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A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-07-03
Collection :
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
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This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centrality of feminist thought to all areas of intellectual enquiry. In a wide-ranging discussion, Evans argues that most...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to the feminist movement and to the radical science movement.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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What are the relations between feminism and history, feminist politics and historical practice?What are the connections between gender and class?What part have racial identities and ethnic difference played in the construction of Englishness? Through a series of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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The discussions about the ethical, political and human implications of the postmodernist condition have been raging for longer than most of us care to remember. They have been especially fierce within feminism. After a brief flirtation with postmodern thinking in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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"Rai subjects the projects of both national development and globalization to searching scrutiny through a gender lens. Her emphasis on the intersection of gender and other forms of inequality is very timely. An excellent text for a wide range of courses in politics,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-26
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In this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglect the role of women and significance of gender in the formation of contemporary societies.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-25
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Prostitution is still the subject of intense controversy among feminists but theoretical and political analyses are often only loosely grounded in empirical research. This book offers new perspectives on prostitution based on wide-ranging research in nine countries and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-21
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Eliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specialized workers control their own work, while in the free market consumers are in command, and in bureaucracy managers...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-21
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This is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in a lucid and highly original way.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-17
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This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and history.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-17
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This book marks a radical and powerful intervention in traditional arguments about pornography. Kappeler re-examines the artistic distinctions between fantasy and reality, pornography and erotica, and challenges the legal definition of obscenity as well as the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-12
Collection :
Feminist Perspectives
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This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues. The book is organized around the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-10
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This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societies. McNay argues that recent thought on the formation of the modern subject offers a one-sided or negative account of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
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Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food processors, and genetic engineering to the design of cities. Comprehensive and critical, this book surveys the sociological...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-06-06
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Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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Women's awareness of the threat and reality of sexual violence is now perhaps more than ever publicly acknowledged. Yet this fact continues to be almost wholly ignored. This new study, based on in-depth interviews with 60 women, is the first to cover the experience of a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
Collection :
Feminist Perspectives
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This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-28
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In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health services are noticing the relevance of men’s gender to problems as diverse as road accidents, diet and sexually transmitted...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-23
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