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This book explores 'difficult conversations' in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations.
List of contents
Introduction
SECTION 1: DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE
SECTION 1: DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE1. The gender wars and difficult conversations about trans: An interview with Meg-John Barker
2. Facing uneasiness in feminist research: the case of female genital cutting
3. Feminism and race in academia: An interview with Sandya Hewamanne
4. But you're not defending sugar, are you?
SECTION 2: GENDER, POWER AND INTIMACY
5. Difficult research effects/affects: an intersectional-discursive-material-affective look at racialised sexualisation in public advertising
6. Calling out and piling on: deliberation and difficult conversations in feminist digital social space
7. Interviewing with intimacy: negotiating vulnerability and trust in difficult conversations
8. Coexisting with uncomfortable reflexivity: feminist fieldwork abroad during the pandemic
SECTION 3: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND EMBODIMENT
9. Sexing in the cities: sex, desire and sexual health of black township women who love women
10. Researching sex: gender, taboos and revealing the intimate
11. Building a community of trust: participatory applied theatre workshop techniques for difficult conversations on consent
12. Women's experiences of marital rape in Turkey: ethics, voice and difficult conversations
SECTION 4: BOUNDED KNOWLEDGE
13. Lost for words: difficult conversations about ethics, reflexivity and research governance
14. Gender studies, academic purity and political relevance
15. The feminist classroom in a neoliberal university
16. Focus groups and the 'insider researcher'; difficult conversations and intersectional complexities
17. Queering the academy
About the author
Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, kinship, digital intimacies and feminist epistemology. She is the author of
Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Sexuality and Citizenship (2009), and co-editor of
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process (2010),
Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World (2018), and
Queering Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives (2022). She is also co-editor of the journal
Sexualities: Studies in Culture and Society.
Isabel Crowhurst is Reader in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her work explores the construction of social norms around sexual practices and intimate lives. Her recent books include
The Tenacity of Couple Norm (with Sasha Roseneil, Tone Hellesund, Ana Cristina Santos and Mariya Stoilova), and
Third Sector Organizations in Sex Work and Prostitution (with Susan Dewey and Chimaraoke Izugbara).
Laurie James-Hawkins is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC) at the University of Essex. She is a sociologist of health and gender, and her research interests include reproductive health, contraception, abortion, gender and sexuality among emerging adults. She has published widely on these topics. In recent years Dr. James-Hawkins has been studying sexual consent among university student populations.
Summary
This book explores ‘difficult conversations’ in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations.
