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

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

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 philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women's and men's social roles, experiences, interests, chores, and feminist ...

, most recently on the

welfare state A welfare state is a form of government in which the 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 opportunity, equitabl ...

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 invest ...

and in post-industrial societies. She is co-editor-in-chief of ''

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''."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 Maryanne Dever is an Australian academic whose research focuses on feminist literary and archival studies. Education Dever completed a BA (Hons) at the University of Queensland in 1984, an MA (Hons), followed by a PhD, at the University of ...

and Anthea Taylor) ''Germaine Greer: Essays on a Feminist Figure (''

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, 2018) * (Co-editor with

) ''Gender and Labour in New Times'' (

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

, 2016). * (Co-edited with

) ''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 f ...

) ''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 Diana Mary Leonard, AcSS (13 December 1941 – 27 November 2010), known while married as Diana Leonard Barker, was a British sociologist, social anthropologist, academic, and feminist activist. From 1998 to 2007, she was Professor of Sociology ...

) ''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).

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)