Interdisciplinary Research in Gender
Heroic Girls as Figures of Resistance and Futurity in Popular Culture
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By Simon Bacon
August 29, 2025
Heroic Girls looks at the recent proliferation of young girl heroes in many recent mainstream films and books. These contemporary ‘final’ girls do not just survive but rather suggest that in doing so they have fundamentally changed something about themselves and or the world around them, seeing ...
The New Logic of Sexual Violence in Enlightenment France: Rationalizing Rape
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By Mary McAlpin
April 14, 2025
This book argues that rape as we know it was invented in the eighteenth century, examining texts as diverse as medical treatises, socio-political essays, and popular novels to demonstrate how cultural assumptions of gendered sexual desire erased rape by making a woman’s non-consent a logical ...
The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction: An Experience of the Impossible
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By Eleanor Drage
January 30, 2025
The Planetary Humanism of European Women’s Science Fiction argues that utopian science fiction written by European women has, since the seventeenth century, played an important role in exploring the racial and gender possibilities of the outer limits of the humanist imagination. This book focuses ...
Women in Scholarly Publishing: A Gender Perspective
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By Anna Kristina Hultgren, Pejman Habibie
December 18, 2024
Women in Scholarly Publishing explores the under-researched topic of gender and scholarly publishing. While often considered separately, the relationship between gender and scholarly publishing has been neglected. Bringing together experts across applied linguistics, this book brings to the fore ...
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment
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By Isabel Burdiel, Ester García Moscardó, Elena Serrano
October 23, 2024
Histories of Sensibilities: Visions of Gender, Race, and Emotions in the Global Enlightenment explores the historical and plural character of sensibility in the Global Enlightenment. From Tahiti to New Orleans to the Mariana Islands; to Lima, Geneva, London, Oviedo, or Venice, the book investigates...
Child-Friendly Perspectives on Gender and Sexual Diversity: Beyond Adultcentrism
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By Jose Antonio Langarita, Ana Cristina Santos, Marisela Montenegro, Mojca Urek
October 07, 2024
This book discusses LGBTI+ childhood from a critical, interdisciplinary perspective with the aim of contributing to a better understanding of the complex relationship between sexuality, gender and childhood. Placing adultcentrism at the centre of the analytical inquiry, the international range of ...
Untaming Girlhoods: Storytelling Female Adolescence
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By Cristina Santos
October 07, 2024
This is an interdisciplinary examination of depictions of girlhoods through a comparative study of foundational fairy tales revised and reimagined in popular narrative, film, and television adaptations. The success of franchises such as The Hunger Games, Twilight and Divergence have re-presented ...
Identities and Intimacies on Social Media: Transnational Perspectives
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By Tonny Krijnen, Paul Gary Nixon, Michelle D. Ravenscroft, Cosimo Marco Scarcelli
May 27, 2024
This edited collection illuminates the scope with which identities and intimacies interact on a wide range of social media platforms. A varied range of international scholars examine the contexts of very different social media spaces, with topics ranging from whitewashing and memes, parental ...
Sex Work on Campus
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By Terah J. Stewart
January 31, 2024
Sex Work On Campus examines the experiences of college students engaged in sex work and sparks dialogue about the ways educators might develop a deeper appreciation for—and praxis of—equity and justice on campus. Analyzing a study conducted with seven college student sex workers, the book focuses ...
The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia: Intersectional, Feminist, and Non-Binary Approaches in 21st-Century Speculative Literature and Culture
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By Katarzyna Ostalska, Tomasz Fisiak
September 25, 2023
This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical ...
Caffie Greene and Black Women Activists: Unsung Women of the Black Liberation Movement
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By Kofi-Charu Nat Turner
May 31, 2023
This book uses the life and work of Caffie Greene, one of the most influential grassroots community activists and public health educators in twentieth-century Los Angeles as a platform to examine the wider story of Black women activists in recent United States history. Caffie Greene worked to ...
Feminist Existentialism, Biopolitics, and Critical Phenomenology in a Time of Bad Health
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By Talia Welsh
May 31, 2023
This book explores the personal value of healthy behavior, arguing that our modern tendency to praise or blame individuals for their health is politically and economically motivated and has reinforced growing health disparities between the wealthy and poor under the guise of individual ...