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
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647562, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jul 2011, Pub Date Aus Jul 2011

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: Judy Wajcman (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630441, Pub Date US May 2004, Pub Date RoW Mar 2004, Pub Date Aus Mar 2004
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630434, Pub Date US May 2004, Pub Date RoW Mar 2004, Pub Date Aus Mar 2004

Description: This timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminis...

By: Kimberly Hutchings
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619521, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619514, Pub Date US Jan 2003, Pub Date RoW Dec 2002, Pub Date Aus Dec 2002

Description: Hegel and Feminist Philosophy traces the legacy of Hegel in the work of thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Irigaray and Butler, and also in contemporary d...

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: Rachel Alsop (University of Hull), Annette Fitzsimons (University of Lincoln and Humberside) and Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745619446, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745619439, Pub Date US Jun 2002, Pub Date RoW Jul 2002, Pub Date Aus Jul 2002

Description: This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in wh...

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: Judith Squires (University of Bristol)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745615011, Pub Date US Jan 2000, Pub Date RoW Nov 1999, Pub Date Aus Nov 1999

Description: This wide-ranging and accessible book provides a thorough overview of the key debates in gender and political theory....

By: Susan J. Hekman (University of Texas, Arlington)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623795, Pub Date US Dec 1999, Pub Date RoW Oct 1999, Pub Date Aus Oct 1999
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623788, Pub Date US Dec 1999, Pub Date RoW Oct 1999, Pub Date Aus Oct 1999

Description: This key work addresses one of the most central and controversial issues in contemporary feminist theory: the problem of difference....

By: Michele Barrett
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616674, Pub Date RoW Dec 1998, Pub Date Aus Dec 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616667, Pub Date RoW Dec 1998, Pub Date Aus Dec 1998

Description: This new book draws together the work of a leading social theorist who has devoted herself to examining the intersection of cultural studies, social ...

By: Maria Pia Lara (University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745620435, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745620428, Pub Date RoW Aug 1998, Pub Date Aus Aug 1998

Description: In this original work, the Mexican political philosopher, Maria Pia Lara, develops a new approach to public sphere theory and a novel understanding o...

By: Edward Fullbrook (Freelance writer) and Kate Fullbrook (University of the West of England)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745612034, Pub Date US Feb 1998, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745612027, Pub Date US Feb 1998, Pub Date RoW Dec 1997, Pub Date Aus Dec 1997

Description: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twent...

Edited by: Mary Lyndon Shanley (Vassar College) and Uma Narayan (Vassar College, New York)
By: Mary Lyndon Shanley (Vassar College) and Uma Narayan (Vassar College, New York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745617978, Pub Date RoW Jul 1997, Pub Date Aus Jul 1997
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745617961, Pub Date RoW Jul 1997, Pub Date Aus Jul 1997

Description: In this volume leading feminist theorists re-think the traditional concepts of political theory and expand the range of problems and concerns regarde...

By: Ngaire Naffine (University of Adelaide)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745611648, Pub Date RoW Dec 1996, Pub Date Aus Dec 1996
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745611631, Pub Date RoW Dec 1996, Pub Date Aus Dec 1996

Description: This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual hi...

By: Gillian Rose (Late of the University of Sussex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745611563, Pub Date RoW Jun 1993, Pub Date Aus Jun 1993

Description: Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology o...

By: Lois McNay (Somerville College, Oxford, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609393, Pub Date US Nov 1992, Pub Date RoW Oct 1992, Pub Date Aus Oct 1992

Description: This book offers a systematic attempt to explore the point of convergance between feminist theory and the work of Michel Foucault....

Edited by: Anne Phillips
By: Anne Phillips and Michele Barrett
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745607955, Pub Date RoW May 1992, Pub Date Aus May 1992

Description: This major new book is the most up-to-date account of current feminist debates, written by some of the world's leading feminist thinkers. The 1980s s...

Edited by: Gill Kirkup (The Open University) and Laurie Smith Keller (The Open University)
By: Gill Kirkup (The Open University) and Laurie Smith Keller (The Open University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609782, Pub Date US Apr 1992, Pub Date RoW Feb 1992, Pub Date Aus Feb 1992

Description: Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book...

Edited by: Rosemary Pringle (Macquarie University)
By: Rosemary Pringle (Macquarie University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609805, Pub Date US Apr 1992, Pub Date RoW Jan 1992, Pub Date Aus Jan 1992

Description: Defining Women is a major in-depth analysis of the social, economic and political position of women in contemporary societies. It explores the ways i...

Edited by: Helen Crowley (Respectively, Lecturer in Sociology, and Senior Lecturer in Economics, both at the Open University) and Susan Himmelweit
By: Helen Crowley (Respectively, Lecturer in Sociology, and Senior Lecturer in Economics, both at the Open University) and Susan Himmelweit
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745609768, Pub Date US Apr 1992, Pub Date RoW Jan 1992, Pub Date Aus Jan 1992

Description: Knowing Women explores some of the most exciting and new developments in feminist theory, engaging the reader as an active participant in critical d...

By: Judy Wajcman (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745607788, Pub Date US Sep 1991, Pub Date RoW Aug 1991, Pub Date Aus Aug 1991

Description: Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food pr...

By: Henrietta L. Moore (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745601137, Pub Date RoW Sep 1988, Pub Date Aus Sep 1988

Description: This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and bala...

By: Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell (University of Pennsylvania)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745603667, Pub Date RoW Sep 1987, Pub Date Aus Sep 1987

Description: This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the Marxist-feminis...