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British sociologist

Jane Pilcher SFHEA is a sociologist specialising in names and naming, gender, and ageing. She is an associate professor of sociology at Nottingham Trent University, having previously held posts at Cardiff University and the University of Leicester.

Education

Pilcher has a PhD (1992) from Cardiff University; her thesis title was "Social change and feminism: three generations of women, feminist issues and the women's movement".

Career

After research at Cardiff, Pilcher worked at the University of Leicester as a lecturer and later an associate professor. In 2019 she moved to Nottingham Trent University as associate professor of sociology.

Her 2004 book Fifty key concepts in gender studies, co-authored with Imelda Whelehan (Sage: ISBN 9781412932073) was published in a second edition as Key concepts in gender studies (2016, Sage: ISBN 9781446260289) with the addition of nine further concepts.

Her work has led to several appearances in the media including discussion of children and fashion on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour in 2011 and of names on Thinking Allowed in 2016 and Woman's Hour in 2017.

In 2015, she became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Selected publications

  • Pilcher, Jane; Wagg, Stephen, eds. (1996). Thatcher's children?: politics, childhood and society in the 1980s and 1990s. London: Falmer Press. ISBN 9780750704625.
  • Pilcher, Jane (1998). Women of their time: generation, gender issues, and feminism. Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 9781840141979.
  • Pilcher, Jane; Whelehan, Imelda (2016). Key concepts in gender studies (2nd ed.). London: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781446260289.
  • Pole, Christopher; Pilcher, Jane; Williams, John, eds. (2005). Young people in transition: becoming citizens?. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4039-3368-3.

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Jane Pilcher". www.ntu.ac.uk. Nottingham Trent University. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  2. "Catalogue record for Pilcher's thesis". librarysearch.cardiff.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  3. Tyler, Alyson (2006). "50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies (review)". Gender Forum (13). ProQuest 212045935. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. Richards, Judy (February 2006). "Gender Studies: A Hitch-hiker's Guide". Sociology. 40 (1): 163–168. doi:10.1177/0038038506058438. S2CID 143707168.
  5. "Key Concepts in Gender Studies". SAGE Publications Ltd. 5 March 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  6. "Is fashion bad for children?". Radio 4 - Woman's Hour. BBC. 27 September 2011. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  7. "Shyness - Names". Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed. BBC. 21 September 2016. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  8. "What's in a name?". BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour. BBC. 17 April 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2022.

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