By: Alexandra Howson
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745654416, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664002, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. T...

By: Martha E. Thompson (Northeastern Illinois University) and Michael Armato (Northeastern Illinois University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651866, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651859, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011

Description: Gender analysis remains central to understanding social life, yet focusing on gender alone is inadequate. Recent feminist sociological scholarship ...

By: Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653518, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653501, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,

Description: What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid r...

By: Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651095, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651088, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011

Description: Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman' finds herself deprived of her ‘essence' only confirms, para...

By: Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647579, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jul 2011, Pub Date Aus Jul 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637426, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, althoug...

By: Lucinda Platt (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641768, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641751, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011

Description: Bringing together the latest empirical evidence with a discussion of sociological debates surrounding inequality, this book explores a broad range of...

By: Sonya O. Rose (University of Michigan)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646152, Pub Date US Jul 2010, Pub Date RoW May 2010, Pub Date Aus May 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646145, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW May 2010, Pub Date Aus May 2010

Description: This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the ...

By: Anne Phillips (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648002, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745659275, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of the...

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645933, Pub Date US Nov 2009, Pub Date RoW Sep 2009, Pub Date Aus Sep 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645926, Pub Date US Nov 2009, Pub Date RoW Sep 2009, Pub Date Aus Sep 2009

Description: Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destructi...

By: Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645681, Pub Date US Apr 2009, Pub Date RoW Mar 2009, Pub Date Aus Mar 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645674, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Mar 2009, Pub Date Aus Mar 2009

Description: How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made...

By: Moya Lloyd (Loughborough University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626123, Pub Date US Sep 2007, Pub Date RoW Jul 2007, Pub Date Aus Jul 2007
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654805, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists ...

By: Dennis Altman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633633, Pub Date US Oct 2005, Pub Date RoW Nov 2005, Pub Date Aus Nov 2005
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633626, Pub Date RoW Nov 2005, Pub Date Aus Nov 2005

Description: Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best sellin...

By: Sheila Jeffreys (University of Melbourne)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745628387, Pub Date US Mar 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745628370, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that d...

By: Ann Oakley (Institute of Education, University of London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629643, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745629636, Pub Date RoW Oct 2002, Pub Date Aus Oct 2002

Description: A provocative analysis of gender inequality's destructive effects on our society and our planet.In this wide-ranging and powerful new book, the influ...

By: Stephen M. Whitehead (University of Keele)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745624679, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Mar 2002, Pub Date Aus Mar 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745624662, Pub Date US Apr 2002, Pub Date RoW Mar 2002, Pub Date Aus Mar 2002

Description: Men and Masculinities is one of the most comprehensive texts ever published on the sociology of masculinity. Wide-ranging and accessible, it consider...

By: Susan Rowland (University of Greenwich)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625171, Pub Date US Feb 2002, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625164, Pub Date RoW Dec 2001, Pub Date Aus Dec 2001

Description: Jung: A Feminist Revision explores the relationship between feminist theory and Jungian studies. It combines an original student-friendly introductio...

Edited by: Stephen M. Whitehead (University of Keele) and Frank Barrett (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey)
By: Stephen M. Whitehead (University of Keele) and Frank Barrett (Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626895, Pub Date RoW Nov 2001, Pub Date Aus Nov 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626888, Pub Date US Jan 2002, Pub Date RoW Nov 2001, Pub Date Aus Nov 2001

Description: The Masculinities Reader provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the key debates informing the study of masculinity. Structured in an acce...

By: Pierre Bourdieu (Collège de France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622651, Pub Date RoW Apr 2001, Pub Date Aus Apr 2001
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622644, Pub Date RoW Apr 2001, Pub Date Aus Apr 2001

Description: Masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. It is so much in line with our expectat...

By: R. W. Connell (University of Sydney)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745626338, Pub Date RoW Oct 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745626321, Pub Date RoW Oct 2000

Description: In recent years, questions about men and boys have aroused remarkable media interest, public concern and controversy. Across the world, health servic...

By: Maggie O'Neill (Staffordshire University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619217, Pub Date US Oct 2000, Pub Date RoW Sep 2000, Pub Date Aus Sep 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745612041, Pub Date US Feb 2001, Pub Date RoW Nov 2000, Pub Date Aus Nov 2000

Description: Feminists have long differed in their view of prostitution. While some regard it as a classic form of exploitation and degradation, others offer a mo...

By: Marie Louise Stig Sørensen (Jesus College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620152, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW Jun 2000, Pub Date Aus Jun 2000
E-book, ISBN: 9780745668642, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture ...

By: Gail Lewis (Open University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622859, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW Jun 2000, Pub Date Aus Jun 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622842, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW Jun 2000, Pub Date Aus Jun 2000

Description: This book explores the relationship between 'race', gender and policy to develop an important and original argument about social welfare and racial f...

By: Joanne Entwistle (University of Warwick)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620077, Pub Date US Jul 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000

Description: The Fashioned Body provides a wide-ranging and original overview of fashion and dress from an historical and sociological perspective. The book gives...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613499, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745613482, Pub Date US Aug 2000, Pub Date RoW May 2000, Pub Date Aus May 2000

Description: This book reassesses theories of agency and gender identity against the backdrop of changing relations between men and women in contemporary societie...

By: Mary Evans (University of Kent)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614762, Pub Date US Jan 1991, Pub Date RoW Apr 2000, Pub Date Aus Apr 2000

Description: This introductory textbook offers a concise and lucid account of the main developments in contemporary feminist thinking, and demonstrates the centra...

By: Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745621159, Pub Date US Feb 2000, Pub Date RoW Dec 1999, Pub Date Aus Dec 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745621142, Pub Date US Feb 2000, Pub Date RoW Dec 1999, Pub Date Aus Dec 1999

Description: Jeffrey Weeks has established an international reputation as one of the most original and influential writers on the social history of sexuality....

By: Madeleine Arnot (University of Cambridge), Miriam David (The London Institute) and Gaby Weiner (Umea University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745618845, Pub Date US Nov 1999, Pub Date RoW Sep 1999, Pub Date Aus Sep 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745618838, Pub Date US Nov 1999, Pub Date RoW Sep 1999, Pub Date Aus Sep 1999

Description: Undergraduate and postgraduate students in education, sociology and gender studies, as well as the general reader with an interest in education or ge...

By: Elisabeth Roudinesco (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623146, Pub Date RoW Apr 1999, Pub Date Aus Apr 1999

Description: Roudinesco follows the development of Lacan's career from his early clinical practice and conflicts with the establishment, as he constantly pushed t...

By: Carol Smart (University of Manchester) and Bren Neale (University of Leeds)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745618944, Pub Date US Jan 1999, Pub Date RoW Dec 1998, Pub Date Aus Dec 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745618937, Pub Date US Jan 1999, Pub Date RoW Dec 1998, Pub Date Aus Dec 1998

Description: This exciting new book engages with the recent resurgence of interest in the family, offering empirical material and theoretical analysis which give ...

By: Linda McDowell (St John's College, University of Oxford)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615073, Pub Date RoW Nov 1998, Pub Date Aus Nov 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745615066, Pub Date RoW Nov 1998, Pub Date Aus Nov 1998

Description: Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have b...

By: Nicole Ward Jouve (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616827, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616810, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997

Description: Is creation male, as the Bible seems to suggest? Does creativity always belong to the male element? Is there no female genesis? This exciting book ar...

By: Mary Mellor (University of Northumbria)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745614182, Pub Date RoW Oct 1997, Pub Date Aus Oct 1997
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745614175, Pub Date RoW Oct 1997, Pub Date Aus Oct 1997

Description: The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofemi...

By: Henning Bech (University of Chicago)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615592, Pub Date RoW Jan 1997, Pub Date Aus Jan 1997

Description: Bech proposes a novel interpretation of the nature of masculinity and its connections with homosexuality. Besides a critical discussion of existing t...

By: Harriet Bradley (University of Bristol)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610849, Pub Date US Jan 1996, Pub Date RoW Dec 1995, Pub Date Aus Dec 1995

Description: This is a comprehensive introduction to past and current theories of stratification and inequality, covering work on class, gender, race and age....

By: Adriana Cavarero (University of Verona)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615721, Pub Date RoW Sep 1995, Pub Date Aus Sep 1995

Description: This book makes an important intervention in contemporary feminist theory. Cavarero takes four figures from ancient Greek texts and reinterprets them...

By: Jeffrey Weeks (South Bank University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613697, Pub Date US Sep 1995, Pub Date RoW Sep 1995, Pub Date Aus Sep 1995
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745613680, Pub Date US Sep 1995, Pub Date RoW Sep 1995, Pub Date Aus Sep 1995

Description: This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such ...

By: Leonore Davidoff (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609843, Pub Date US Jun 1995, Pub Date RoW May 1995, Pub Date Aus May 1995

Description: This book presents a series of pioneering studies which together constitute a reappraisal of our understanding of the relationship between gender and...

By: Susan J. Hekman (University of Texas, Arlington)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615028, Pub Date US May 1995, Pub Date RoW Apr 1995, Pub Date Aus Apr 1995

Description: This book is an original discussion of key problems in moral theory. The author argues that the work of recent feminist theorists in this area, parti...

By: Susanne Kappeler (Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613055, Pub Date US Apr 1995, Pub Date RoW Apr 1995, Pub Date Aus Apr 1995

Description: This is a major contribution to feminist theory and debate, addressing issues such as sexual violence, social violence and hatred of foreigners in a ...

By: Denise Russell
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612614, Pub Date US Feb 1995, Pub Date RoW Dec 1994, Pub Date Aus Dec 1994

Description: This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its social ...

By: Henrietta L. Moore (Cambridge University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745613086, Pub Date RoW Oct 1994, Pub Date Aus Oct 1994

Description: In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about s...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609911, Pub Date RoW Sep 1994, Pub Date Aus Sep 1994

Description: This work provides an introduction to the work of Michel Foucault. It offers an assessment of all of Foucault's work, including his final writings ...

By: Barbara Marshall (Trent University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609287, Pub Date US Sep 1994, Pub Date RoW Aug 1994, Pub Date Aus Aug 1994

Description: In this book Barbara Marshall argues that the debates around both modernity and postmodernity neglect the role of women and significance of gender in...

By: Doreen Massey (Open University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612362, Pub Date RoW Jul 1994, Pub Date Aus Jul 1994

Description: 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 ...

By: Hilary Rose (University of Bradford, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610016, Pub Date RoW May 1994, Pub Date Aus May 1994

Description: In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to t...

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Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612102, Pub Date US Jan 1994, Pub Date RoW Dec 1993, Pub Date Aus Dec 1993

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By: Naomi Pfeffer (Independent Scholar)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745611877, Pub Date US Dec 1993, Pub Date RoW Sep 1993, Pub Date Aus Sep 1993

Description: Reproductive technology is typically discussed in the future tense. Yet doctors have always treated involuntary childlessness. This book looks at the...

By: Janet Todd (University of Aberdeen)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745610559, Pub Date US Aug 1993, Pub Date RoW Jul 1993, Pub Date Aus Jul 1993

Description: In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Resto...

By: Miriam David (The London Institute)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745606378, Pub Date US May 1993, Pub Date RoW Mar 1993, Pub Date Aus Mar 1993

Description: This book provides a detailed review of the complex relations between families and schools in the context of changing family structures and education...

By: Christine Geraghty (Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745605685, Pub Date US Aug 1991, Pub Date RoW Dec 1990, Pub Date Aus Dec 1990

Description: This is the first major study of the roles of women in prime time soap operas. In a comparative analysis of British and North American television soa...