Fran Amery
Biographic Data
| ID | 799760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fran Amery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fran |
| FAMILY NAME | Amery |
| SIGNATURE | AMERY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9771-1831 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction to the special issue queer frontiers; imagining new intellectual queer futures
This introduction to the Sexualities Special Issue Queer Frontiers: Imagining New Intellectual Queer Futures contextualises queer studies in the present moment. We discuss the current social and political context of the edition, noting the rise of the far right, queerphobia, transphobia and other discriminatory practices. In doing so, we highlight how the authors contributing to this special edition help progress and develop queer studies to equi…
Three elements of cisfeminism: Arrogant perception, will to power and attachment
Drawing on Black and women of colour feminist and transfeminist critique, this article advances a definition and analysis of cisfeminism. It begins from the premise that cisfeminism is feminism for cis women. This could involve positing and defending binary sex as a ‘biological reality,’ but it does not have to; cisfeminists may hold a variety of ontological positions on sex and gender and may not be ‘TERFs’ or ‘gender critical.’ Rather, cisfemin…
Where is menstruation in global health policy? The need for a collective understanding
From both an academic and a policy angle, menstruation is receiving an unprecedented level of attention. Within the academic literature, there are many different normative arguments being furthered for how menstruation should be understood and framed - variously, that it should be understood as an issue of rights, justice, health or hygiene management. Yet less attention has been paid to the step preceding these normative arguments - how menstrua…
Anti-Gender Movements in Who's Afraid of Gender: Marginal or Mainstream
Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia
This article shows that organised transphobia is promoted using similar strategies and politics as the wider reactionary movement which has become increasingly mainstream. In particular, we outline the transphobic process of 'othering' based on moral panics, which seeks to construct, homogenise and exaggerate a threat and to naturalise it in the bodies and existence of the 'Other'. Reactionary politics rely on authoritarian tendencies and strateg…
Gender critical' feminism as biopolitical project
In the last few years, latent anti-trans sentiment within some corners of UK feminism has coalesced into a highly organised 'gender critical' movement that has seen considerable success in influencing policy and public debate. This article addresses 'gender critical' feminism as a lobbying movement, examining its orientation towards governance and power. It argues that the 'gender critical' movement must be understood as a biopolitical project in…
Protecting Children in 'Gender Critical' Rhetoric and Strategy: Regulating Childhood for Cisgender Outcomes
While academic works on the 'gender critical' movement have generally focused on its advocacy and claims regarding womanhood and adult women, the movement also heavily targets children. This article contributes a case study of 'gender critical' activism around children in the United Kingdom, which is strongly committed to the belief that children cannot be 'genuinely' trans. Building on the argument that anti-trans movements seek to undermine the…
Recognising Gender: A Response to Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor and Stanley
A response to Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the Discipline by Brenda Gonzalez Ginocchio, Andrew Hindmoor and Liam Stanley
Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK
We present data on the proportions and seniority of female and male political scientists working in the UK. Comparing the results with previous research from 2011, we find that progress has been made. However, progress has been incremental and we find no qualitative changes in the status of female political scientists: they continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts; they are overrepresented in the least senior job groups and underrepr…
Response to Women in the Profession? Assuming Gender in the Analysis of the Composition of UK Politics Departments
Gender equality as psychological capital: The case of the UK Body Confidence Campaign
This article argues that gender-equality policy may function to cultivate women’s ‘psychological capital’, that is, psychological traits that assist women in becoming better workers and therefore further the interests of capital. It assesses documents produced by the UK government’s Body Confidence Campaign. First, the article finds that the campaign promoted narrow and corporate ideas about gender equality, only treating women’s aspiration as va…
Resilience in British social policy: Depoliticising risk and regulating deviance
Over the past decade, resilience has emerged as a key priority linking disparate areas of British policy. Yet research to date has focused heavily on resilience as a dimension of international development and security agendas. This article maps the movement of resilience into British social policy. It finds that, as in other areas of policy, resilience in social policy functions to depoliticise, placing the structural determinants of gender, raci…
Why Analysis of Gender Equality Policy Should Pay Attention to Risk: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy in England
Policy strategies for managing risk are now well-established in British social policy. These strategies are highly individualized, placing emphasis on the capacity of individuals to mitigate risk in their everyday lives. Further, the paper argues that the dominance of individualized risk governance agendas has serious implications for the design of equality initiatives. Through a case study of sexual and reproductive health policy in England, the…
Gender and politics in the UK: Banished to the sidelines
This article provides a case study analysis of the provision of gender and political studies education in the United Kingdom (UK). The article notes the lack of gender and politics modules available to students at the undergraduate level and links this to the under-representation of women within the discipline but also to the wider political and economic context. The article reflects upon the extent to which the study of gender and politics has b…
Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw
Journal Article Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw Get access Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia ShawLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 140 pp. ISBN: 9781137587510, £45.00. Fran Amery Fran Amery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Intersectionality as Disarticulatory Practice: Sex-Selective Abortion and Reproductive Politics in the United Kingdom
Many authors have argued that sex-selective abortion (SSA) poses a problem for defenders of reproductive choice: the notion that a woman has “freely chosen”to abort a female fetus becomes problematic when she faces compelling pressure to bear a male child. This argument reflects the broader concern of the reproductive justice movement that mainstream pro-choice discourse has defined “choice” in narrow, legalistic terms, and overlooks the barriers…
Solving the ‘Woman Problem’ in British Abortion Politics: A Contextualised Account
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Explains how a historical account may be usefully combined with an analysis of the constitutive representation of gender in order to provide insights into the substantive representation of women; Provides an empirical account of how MPs favouring restrictions on legal abortion have historically constructed women as victims of unethical doctors in order to undermine the foundations of the 1967 Abortion…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia
This article shows that organised transphobia is promoted using similar strategies and politics as the wider reactionary movement which has become increasingly mainstream. In particular, we outline the transphobic process of 'othering' based on moral panics, which seeks to construct, homogenise and exaggerate a threat and to naturalise it in the bodies and existence of the 'Other'. Reactionary politics rely on authoritarian tendencies and strateg…
Gender critical' feminism as biopolitical project
In the last few years, latent anti-trans sentiment within some corners of UK feminism has coalesced into a highly organised 'gender critical' movement that has seen considerable success in influencing policy and public debate. This article addresses 'gender critical' feminism as a lobbying movement, examining its orientation towards governance and power. It argues that the 'gender critical' movement must be understood as a biopolitical project in…
Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK
We present data on the proportions and seniority of female and male political scientists working in the UK. Comparing the results with previous research from 2011, we find that progress has been made. However, progress has been incremental and we find no qualitative changes in the status of female political scientists: they continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts; they are overrepresented in the least senior job groups and underrepr…
Resilience in British social policy: Depoliticising risk and regulating deviance
Over the past decade, resilience has emerged as a key priority linking disparate areas of British policy. Yet research to date has focused heavily on resilience as a dimension of international development and security agendas. This article maps the movement of resilience into British social policy. It finds that, as in other areas of policy, resilience in social policy functions to depoliticise, placing the structural determinants of gender, raci…
Protecting Children in 'Gender Critical' Rhetoric and Strategy: Regulating Childhood for Cisgender Outcomes
While academic works on the 'gender critical' movement have generally focused on its advocacy and claims regarding womanhood and adult women, the movement also heavily targets children. This article contributes a case study of 'gender critical' activism around children in the United Kingdom, which is strongly committed to the belief that children cannot be 'genuinely' trans. Building on the argument that anti-trans movements seek to undermine the…
Gender and politics in the UK: Banished to the sidelines
This article provides a case study analysis of the provision of gender and political studies education in the United Kingdom (UK). The article notes the lack of gender and politics modules available to students at the undergraduate level and links this to the under-representation of women within the discipline but also to the wider political and economic context. The article reflects upon the extent to which the study of gender and politics has b…
Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw
Journal Article Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw Get access Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia ShawLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 140 pp. ISBN: 9781137587510, £45.00. Fran Amery Fran Amery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Solving the ‘Woman Problem’ in British Abortion Politics: A Contextualised Account
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Explains how a historical account may be usefully combined with an analysis of the constitutive representation of gender in order to provide insights into the substantive representation of women; Provides an empirical account of how MPs favouring restrictions on legal abortion have historically constructed women as victims of unethical doctors in order to undermine the foundations of the 1967 Abortion…
Why Analysis of Gender Equality Policy Should Pay Attention to Risk: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy in England
Policy strategies for managing risk are now well-established in British social policy. These strategies are highly individualized, placing emphasis on the capacity of individuals to mitigate risk in their everyday lives. Further, the paper argues that the dominance of individualized risk governance agendas has serious implications for the design of equality initiatives. Through a case study of sexual and reproductive health policy in England, the…
Intersectionality as Disarticulatory Practice: Sex-Selective Abortion and Reproductive Politics in the United Kingdom
Many authors have argued that sex-selective abortion (SSA) poses a problem for defenders of reproductive choice: the notion that a woman has “freely chosen”to abort a female fetus becomes problematic when she faces compelling pressure to bear a male child. This argument reflects the broader concern of the reproductive justice movement that mainstream pro-choice discourse has defined “choice” in narrow, legalistic terms, and overlooks the barriers…
Solving the ‘Woman Problem’ in British Abortion Politics: A Contextualised Account
Research Highlights and Abstract This article Explains how a historical account may be usefully combined with an analysis of the constitutive representation of gender in order to provide insights into the substantive representation of women; Provides an empirical account of how MPs favouring restrictions on legal abortion have historically constructed women as victims of unethical doctors in order to undermine the foundations of the 1967 Abortion…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Intersectionality as Disarticulatory Practice: Sex-Selective Abortion and Reproductive Politics in the United Kingdom
Many authors have argued that sex-selective abortion (SSA) poses a problem for defenders of reproductive choice: the notion that a woman has “freely chosen”to abort a female fetus becomes problematic when she faces compelling pressure to bear a male child. This argument reflects the broader concern of the reproductive justice movement that mainstream pro-choice discourse has defined “choice” in narrow, legalistic terms, and overlooks the barriers…
Gender and politics in the UK: Banished to the sidelines
This article provides a case study analysis of the provision of gender and political studies education in the United Kingdom (UK). The article notes the lack of gender and politics modules available to students at the undergraduate level and links this to the under-representation of women within the discipline but also to the wider political and economic context. The article reflects upon the extent to which the study of gender and politics has b…
Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw
Journal Article Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia Shaw Get access Gender, Power and Political Speech: Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election Deborah Cameron and Sylvia ShawLondon: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, 140 pp. ISBN: 9781137587510, £45.00. Fran Amery Fran Amery Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affair…
Why Analysis of Gender Equality Policy Should Pay Attention to Risk: The Case of Sexual and Reproductive Health Policy in England
Policy strategies for managing risk are now well-established in British social policy. These strategies are highly individualized, placing emphasis on the capacity of individuals to mitigate risk in their everyday lives. Further, the paper argues that the dominance of individualized risk governance agendas has serious implications for the design of equality initiatives. Through a case study of sexual and reproductive health policy in England, the…
Gender equality as psychological capital: The case of the UK Body Confidence Campaign
This article argues that gender-equality policy may function to cultivate women’s ‘psychological capital’, that is, psychological traits that assist women in becoming better workers and therefore further the interests of capital. It assesses documents produced by the UK government’s Body Confidence Campaign. First, the article finds that the campaign promoted narrow and corporate ideas about gender equality, only treating women’s aspiration as va…
Resilience in British social policy: Depoliticising risk and regulating deviance
Over the past decade, resilience has emerged as a key priority linking disparate areas of British policy. Yet research to date has focused heavily on resilience as a dimension of international development and security agendas. This article maps the movement of resilience into British social policy. It finds that, as in other areas of policy, resilience in social policy functions to depoliticise, placing the structural determinants of gender, raci…
Response to Women in the Profession? Assuming Gender in the Analysis of the Composition of UK Politics Departments
Recognising Gender: A Response to Gonzalez Ginocchio, Hindmoor and Stanley
A response to Pluralism and Political Studies in the UK: A Pilot Study into Who Gets What in the Discipline by Brenda Gonzalez Ginocchio, Andrew Hindmoor and Liam Stanley
Women in the Profession: An Update on the Gendered Composition of the Discipline and Political Science Departments in the UK
We present data on the proportions and seniority of female and male political scientists working in the UK. Comparing the results with previous research from 2011, we find that progress has been made. However, progress has been incremental and we find no qualitative changes in the status of female political scientists: they continue to be outnumbered by their male counterparts; they are overrepresented in the least senior job groups and underrepr…
Protecting Children in 'Gender Critical' Rhetoric and Strategy: Regulating Childhood for Cisgender Outcomes
While academic works on the 'gender critical' movement have generally focused on its advocacy and claims regarding womanhood and adult women, the movement also heavily targets children. This article contributes a case study of 'gender critical' activism around children in the United Kingdom, which is strongly committed to the belief that children cannot be 'genuinely' trans. Building on the argument that anti-trans movements seek to undermine the…
Three elements of cisfeminism: Arrogant perception, will to power and attachment
Drawing on Black and women of colour feminist and transfeminist critique, this article advances a definition and analysis of cisfeminism. It begins from the premise that cisfeminism is feminism for cis women. This could involve positing and defending binary sex as a ‘biological reality,’ but it does not have to; cisfeminists may hold a variety of ontological positions on sex and gender and may not be ‘TERFs’ or ‘gender critical.’ Rather, cisfemin…
Where is menstruation in global health policy? The need for a collective understanding
From both an academic and a policy angle, menstruation is receiving an unprecedented level of attention. Within the academic literature, there are many different normative arguments being furthered for how menstruation should be understood and framed - variously, that it should be understood as an issue of rights, justice, health or hygiene management. Yet less attention has been paid to the step preceding these normative arguments - how menstrua…
Anti-Gender Movements in Who's Afraid of Gender: Marginal or Mainstream
Othering, peaking, populism and moral panics: The reactionary strategies of organised transphobia
This article shows that organised transphobia is promoted using similar strategies and politics as the wider reactionary movement which has become increasingly mainstream. In particular, we outline the transphobic process of 'othering' based on moral panics, which seeks to construct, homogenise and exaggerate a threat and to naturalise it in the bodies and existence of the 'Other'. Reactionary politics rely on authoritarian tendencies and strateg…
Gender critical' feminism as biopolitical project
In the last few years, latent anti-trans sentiment within some corners of UK feminism has coalesced into a highly organised 'gender critical' movement that has seen considerable success in influencing policy and public debate. This article addresses 'gender critical' feminism as a lobbying movement, examining its orientation towards governance and power. It argues that the 'gender critical' movement must be understood as a biopolitical project in…
Introduction to the special issue queer frontiers; imagining new intellectual queer futures
This introduction to the Sexualities Special Issue Queer Frontiers: Imagining New Intellectual Queer Futures contextualises queer studies in the present moment. We discuss the current social and political context of the edition, noting the rise of the far right, queerphobia, transphobia and other discriminatory practices. In doing so, we highlight how the authors contributing to this special edition help progress and develop queer studies to equi…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Diversity and Inequality (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)