Evans, Mary


Professor Mary Evans  

Department

Position held

Gender Institute

Centennial Professor

Experience keywords:

feminism; higher education in the UK; class and inequality; gender

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The primary focus of my work is those narratives (be they fictional or otherwise) through which we construct our social identity. I am particularly interested in the part that gender and class play in these narratives and the ways in which narratives of ourselves are a essential part of what we define as the modern.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Creative Industries and CulturePublic Administration

Languages:

French [Spoken: Fluent, Written: Fluent]

Media experience:

Has written for mainstream pressRadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)207 107 5301

Publications

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2012

Dunleavy, Patrick and Mollett, Amy and Evans, Mary and Newburn, Tim and Voth, Hans-Joachim and Ponticelli, Jacopo and Gilson, Christopher and Barker, Rodney (2012) The 2011 London riots. Public Policy Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Evans, Mary (2012) Tough times ahead in 2012 may provide space to question the primacy of growth and consumerism. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

Evans, Mary (2011) Doing gender: gender and women's studies in the twenty first century. Women's studies international forum, 34 (6). pp. 603-610. ISSN 0277-5395

Davis, Kathy and Evans, Mary, (eds.) (2011) Transatlantic conversations: feminism as travelling theory. Ashgate, Surrey, UK. ISBN 9780754678359

Davis, Kathy and Evans, Mary (2011) Introduction: transatlantic conversations: feminism as travelling theory. In: Davis, Kathy and Evans, Mary, (eds.) Transatlantic conversations: feminism as travelling theory. Ashgate, Surrey, UK. ISBN 9780754678359

2010

Evans, Mary, (ed.) (2010) Gender. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415554343

Sayers, Janet and Evans, Mary and Redclift, Nanneke, (eds.) (2010) Engels revisited: feminist essays. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415580908

Evans, Mary (2010) The universities and the challenge of realism. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 9 pp. 13-21. ISSN 1474-0222

Evans, Mary (2010) For us or against us: coercion and consensus in higher education. Learning and teaching, 3 (2). pp. 39-54. ISSN 1755-2273

Evans, Mary (2010) A mysterious commodity: capitalism and femininity. In: Scott, Jacqueline and Crompton, Rosemary and Lyonette, Clare, (eds.) Gender inequalities in the 21st century: new barriers and continuing constraints. Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 275-290. ISBN 978184844438 6

2009

Evans, Mary (2009) Can women be intellectuals? In: Fleck, Christian and Hess, Andreas and Lyon, Stina E., (eds.) Intellectuals and their publics. Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, UK, pp. 29-40. ISBN 9780754675402

Evans, Mary (2009) The imagination of evil: detective fiction and the modern world. Continuum International Publishing Group, London, UK. ISBN 9781847062062

Evans, Mary (2009) Fings ain't wot they used to be. Feminist theory, 10 (2). pp. 245-252. ISSN 1464-7001

2006

Davis, Kathy and Evans, Mary and Lorber, Judith, (eds.) (2006) Handbook of gender and women's studies. Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780761943907

Evans, Mary (2006) A short history of society: the making of the modern world. Open University Press, Maidenhead, UK. ISBN 9780335220687

2005

Evans, Mary (2005) Auto/biographical methods. In: Griffin, Gabriele, (ed.) Research Methods for English Studies. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp. 31-46. ISBN 9780748621545

2004

Evans, Mary (2004) A critical lens on romantic love: a response to Bernadette Bawin-Legros. Current sociology, 52 (2). pp. 259-264. ISSN 0011-3921

Evans, Mary (2004) Killing thinking: the death of the universities. Continuum, London, UK. ISBN 9780826488329

2003

Evans, Mary (2003) Gender and social theory. Open University Press, Buckingham, UK. ISBN 9780335208654

Evans, Mary (2003) Love: an unromantic discussion. Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745620725

2002

Evans, Mary and Lee, Ellie, (eds.) (2002) Real bodies: a sociological introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, UK. ISBN 9780333947517

2001

Evans, Mary (2001) Gender and the literature of the Holocaust: the diary of Etty Hillesum. Women: a cultural review, 12 (3). pp. 325-335. ISSN 0957-4042

Evans, Mary, (ed.) (2001) Feminism. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415192835

2000

Evans, Mary (2000) Extending autobiography: a discussion of Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar'. In: Coslett, Tess and Lury, Celia and Summerfield, Penny, (eds.) Feminism & autobiography: texts, theories, methods. Routledge, London, UK, pp. 76-88. ISBN 9780415232012

1999

Evans, Mary (1999) Missing persons: the impossibility of auto/biography. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415099769

Evans, Mary (1999) The culture did it: comments on the 1997 general British election. In: Ray, Larry and Sayer, Andrew, (eds.) Culture and economy after the cultural turn. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 229-245. ISBN 9780761958161

Evans, Mary (1999) 'Falling in love with love is falling with make believe': ideologies of romance in post-Enlightenment culture. In: Featherstone, Mike, (ed.) Love & Eroticism. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 265-275. ISBN 9780761962519

1998

Evans, Mary (1998) 'Falling in love with love is falling with make believe': ideologies of romance in post-Enlightenment culture. Theory, culture & society, 15 (3). pp. 265-275. ISSN 1460-3616

1997

Evans, Mary (1997) Introducing contemporary feminist thought. Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9780745614762

1994

Evans, Mary, (ed.) (1994) The woman question. Sage Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780803987487

1993

Evans, Mary and Morgan, David (1993) The battle for Britain: citizenship and ideology in the Second World War. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415017220

1991

Evans, Mary (1991) A good school: life at a girls' grammar school in the 1950s. The Women's Press Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780704342682

1989

Evans, Mary (1989) Reflecting on Anna Karenina. Routledge, London, UK. ISBN 9780415017190

1987

Evans, Mary (1987) Jane Austen and the state. Tavistock Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780422613705

Sayers, Janet and Evans, Mary and Redclift, Nanneke, (eds.) (1987) Engels revisited: new feminist essays. Tavistock Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780422608107

1985

Evans, Mary (1985) Simone de Beauvoir: a feminist mandarin. Tavistock Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780422795104

1983

Evans, Mary and Ungerson, Clare, (eds.) (1983) Sexual divisions: patterns and processes. Tavistock Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780422784405

1982

Evans, Mary, (ed.) (1982) The woman question: readings on the subordination of women. Fontana, London, UK. ISBN 0006359868

1981

Evans, Mary (1981) Lucien Goldmann: an introduction. Harvester Press, Brighton, UK. ISBN 9780710800671

1979

Evans, Mary and Morgan, David, (eds.) (1979) Work on women: a guide to the literature. Tavistock Publications Ltd., London, UK. ISBN 9780422771306

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