaching Intersectionality and Renegotiating Power Dynamics Through Podcast Pedagogy12. Beyond the Book: Multimodality as Anti-Racist Pedagogy13. Decolonial and Feminist Course Design in the First-year French Curriculum14. Developing Critical Literacy in the High School French Language Classroom Through the Webcomic ‘Assignée garçon

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Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Part I The Label: Self Definition and Imposed Identities.- Beyond divorce: Unraveling the intersection of culture, religion, and agency in Minang Muslim women's lives.- Reading between the lines: Exploring the literary identities of selected Muslim women writers in Malaysia.- Feminism under the Islamic lens.- The imperfectly perfect rib; womenkind.- What's in a surname? The negotiation of identity among South African Muslim women after marriage.- Part II Presentation of the Self: Adjustment and the Digital Space.- Malay Muslim women digital being: Embracing changes or defying forces?.- Fight or flight response: The representation of a Muslim transgender woman's struggle in the Malaysian print media.- Names and identity: The changing norms of Muslim names.- Role of Social Media in Shaping Muslim Women's Religious Identities: The Case of a Muslim Nation.- The rift in belonging: Muslim female migrants in Kafir (Non-Muslim) societies.- Part III Agent of Change: Empowered and Resilient.- Resilience in Muslim Women Living with HIV: An Integrative Review.- Woman, Islamic, intellectual, activist and academic, in Brazil? A dialogue with Francirosy Campos Barbosa.- From Single Motherhood to Co-Parenthood: The Islamic Perspective on Amicable Divorce, Co-Parenting, and Post-Divorce Harmony.- Practising local wisdom of traditional medicine and healing among female pengobat (shaman) in Pulau Penyengat, Kepulauan Riau.- Part IV Conversion: Faith and Self Identity.- Between Tradition and Faith: Navigating Identity Transformations of Chinese Muslim Women in Malaysia and China.- Islam as Everyday Lived Religion: The Cases of Converted Japanese Muslim Women.- Filipino Women Converts to Islam: Their Identities and Life Choices.- Part V Basic Rights: Birth, Health and Employment.- Lived Experiences of Bangladeshi Muslim Female Migrant Workers in Malaysia.- The Impact of Arab Culture on the Practice of Violence Against Women in Libya.- Only Empowered Births Here! Malay-Muslim women's embodied experiences challenging discourses of the deviant Malay-Muslim Maternal Mother.- Muslim Women and Islamic perspective on Female Circumcision.- An autoethnographic analysis of clandestine breast cancer among Muslim women.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: The Risks of Silence.- Part I: A Manual for Extending and Situating the Case.- Chapter 2: Historical Overview. The Insertion of Female Social Scientists in Chile (1990-2023).- Chapter 3: Statistical Overview. Gender Inequalities in Chilean Social Sciences.- Chapter 4: Institutional Overview. Gender Equality Regulations, Policies, and Programs in Science and Higher Education in Chile (2000-2023).- Part II: A Manual for a Feminist Ethnography.- Chapter 5: What is Feminist Ethnography?.- Chapter 6: Situating Ourselves in the Problem.- Chapter 7: Negotiating the Interview.- Chapter 8: The Dialogic Application.- Part III: How to Destroy Educational Training: An Anti-manual.- Chapter 9: Accessing University.- Chapter 10: Undergraduate Training.- Chapter 11: Graduate Training.- Part IV: How to Destroy Careers: An Anti-manual.- Chapter 12: Labor Insertion.- Chapter 13: Professional Consolidation.- Chapter 14: Recurrent Violence.- Chapter 15: Epilogue.

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Book SynopsisTowards a Cultural Change: the Role of Academia.- Beyond Borders: Network Synergy in Gender Studies.- Academics Working from Home: Spatial Relations between Men and Women.- Mapping the Evolution of Italian Design through the Lens of Scientific Research: a Gender Perspective.- Invisible Designers: Addressing the Gender Gap in Design Professions.- Service Design is Woman. An Inquiry on the Massive Presence of Women in the Service Design Field.- Design and Sustainability: an Eco-feminist Perspective.- Boundary Objects: Reimagining Design for Longevity and Gender Equality.- Navigating Menopause through Design. Participatory Pathways to Innovation.- Urban Life, Emerging Voices, and the Negotiation of Everyday Space.- Systemic Proximity Approach to Empower Migrant Women. A Situated Case Study in Milan.- Fear in Public Space: Mapping the City as a Collective Practice.- Queering the City: Reclaiming Space between Spontaneous Actions and Design Practices.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Misogyny, Law, and Technology.- Chapter 2: The Internet of Activism and the First Laws.- Chapter 3: From the Body to Nudes: Sexuality, Gender and the Internet.- Chapter 4: Hatred and Women's Freedom of Expression.- Chapter 5: Writing, Reporting, Campaigning.- Chapter 6: AI Chips In, and The Paths Ahead.

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