ABSTRACT
Exploring scholarship, research, practice and activism on gender, feminist and queer studies, this edited collection examines, analyses and critiques the nature and causes of inequality, disadvantage and marginalisation faced by women, non-hegemonic and LGBTIQA+ identities who do not fit hegemonic notions of masculinity, femininity and heteronormativity.
The chapters in this book critically analyse and challenge visible and invisible power relations, privilege and prejudice by problematising the artificial organisation of people into hierarchies that preference hegemonic masculinities, white and heteronormative identities. In questioning often unchallenged and legitimised inequality and disadvantage, this book locates itself in the juxtaposition where the lived experiences of individuals, activism, community participation, research and scholarship collide with mainstream, local, national and globalised culture and politics.
Divided into four parts, this book provides a platform for interrogating how social change can occur in the current neoliberal political context of increasing conservatism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |5 pages
Power, privilege and inequality in a time of neoliberal conservatism
part I|55 pages
Metanarratives and discourse: shaping inequality
chapter 3|14 pages
A conservative church response to feminism
chapter 4|13 pages
The silencing of women's voices in contemporary conservative evangelical churches
part II|69 pages
Masculine hegemony and heteronormativity: constructing society
chapter 5|13 pages
“A boy's own tale”
chapter 8|14 pages
Gender, power and work
chapter 9|12 pages
Masculinity, male caregiving and LGB paramedics
part III|55 pages
Embodiment and representation: the body as a site of inequality and disadvantage
chapter 12|13 pages
Speaking up
part IV|72 pages
Evaluating change