Kate Seear’s The Makings of a Modern Epidemic offers readers an in-depth critical examination of a modern illness from the perspective of the medical profession and the community of women who suffer its symptoms. She combines interview data alongside analysis of self-help and historical medical literature to tell the story of this contested illness and the dynamics of gender and discourse that ...

Whatever else it is, communication research is gendered work. This has been true since its inception as an academic field, and in its commercial, civic, and educational wings as well. The specific gendering of its work has varied across time, region, and institution. But across all contexts, gender and affiliated relations of difference have been constitutive forces in the (re)production of the...

With gender equality becoming a key feature of the global food security agenda, international organizations have produced rich body knowledge on gender. This paper argues that such expertise generates political effects through identity constructions, problem definitions and rationalities. We critically analyse 59 documents relating to in South written between 2000 2018. Our analysis reveals two...

The Safavid society’s approach to sexuality and gender has made it a reference for the “pre-modern” discourse, in which manifest—in contemporary terminology—queerness fluidity. While is important not romanticize image of Orient as queer heaven, possible consider society an site inquiry that offers valuable insights on pre-colonial sexuality. A less discussed topic literature gendered sexual sla...

Though sexism has been recognized as problematic in sport, its impact on female sport psychologists the United Kingdom not yet investigated. The purpose of this research was to explore and influence practice. Four semistructured focus groups were conducted, comprising 11 who worked Kingdom. Thematic analysis revealed four general themes: environment, privileging masculinity, acts sexism, femini...

This article explores how female university students’ abilities to present themselves as ‘authentic’ engineers are imbricated with discursive constructions of gender and equality. The empirical data comes from interviews video diaries collected three engineering students. analysis demonstrates the power Swedish equality discourse inform talk they negotiate their gendered identities become intel...

One of the most prominent features of digital music services is the provision of personalized music recommendations that come about through the profiling of users and audiences. Based on a range of “bot experiments,” this article investigates if, and how, gendered patterns in music recommendations are provided by the streaming service Spotify. While our experiments did not give any strong indic...