Lisa Adkins is a sociologist and academic. As of 2018, she holds a professorship at the

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, where she is also Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. From 2015-2019 she was a Distinguished Professor in the

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. She has previously held professorships at the

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and

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. She has published in the fields of

economic sociology Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a contemporary one, known as "new economic sociology". The classical period was concerned ...

and

feminist theory Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or Philosophy, philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's Gender role, social roles, experiences, intere ...

, most recently on the

welfare state A welfare state is a form of government in which the State (polity), state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal oppor ...

and labour markets under

finance capitalism Finance capitalism or financial capitalism is the subordination of processes of production to the accumulation of money profits in a financial system. Financial capitalism is thus a form of capitalism where the intermediation of saving to inves ...

and in

post-industrial societies In sociology, the post-industrial society is the stage of society's development when the tertiary sector of the economy, service sector generates more wealth than the secondary sector of the economy, manufacturing sector of the economy. The ...

. She is co-editor-in-chief of '' Australian Feminist Studies''."Professor Lisa Adkins"
''University of Sydney''. Retrieved 22 September 2018.

Publications

* (Co-authored with M. Konings and M. Cooper) ''The Asset Economy''
Polity Press
2020) * ''The Time of Money'' (

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, 2018). *(Co-editor with Maryanne Dever and Anthea Taylor) ''Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure (''

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, 2018) * (Co-editor with Maryanne Dever) ''Gender and Labour in New Times'' (

, 2017). * (Co-editor with Caragh Brosnan and Steve Threadgold) ''Bourdieusian Prospects'' (

, 2016). * (Co-edited with Maryanne Dever) ''The Post-Fordist Sexual Contract: Working and Living in Contingency'' (

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, 2016). * (Co-edited with Celia Lury) ''Measure and Value'' (

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, 2012). * (Co-edited with

Beverley Skeggs Beverley Skeggs is a British Sociology, sociologist, noted as one of the foremost feminist sociologists in the world. Currently, she works as a "Distinguished Professor" in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, developing a Center ...

) ''Feminism after Bourdieu'' (

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, 2005). * ''Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity'' (

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, 2002). * (Co-edited with Diana Leonard) ''Sex in Question: French Materialist Feminism'' (

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, 1996). * (Co-edited with Janet Holland) ''Sex, Sensibility and the Gendered Body'' (

, 1996). * (Co-edited with Vicki Merchant) ''Sexualizing the Social: Power and the Organization of Sexuality'' (

, 1996). * ''Gendered Work: Sexuality, Family and the Labour Market'' (

, 1995). * ''Gender: A Sociological Reader. Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought''. Routledge student readers. Ed. Stevi Jackson, Sue Scott; Psychology Press, 465 p. 2002

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Adkins, Lisa Living people Economic sociologists Feminist theorists Academics of the University of Manchester Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London Academic staff of the University of Sydney Year of birth missing (living people)