Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities introduces the plural modernities approach for the first time from a gender theoretical perspective.

Heidemarie Winkel is Professor of Sociology at Bielefeld University and Senior Research Associate at St. Edmund's College, University of Cambridge. Her current research areas are transcultural gender sociology and global sociology of religion with a particular interest in knowledge production from a postcolonial perspective, notions of equality, and selected Arab societies. A recent publication is Global Historical Sociology and Connected Gender Sociologies: On the Re-Nationalization and Coloniality of Gender, InterDisciplines 2, 89-134 (2018).

Angelika Poferl is Professor of General Sociology at TU Dortmund University, Germany. Her research interests include theories of modernity, reflexive modernisation and globalisation, sociology of knowledge and culture, qualitative methods of social research, and analysis of contemporary societies. Among her publications is a book coedited with Ulrich Beck, Great Poverty, Great Wealth: On the Transnationalisation of Social Inequalities (2010).

1. Multiple gender cultures, sociology, and plural modernities: introduction

PART I - Colonial modernity and gendered knowledge regimes: decolonising gender sociological thinking

2. Gendering modernities: tracing multiple alterities in the longue durée

3. Gendered self-determination: native feminists theorising settlement, sovereignty, and forms of Indigenous peoplehood

4. Citizenship, migration, and the gendering of modern/colonial inequalities

PART II - Multiple gender cultures: the negotiation of gender in varying local contexts

5. Modernising modernity: the women's movement in Japan

6. Women, faith, and facts in modern Iran

7. Navigating multiple sites of knowledge: the development of religion in a Cairene women's NGO

8. Karama (dignity), celibate women, and the 'Arab Spring': gendered identity construction in the Tunisian context

9. The work of entanglement: wranslating Women's rights in Malaysia

10. FEMEN's transnational fight for women's rights: multiple modernities, transnational spaces, and plural gender orders

Part III - Theoretical horizons: multiple gender cultures in plural modernities

11. How to talk about difference and equality? Human dignity, gender, and the cosmopolitics of the social

12. Multiple gender cultures: gender as an epistemic test case of plural modernities