Dynamics of Gender Relations

Stefanie Ernst is Head of the Research Field Work, Knowledge and Sociology, Institute of Sociology, University of Münster, Germany.

Valerie Dahl is a researcher at the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences, Germany.

Marta Bucholc is Director of the Centre of Figurational Research, Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Poland. 

Chapter 1. Gender Dynamics. An Introduction to Norbert Elias' Process-Sociological Approach to Gender Relations.- Chapter 2. Balances of Power. Gender-relations in Figurational Sociology.- Chapter 3. Some Reflections on the Emancipation of Women. How far did we come?.- Chapter 4. Informalisation and Emancipation of Lust and Love: Integration of Sexualisation and Eroticisation since the 1880s.- Chapter 5. The Crisis of "Close Domination": a Key to the History of Gender Relations?.- Chapter 6. The Changing Nature of Maternal Affects. Process-sociological Perspectives on Counselling Literature about Maternity in France (1960-2020).- Chapter 7. "Is it true that Women are sexually harassed in our country too?" Discourses on Sexual Harassment in the Polish Magazine "The Mirror" from 1980 to 2020.- Chapter 8. New Rules of the Game? Towards a Figurational Analysis of Negotiations on Gender and Diversity.- Chapter 9. Gender Dynamics in Academia: A Figurational Exploration of Gendered Established-Outsider Relations in Physics.- Chapter 10. Refigured Homes. Gender Balances and the Refiguration of Spaces in Germany and Kenya.- Chapter 11. Rural Masculinity in Poland: The Established, the Outsiders and the Rural-Urban Divide in Poland.- Chapter 12. Shifts in the power balance of gender groups in Western Germany 1945-2000.- Chapter 13. Gender Power Balances and Changes in the Socio-Spatial and Socio-Material Practices of Drinking in Ireland.- Chapter 14. On the Side of Women: A Dotted Line Civilising Process.- Chapter 15. Civilizing Campaigns in Times of Informalisation: Fear of Moralizing in Dutch Street Harassment Awareness-Raising.- Chapter 16. The Dutch Burgerlijk and the Emergence of Plural Masculine Habitus.- Chapter 17. On the concept of Hypermasculinity in the Study of Gender and Power in the US: Towards a Figurational Approach.- Chapter 18. Misogyny, Inadequacy and Violence: A Process-Sociological Approach to Incels.- Chapter 19. Retro-ideals: Knights, Gentlemen, and Cursed Soldiers. Unhegemonic Polish Masculinity in the (De)Civilizing process.- Chapter 20. Science oriented towards Life: Ilse Seglow and her Doctoral Thesis on the Society of Actors.- Chapter 21. "The Changing Balance of Power between the Sexes in the History of Civilization". On Gender Relations in Unpublished Works of Norbert Elias.