Gender Insights
About the Book Series
Gender Insights offers concise, accessible introductions to key concepts, debates, and theoretical approaches in gender and sexuality studies. Each volume provides a clear overview of foundational ideas while engaging critically with current research, contemporary cultural issues, and emerging scholarly directions. Written by leading experts, the books in this series are designed for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students across the humanities and social sciences, including gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and related fields. Grounded in rigorous scholarship yet oriented toward clarity and teaching, the series equips readers with the conceptual tools needed to understand and analyse the complex ways gender and sexuality shape social life, cultural production, and political structures today.
From Post-Intersectionality to Black Decolonial Feminism: Black Skin Affections
1st Edition
By Shirley Anne Tate
December 20, 2022
In this accessible and yet challenging work, Shirley Anne Tate engages with race and gender intersectionality, connecting through to affect theory, to develop a Black decolonial feminist analysis of global anti-Blackness. Through the focus on skin, Tate provides a groundwork of historical context ...
Objectification: On the Difference between Sex and Sexism
1st Edition
By Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer, Clarissa Smith
August 13, 2020
This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism. Objectification is an ...
Queer Theories: An Introduction: From Mario Mieli to the Antisocial Turn
1st Edition
By Lorenzo Bernini
August 05, 2020
This is a short and accessible introduction to the complex and evolving debates around queer theories, advocating for their critical role in academia and society. The book traces the roots of queer theories and argues that Foucault owed an important debt to other European authors including the...