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Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of...
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OUP India
Parution :
2011-09-15
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Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-09-07
Collection :
Gender and History Special Issues
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Transnational Borderlands: The Making of Cultural Resistance in Women's Global Networks investigates the implications of transnational feminist methodologies at multiple levels: collective actions, theory, pedagogy, discursive, and visual productions. It addresses a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-06-06
Collection :
Comparative Feminist Studies
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Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-01
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In her latest book, Gillian Howie offers a bold new way to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism. This exciting combination of existentialism, phenomenology, and critical theory delivers a proactive feminism ready to respond to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-10-11
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Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland’sGothic and Gender offers a historically informed theoretical introduction to key gothic narratives from a feminist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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In the tradition of the Latin American testimonio, this is the story of Juan Rivera, a.k.a. Juanito Xtravaganza, a Latino runaway youth who ends up homeless in the streets of New York in the late 70s and becomes partner of the internationally famous 1980s Pop artist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-10-02
Collection :
New Directions in Latino American Cultures
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Interrogating a broad array of lesbian, gay, and feminist theories, this book considers instances of unnecessarily divisive turf-battling, yet focuses primarily on the productive debates that define and vitalize the field.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-05-14
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Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman socially, legally, and...
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Seal Press
Parution :
2007-02-15
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"Dave King and Richard Ekins are the leading world sociologists in this field. The book brings together a brilliant synthesis of history, case studies, ideas and positions as they have emerged over the past thirty years, and brings together a rich but always grounded...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-10-23
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This breathtakingly broad, interdisciplinary reader demonstrates how widely feminist thinking has spread, how deeply it has shaken settled assumptions in the disciplines and how much new light it throws on contemporary controversies. - Myra Marx Ferree, University of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2006-04-27
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This accessible introduction to gender and sexuality theory offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the key contemporary literature and debates in feminism, sexuality studies and men's studies. Chris Beasley's clear and concise introduction combines a...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-19
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Embodying Gender provides students and academics with a critical overview of body concepts in both sociology and in feminism.
Previously, sociologists have attempted to gender the body and feminists have attempted to embody gender but Alexandra Howson's accessible new...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-13
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Recent debates in contemporary feminist theory have been dominated by the relation between identity and politics. Beyond Identity Politics examines the implications of recent theorizing on difference, identity and subjectivity for theories of patriarchy and feminist...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2005-04-13
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This Reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent key works that investigate masculinity from a feminist perspective. The chapters examine a wide range of topics including gay liberation, the men's movement, black and...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2004-07-15
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`Sara Delamont eloquently explores the impact of feminism on sociology and powerfully argues that it has been marginalised. A "must read" for all sociologists searching for a complete account of the development of the discipline' - Emma Wincup, School of Social Policy,...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-03-27
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Transsexualism is a stimulating, proactive and important book. Colette Chiland does not back away from difficult issues. She forces all of us to look at our assumptions about t5ranssexualism and to re-examine what gender and sex really mean' - Christine Ware, author of...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2003-01-30
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`An excellent book. The authors have the rare capacity to handle popular culture and case studies in a theoretically informed manner. Original and well researched' - Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University
Understandings of globalization have been little...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2000-09-26
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Gender and Welfare State Regimes focuses on the interrelationships between aspects of the welfare state and labour market policies in structuring and transforming gender relations across a broad spectrum of countries. The book examines the construction of gender in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
1999-10-28
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