Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified. The genders of non-binary and gender-diverse individuals can be erased when gender is conceived of as binary. From an intersectional perspective, genders of people of various classes, castes, races, ethnicities, ages, occupations, or other specific characteristics may be absent from data, erased from public view or rendered invisible by stereotypes or policy decisions.

Gender Visibility and Erasure offers a unique way of focusing on gender by identifying the multiple contexts in which issues of visibility, invisibility, and erasure manifest. It is a consideration of who is seen and who is ignored, who has voice and who is silenced, who has agency and who is controlled. Social, cultural, and political factors associated with gender and visibility are also discussed throughout the work. International in perspective, further considerations are made around how gender visibility may change over time in varying contexts such as migration, a program for recruiting lower income girls into STEM fields, academia, government family planning policy, and domestic violence.

This 33rd volume of the Advanced Gender Research series, Gender Visibility and Erasure is the ideal work for those studying and researching the in/visibility aspects regarding gender and how this currently and may continue to impact society.

About the Author

Vasilikie Demos is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. She is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series.

Marcia Texler Segal is Professor of Sociology and Dean for Research Emerita at Indiana University Southeast, USA. She is co-editor of the Advances in Gender Research series.

Reviews
This superb volume is an impressive response for an inclusive sociology! Uncovering the buried contributions of women scholars and the many missing voices from the discipline, the contributors move scholarship away from invisibility and erasure of the past and present and toward reclaiming sociology. -- Mary Romero, PhD, 110th President of the American Sociological Association, Carnegie Scholar Professor Emerita, Justice & Social Inquiry, Arizona State University, USA.



Book Information
ISBN 9781803825946
Author Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Emerald Publishing Limited
Publisher Emerald Publishing Limited
Weight(grams) 518g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm