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Gender and Sociology

Series Editors: Sue Scott, Newcastle University, UK and Stevi Jackson, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, UK

Showcasing high quality research, this series provides a platform for distinctively sociological scholarship that advances the study of gender across the contemporary world. The series is international in scope and diverse in the issues covered, recognising that all aspects of social life are gendered or have some gender dimension.

We are interested in publishing work that is innovative, whether theoretically or empirically, from both established and early career researchers. We welcome proposals that address one or more of the following: debates and controversies in the field; aspects of social change and continuity; pressing social issues including injustices of gender, class and race, as well as work focusing on everyday dimensions of gender relations and gendered identities.

Download the proposal guidelines.

Contact regarding proposals
If you would like to submit a proposal, or to discuss ideas, then please contact Sue Scott (sue.scott@newcastle.ac.uk), Stevi Jackson (stevi.jackson@york.ac.uk) and Emily Ross (emily.ross@bristol.ac.uk).

International editorial advisory board

  • Susanne Y. P. Choi, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Meihua Chen, National Sun Yat Sen University, Taiwan
  • Sara Crawley, South Florida University, US
  • James Farrer, Sophia University, Japan
  • Nayoung Lee, Chung Ang University, South Korea
  • Nishi Mitra, TISS, Mumbai, India
  • Pei Yuxin, Sun Yat Sen University, China
  • Kopano Ratele, UNISA/MRC, South Africa
  • Rosemary Du Plessis, Canterbury University, New Zealand
  • Ann Phoenix, University College London, UK
  • Ayse Saktanber, Middle East Technical University Ankara, Turkey
  • Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, University of Turin, Italy
  • Momin Rahmin, Trent University, Canada
  • Elina Oinas, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Miriam Adelman, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil
  • Kristen Schilt, University of Chicago, US
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Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia

An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources

This is an important account of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s characterized by authoritarian and conservative trends. Drawing on interviews and rich ethnographic data, the book walks the reader through different feminist practices, revealing their historic and contemporary political echoes.

Bristol Uni Press

Work, Labour and Cleaning

The Social Contexts of Outsourcing Housework

Outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but little research has considered White British women. This book argues that outsourced domestic cleaning can either be done as mental and manual skilled work or as manual and ‘natural’ emotional/affective labour, depending on the work conditions.

Bristol Uni Press

Sharing Milk

Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice

Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this thought-provoking empirical analysis explores the emotional and material dimensions of the growing phenomenon of milk sharing in the Global North and its implications for contemporary understandings of infant feeding in the US, providing new insights into a much-debated topic.

Bristol Uni Press

Austerity, Women and the Role of the State

Lived Experiences of the Crisis

Delivering a timely account of the misconceptions of policies, discourses and representations around austerity in the UK, Dabrowski illustrates the complex ways through which austerity is experienced by women in their everyday lives.

Bristol Uni Press

North Korean Women and Defection

Human Rights Violations and Activism

Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how the harrowing experiences they endured and their utopian dream of a better future for fellow North Korean women have become an impetus for their activism.

Bristol Uni Press

University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis

An Institutional Ethnography

Drawing on an unprecedented institutional ethnography of UK universities, this book uses feminist and gender lenses to critique the power, culture and structure of Higher Education institutions. Challenging the myths of how academia is governed by audit processes, it provides an opportunity to re-read and re-write these institutions from within.

Bristol Uni Press

Chinese Men’s Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship

Crafting Elastic Masculinity

This book explores Chinese young men’s views of manhood and develops a new concept of ‘elastic masculinity’ which can be stretched and forged differently in response to personal relationships and local realities.

Bristol Uni Press

Embodying Irish Abortion Reform

Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism

This book explores the experiences of people affected by Ireland's constitutional abortion ban. Through in-depth research and interviews, the author uncovers how the 8th Amendment led women and gestating people live their bodies as "future aborting bodies," and how the need to ‘prepare’ for crisis pregnancies shaped everyday practices.

Bristol Uni Press