Gender, Sexuality and the Body: critical perspectives (collection of papers)

Contents: Introduction (Sofia Aboim & Pedro Vasconcelos); Crises of Masculinity and Narratives of Decay: Historical Reflections on Gender, Embodiment, and Decline (Christopher E. Forth); The dynamics of displacement: diasporic masculinities and otherness in postcolonial modernity (Sofia Aboim & Pedro Vasconcelos); The role of gender in online dating profiles: empirical evidence from the Portuguese context (Cláudia Casimiro); Gender and individual life courses. Between reproduction and defiance (Diana Maciel); From Women’s emancipation model to Fetishism of the law – gender equality in communist and post-communist Albania (Ermira Danaj); Body quarrel: feminine aesthetics in Portuguese poetry of the first quarter of the XX century (Isabel Maria Alves Sousa Pinto); Sexuality, gender and confined bodies: Female prisoners experiences of intimate visits in a Portuguese Prison (Rafaela Granja, Manuela P. da Cunha & Helena Machado); Women’s marital expectations and feminist activism in Morocco: Is this the same road? (Raquel Gil Carvalheira); BDSM in Italy: analyzing stereotypes about gender, sexuality and the body (Laura Zambelli); To be a ‘Travesti’ is Questioning the (almost) Unquestionable: Gender as a social Construction Process (Nélson Ramalho)