Evans Mary - The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory

Mary Evansis currently a Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. She has published work on feminist theory as well as on women writers (Jane Austen and Simone de Beauvoir) and various genres of literature, most recently detective fiction. For fifteen years she co-edited the European Journal of Womens Studies and is now working on a study of the persistence of gender inequality.Clare Hemmingsis Professor of Feminist Theory at the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics, where she has worked for fifteen years. Her primary interests are in transnational feminist and sexuality studies, and she is particularly interested in how stories about gender and sexuality become popular, how they are institutionalized, how they move across time and space (or dont move) and how we are affected by them. She is the author of Bisexual Spaces (2002), Why Stories Matter (2011), and articles on feminist theory and politics, affect and femininity. Her current research is in two related areas: the contemporary life of Emma Goldman and the affective life of gender.Marsha Henryis Associate Professor at the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics. She has previously worked at the University of Bristol, the Open University, Warwick University and the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are in gender, culture and development; space, security and peacekeeping; and gender and militarization.Hazel Johnstoneis the Departmental Manager of the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics. She has worked at the Gender Institute since it was a working group and has overall responsibility for its day-to-day operational management. She is also managing editor of the European Journal of Womens Studies.Sumi Madhokis Associate Professor at the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics. Her research and publications lie at the intersection of feminist political theory and philosophy, gender theories, transnational activism, rights/human rights, citizenship, activism, postcoloniality, developmentalism and feminist ethnographies. She is the author of Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights (2013) and co-editor with Anne Phillips and Kalpana Wilson of Gender, Agency and Coercion, also published in 2013. She is currently working on a book on vernacular rights cultures in Southern Asia.Ania Plomienis Assistant Professor at the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics, a member of the UK Womens Budget Group and a member of the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE). Her research interests focus on the relationship between institutional structures and gender relations and outcomes in the context of transition, particularly in Central Eastern Europe and at the European Union level. Her analysis centres on economic, social and labour market patterns and policies. Her most recent book is Gender, Migration and Domestic Work: Masculinities, male labour and fathering in the UK and USA (with Majella Kilkey and Diane Perrons, 2013).Sadie Wearingis Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at the LSE Gender Institute, London School of Economics. She has published widely in the area of gender and popular culture with particular emphasis on contemporary representations and constructions of aging. She is author (with Niall Richardson) of Key Concerns: Gender and Media (Palgrave, forthcoming) and is currently working on a monograph on aging and gender in contemporary culture.