Gender and Class: Exploring the Intersections of Power and Inequality

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue will apply a transnational lens to unravelling how social norms that shape everyday life are formed through the intersection of multiple factors including: class, ethnicity, age, gender, and cultural and religious values and beliefs. Specifically, articles in this edition will explore how social and gendered norms, heavily shaped by these multitude of factors, translate into hierarchies of power that not only limit the life opportunities for women and girls but also cause them harm. The articles will all take a similar methodological approach but focus on starkly different political-economic contexts including contexts impacted by climate crises. In doing so, the edition will be able to argue that, whilst norms are shaped by different factors and to different degrees, they are fundamentally gendered to perpetrate the power of some and to marginalise others.

Examples of topics to be covered:

• Drought and FGM/C in Kenya;
• Gendered norms and the bodily autonomy of women and girls in Somaliland;
• The intersections of poverty, caste, and power and the gendered dimensions of modern slavery in India;
• The normalisation of sexual violence and HIV transmission in Zimbabwe;
• The power of the state and the invisibility of migrant and refugee women in the UK.

Contributions should adhere to one of three categories of papers (article, conceptual paper, or review) of the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Tamsin Bradley
Guest Editor

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• social norms
• power
• gender
• intersectionality
• violence