Professor Sally Hines (she/her)

BA, MA, PhD

Department of Sociological Studies

Chair of Sociology

Co-Director of Knowledge, Exchange and Impact

sally.hines@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6450

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Professor Sally Hines
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile

Sally joined the Department in 2019. Previously she worked at the University of Leeds, where she was the Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, and at Newcastle University, where she worked to develop interdisciplinary networks in sexuality studies.

Her most recent publication, ‘Is Gender Fluid?: A Primer for the 21st Century’, was published by Thames and Hudson (2018)

Research interests

Sally’s research falls across the interdisciplinary fields of sociology, gender studies, social policy, law, politics, health studies, and science and technology studies.

Sally’s previous Research Council funded research has centred on gender diversity and identity practice, gender and social/cultural change, and gendered citizenship and recognition.

From this body of research she has developed a strong publication profile in the area of transgender, gender and sexuality theory, gender and sexual citizenship, sociologies of the body, sociologies of intimacy, intersectionality, and theories of recognition and difference. In her current writing, she is developing her work on gender and a politics of difference.

Sally is committed to public sociology and has done consultancy work on issues around the Gender Recognition Act. She has acted as a legal expert in relation to trans reproductive rights and parental recognition. She has also done frequent media work around the relationship between trans and feminism.

Publications

Books

Hines S (2018) Is Gender Fluid? A Primer for the 21st Century. Thames & Hudson Ltd.
Hines S (2010) Introduction.
Hines S (2007) TransForming gender: Transgender practices of identity, intimacy and care.

Edited books

Hines S & Sanger T (Ed.) () Transgender Identities. Routledge.

Journal articles

Hines S, Cuthbert K, Hall J & Elley S (2024) Living gender in diverse times. Journal of Gender Studies, 33(5), 491-496.
Pfeffer CA, Hines S, Pearce R, Riggs DW, Ruspini E & White FR (2023) Medical uncertainty and reproduction of the “normal”: Decision-making around testosterone therapy in transgender pregnancy. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 4, 100297-100297.
Cuthbert K, Hall JJ, Hines S, Allen K & Elley S (2022) Hearing, Policing, and Using Gender Diversity: The Role of Institutional Gatekeepers in Researching Youth and Gender. Sociological Research Online, 27(3), 763-786.
Allen K, Cuthbert K, Hall JJ, Hines S & Elley S (2021) Trailblazing the gender revolution? Young people's understandings of gender diversity through generation and social change. Journal of Youth Studies, 1-17.
(2021) Trans pregnancy: Fertility, reproduction and body autonomy. International Journal of Transgender Health, 22(1-2), 1-5.
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR & Ruspini E (2020) Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people’s experiences of pregnancy loss: an international qualitative study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 20. View this article in WRRO
Hines S (2020) Counting the cost of difference: a reply to Sullivan. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 23(5), 533-538.
Nemtay A & Hines S (2020) Lived experience of Iranian bisexual women: a thematic analysis. Journal of Gay & Lesbian Social Services, 32(2), 164-190.
Hines S (2019) The feminist frontier: on trans and feminism. Journal of Gender Studies, 28(2), 145-157.
Hines S & Santos AC (2018) Trans* policy, politics and research: The UK and Portugal. Critical Social Policy, 38(1), 35-56.
Hines S, Davy Z, Monro S, Motmans J, Santos AC & Van Der Ros J (2018) Introduction to the themed issue: Trans* policy, practice and lived experience within a European context. Critical Social Policy, 38(1), 5-12.
Monro S, Hines S & Osborne A (2017) Is bisexuality invisible? A review of sexualities scholarship 1970–2015. The Sociological Review, 65(4), 663-681.
Hines S (2016) TRANS A memoir. TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT(5892), 38-38.
Hines S (2010) Queerly situated? Exploring negotiations of trans queer subjectivities at work and within community spaces in the UK. Gender, Place & Culture, 17(5), 597-613.
Browne K, Nash CJ & Hines S (2010) Introduction: towards trans geographies. Gender, Place & Culture, 17(5), 573-577.
Casey M, Hines S, Richardson D & Taylor Y (2010) Introduction. Sociology, 44(5), 803-810.
Hines S (2009) Book Review: David Valentine, Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. xiv + 302 pp. Illus. ISBN 978—0—8223—3869—7. £52.00 (hbk) £12.99 (pbk). Sexualities, 12(5), 667-668.
Hines S (2009) A pathway to diversity?: human rights, citizenship and the politics of transgender. Contemporary Politics, 15(1), 87-102.
Hines S (2007) Transgendering care: Practices of care within transgender communities. Critical Social Policy, 27(4), 462-486.
Hines S (2006) Intimate Transitions: Transgender Practices of Partnering and Parenting. Sociology, 40(2), 353-371.
Hines S (2006) What's the Difference? Bringing Particularity to Queer Studies of Transgender. Journal of Gender Studies, 15(1), 49-66.
Eschle C, Nass S, Hines S, Robertson E, Scoular J & Ahmed S (2002) Book reviews. Feminist Theory, 3(2), 221-232.
Hines S () Why is the chubby guy running?’: Trans pregnancy, fatness and cultural intelligibility. International Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Hines S () Embodied Experiences of Trans Pregnancy. Body and Society.
Riggs DW, Pfeffer CA, Pearce R, Hines S & White FR () Men, trans/masculine, and non-binary people negotiating conception: Normative resistance and inventive pragmatism. International Journal of Transgender Health, 1-12.
Hines S () Sex Wars and (Trans) Gender Panics: Identity and Body Politics in Contemporary UK Feminism. Sociological Review(Special Issue: TERF Wars: A Social Analysis of Trans Exclusionary Politics). View this article in WRRO
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White F & Ruspini E () Transnormativity in the psy disciplines: Constructing pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and Standards of Care.. American Psychologist, 74(8), 912-924.

Chapters

Riggs DW, Pearce R, Hines S, Pfeffer CA & White FR (2023) Whiteness in research on men, trans/masculine and non-binary people and reproduction: Two parallel stories, The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (pp. 339-349).
Riggs DW, Pearce R, Pfeffer CA, Hines S, White FR & Ruspini E (2023) Transnormativity in the Psy Disciplines: Constructing Pathology in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and Standards of Care, The Palgrave Handbook of Power, Gender, and Psychology (pp. 255-275). Springer International Publishing
Hines S (2018) The feminist frontier: On trans and feminism, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism (pp. 94-109).
Hines S (2013) Theorising Recognition, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 7-26). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Governing Diversity, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 89-106). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Recognition, Misrecognition and Human Rights, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 43-54). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Moving for Recognition, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 27-42). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Claiming and Contesting Recognition, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 55-68). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) From Recognition to a Politics of Difference, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 107-124). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Recognising and Regulating Intimate Diversity, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 69-88). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2013) Introduction, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship (pp. 1-6). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S & Taylor Y (2012) Introduction, Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions (pp. 1-11). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Hines S (2010) Recognising diversity? The gender recognition act and transgender citizenship, Transgender Identities: Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity (pp. 87-105).
Hines S (2010) Sexing Gender; Gendering Sex: Towards an Intersectional Analysis of Transgender, THEORIZING INTERSECTIONALITY AND SEXUALITY (pp. 140-162).
Taylor Y, Hines S & Casey M (2010) Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality Introduction, THEORIZING INTERSECTIONALITY AND SEXUALITY (pp. 1-12).
Hines S (2010) Introduction, Transgender Identities (Open Access): Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity (pp. 1-22).
Hines S (2010) Recognising Diversity?: The Gender Recognition Act and Transgender Citizenship, Transgender Identities (Open Access): Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity (pp. 87-105).
(2009) 1968 in Retrospect Palgrave Macmillan UK
Oleksy EH () Intimate Citizenships Routledge

Research group

Sally has supervised PhD students and post-doctoral researchers on the following topics:

masculinities and music
gender and violence
gender and heterosexuality
asexuality
sex work
transgender identities
non-binary genders
gender verification in Olympic sports
gender, social media and representation
bisexual women and sexual violence
men and feminism
sexuality and social class
heterosexuality and masculinity
gender recognition policy and law

Grants

ESRC Funded Project Living Gender in Diverse Times: Young People's Understandings and Experiences of Gender in the UK: Educational Practitioners Report: A briefing for schools, youth service, charities and other third sector organisations working with young people.

ESRC Funded Project Living Gender in Diverse Times: Young People's Understandings and Experiences of Gender in the UK: A Visual Resource for Young People: Comic

ESRC Funded Project Living Gender in Diverse Times: Young People's Understandings and Experiences of Gender in the UK. 'Young people desperate for gender education in schools'

ESRC Funded Project Trans Pregnancy: An International Exploration of Transmasculine Practices of Reproduction: Policy Reviews

These reviews were produced by researchers as part of the Trans Pregnancy project. They summarise the legal and policy context for trans people who conceive (or aim to do so) and bear children in Australia, Italy, the UK and US. The reviews are all free to download and redistribute.

ESRC Funded Project Trans Pregnancy: An International Exploration of Transmasculine Practices of Reproduction: Implications for Policy and Practice: Poster

ESRC Funded Project Trans Pregnancy: An International Exploration of Transmasculine Practices of Reproduction: Media

ESRC Funded Project Trans Pregnancy: An International Exploration of Transmasculine Practices of Reproduction: Project Documentary Film

Teaching interests: Sally’s teaching draws on her areas of research expertise including feminist theory, gender studies, identity, intersectionality, reproduction, sexuality studies, social movements, and transgender.