Routledge International Handbook of Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities

This handbook is a fundamental contribution to the recent history and contemporary context of feminist, gender, and women’s studies in a global perspective.

Anália Torres is Full Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, Head of the Sociology Department, founder and director of CIEG (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies).

Paula Campos Pinto is Associate Professor of Sociology at ISCSP, the School of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of CIEG, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies of University of Lisbon.

Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.

Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Finland; Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK.

Annette von Aleman is Professor of Sociology with a focus on Work, Gender and Social Inequality in the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.