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Selected publications

Article

Phipps, Alison (2021) White tears, white rage: victimhood and (as) violence in mainstream feminism. European Journal of Cultural Studies. pp. 1-13. ISSN 1367-5494

Phipps, Alison (2020) Reckoning up: sexual harassment and violence in the neoliberal university. Gender and Education, 32 (2). pp. 227-243. ISSN 0954-0253

Phipps, Alison (2019) 'Every woman knows a Weinstein': political whiteness and white woundedness in #MeToo and public feminisms around sexual violence. Feminist Formations, 31 (2). pp. 1-25. ISSN 2151-7363

Phipps, Alison (2019) The fight against sexual violence. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, 71. pp. 62-74. ISSN 1362-6620

Phipps, Alison (2017) Sex wars revisited: a rhetorical economy of sex industry opposition. Journal of International Women's Studies, 18 (4). pp. 306-320. ISSN 1539-8706

Phipps, Alison (2017) Speaking up for what's right: politics, markets and violence in higher education. Feminist Theory, 18 (3). pp. 357-361. ISSN 1464-7001

Phipps, Alison, Ringrose, Jessica, Renold, Emma and Jackson, Carolyn (2017) Rape culture, lad culture and everyday sexism: researching, conceptualizing and politicizing new mediations of gender and sexual violence. Journal of Gender Studies, 27 (1). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0958-9236

Phipps, Alison (2016) Whose personal is more political? Experience in contemporary feminist politics. Feminist Theory, 17 (3). pp. 303-321. ISSN 1741-2773

Phipps, Alison (2016) (Re)theorising laddish masculinities in higher education. Gender and Education, 29 (7). pp. 815-830. ISSN 1360-0516

Phipps, Alison and Young, Isabel (2015) 'Lad culture' in higher education: agency in the sexualisation debates. Sexualities, 18 (4). pp. 459-479. ISSN 1363-4607

Phipps, Alison and Young, Isabel (2015) Neoliberalisation and 'lad cultures' in higher education. Sociology, 49 (2). pp. 305-322. ISSN 0038-0385

Phipps, Alison (2014) What's driving the new sexism? New Statesman. ISSN 1364-7431

Phipps, Alison (2014) The drive for 'natural motherhood'. BBC Health.

Phipps, Alison and Smith, Geraldine (2012) Violence against women students in the UK: time to take action. Gender and Education, 24 (4). pp. 357-373. ISSN 0954-0253

Phipps, Alison (2010) Violent and victimized bodies: sexual violence policy in England and Wales. Critical Social Policy, 30 (3). pp. 359-383. ISSN 0261-0183

Phipps, Alison (2009) Rape and respectability: ideas about sexual violence and social class. Sociology, 43 (4). pp. 667-683. ISSN 00380385

Phipps, Alison (2009) [Review] Laura María Agustín (2007) Sex at the margins: migration, labour markets and the rescue industry. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35 (6). pp. 1053-1057. ISSN 1369183X

Phipps, Alison (2008) Who do women in SET need feminism? Science Policy, 2008 (April). p. 45.

Phipps, Alison (2007) Re-inscribing gender binaries: deconstructing the dominant discourse around women's equality in science, engineering, and technology. Sociological Review, 55 (4). pp. 768-787. ISSN 0038-0261

Phipps, Alison (2006) Extended review: girls of the future? British Journal of Sociology of Education, 27 (3). pp. 409-415. ISSN 01425692

Phipps, Alison (2006) 'I can't do with whinging women!' Feminism and the habitus of 'women in science' activists. Women's Studies International Forum, 29 (2). pp. 125-135. ISSN 0277-5395

Phipps, Alison (2002) Engineering women: the `gendering' of professional identities. International Journal of Engineering Education, 18 (4). pp. 409-414. ISSN 0949149X

Book

Phipps, Alison (2020) Me, not you: the trouble with mainstream feminism. Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526147172

Phipps, Alison (2014) The politics of the body: gender in a neoliberal and neoconservative age. Polity Press, Cambridge. ISBN 9780745648873

Phipps, Alison (2008) Women in Science, Engineering and Technology: Three Decades of UK Initiatives. Trentham Books, Sterling, VA. ISBN 9781858564029

Book Section

Fassetta, Giovanna, Al-Masri, Nazmi, Attia, Mariam and Phipps, Alison (2020) Gaza teaches Arabic online: opportunities, challenges and ways forward. In: Fassetta, Giovanna, Al-Masri, Nazmi and Phipps, Alison (eds.) Multilingual online academic collaborations as resistance: crossing impassable borders. Multilingual Matters, Bristol. ISBN 9781788929592

Phipps, Alison (2019) Experience. In: Goodman, Robin Truth (ed.) The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory. Bloomsbury, London, pp. 143-158. ISBN 9781350032408

Phipps, Alison (2018) 'Lad culture' and sexual violence against students. In: Anitha, Sundari, Lewis, Ruth and Unset (eds.) Gender-based violence in university communities: Policy, prevention and educational interventions. Policy Press, Bristol, pp. 41-62. ISBN 9781447336594

Phipps, Alison (2017) 'Lad culture' and sexual violence against students. In: Lombard, Nancy (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781472483515

Phipps, Alison and Bendelow, Gillian (2014) Sociology of the body. In: Cockerham, William C, Dingwall, Roberta and Quah, Stella R (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of health, illness, behavior, and society. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedias in Social Sciences . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester. ISBN 9781444330762

Phipps, Alison (2012) Violence against sex workers in the UK. In: Lombard, Nancy and McMillan, Lesley (eds.) Violence against women: current theory and practice in domestic abuse, sexual violence, and exploitation. Research highlights in social work (56). Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London, pp. 87-102. ISBN 9781849051323

Conference or Workshop Item

Phipps, Alison (2015) Sexism and violence in the neoliberal university. In: Sexual Harassment in Higher Education, December 2nd 2015, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Phipps, Alison (2015) Identity, experience, responsibility and choice. In: Feminist Futures: critical engagements with the Fourth Wave, June 27th 2015, Queen Mary University.

Reports and working papers

Phipps, Alison and Young, Isabel (2013) That's what she said: women students' experiences of 'lad culture' in higher education. Project Report. National Union of Students, London.

Phipps, Alison (2006) Pipelines, Preparedness and Culture: the development of female talent in science, engineering, and technology in the US and UK,. Documentation. Unset.

Phipps, Alison (2003) Gender and education in the UK: background paper for the UNESCO global monitoring report 'Education for all: the leap to equality'. Project Report. UNESCO.