UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Interview with Diane Richardson, who is a CSW Visiting Scholar for Fall 2014 and a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellow and Professor of Sociology in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University, UK. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on sexuality, gender, citizenship and social justice. Her latest bookSexuality, Equality and Diversity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) focusses on LGBT equalities policy, examining what has been achieved by legislation and resistance to such developments.  She also recently co-edited Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Contesting Recognition: Culture, Identity and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011). With Victoria Robinson she is currently co- editing a 4th edition of Introducing Gender and Women’s Studies(Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), with whom she also co-edits the Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences (GSSS) Book Series for Palgrave.