Drawing on affect theory and the key themes of attachment, disruption and belonging, this book examines the ways in which our placed surroundings – whether urban design, border management or organisations – shape and form experiences of gender.
Bringing together key debates across the fields of sociology, geography and organisation studies, the book sets out new theoretical ground to examine and consolidate shared experiences of what it means to be in or out of place.
Contributors explore how our gendered selves encounter place, and critically examine the way in which experiences of gender shape meanings and attachments, as well as how place produces gendered modes of identity, inclusion and belonging. Emphasizing the intertwined dynamics of affect and being affected, the book examines the gendering of place and the placing of gender.
In previous chapters, I have shown how migrant performers encounter a series of border struggles in relation to the rural–urban divide and ethnicity. Migrant performers’ experiences of encountering these borders through work and migration are emotional and intimate, and often have an impact on their personhood. In this chapter, I seek to show how these border practices and struggles are also inherently gendered. This does not only mean how male performers and female performers experience these borders in different ways, although they certainly do, it also means
Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people’s identities and experiences in the UK.
From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when ‘not feeling trans enough’ to how identities can shift over time, it reveals important nuances of diverse gender identities while offering crucial insights into trans-related healthcare inequalities.
The findings of this ground-breaking research mark an important contribution to the wider fields of gender studies, LGBTQ scholarship and medical policy.
5 Gender One of the major critiques of sociology is that there is too great a focus on the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology, namely Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber. Although there are some prominent early female writers, like Harriet Martineau from Britain and Jane Adams from the US, early writings are predominately written by men, about men and for men. They wrote about the male experience and did not really take into account differences based on gender. If you go back and look at the earlier quotes by these theorists, they all use ‘he’, ‘him’, or
Recognising that sex is socially constructed is not to deny that material reality exists—simply that the meaning ascribed to biology occurs as a social process, and this has changed and continues to change over time. Vincent (2018 : 45) In this chapter I examine how people attribute sex and gender to others, which illuminates a lot about how we think about bodies and gender. Looking at some of the specific features that are often used in attribution, I question the importance or relevance of attributing sex and gender at all. Finally, I will apply this
Introduction We have positioned this edited book at the intersection of gender, place and affect to gain a deeper understanding of spatial and gender-based inequalities. In focusing on how place and gender are intimately constructed and experienced through the circulation and transmission of affect, chapters in this volume, not necessarily discussed in sequence, have explored the significance of affect in shaping our sense of place, identity and belonging and offered insight into the dynamic interplay between social location, the transpersonal processes of
[T]he task of distinguishing sex from gender becomes all the more difficult once we understand that gendered meanings frame the hypothesis and the reasoning of those biomedical inquiries that seek to establish ‘sex’ for us as it is prior to the cultural meanings that it acquires. Butler (1990 : 148–149) In this chapter, I will explore existing models for sex and gender in order to challenge those modes of understanding, particularly in how they influence medical understandings of identity and embodiment. Much of the conversation around validating trans
REPLY Policymaking for gender equality: a reply to Cramer, Cote Hampson, and McNulty Sara Feldman Major in Law, Politics, and Society and History, minor in Sociology and Politics, concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies, Drake University, Des Moines, USA ABSTRACT This paper is a response to articles by Renée Ann Cramer, Sarah Cote Hampson and Stephanie McNulty. These articles examine the role of stereotypes and culture in perpetuating traditional gender norms and beliefs about women, as well as the limits of laws and policies created with the intention of
