Difficult Conversations

Introduction

SECTION 1: DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE

SECTION 1: DIFFICULT KNOWLEDGE

1. The gender wars and difficult conversations about trans: An interview with Meg-John Barker

2. Facing uneasiness in feminist research: the case of female genital cutting

3. Feminism and race in academia: An interview with Sandya Hewamanne

4. But you're not defending sugar, are you?

SECTION 2: GENDER, POWER AND INTIMACY

5. Difficult research effects/affects: an intersectional-discursive-material-affective look at racialised sexualisation in public advertising

6. Calling out and piling on: deliberation and difficult conversations in feminist digital social space

7. Interviewing with intimacy: negotiating vulnerability and trust in difficult conversations

8. Coexisting with uncomfortable reflexivity: feminist fieldwork abroad during the pandemic

SECTION 3: GENDER, SEXUALITY AND EMBODIMENT

9. Sexing in the cities: sex, desire and sexual health of black township women who love women

10. Researching sex: gender, taboos and revealing the intimate

11. Building a community of trust: participatory applied theatre workshop techniques for difficult conversations on consent

12. Women's experiences of marital rape in Turkey: ethics, voice and difficult conversations

SECTION 4: BOUNDED KNOWLEDGE

13. Lost for words: difficult conversations about ethics, reflexivity and research governance

14. Gender studies, academic purity and political relevance

15. The feminist classroom in a neoliberal university

16. Focus groups and the 'insider researcher'; difficult conversations and intersectional complexities

17. Queering the academy