Changing hands: Some thoughts on Ann Oakley’s Sex, gender and society
Sara Ahmed
Translated in Greek by Ourania Tsiakalou
Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed is a feminist writer and freelance scholar who conducts her writing, research and teaching at the intersections of feminist, queer and race studies. Her research is concerned with how bodies and worlds are shaped and how power is articulated and contested in everyday worlds and institutional cultures. Until the end of 2016, she was Professor of Race and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University, London, having previously taught at Lancaster University. She resigned her position at Goldsmiths in protest at the University’s failure to address the problem of sexual harassment. Among her many books are Living a Feminist Life (Duke University Press, 2017), Willful Subjects (Duke University Press, 2014), On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (Duke University Press, 2012), The Promise of Happiness (Duke University Press, 2010), Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Duke University Press, 2006), The Cultural Politics of Emotion (Routledge, 2004), Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality (Routledge, 2000), Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory and Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
Ourania Tsiakalou is a translator who lives and works in Athens. She studied English Literature, Translation and Translation Studies at the University of Athens. She is mainly engaged in the translation of theory, anthropology and ethnography. She has also been teaching English since 2008.
