Full Description
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. The volume brings together essays from renowned feminist and gender studies academics from the Global North and Global South, together with early stage, emerging scholars. The diversity of the geopolitical and disciplinary locations and the quality of their reflections provide rich, wide-ranging, and interdisciplinary discussions that are rarely found in similar collections, making this an essential resource for advanced students and academics in the field.
Contents
Introduction; 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; 2. Activism and Gender Studies in Argentina: From Brave Pioneers to Massive Participation; 3. Feminisms and Gender Studies in Portugal: History, Context, And Tensions; 4. The Institutionalisation of Gender Studies in Germany and the German speaking countries; 5. The Czech Feminist Scene: Times of Diffusions and Convergences; 6. The patient is still more alive than dead: The thorny path of the development of gender studies in Russia; 7. Teaching The "F" Word: The Dynamics ff Gender and Feminist Studies in The Heis in Albania; 8. Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University: Embracing Advances and Confronting Reversals; 9. Facing the State: Mapping the Transformations of the Iranian Women's Movements Over Four Decades; 10.GEST — A Transnational Gender Studies Program at the University of Iceland; Part II: Theoretical Debates, Tensions and Controversies in Feminist and Gender Studies; 11. More-than-Human Feminisms; 12. Rainbow Laces and Safe Spaces: Queer Theory and Higher Education; 13. Broken promises? Trans recognition and the gender order; 14. Re-imagining South African Women's and Gender Studies: In Dialogue with Decolonial, Feminist Struggle; 15. Doing Interdisciplinarity in Swedish Gender Studies: Challenges and Intellectual Excitement; 16. The Skin of the Feminist Decolonial: Gender Studies and the Arts; 17. Critical Studies on Men and Masculinities: Enduring Debates, Institutionalization Processes, Divergences and Challenges; 18. Antigenderist Attacks on Gender Studies - How to Respond?; Part III: Challenging Topics on Gender Research: Reflections, Dilemmas and Plurality of Views; 19. 'Girly Girls' and 'Raw girls': Young Femininities, Gender and Heterosexuality; 20. The Use of Dilemmas in Feminist Interactive Research Methods; 21. Precarity and Porn Production; 22. Being a Trojan Horse: Rethinking Solidarity in Student Politics of the Fallist Movement in South Africa; 23. Racializing Al-Ajnabiya: On Whiteness and Conversion in Jordan; 24. Changing Attitudes to Gender Equality?: A critical discourse analysis of AKP's gender-based violence prevention policies; 25. The Story of RINGS: A Case Study in Transnational Feminist Organizing
