Rachel Alsop
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743008 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Alsop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Alsop |
| SIGNATURE | ALSOP R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transgender equality and the UK Supreme Court
Alison Phipps, Professor of Sociology and Gender Research Group steering committee member, Newcastle UniversityRachel Alsop, Director of Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York Alex Hyde and
A vindication of the rights of girls
Between 2014 to 2016 we conducted mixed-methods research exploring girls’ experiences of growing up in the UK in the 21st century. We spoke to girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24 in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to gain a qualitative snapshot of what matters to girls. We also conducted the first quantitative study of a range of quality of life indicators disaggregated by age and gender in the UK to garner a statist…
Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body
In this article, we explore the relation between bodies and selves evident in the narratives surrounding aesthetic surgery. In much feminist work on aesthetic surgery, such narratives have been discussed in terms of the normalising consequences of the objectifying, homogenising, cosmetic gaze. These discussions stress the ways in which we model our bodies, under the gaze of others, in order to conform to social norms. Such an objectified body is …
A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking
The widening participation agenda
This paper is based upon two empirical studies, which identify care‐giving responsibilities as a key mediator of mature students’ – a target group within the widening participation strategy – experiences of higher education. Employing a feminist lens on care, we identify a disjuncture between how students experience the challenges of negotiating care and study, and the narrow and economistic way care is addressed within higher education policy. W…
A Reversal of Fortunes? Women, Work and Change in East Germany
Introduction Chapter 2. Rhetoric and Reality:Women's Employment in the GDR Chapter 3. The Unification Process Chapter 4. Changing States: Redefining Women,Work and Welfare Chapter 5. The 'Defeminisation' of Waged Labour Chapter 6. Linking the Local and the Global: Women in the Textile and Clothing Industry Chapter 7. Hearing Voices: Women's Responses to Change Chapter 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index
Women's Reproductive Lives as a Symbolic Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this picture conceals two key points. First, the effects of both Communism and post-Communism for women's reproductive lives need to be understood as byproducts of state initiatives geared towards the fulf…
The human capital dimension of collaboration among government, NGOs, and farm families
The widening participation agenda
This paper is based upon two empirical studies, which identify care‐giving responsibilities as a key mediator of mature students’ – a target group within the widening participation strategy – experiences of higher education. Employing a feminist lens on care, we identify a disjuncture between how students experience the challenges of negotiating care and study, and the narrow and economistic way care is addressed within higher education policy. W…
Women's Reproductive Lives as a Symbolic Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this picture conceals two key points. First, the effects of both Communism and post-Communism for women's reproductive lives need to be understood as byproducts of state initiatives geared towards the fulf…
Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body
In this article, we explore the relation between bodies and selves evident in the narratives surrounding aesthetic surgery. In much feminist work on aesthetic surgery, such narratives have been discussed in terms of the normalising consequences of the objectifying, homogenising, cosmetic gaze. These discussions stress the ways in which we model our bodies, under the gaze of others, in order to conform to social norms. Such an objectified body is …
A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking
Transgender equality and the UK Supreme Court
Alison Phipps, Professor of Sociology and Gender Research Group steering committee member, Newcastle UniversityRachel Alsop, Director of Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York Alex Hyde and
The human capital dimension of collaboration among government, NGOs, and farm families
The human capital dimension of collaboration among government, NGOs, and farm families
A Reversal of Fortunes? Women, Work and Change in East Germany
Introduction Chapter 2. Rhetoric and Reality:Women's Employment in the GDR Chapter 3. The Unification Process Chapter 4. Changing States: Redefining Women,Work and Welfare Chapter 5. The 'Defeminisation' of Waged Labour Chapter 6. Linking the Local and the Global: Women in the Textile and Clothing Industry Chapter 7. Hearing Voices: Women's Responses to Change Chapter 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index
Women's Reproductive Lives as a Symbolic Resource in Central and Eastern Europe
When Communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe women seemed to lose the control they had gained over their reproductive lives. Abortion rights became more limited as did access to childcare and maternity benefits. The authors argue that this picture conceals two key points. First, the effects of both Communism and post-Communism for women's reproductive lives need to be understood as byproducts of state initiatives geared towards the fulf…
The widening participation agenda
This paper is based upon two empirical studies, which identify care‐giving responsibilities as a key mediator of mature students’ – a target group within the widening participation strategy – experiences of higher education. Employing a feminist lens on care, we identify a disjuncture between how students experience the challenges of negotiating care and study, and the narrow and economistic way care is addressed within higher education policy. W…
A novel alternative. Book groups, women, and workplace networking
Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body
In this article, we explore the relation between bodies and selves evident in the narratives surrounding aesthetic surgery. In much feminist work on aesthetic surgery, such narratives have been discussed in terms of the normalising consequences of the objectifying, homogenising, cosmetic gaze. These discussions stress the ways in which we model our bodies, under the gaze of others, in order to conform to social norms. Such an objectified body is …
A vindication of the rights of girls
Between 2014 to 2016 we conducted mixed-methods research exploring girls’ experiences of growing up in the UK in the 21st century. We spoke to girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24 in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland to gain a qualitative snapshot of what matters to girls. We also conducted the first quantitative study of a range of quality of life indicators disaggregated by age and gender in the UK to garner a statist…
Transgender equality and the UK Supreme Court
Alison Phipps, Professor of Sociology and Gender Research Group steering committee member, Newcastle UniversityRachel Alsop, Director of Centre for Women’s Studies, University of York Alex Hyde and
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Work (physics (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (2 works)