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.