Books
A selection of books published by Christina Hughes.
Transdisciplinary Feminist Research
Shortlisted for the American Educational Research Association Book of the Year 2021, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices. Done in original, creative, and exciting ways that make a difference to what research is and does.
It includes 19 contributions from leading international feminist scholars, who draw on their own research and offer an array of contemporary theorising – including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina feminisms, queer feminisms, womanist methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies, and sports studies.
The authors each show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines, can prompt important new transdisciplinary thinking and activism linked to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power, and gender.
The book refers to multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice, aiming to bring these historical differences into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism.
It includes practically-grounded examples and a wide-ranging theoretical orbit, making it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, and education.
Learning Gain in Higher Education
Students are having to bear more and more of the cost to pay for their own higher education, and with this comes more emphasis (nationally and internationally) on what higher education actually does for its students. What do they gain and how is this accurately measured?
This volume explores the latest thinking, research, and practice from across the globe. The authors outline how important it is to demonstrate how students have progressed, and what measurable skills and knowledge they have acquired.
Posthuman Research Practices in Education
Through fifteen contributions from leading international thinkers, this book provides original approaches to posthumanist research practices in education. It responds to questions which consider the effect and reach of posthuman research.
Women’s Contemporary Lives
This book questions the notions of success and equality and how they are measured for women in and across work, education, and family. Christina Hughes questions whether equal opportunity feminism is promising the impossible, and challenges the suggestion that women's high achievement in education and the workplace means there is no longer a need for feminism in social policy.
Women's Contemporary Lives explores how age, class, race and sexuality continue to influence women's expectations and assessments, whilst pointing to a feminist agenda for social change that is based on a more inclusive interpretation of female subjectivity.
