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This volume explores the processes of investigating cultures of
equality and sets out an epistemological framework for generating a
more just and response-able knowledge. It offers a tapestry of
inventive, self-reflexive, collective, and situated praxis of
conducting politically informed research. Such efforts contest-or
occasionally reinvent-the social and cultural worlds that we
currently inhabit, in an attempt at building cultures of equality
across different locations and contexts. The book engages with the
idea of producing knowledge with others, indicating the political
potential of scientific practice and offering a view of knowledge
as a collective affective-intellectual effort. It provides an
inventory of creative engagements with concepts and methodologies
enabling production of socially responsible knowledges. By
critically exploring new possibilities of scientific inquiry, the
contributors reflect on how knowledge can be generated to serve the
political agenda of movements for equality and social justice. The
chapters also elucidate different conceptualisations of and
approaches to who the researcher is and how they interact with
cultural and social worlds.
This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about
equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from
the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project. In
revisiting and reframing conventional questions about in/equality
it considers the processes through which in/equalities have come to
be regarded as issues of public concern, the various ways that
equalities have been historically defined, and how those ideas and
imaginings of equalities are produced, embodied, objectified,
recognized and contested in and through a variety of cultural
practices and sites. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary group of contributors, the book will be of
interest to scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and women's and gender
studies.
This book examines the enactment of gendered in/equalities across
diverse Cultural forms, turning to the insights produced through
the specific modes of onto-epistemological enquiry of embodied
performance. It builds on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures
of Equality in Europe) project and offers both theoretical and
methodological analyses of an array of activities and artworks. The
performative manifestations discussed include theatre,
installations, social movements, mega-events, documentaries, and
literary texts from multiple geopolitical locales. Engaging with
the key concepts of re-enactment and relationality, the
contributions explore the ways in which in/equalities are
relationally re-produced in and through individual and collective
bodies. This multi- and trans-disciplinary collection of essays
creates fruitful dialogues within and beyond Performance Studies,
sitting at the crossroads of ethnography, event studies, social
movements, visual studies, critical discourse analysis, and
contemporary approaches to textualities emerging from post-colonial
and feminist studies.
Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational
feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of
the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to
understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the
margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities. Bringing
together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from
across diverse global contexts, this collection explores the lived
experiences of what Gloria Anzaldua might have called 'threshold
people', people who live among and in-between different worlds.
While it is often challenging, difficult, and even dangerous,
inhabiting marginal spaces, living at the borders of
socio-cultural, religious, sexual, ethnic, or gendered norms can
create possibilities for developing unique ways of seeing and
understanding the worlds within which we live. This collection
casts a spotlight on the margins, those 'queer spaces' in literary,
cinematic, and cultural borderlands; postcolonial and transnational
feminist perspectives on movement and migration; and critical
analyses of liminal lives within and between socio-cultural
borders. Each chapter within this unique book brings a critical
insight into diverse global human experiences in the 21st Century.
Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational
feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of
the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to
understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the
margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities. Bringing
together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from
across diverse global contexts, this collection explores the lived
experiences of what Gloria Anzaldua might have called 'threshold
people', people who live among and in-between different worlds.
While it is often challenging, difficult, and even dangerous,
inhabiting marginal spaces, living at the borders of
socio-cultural, religious, sexual, ethnic, or gendered norms can
create possibilities for developing unique ways of seeing and
understanding the worlds within which we live. This collection
casts a spotlight on the margins, those 'queer spaces' in literary,
cinematic, and cultural borderlands; postcolonial and transnational
feminist perspectives on movement and migration; and critical
analyses of liminal lives within and between socio-cultural
borders. Each chapter within this unique book brings a critical
insight into diverse global human experiences in the 21st Century.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is
an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of
femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through
the life course. Led by women's life history accounts of growing up
and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how
experiences of becoming and being a woman - in family life,
education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence - both
enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to
women's mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and
have profound impacts on the material conditions of women's lives
throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality
that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy. Based on
feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five
hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between
gender theory and the lived realities of women's daily lives and
will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social
sciences.
This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about
equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from
the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project. In
revisiting and reframing conventional questions about in/equality
it considers the processes through which in/equalities have come to
be regarded as issues of public concern, the various ways that
equalities have been historically defined, and how those ideas and
imaginings of equalities are produced, embodied, objectified,
recognized and contested in and through a variety of cultural
practices and sites. Bringing together an international and
interdisciplinary group of contributors, the book will be of
interest to scholars from across the humanities and social
sciences, including anthropology, sociology, and women's and gender
studies.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence Gendering Women is
an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of
femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through
the life course. Led by women's life history accounts of growing up
and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how
experiences of becoming and being a woman - in family life,
education, employment, motherhood and situations of violence - both
enable and erode self confidence and esteem. The challenges to
women's mental wellbeing cut across age and class differences and
have profound impacts on the material conditions of women's lives
throughout the life course. This is in turn a driver of inequality
that is often under-recognised in mainstream policy. Based on
feminist and ethnographically informed research with over five
hundred women Gendering women provides a critical link between
gender theory and the lived realities of women's daily lives and
will appeal to students and academics in sociology and social
sciences.
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