The Gender and Sexuality Collection is a valuable resource for university librarians, researchers, and teaching staff. This collection delves into themes such as domesticity, education, work, sexuality, representation, religion, mental health, activism and motherhood. By surveying gender identity and sexuality from diverse perspectives, it raises critical questions about gender roles, feminist theory and heteronormativity. Covering a broad historical range from the medieval period to the present day, this collection is indispensable for those engaged in gender and sexuality studies.
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| Gender in History |
| Rethinking Art’s Histories |
| Studies in Imperialism |
| Theory for a Global Age |
| Women, Theatre and Performance |
| Collection year | Titles |
| 2025 titles | 7 |
| 2023/4 titles | 12 |
| 2004-2022 titles | 89 |
| Total collection | 128 |
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| Heteronormativity |
| Representation |
| Religion |
| Global South |
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| Motherhood |
| Gender roles |
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| History |
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| Gender studies, gender groups |
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The conclusion to the book reiterates the core contributions outlined in the introduction but also identifies additional emergent themes as well as drawing some lessons learned. It assesses the value of the ‘translocational gendered urban violence framework’ and the ‘translocational feminist tracing methodological framework’ in enhancing understanding and reframing gendered urban violence in other contexts and across literal and figurative borders and boundaries. The chapter shows how women survivors’ experiences are at the core of the book along with the complex, innovative and inspiring ways that they deal with and resist violence, all with a view to engendering wider empathetic transformations to address it. It argues for the importance of creative encounters in enhancing understanding of gendered urban violence as well as raising awareness and engendering change. The conclusion also reflects on similarities and differences in working with Brazilian women in Maré and London together with how their experiences echo those of other women living in marginalised urban territories and migrating from and to other countries. Finally, it assesses the wider implications of the research in terms of transnational knowledge production, mutual learning for the organisational partners and the policy effects.
The Gazette de Lausanne reported in May 1856 that 'Mme Pereire has deigned to visit the curiosities with her sons', going on to note that Herminie was staying at the Hôtel de Fribourg where everything about her was reported to an avid public: when she had breakfast, where she had lunch and dinner, the places she visited. It was as if she was the Empress Eugénie visiting the provinces, the report concluded. In their representation of the family name, women of the Pereire family expected to be treated, and were treated, as celebrities. Presenting themselves accordingly was a continuing and necessary task. Herminie and Fanny Pereire were also individual consumers, and their conspicuous consumption added to the mystique of these women and to their families. In summary, women of the grande bourgeoisie were expected to present themselves fashionably and were given credit for doing so.
This chapter analyses the sexual politics of the early interregnum period. The republican Commonwealth established early in 1649 faced down a host of radical and royalist critics who criticised its pretensions to moral reformation through a familiar lexicon of anti-puritan sexual slander. In the process, some contemporaries – most notably the antinomian Ranters, but also some innovating royalists – articulated new approaches to human sexuality entirely, only to be denounced as immoral libertines in return. This chapter also highlights the ways in which the Commonwealth continued to utilise patriarchal and familial metaphors for rule despite attempting to distance itself from the legacy of popish Stuart tyranny through an ambitious legislative reform program. The analysis concludes with Charles II’s defeated royalists, who responded to renewed republican efforts at censorship with a radical mode of lurid anti-puritan satire that prefigured the promiscuous politics of the Restoration court.
This chapter charts two divergent trends in interregnum political culture: on the one hand, a royalist turn toward drink, promiscuity and worldliness; on the other, a renewed attention to moral reform on behalf of the Cromwellian Protectorate. Both programs, it argues, were rooted in sexual politics. In print, royalist publicists concocted a medley of eroticised newssheets, prose romances and verse miscellanies in which the celebration of bodily excess was weaponised to challenge puritan hyper-moralism; in manuscript, meanwhile, loyalists scribblers circulated a vicious canon of anti-puritan libels in quiet resistance to the Cromwellian regime. In turn, Cromwell and his allies doubled down on their moralising self-representation by refiguring themselves as the defenders of England’s virgin liberty in the face of Stuart sexual tyranny. The chapter concludes with a survey of the sexual politics that surrounded the Quaker movement, which confronted anti-sectarian sexual slander with a candour that illustrated how far English sexual politics had come since the early 1640s. In the process, the Quaker debates of the later 1650s also captured just how central the post-Reformation context remained to English political culture on the eve of the Restoration.
Chapter 6 considers the nature of gendered infrastructural violence faced by women in London and Maré in terms of the barriers they face in accessing support when they experience gender-based violence, and as a form of structural violence. It also evaluates how women face difficulties in accessing services more generally. In London, the chapter outlines the challenges faced by migrant Brazilian women when trying to report violence to formal services, especially when they have insecure immigration status. It details their experiences of fear and stigma, coupled with English language difficulties and underpinned by institutional racism. It reflects on how women especially fear deportation if they report and how perpetrators use insecure status as a tool of manipulation. In Maré, the chapter discusses extremely low levels of formal reporting violence, despite the Maria da Penha Law that is supposed to ensure access to specialist police stations. It discusses how some have no choice but to turn to the armed gangs to mete out ‘justice’. Barriers to support for women are thus analysed as a form of gendered infrastructural violence that can also lead to the intensification of further forms of direct gender-based violence. Again, several aspects of the creative encounters highlight how women experience exclusion and re-traumatisation in an embodied and visceral way.
This book aims to understand the ‘painful truths’ of gendered violence in the city and how women challenge it through resistance and creative practices. Drawing on an extensive body of collaborative research with women in the favelas of Maré in Rio de Janeiro and among Brazilian migrants in London, it conceives gendered urban violence as multidimensional, multiscalar and deeply embedded within structural and intersectional power relations. The book develops a ‘translocational gendered urban violence framework’ that foregrounds transnational connections across symbolic and literal borders. The framework emphasises the need to move beyond individual interpretations of gendered violence in cities towards one that acknowledges structural, symbolic and infrastructural violence. It also incorporates the need for an embodied approach that can be captured through engagement with the arts and arts-based methods as well as resistance practices. The book outlines a ‘translocational feminist tracing methodological framework’ that captures transnational dialogue and knowledge production, drawing on a feminist epistemological approach based on collaboration, co-design and engagement beyond the academy. In centring the painful truths of gendered urban violence as revealed by women, the book contributes to a range of debates that include acknowledging such violence as direct and indirect ranging from the body to the global, as well as the need to recognise urban violence as deeply gendered in intersectional ways. Finally, it suggests that creative engagements and arts-based approaches are crucial for understanding and resisting gendered urban violence and in generating empathetic transformation.
The Rodrigues family were talented, cultivated, and acculturated Jews. The remarkable milieu they created was the world into which Herminie and her daughter Fanny were born. This chapter addresses the biographies of Herminie and Fanny up until the early years of the Second Empire: the circumstances of their lives, the influences upon them, and the relationship between them - mother and daughter. This provides the foundation for a broader analysis of their roles as Jewish grandes bourgeoises in nineteenth-century France. In 1805, the year Herminie Rodrigues was born, there were close to two thousand Jews in a total Parisian population of about six hundred thousand, a dramatic increase from a mere five hundred living there at the time of the French Revolution. The principal expectation for Jewish girls of Herminie's age and social class, that is, marriage and family, was little different from that of young Gentile women.
Herminie and Fanny Pereire were sisters-in-law, married to the eminent Jewish bankers and Saint-Simonian socialists Emile and Isaac. They were also mother and daughter. This book, a companion to the author's acclaimed Emile and Isaac Pereire, sheds new light on elite Jewish families in nineteenth-century France. Drawing on the family archives, it traces the Pereires across a century of major social and political change, from the Napoleonic period to the cusp of the First World War, revealing the active role they played as bourgeois women both within and outside the family. It offers insights into Jewish assimilation, embourgeoisement and gender relations, through the lens of one of the most fascinating families of the century. The stories of Herminie and Fanny will also shed light on Jewish women as they confronted and negotiated the demands of civil society and family life, on the bourgeois elite and religious conflicts, from post-revolutionary France to the Dreyfus Affair. In concentrating on women of a Sephardic family, as both women were, originally the Rodrigues family, the book augments and illuminates the many significant volumes of historiography on the Jewish community and family in nineteenth-century France. Certainly, by the time of the French Revolution and as a result of their experiences over the centuries, the Bordeaux Sephardim had worked diligently to forge a place that was integral to the mercantile community.
Care has traditionally been considered as belonging to the nation-state and the family, where the EU as an institution has not interfered. However, since 2017, old age care has been a right according to §18 of the European Pillar of Social Rights, and in 2022, the EU launched an ambitious new care strategy covering older, fragile persons. This chapter investigates how the political problem of old age and care for fragile, older people is understood in the EU and the needs identified through a feminist discursive policy analysis. Our analysis focuses on problematisation, care needs, intersectionality, and silencing. It identifies how the greying of the population and old age care have been politicised and have emerged as a new policy field within the EU. It poses the following research question: In what way has ageing and care for older, fragile people been framed as a political problem in EU policy papers? The material from 2013–2022 is read and analysed through a systematic discourse analysis. The empirical material consists of policy papers and reports by the European Commission, Council of the European Union, and European Parliament. We identify a polyphonic discourse that includes feminist elements and gender stereotypes, as well as silencing. It applies neoliberal rationales with paternalistic elements.
This chapter lays out the book’s central arguments about the emergence of sex-talk into print during the English Revolution and provides important context for the narrative chapters that follow. It defines key terms, including the crucial analytical category of ‘sexual politics’; surveys the political, religious and cultural lenses through which early moderns approached gender, sexuality and the body; and explains how the study fits into the current historiographies of the English civil wars, the Restoration and the history of Western sexuality. The chapter concludes with a brief survey of English sexual politics as they developed during the Tudor and early Stuart periods.