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Stacey Copeland's Lavender Sounds explores lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork. Through deeply personal and archival explorations, Stacey Copeland traces the emergence of queer feminist soundwork-a unique blend of community-led storytelling, political resistance, and creative expression rooted in feminist and LGBTQ+ activism. At the heart of the book lies a powerful idea: sound is not just heard but felt, connecting generations through shared voices and struggles. In conversation with award-winning and cutting-edge queer and feminist podcast producers from across Canada and the U.S., Lavender Sounds invites us to turn a feminist-embodied ear to the past to uncover the ways gender, race, and sexual orientations are embedded in our everyday media listening practices. From pioneering Canadian radio shows like Vancouver's The Lesbian Show and Montreal's Dykes on Mykes to today's queer chumcasts and audio documentary, Lavender Sounds is a journey through auditory landscapes where joy, protest, intimacy, and identity intersect. This book opens a vibrant conversation about how radio and podcasting are vital tools for marginalized communities to connect, create, and claim space in the media world.

This book is a comparative study of the rap scenes in Greece and America, and provides one of the first English-language studies of Greek hip hop culture. Focusing mainly on the analysis of lyrics, the book addresses issues of gender, class and race. Putting these lyrics in the broader context of white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, the book situates Greek and American hip hop scenes in the context of phenomena such as the prison-industrial complex, police violence, and Black Lives Matter. The book also provides a history of hip hop in Greece.

This volume honors the work of Dan Healey in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REES), reflecting the full range of his research interests, from Soviet and Russian history of sexuality to the studies of medicine and the Gulag. The volume includes contributions from Healey's former students and colleagues, who together represent several generations, diverse genders and sexualities, multiple national traditions, and a variety of academic disciplines. Its fourteen essays pay special attention to his influence in crossing, breaching, and even breaking the disciplinary, geopolitical, and generational boundaries that have defined REES since the Cold War.

Contributions to the volume demonstrate how Healey's influence has not simply broadened the scope of REES overall, but just as importantly aided in current efforts to decolonize the field. As a result, the volume offers a provocative survey of contemporary research into the questions of power and sexuality, medical expertise, and archival methods. As such, it will appeal to both students and researchers interested in these topics.

Writing groups often fly under the radar in academia, but they can make a big difference. Faculty are under constant pressure to publish while juggling teaching, research, and service. Add packed schedules and limited time, and writing can easily get sidelined-especially for women balancing work and family. Breaking Boundaries: How Writing Groups Fuel Women's Academic Success explores how writing groups offer support, structure, and community to help navigate these challenges.

Whether you're a grad student trying to finish a dissertation, a stuck faculty member, or someone newly tenured wondering what's next-you're in the right place. This book shares honest stories, insights, and encouragement from women who have found strength in writing together. Each chapter highlights real experiences with writing groups-what helped, what didn't, and how these groups shaped the authors' scholarly identities. They discuss topics such as overcoming imposter syndrome, access to writing resources, navigating the stress of tenure, making academic contributions outside traditional paths, and creating sustainable writing habits. The contributors come from diverse disciplines and deliver practical advice for making writing fit into a hectic academic life. Their message is clear: when scholars support each other in writing, they not only grow their own careers, but also become mentors, leaders, and role models in the academic world.

This volume offers a bold re-examination of the representation of women in the work of Miguel de Cervantes by highlighting the role of perversity. Bringing together historicist, psychoanalytic, feminist, and queer perspectives, the essays analyze how Cervantes' narratives construct scenes of sexual violence, objectification, and female suffering while perversely inviting the reader's complicity in their consumption. Through readings of Don Quijote, the Novelas ejemplares, and other works, contributors challenge the long-standing view of Cervantes as a proto-feminist author. Instead, they reveal how his fiction often transforms women's vulnerability into narrative spectacle, exposing the troubling dynamics of power, gender, and pleasure embedded in the Cervantine aesthetic.

The story of generations of Ojibwe women who built a thriving Indigenous home in the urban heart of Minneapolis

Minneapolis became home to White Earth Ojibwe people not through a centralized movement but through generations of determined, behind-the-scenes work by Ojibwe women. These women were organizing not in the streets, but in sewing clubs, churches, classrooms, and kitchens to bring people together and form interconnected communities. Rooted in care, tradition, and persistence, their labor laid the foundation for a thriving urban Indigenous population that continues to shape the city today.

An Ojibwe Home in the City tells the histories of Louise and Emily Peake, Winnie Jourdain, Ignatia Broker, and other Ojibwe women who endeavored to make space for Native families in South Minneapolis. From the 1930s through the 1970s, these women built institutions, secured services, and fought for culturally grounded education - all while working inside systems never intended for them. Their efforts led to the creation of vital community hubs such as the Division of Indian Work and the Minneapolis American Indian Center and helped ensure that future generations would stay connected to their culture, even in an urban setting.

Far broader than a local history, this book challenges what we think we know about Native activism in the twentieth century, shifting the focus from protest to perseverance and steady commitment. Intimate, compelling, and deeply grounded in community, An Ojibwe Home in the City is both a tribute and a revelation - an essential and personal account of how Indigenous women made a place for their people in a changing world.

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Syphilis had existed in Ottoman society since the sixteenth century, but it became an alarming public health problem in the nineteenth century. As the epidemic raged with population movements across provincial and imperial borders, Ottoman authorities mobilized medical staff and implemented public hygiene regulations. Secil Yilmaz unravels how a disease long associated with shame and secrecy became a key site through which Ottomans expanded their hegemony and governance, situating medicine and sex at the center of imperial rule.

Anatomy of Empire reveals the multifaceted implications of biopolitics found in the encounters and negotiations among the diseased, sex workers, working-class men, and physicians within a complex imperial bureaucracy. Medical knowledge and practices became effective tools to govern and discipline a population, particularly as Ottoman physicians formulated vernacular forms of sexology that re-fashioned love, desire, and marriage. As syphilis persisted across the world, Ottomans joined their European counterparts in pursuit of bacteriological discoveries to understand the causes behind the resilience of this silent yet destructive disease. With this book, Yilmaz offers a history of gender, sexuality, and medicine, one set in a consequential geography - in the lands of Ottomans at the verge of their demise - and unearths how truth regimes pertaining to the body and sexuality are indispensable components of modern imperial governance.

This Palgrave Pivot draws on ethnographic research in UK academic libraries. Central to participants' narratives are reflexive discussions about their experience of masculinities and gender, their recognition of gender norms and privilege within the cis-hetero patriarchal culture of information professions, as well as the importance of critiquing traditional notions of technological expertise. Weaving together these narratives, the book demonstrates the need to reconsider assumptions about gender and technical skill and highlights possibilities for men to encourage and promote gender diversity and parity in their profession and organisations. It will be of interest to researchers in gender studies, information and library science, computer science, sociology, and cultural studies.

This book offers a global exploration of queer identities, experiences, and expressions.This anthology will collect chapters from scholars, activists, and community leaders worldwide to present a multifaceted understanding of what it means to be queer in different cultural, social, and political contexts. The editor aims to highlight both commonalities and differences in the way queerness is experienced and expressed globally, fostering a more inclusive and nuanced understanding of queer identity.This book will be an amalgamation of contributions that will analyze: The evolving definitions and meanings of "queer"; Historical and cultural contexts shaping queer identities, Intersectionality in queer experiences (race, ethnicity, class, religion, etc.).; Legal, social, and political challenges faced by queer individuals across different regions.; Case studies, personal narratives, and community-based research on queer identities.

How writers and artists have used city planning strategies to push back against harm

Black queer feminist thinker Audre Lorde famously declared that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." This language is normally understood as a metaphor, but as author Davy Knittle argues in this provocative book, queer and trans activists have long used the tools of city planning and urban design to create written and visual art that critiques those in power and offers points of resilience to their own communities.

A close look at the ways queer and trans writers and artists resisted predatory redevelopment in New York City from 1950 to 2020, Urbanist Desire draws on the work of James Schuyler, June Jordan, David Wojnarowicz, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and Zeyn Joukhadar, exploring how they intervened in major political flashpoints like the War on Poverty, the AIDS-era housing crisis, and gentrification in Brooklyn and Queens. Presenting a new cultural history of New York City, Knittle explains how urban change and the more-than-human life of cities have been foundational concerns for queer and trans cultural production since the 1950s.

Ending with analysis of the 2022 speculative novel Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, Urbanist Desire looks to the past to imagine a better future for New York City and for all marginalized people. Knittle demonstrates how to move past a recuperative response to harm and toward one that can change the structure of society by documenting how queer and trans activists have engaged the strategies of planning and design to address spatial, social, and economic inequality.

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This edited book analyzes the meaning making process related to gender identity and its performative dimension. We come to life with a body that immediately becomes a cultural body. The identity construction as well as the entire I-other-world relationship is symbolically marked out by socio-historical-cultural expectations related to gender. Based on the sexual organ, newcomers are immersed in a symbolic plot differently entangled for "boys" and for "girls", through which borders are established to demarcate what is allowed to feel, think and act in the world. Using the theoretical perspective of Cultural Psychology of Semiotic Dynamics, emphasis in the analysis will be given to the concept of border, in order to explore the affective-semiotic dynamics of what the masculine and the feminine mean in our society and the role they play in our psychological functioning. The contributions in this volume focus on the notion of border and its permeability to understand the non-binary gender performativity in different social settings. A central concept in Cultural Psychology is, indeed, the idea that masculine and feminine, when treated as rigid categories, are limiting and repress what is situated in between them. Such process of amplification of the gender category demands the identification of new tensions that go beyond the classic masculinity versus femininity dichotomy. This volume focuses on the semiotic processes in the phenomena related to gender identity and, in such a way, it aims at filling the existing gap in the understanding of the psychological dimension of gender expression. This may provide useful guidelines for psychological interventions in different socio-cultural settings.

Exploring gender and sexuality in the Gilded Age through one sensationalized life

Addie Liona Walker. Leon A. Belmont. Nova McClure Carr. Romantic Sensation tells the full story of this one ordinary person's singular life. Assigned a female sex at birth, Addie was born in Massachusetts in 1853 and lived as a woman for twenty-five years. After transitioning in 1878, Addie became Leon and lived as a man for twenty-four years before making a second gender transition and living as a woman, Nova, for the rest of her life. Placing these milestones within the historical context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lizzie Ehrenhalt traces Belmont's life, from child laborer to husband, from outlaw to heartthrob, and from stepfather to single mother.

Belmont was a Gilded Age celebrity: he made national news for breaking an ordinance against dressing as the "opposite" sex in Minneapolis, and he inspired a media frenzy when one of his girlfriends told police that he was a woman. While newspapers labeled Belmont a "curious and romantic sensation," Ehrenhalt shows that he was not much of a sensation after all. Illuminating what his story can tell us about Americans' developing understandings of sexuality and gender in the 1850s through the 1920s, she reveals how Belmont's run-ins with police, doctors, courts, and reporters resonate in the evolution of the LGBTQIA+ identities we recognize today.

An empathetic case study of a figure often denied respect in the telling of his story, Romantic Sensation presents Belmont's gender transitions not as puzzles in need of solving but as acts grounded in the cultural milieu of the Gilded Age. Traversing the dramatic economic upheavals of the second industrial revolution, the Era of Good Stealings, and the Great Railroad Strike of 1922, and spanning the Cult of Domesticity, the invention of sexology, and the rise of New Womanhood, Ehrenhalt uses Belmont's example to demonstrate how trans, queer, and intersex histories are inseparable from American history.

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Hard Women, Hard War establishes a new interpretation of Southern women's wartime behavior by examining their interactions with the Federal army. From the very beginning of the war to the bitter end of the conflict, women negotiated military policy toward civilians, motivated by their political loyalties, which were grounded in their ideas of home. Free and enslaved Black women encouraged Federals to destroy the plantation household to make way for homes built in freedom, pushing the military to make hard war on unrepentant rebels. White Unionist enslavers' loyalty to the United States was predicated on protection of their homes and human property, and when the army moved toward harsher war policies, these women emulated the defiance of elite Confederate ladies. White women's treason spurred the army to collaborate with loyal Black women while visiting destruction on disloyal enslaving women. Even as the war became more destructive, Southern women refused to stay on the sidelines, insisting that war compelled them to move outside their homes to defend their homes. Women's very existence-as wealthy enslavers or someone else's property-hung in the balance, and these hard women waged a hard war to secure future privilege or future freedom.

Challenging racism, reshaping sexuality, and reimagining belonging across two centuriesFor generations, queer and trans Asian Americans have shaped the history of the United States-often in ways overlooked or erased from the historical record. Breathing Fire brings these lives and struggles into focus, offering a sweeping survey of queer Asian American history from the nineteenth century to the present. Through vivid stories of activists, artists, and ordinary individuals, Amy Sueyoshi reveals how queer Asian Americans forged communities, fought for LGBTQ rights, and challenged the boundaries of belonging.

Drawing on archival sources, oral histories, and a wide body of scholarship, Sueyoshi offers an introductory text that traces how queer Asians in America navigated shifting landscapes of immigration restriction, racial discrimination, and sexual regulation. Early immigrants from Asia arrived with cultural traditions that often accommodated diverse sexualities and gender expressions, yet they encountered increasingly rigid moral codes in the United States. Across the twentieth century, many lived quietly under the radar, while others helped spark transformative movements for civil rights and gay liberation. They navigated anti-Asian sentiment, homophobia, transphobia, and sex negativity to assert their freedom to be queer, some more defiantly than others.

By placing queer Asian Americans within significant signposts in LGBTQ, Asian American, and US history, Breathing Fire highlights their intimate lives and connections as well as their perseverance in pursuing queer desires.

Based on an ethnographic study of the role and experiences of local businesses, institutions, and community-level actors in Logan Square and Pilsen, two longtime ethnic enclaves experiencing and resisting gentrification in Chicago, Storefront examines local businesses' contributions to communities, how businesses might promote or protest gentrification, and how streetscape transformations can threaten community members' sense of belonging in place. Steven Tuttle untangles issues of community and conflict, segregation and integration, alienation and place attachment, and small business social responsibility from the vantage point of local businesses themselves. In addition to insights about community development, local institutions, and social capital common in qualitative neighborhood studies and gentrification scholarship, Storefront also features a unique focus on local businesses and the racialization of space.

This open access book explores the transnational variations of feminism as informed by the diverse historical, cultural, political and geographical conjunctures. The volume covers a diverse range of media and literary genres including poetry, fan fiction, print media such as newspapers and children's magazines, and various digital media including social media, video sharing platforms, and instant messengers. It foregrounds sites and contexts of transnational connectivity outside of the global political and economic centers of the Global West. It brings transnational feminist activism into dialogue with historical analysis of gender equality within diverse political and cultural domains, while offering conceptual tools for detecting and analyzing epistemological gaps, absences and silences. By bringing together these empirical, historical, and methodological viewpoints, the volume offers an up-to-date reflection of 'transnational feminism' as a category essential for contemporary scholarship on social movements and global media. It will be of interest to researchers and students in gender studies, the communication sciences, cultural and literary studies, history, and sociology, as well as media practitioners, NGO and policy makers, and other organizations dealing with gender equality.

American pop culture loves newsies. The children who bawled out headlines and sold newspapers on city streets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been depicted countless times in movies, Broadway shows, books, music, and more, but somehow it's only ever the stories of newsboys that are told. Scholarly literature too has focused mostly on boy newsies. Yet for nearly as long as there were newspapers in the United States, there were also newsgirls. Girl newsies were photographed, interviewed, studied, argued over, and eventually absorbed into the collective "newsboys" and forgotten.

Extra! Extra! A History of America's Girl Newsies offers a corrective, demonstrating the importance of newsgirls as early news workers and as symbols of child labor and gender reform efforts. Sometimes younger than ten years old and from impoverished families, girl newsies were already vulnerable to exploitation from the newspaper publishing industry, which relied heavily on child labor during the "golden age" of journalism. However, the newsgirls of this period contributed much to news labor, and they were important to the discussions concerning childhood, child labor reform, and women's changing societal roles. Properly integrating newsgirls into the history of newsies dismantles archetypes and enables a deeper understanding of child news labor.

Between Myths and Margins explores the systemic and macro implications of gendered racist microaggressions. To date, microaggression research has largely lived in the field of psychology, focusing on the interpersonal dynamics between aggressor and receiver. Left out of this conversation are the social factors at play that make microaggressions mere bricks in a larger structure of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy. Through case studies of Black and Asian American women, Lackey unveils microaggressions as facets of everyday racism: commonplace and subtle behaviors, remarks, and beliefs that buttress the normalization of a supremacy of whiteness. Lackey identifies common perpetrators of gendered racist microaggressions-not just interracial perpetrators, but also members of our own communities-pointing to family members and coethnic friends and peers as adopters of a white racial dominant ideology. Stories of women in various family structures, workplaces, education settings, and friend groups identify a common thread that ties each of their experiences together: the underlying structure of white supremacist patriarchy that informs the experiences of women of color in everyday interpersonal exchanges.

Sideways Developments examines Hong Kong Anglophone and Cantophone literature and visual culture to trace the forms of queer and trans survival and flourishing in the Asian century. Contesting the cisgender, heterosexual, linear tropes that constitute developmentalist narratives deployed by superpowers-from colonial Britain to 20th-century America to a rising China-Cheang argues that sideways aesthetics define the narratives through which the LGBTQ+ community navigates personal and socioeconomic transitions. Through formalist analyses of a range of genres, Cheang reveals the affordances of queer and trans cultures for addressing the question of Hong Kong during its period of promised transition until 2047.

In this moment of multiple crises, Sideways Developments offers a timely hermeneutic and theory of solidarity and sustainability. The book tracks how sideways aesthetics have evolved from a feature of LGBTQ+ plots, performance, and nonlinear approaches to space-time to a form of togetherness that links postcolonial Hong Kong with struggles worldwide. Using what Cheang terms intersectional formalism as an analytical tool, the book provides a multilayered examination of the alternative pathways exemplified by queer and trans resilience and regeneration.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of postqueer politics within the Indian context, reimagining queer theory and activism through an intersectional lens. Moving beyond the binary of queer and straight, it examines how queer epistemologies can address broader sociopolitical challenges, including majoritarian nationalism, caste and class stratification, Islamophobia, environmental crises, and mental health.

By interrogating colonial disruptions of indigenous sexual cultures and envisioning a postcolonial future of egalitarian coexistence, the book advocates for collaborative engagements between queer and non-queer actors to reshape India's social and political fabric. A key highlight is its innovative approach to queer theory, positioning queer perspectives as tools for disrupting mainstream norms and fostering inclusivity. The book introduces postqueer politics as a non-queer-inclusive worldview, emphasizing collaboration and intersectionality to liberate the most marginalized. It critiques exploitative hierarchies and advocates for queer futurism aligned with broader social justice commitments. Through nuanced analysis, it demonstrates how queer knowledge can empower individuals to challenge socio-cultural unfreedom and create a more equitable society.

Essential for those interested in sexuality, gender, and Indian politics, this book is a valuable resource for students in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Minority Studies, and Cultural Studies, particularly in courses on identity politics and intersectionality.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary exploration of how gender and sexuality have shaped South Korean society in historical and contemporary contexts.

Bringing together internationally renowned scholars from diverse fields, including sociology, politics, media and cultural studies, literature and history, the volume combines theoretical perspectives with empirically grounded case studies to examine gendered and sexual identities across intersecting social, cultural, economic and political processes. Challenging linear narratives of social progress, it highlights the continuing force of heteronormative structures rooted in Confucian legacies and family practices, while also tracing uneven and contested transformations linked to globalization, digitalization and creative cultures. By foregrounding South Korea as a dynamic non-Western case, this collection advances debates on de-Westernization and comparative scholarship.

The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sexuality and South Korea is ideal for students and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, Korean studies, sociology, media and cultural studies, anthropology, politics, history and globalization.

This book offers novel and valuable insights into the often abstracted and overlooked social worlds of men in the Himalaya. Long cast through colonial and nationalist imaginaries as martial warriors, agrarian patriarchs, or peripheral actors in the Subcontinent's struggles over power, identity, and territory, Himalayan men have rarely been the direct focus of scholarly attention. Drawing on ethnographic and interdisciplinary research, Himalayan Masculinities foregrounds men's lives, experiences, and perspectives across the Himalaya - a dynamic space shaped by shifting geographies, contested borders, postcolonial anxieties, ecological precarity, and global economic transformations.

Contributors examine how masculinities in the Himalaya are made and unmade through intimate practices, migration and mobility, caste and care work, militarization, digital culture, and uneven development. In doing so, the volume challenges essentialist accounts of gender and region, revealing masculinities as mobile, relational, and deeply embedded in place. Unfolding in a region that sits at the edge of nation-states and empires, and at the intersection of local and global pressures, this collection provides an important corrective to prevailing gender scholarship and opens new directions for the study of power, identity, and belonging in South Asia and beyond.

This book will be invaluable to academics and researchers interested in the intersections of gender, power, sociology, ecology and economics within the Himalayan region. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of South Asia: The Journal of South Asian Studies

Indian Transnationalism: Gender, Culture, and Identity delves into the challenges and creative transformations faced by Indians as they forge new lives abroad, offering a fresh and critical perspective on belonging in an interconnected world. The book brings together insights on ethnonational identity, gender roles, performing arts, and music, while examining the organizations that provide diasporic communities with political voice and social support. It explores how digital spaces-such as social media, streaming platforms, and online archives-shape cultural memory, particularly among younger generations. Additionally, it traces the journeys of cultural forms as they travel and adapt abroad, from the fusion music of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to the simplified performances of rituals like Theyyam from Kerala.

What emerges is a nuanced portrait of diasporic life as a continuous negotiation between preservation and change, between belonging here and belonging there. The book reveals how gender influences who speaks for the community, how culture serves as both a resource for connection and a site of conflict, and how identity remains fluid and unsettled.

Written for students and scholars in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, this volume offers a grounded and critical exploration of how globalization is lived, rather than merely theorized.

The Law of War and Peace: Volume Two offers a cutting-edge analysis of
the relationship between law, armed conflict, gender and peace. This second
volume focuses on peace and the post-conflict period, examining the post-conflict
legal structures that regulate peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and peace
agreements. Applying an intersectional, queer, crip and decolonial approach to
post-conflict legal structures, transitional justice, food security, environmental
security, militarism and peacekeeping, the authors explore the possibilities of
queer feminist changes to the laws of war and peace.

Across the book the authors examine the laws that promote the shift from armed
conflict to peace, as well as the role of militarism and military masculinities in
the production of 'the everyday' of so-called peacetime states. They reflect on
the possibility for feminist change in the law on war and peace, as understood
through a gender analysis, and encourage dialogue beyond the confines of
these pages, in a slow and considered commitment to queer feminist peace.

An innovative philosophical study using the lens of epistemic injustice to demonstrate the threefold value of feminist rage in noticing, understanding, and combatting injustice.

The #MeToo movement has come and gone, but women are still angry. What kind of anger is this exactly? Is it dangerous-or could it perhaps be valuable? This through philosophical exploration of anger brings conceptual clarity to the concept of 'feminist rage', theorizing its origins in a so-called 'anger turn.' Using the theoretical framework of Miranda Fricker's 'epistemic injustice', as well as the new and related concept of affective injustice, Sigrid Wallaert argues that feminist rage is routinely silenced and, moreover, that this silencing is nefarious.

More than just a theoretical contribution, Wallaert brings a wake-up call to the field of social epistemology and beyond. Emotions are routinely kept outside of academic methodology, especially 'negative' emotions like anger. Wallaert shows the value to be gained from bringing emotion into our research, both as an object of study and as a methodological approach. The Value of Feminist Rage goes beyond everyday testimony-it reaches into academia too.

Gender and International Relations in North Africa: Decentring EU Policies in Tunisia offers a critical rethinking of international gender agendas by placing Tunisian perspectives at the centre of analysis.

Drawing on a rich, interdisciplinary, theoretical account and extensive empirical research, the book examines European Union gender policies in Tunisia from the 1995 Association Agreement through the 2010-2011 revolution and the recent authoritarian resurgence. Grounded in the "decentring" approach in International Relations and inspired by Gayatri Spivak's distinction between "giving voice" and "speaking for," it interrogates how far EU policies genuinely engage with, or marginalise, the diverse agencies of Tunisian women. Situating EU initiatives within broader United Nations frameworks, the study highlights the reciprocal circulation of gender discourses and practices across international and regional levels. Methodologically informed by the "Grounded Theory," it adopts a self-reflexive approach, addressing key issues such as positionality, freedom, safety, and care in research, while challenging Eurocentric assumptions about knowledge production and policy design.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of Gender and International Relations, Middle East and North Africa, and European foreign policy, as well as practitioners interested in feminist approaches to international governance and Euro-Mediterranean relations.