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Global Gender


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The Global Gender series provides original research from across the humanities and social sciences, casting light on a range of topics from international authors examining the diverse and shifting issues of gender and sexuality on the world stage. Utilising a range of approaches and interventions, these texts are a lively and accessible resource for both scholars and upper level students from a wide array of fields including Gender and Women’s Studies, Sociology, Politics, Communication, Cultural Studies and Literature.

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Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo

Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo

1st Edition

By Marta Fanasca
November 30, 2023

Female Masculinity and the Business of Emotions in Tokyo investigates the novel “emotion business” of dansō escorting as a phenomenon emerging between gender performativity and pop-culture, commodified relationships and the wish for self-expression. Fanasca documents the dreams, ambitions...

#UsToo How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities

#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities

1st Edition

By Keren R. McGinity
September 25, 2023

#UsToo: How Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Women Changed Our Communities examines the relationship between sexual harassment, gender, and multiple religions, highlighting the voices of women of different faiths who found their voices and used them for the betterment of their communities. Through ...

Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces Staking Their Claim

Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim

1st Edition

By Yoko Kanemasu
June 26, 2023

This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched...

#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China Gendered Violence and Scripts of Power

#MeToo and Cyber Activism in China: Gendered Violence and Scripts of Power

1st Edition

By Li Ma
May 31, 2023

This book focuses on the #MeToo movement in China, critically examining how three competing ideologies have worked in co-opting #MeToo activism: China’s official communism, Western neoliberalism, and an emerging Chinese cyber feminism. In 2018, China’s #MeToo cyber activism initially maintained ...

Colombian Diasporic Identities Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art

Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art

1st Edition

By Annie Mendoza
May 31, 2023

This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions. New consideration ...

Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway Same but Different?

Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway: Same but Different?

1st Edition

Edited By Masako Ishii-Kuntz, Guro Korsnes Kristensen, Priscilla Ringrose
May 31, 2023

This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens. What can we learn from a comparison between two countries that stand in significant contrast to each other with respect to ...

Feminist Organizing Across the Generations

Feminist Organizing Across the Generations

1st Edition

By Karen Bojar
May 31, 2023

Feminist Organizing Across the Generations spans almost 60 years of feminist history and traces the evolution of feminist activism from the 1960s until the present. Using the Philadelphia chapter of the National Women's Organization as a starting point, Karen Bojar explores how feminist organizing...

Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center Carla's Story

Letters from Inside a U.S. Detention Center: Carla's Story

1st Edition

By Jane Juffer, Carla
April 19, 2023

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, ‘Carla’ was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center. Her letters provide a powerful and unique account of a queer woman’s experience inside America’s asylum system. Letters from Inside a U.S. ...

Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis Girls of Tomorrow

Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow

1st Edition

By Anna Borgos
January 09, 2023

This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant "first generation" Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis. Budapest was one of the main centres of ...

The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future

The Japanese LGBTQ+ Community in the World: The COVID-19 Pandemic, Challenges, and the Prospects for the Future

1st Edition

By Masami Tamagawa
December 30, 2022

This study of the Japanese LGBTQ+ community sheds light on the intersectionality of lived experiences, including gender, sexuality, family, (mental) health, race and ethnicity, migration, and nationality, offering a picture of a community whose experience is deeply embedded in the dynamic society ...

Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain Chasing the Rainbow

Gender, Sexuality and National Identity in the Lives of British Lifestyle Migrants in Spain: Chasing the Rainbow

1st Edition

By Laura Dixon
September 26, 2022

This book takes an intimate look at the lives of British migrants in Sitges, an affluent coastal tourist town in Northern Spain and investigates ideas of gender, sexuality, and national identity as they are brought to life through the voices of British lifestyle migrants. Situating Sitges as a ...

Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture

Gender and Australian Celebrity Culture

1st Edition

Edited By Anthea Taylor, Joanna McIntyre
August 01, 2022

This intellectually vibrant volume is the first collection to deal with Australian celebrity in ways that account for both cultural and gendered specificities, demonstrating how gendered ways of imagining Australia are reinforced and contested in celebrity representations and self-presentations. ...

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