Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism

With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, Transformations traces both the shifts in thinking that have allowed feminism to arrive at its present point, and the way that feminist agendas have progressed in line with wider social developments.A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life, the authors engage in current debates as diverse as globalization, technoscience, embodiment and performativity, taking feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.

Sara Ahmed is Co-Director of the Institute for Women's Studies at Lancaster University Jane Kilby is Lecturer in Sociology at Salford University Celia Lury is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London Maureen McNeil is Reader in the Institute for Women's Studies, Lancaster University Beverley Skeggs is Chair of Sociology at Manchester University. Lisa Adkins is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Vikki Bell is Senior Lecturer in the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Lauren Berlant is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. Anne M. Cronin is a lecturer in Culture, Media and Communication and Sociology at Lancaster University Penelope Deutscher is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the Australian National University. Jean Grimshaw taught Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol, until 1999. Sneja Gunew is Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Joanna Hodge is Professor in Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University Janet Holland is a Professor in Sociology and Director of the Social Science Research Centre at South Bank University, London. Maggie Humm is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of East London Gail Ching-Liang Low has taught at the University of Southampton, the University of East Anglia, the Open University, Staffordshire University and the University of Dundee. Currently she teaches postcolonial, contemporary British and American literature and film at the University of Dundee. She is the author of White Skins/Black Masks: Representation and Colonialism (Routledge 1996) and is currently working on pedagogy and canon formation in the institutional transformation of 'Commonwealth' to 'Postcolonial' in Britain. Elspeth Probyn is Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Sydney. Caroline Ramazanoglu is a former Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College University of London. Karyn Sandlos is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Education at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Margrit Shildrick is Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences at Staffordshire University, and holds honorary research fellowships at the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University Ngai-Ling Sum is the Simon Research Fellow at the International Centre for Labour Studies, University of Manchester. Imogen Tyler is a Lecturer in the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University. Carol Wolkowitz is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Warwick.