Although families are subject to multiple social stratifications and systemic injustices, family
science was built upon foundational ideas that theorized a unitary, normative structure of …

The dominant discourse of gender focuses on the binary of woman/man, despite the known
additional risks for diverse sexualities and gender minorities in disasters. Given the small but …

If asked about queer work in international relations, most IR scholars would almost certainly
answer that queer studies is a non-issue for the subdiscipline--a topic beyond the scope and …

This short textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, exploring its key genealogies
and terms as well as its application across various academic disciplines and to …

An increasing amount of scholarship in critical, feminist, and anti-racist geographies has
recently focused self-reflexively on the topics of exclusion and discrimination within the …

In September 2010, a video titled “It Gets Better” was uploaded to YouTube, responding to
suicides of gay teens who had suffered from homophobic bullying. Before long, thousands of …

Recent consumer research has examined contexts where market-based exchange, gift-
giving, sharing, and other modes of exchange occur simultaneously and obey several …

In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embodied
technique as knowledge. He argues that viewing technique as both training and research …

Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined,
and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory's …

I wrote this book whilst I was co-director and then director of the Institute for Women's
Studies at Lancaster University between 2000 and 2003. Thanks to all colleagues and …