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Digital Dilemmas

Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Addresses a gap in the current literature by bringing together authors who are exploring the intersections between gender, digital environments and justice
  • Makes an innovative, timely and valuable contribution to a quickly growing field of scholarship and activism
  • Offers novel contributions on Black women’s experiences in digital spaces and LGBTQ identities; subjects which have been missing from the emerging literature on gender identities and politics in digital spaces

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Digital Dilemmas: Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life

    • Diana C. Parry, Luc S. Cousineau, Corey W. Johnson, Simone Fullagar
    Pages 1-19
  3. Theory in Digital and Leisure Contexts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. Digital Black Feminism

      • Ashley Love
      Pages 53-71
  4. Methodological Discussions and Guideposts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. Appnography: Modifying Ethnography for App-Based Culture

      • Luc S. Cousineau, Harrison Oakes, Corey W. Johnson
      Pages 95-117
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 245-250

About this book

The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies. This book offers a unique collection of chapters that brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to explore how gender experiences and identities are being transformed by digital technologies in ways that affirm or deny social justice. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Diana C. Parry

  • Department of Recreation & Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Corey W. Johnson

  • Department for Health, University of Bath, Bath, UK

    Simone Fullagar

About the editors

Diana Parry is a Professor in Applied Health Studies, at the University of Waterloo. Utilizing a feminist lens, Diana's research privileges women's standpoints and aims to create social change and enact social justice by challenging the medical model of scholarship. In particular, Diana’s research explores the personal and political links between women's leisure and women's health, broadly defined. Most recently, Dr. Parry’s research has focused on the intersections of women’s health and technology.

Corey Johnson’s theorizing and qualitative inquiry focuses its attention on the power relations between dominant (white, male, heterosexual, etc.) and non-dominant populations in the cultural contexts of leisure. This examination provides important insight into both the privileging and discriminatory practices that occur in contemporary leisure settings.  His scholarship has been published in journals like the Journal of Leisure Research, Leisure Sciences, The Journal of Homosexuality and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education just to name a few. 


Simone Fullagar is a sociologist who has been engaged in theoretical debates and empirical research on gender and feminism in the context of leisure, sport and health in Australia and the UK for over 15 years. She was appointed as the inaugural Chair of Physical Studies in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath in 2014. Simone has previously published an edited collection, a co-authored monograph and is currently completing another co-authored monograph on the Feminist Biopolitics of Depression and Recovery for Palgrave (due September 2017). 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Digital Dilemmas

  • Book Subtitle: Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life

  • Editors: Diana C. Parry, Corey W. Johnson, Simone Fullagar

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95300-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95299-4Published: 15 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95300-7Published: 05 December 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 250

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Gender Studies, Culture and Gender, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Digital/New Media

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eBook USD 119.00
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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