ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF FEMINISMS AND GENDER STUDIES CONVERGENCES DIVERGENCES AND PLURALITIES (HB 2025)

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.

Anália Torres is Full Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, Head of the Sociology Department, Founder and Director of CIEG (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies).

Paula Campos Pinto is Associate Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of CIEG, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of the University of Lisbon.

Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.