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New Times, New Spaces: Gendered Transformations of Governance, Economy, and Citizenship 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
Changing Landscapes of Heteronormativity: The Regulation and Normalization of Same-Sex Sexualities in Europe 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
This paper explores transformations in institutional norms about same-sex sexualities across four European countries: Bulgaria, Norway, Portugal and the UK. Focusing on the period from the late 1960s ...
Spaces of Power: Feminism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labor 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
This paper offers an intervention into current debates about the demise of feminist politics in neoliberal times. It draws on an empirical study of women working the spaces of power over the last 50 y...
Business Education and the (Re)production of Gendered Cultures of Work in the City of London 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
This paper examines the role of business education in producing and legitimating gendered cultures of work in the City of London. By combining research on the gendered nature of service work with Bour...
Gender, Entrepreneurial Subjectivity, and Pathologies of Personal Finance 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
This essay examines the constitution of gendered norms for personal financial attitudes and behaviors through the production and circulation of knowledge, especially statistical articulation of popula...
Securing the Home Front: The Pursuit of "Natural Living" Among Evangelical Christian Homemakers 7 Jun 2013 | 06:41 pm
The pursuit of natural living is a project undertaken by a growing number of mostly US white middle class women who embrace homemaking as a transformative practice to secure the home against the incre...
Intersectionality by Other Means? New Equality Policies in Portugal 6 Dec 2012 | 08:24 pm
A variety of typologies have been developed to conceptualize the diversity of theories and policies dealing with intersectionality. This article examines the relevant literature, especially the work o...
Political Approaches to Inequalities in Southern Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Italy, Portugal, and Spain 6 Dec 2012 | 08:24 pm
This article analyses political approaches to inequalities in three south European countries: Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Analysis is based on Crenshaw's (1991) concept of political intersectionality,...
Equality Architectures in Central and Eastern European Countries: A Framework for Analyzing Political Intersectionality in Europe 6 Dec 2012 | 08:24 pm
Equality institutions are major arenas for analyzing political intersectionality. This article looks at equality institutions in the context of European equality policy changes since 2000 and argues f...
Putting Intersectionality into Practice in Different Configurations of Equality Architecture: Belgium and the Netherlands 6 Dec 2012 | 08:24 pm
Crenshaw's powerful take against "thinking about subordination as disadvantage occurring along a single categorical axis" ( 1989 , University of Chicago Legal Forum) has been taken up by many scholars...