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Inside the World of Older Spouse Carers
This book explores the experiences of older people who provide care within marriage, highlighting the neglected role of older spouse carers and the...
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Gender and Culture Wars in Italy A Genealogy of Media Representations
This book examines contemporary culture wars around gender in Italy. Applying methods from European cultural studies, the authors reconstruct the...
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Gendered Migrations Navigating Challenges and Opportunities for Development
This book delves into the multifaceted interplay between gender, migration, and development. It challenges conventional theories by sharing the...
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Living Apart Together Transnationally (LATT) Couples Promoting Mental Health and Intimacy
This book provides deep insight into intimacy and distance in the complex, globalised world through the newly coined concept of couples living apart...
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Reconstructions of Gender and Information Technology Women Doing IT for Themselves
This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals...
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Reconfiguring Drinking Cultures, Gender, and Transgressive Selves
This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people’s experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun...
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Rethinking Identities Across Boundaries Genders/Genres/Genera
This collection of essays aims to widen the current critique on borders by examining their entanglements with constructions of identity and...
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Women's Empowerment and Public Policy in the Arab Gulf States Exploring Challenges and Opportunities
This open access book explores the various dimensions of women’s empowerment in public policy in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a...
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Women's Lives after Marriage in Rural Sri Lanka An Ethnographic Account of the ‘Beautiful Mistake'
Drawing on extensive research from a 14-month ethnographic study, this book delves into the intricate lives of married women in a rural Sinhala...
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Abortion and Catholicism in Britain Attitudes, Lived Religion and Complexity
This book details how British Catholic communities view abortion, highlighting the diversity of positions which often contrast with the official line...
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Cyborg Conception Cultural and Critical Responses to Solo Motherhood by Choice
This book considers the growing popularity of solo motherhood via gamete donation and how this type of “cyborg conception” is narrated in medicine,...
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Older South Asian Migrant Women’s Experiences of Ageing in the UK Intersectional Feminist Perspectives
Drawing on empirical research with older South Asian migrant women, this book puts forth new understandings on how older, settled, migrant women...
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Transnational Anti-Gender Politics Feminist Solidarity in Times of Global Attacks
In recent years, attacks on the rise of ‘gender ideology’ and ‘genderism’ as a political force, on gender studies as an academic field, and on...
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The Hidden Lives of Big Beautiful Women
This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW “bashes”—multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers. Using a range of...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Citizenship
This handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of key theoretical, analytical and normative approaches, topics and debates in...
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Overlap** Inequalities in the Welfare State Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework
The volume stresses the relevance of the intersectionality framework in welfare state analysis by examining overlap** inequalities within the...
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Family Dynamics, Gender and Social Inequality During COVID-19 Analysing Long-Term Effects
This book critically analyzes both the negative and positive impacts of the Coronavirus pandemic, focusing on changes in families, gender...
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Critical Autoethnography and Écriture Feminine Writing with Hélène Cixous
The project offers a collection of new interdisciplinary critical autoethnographic engagements with Hélène Cixous écriture feminine and work Three...
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Understanding Women’s Career Experiences in Moroccan Businesses A Multi-Level Analysis of Gender Relations
Existing literature on women career development focuses on western industrialized countries and gives little attention to regions where patriarchy is...
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Prostate Cancer, Sexual Health, and Ageing Masculinities Exploring the Achilles' Heel of Men
This book provides a rich, multidimensional analysis of how prostate cancer is lived, treated, and perceived by different actors through the stages...