Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women's studies seen in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area by examining their multiple configurations in different countries across the world and taking stock of the tensions and controversies that have recently emerged against and within the field. The volume brings together essays from renowned feminist and gender studies academics from the Global North and Global South, together with early stage, emerging scholars. The diversity of the geopolitical and disciplinary locations and the quality of their reflections provide rich, wide-ranging, and interdisciplinary discussions that are rarely found in similar collections, making this an essential resource for advanced students and academics in the field. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Feminisms and gender studies: Convergences, divergences, and pluralities PART I: Feminisms and gender studies across the globe 1. A commentary written during “dark” times: The state of the art of gender, feminist, and women’s studies in Brazil 2. Activism and gender studies in Argentina: From brave pioneers to mass participation 3. Feminisms and gender studies in Portugal: History, context, and tensions 4. The institutionalisation of gender studies in Germany and German-speaking countries 5. The Czech feminist scene: Times of diffusions and convergences 6. The patient is still more alive than dead: The thorny path of the development of gender studies in Russia 7. Teaching the “F” word: The dynamics of gender and feminist studies in the HEIs in Albania 8. Women and gender studies at Makerere University: Embracing advances and confronting reversals 9. Facing the state: Mapping the transformations of the Iranian women’s movements over four decades 10. Conceptualising and practising crosscultural gender equality education: The GEST Programme at the University of Iceland PART II: Theoretical debates, tensions and controversies in feminist and gender studies 11. More-than-human feminisms 12. Rainbow laces and safe spaces: Queer theory, feminist scholarship and higher education 13. Broken promises? Trans recognition and the gender order 14. Re-imagining South African women’s and gender studies in dialogue with decolonial feminist struggle 15. Doing interdisciplinarity in Swedish gender studies: Challenges and intellectual excitement 16. The skin of the feminist decolonial scholar: Gender studies and the arts 17. Critical studies on men and masculinities: Enduring debates, institutionalisation processes, divergences, and challenges 18. Antigenderist attacks on gender studies: How to respond? PART III: Challenging topics on gender research: Reflections, dilemmas, and plurality of views 19. “Girly girls” and “raw girls”: Young femininities, gender, and heterosexuality 20. Putting theory into practice through feminist interactive research methods 21. The precarious worlds of pornography 22. Being a Trojan horse: Rethinking solidarity in student politics of the Fallist Movement in South Africa 23. Racialising Al-Ajnabiya: On Whiteness and conversion in Jordan 24. Examining changes in gender-based violence prevention policies: Critical discourse analysis in the Turkish political context 25. The story of rings: A case study in transnational feminist organising Index This handbook is a fundamental contribution to the recent history and contemporary context of feminist, gender, and womens studies in a global perspective. It tackles current developments in the area, by examining their multiple configurations in different countries across the world and taking stock of the tensions and controversies that have recently emerged against and within the field. The volume is unique in bringing together essays from renowned feminist and gender studies academics from the global north and global south, as well as early stage, emerging scholars. The diversity of the geopolitical and disciplinary locations and the quality of their reflections provides rich, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary discussions that are rarely found in similar collections, making this an essential resource for advanced students and academics in the field.