Anália Torres This issue of Discover Society, curated by Anália Torres and Clara Oliveira, gathers 13 papers that came out of [...]
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VIEWPOINT: Rights, Policies and Politics for Gender Justice in an Unjust World: Researching and Resisting
Paula Campos Pinto In current times, the, often astonished, world is witnessing the rise of political regimes shaped by neoliberalism, neo-conservatism, [...]
Read moreON THE FRONTLINE: Developing Bystanders’ Responses to Sexual Harassment among young people
Maria José Magalhães, Camila Iglesias, Ana Margarida Teixeira, Ana Beires, Ana Guerreiro, Cátia Pontedeira, Vilma Teles Martel and Raquel Rodrigues Violence [...]
Read morePOLICY AND POLITICS: ‘Scientific’ policymaking in a ‘complex’ world – what can we learn from the Finnish experience?
Hanna Ylöstalo This section of Discover Society is provided in collaboration with the journal, Policy and Politics. It is curated by Sarah [...]
Read moreEscort girls and clients: individuals and lives beyond representations
Bernardo Coelho When researching prostitution – sex workers (escort-girls) and their male clients – we face an object with a particular [...]
Read moreResearching gender inequality denial in educational settings: getting beyond stereotypes and the ‘gender is just ideology’ claim
Rosemary Deem Because the study of gender inequality in educational settings is so well established and has not only produced a [...]
Read moreGender is dead. Long live gender! The dilemmas of Trans recognition
Sofia Aboim Stemming from the ‘transgender moment’ of the early 1990s (Stryker 2019), gender has been under the spotlight as more [...]
Read moreFamily, work, parenthood and gender inequalities
Isabel Dias Gender is a fundamental concept for analyzing women’s role within family relationships and the social division of work (Dias, [...]
Read more“Gender ideology” as mobilization: social movement or protest?
Priscila Freire and Virgínia Ferreira In the last twenty years, the religious and political attack carried out by conservative Christian groups [...]
Read moreContributions from art activism for feminist agency combatting gender violence
Maria José Magalhães Since 1977, with the Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz’s performance “In Mourning and In Rage”, art activism has been [...]
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