Transformations
About the Book Series
For over two decades the Routledge Transformations book series has housed interdisciplinary feminist research on crucial, global issues. From Sara Ahmed examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community; to Stephanie Lawler’s stories of mothers and daughters; and collections from feminist thinkers tracing the shifts in feminism over time; Transformations has published over 25 distinct texts that contribute to the rich histories of feminist theorising.
Transformations seeks to reinvigorate its commitment to inclusion and feminist praxis by expanding and diversifying its pool of authors. We especially welcome proposals from transformative voices emerging from activism intersecting with academic research, voices from the global majority world, and voices that highlight how an intersectional focus contributes to the decolonisation of academy and popular feminism.
The Transformations series is an inclusive feminist publication. In light of the many ways currently that ‘feminism’ and ‘women,’ and/or ‘female’ amongst other things, have become weaponised in trans-exclusionary practices, we invite you to make your own trans inclusion explicit. This is because we recognise the many coded ways that discrimination is playing out, including through language (see for example ‘dog whistles’). We make this invitation to authors as a way to foster and celebrate inclusive feminisms; and in solidarity with people of all genders. We do not mean that your books need to relate to trans lives specifically, but suggest in introducing your topic, language and terms; you take the opportunity to demonstrate your inclusive stance for these reasons. We acknowledge that it is a sad indictment of the current circumstances for us to make this suggestion in the first instance but we are also aware of the very real harms of discrimination and, conversely, the value of affirmation.
Series Editors:
Dr Rachael Eastham, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
Dr Laura Clancy, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
For proposal submissions please contact the Series Editors or the Commissioning Editor Emily Briggs at [email protected].
Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics: On the Threshold of the Living Subject
1st Edition
By Lorna Weir
September 06, 2006
Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the ...
Judging the Image: Art, Value, Law
1st Edition
By Alison Young
January 11, 2005
Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal ...
Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology
1st Edition
By Kirsten Campbell
July 06, 2004
This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers to the important contemporary question of ...
Women and the Irish Diaspora
1st Edition
By Breda Gray
December 10, 2003
Women and the Irish Diaspora looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It identifies new ways of thinking about Irish modernity by looking specifically at women's lives and their experiences of migration and diaspora...
Class, Self, Culture
1st Edition
By Beverley Skeggs
December 09, 2003
Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to...
The Rhetorics of Feminism: Readings in Contemporary Cultural Theory and the Popular Press
1st Edition
By Lynne Pearce
November 13, 2003
Is it possible that changes in rhetorical practice could alter not just how thought is expressed, but also how it is made? Through a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis of contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the popular journalism of Naomi Wolf and ...
Haunted Nations: The Colonial Dimensions of Multiculturalisms
1st Edition
By Sneja Gunew
November 10, 2003
Postcolonialism has attracted a large amount of interest in cultural theory, but the adjacent area of multiculturalism has not been scrutinised to quite the same extent. In this innovative new book, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of ...
When Women Kill: Questions of Agency and Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Belinda Morrissey
May 16, 2003
Why are we so reluctant to believe that women can mean to kill? Based on case-studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they ...
Thinking Through the Skin
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara Ahmed, Jackie Stacey
October 12, 2001
This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeau engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on lived and imagined embodiment and argues for consideration of the skin as a site where bodies take form - ...
Advertising and Consumer Citizenship: Gender, Images and Rights
1st Edition
By Anne M. Cronin
January 04, 2001
Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created by advertisements in terms of:* Sex* Class* Race.It also explores the figure of the citizen and how this identity is produced by contemporary political discourses. Advertising and ...
Feminism & Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods
1st Edition
By Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield
November 30, 2000
Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very ...
Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah Ahmed, Jane Kilby, Celia Lury, Maureen McNeil, Maureen Mcneil, Beverley Skeggs
November 07, 2000
With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, Transformations traces both the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point, and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with wider social developments. A thorough ...