For over two decades the Routledge Transformations book series has housed interdisciplinary feminist research on crucial, global issues. From Sara Ahmed examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community; to Stephanie Lawler’s stories of mothers and daughters; and collections from feminist thinkers tracing the shifts in feminism over time; Transformations has published over 25 distinct texts that contribute to the rich histories of feminist theorising.
Transformations seeks to reinvigorate its commitment to inclusion and feminist praxis by expanding and diversifying its pool of authors. We especially welcome proposals from transformative voices emerging from activism intersecting with academic research, voices from the global majority world, and voices that highlight how an intersectional focus contributes to the decolonisation of academy and popular feminism.
The Transformations series is an inclusive feminist publication. In light of the many ways currently that ‘feminism’ and ‘women,’ and/or ‘female’ amongst other things, have become weaponised in trans-exclusionary practices, we invite you to make your own trans inclusion explicit. This is because we recognise the many coded ways that discrimination is playing out, including through language (see for example ‘dog whistles’). We make this invitation to authors as a way to foster and celebrate inclusive feminisms; and in solidarity with people of all genders. We do not mean that your books need to relate to trans lives specifically, but suggest in introducing your topic, language and terms; you take the opportunity to demonstrate your inclusive stance for these reasons. We acknowledge that it is a sad indictment of the current circumstances for us to make this suggestion in the first instance but we are also aware of the very real harms of discrimination and, conversely, the value of affirmation.
Series Editors:
Dr Rachael Eastham, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
Dr Patricia Prieto-Blanco, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
Dr Laura Clancy, Lancaster University, UK; Email: [email protected]
For proposal submissions please contact the Series Editors or the Commissioning Editor Emily Briggs at [email protected].
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By Róisín Ryan-Flood, Isabel Crowhurst, Laurie James-Hawkins
February 20, 2023
This book explores ‘difficult conversations’ in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations. Focusing on intersectionality within feminist theory, the book critically addresses questions of power and difference as a central feminist concern. It presents ethical, ...
By Maria do Mar Pereira
June 04, 2019
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite ‘proper’ knowledge – it’s too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of ‘proper’ knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boundary-work affect women’s...
By Sam McBean
March 09, 2018
Despite feminism’s uneven movements, it has been predominantly understood through metaphors of generations or waves. Feminism's Queer Temporalities builds on critiques of the limitations of this linear model to explore alternative ways of imagining feminism’s timing. It finds in feminism’s literary...
By Claire Bracken
March 07, 2016
This book is about the future: Ireland’s future and feminism’s future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical change, in which Ireland’s economic, demographic, and social structures underwent significant ...
By Maureen McNeil
April 28, 2014
Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology challenges the assumption that science is simply what scientists do, say, or write: it shows the multiple and dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. This first major guide and review of the new field of ...
By Carolyn Pedwell
July 18, 2012
Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural ...
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By Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen
March 02, 2012
Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing ...
By Lindsey Moore
June 24, 2008
Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience? Lindsey Moore’s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual ...
By Rosie White
December 11, 2007
The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations...
By Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter
August 07, 2007
Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at: the history and structure of...
By Lorna Weir
September 06, 2006
Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the ...
By Alison Young
January 11, 2005
Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal ...