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Marx on gender and the family
Marx has long been accused of not taking women's issues seriously. Heather Brown sets the record straight.
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Marx, women, and capitalist social reproduction
This essential volume selects the key essays of renowned Marxist Feminist, and theorist of social reproduction, Martha E. Giménez.
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Meeting the mushrooms of los angeles
Enter a fungal wonderland to reconnect with nature.Welcome to the Mycoverse of Los Angeles! In this wondrous guide to common local mushrooms, Aaron Tupac opens Angelenos' eyes to the mycelial ties that bind us all together. From the San Gabriel Mountains, across the sprawling metropolis, and clea...
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Men, women, and chain saws
From its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the popularity of the low-budget tradition, Carol Clover looks in particular at slasher, occult, and rape-rev...
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Mid-century modernism and the american body
The first investigation of how race and gender shaped the presentation and marketing of Modernist decor in postwar AmericaIn the world of interior design, mid-century Modernism has left an indelible mark still seen and felt today in countless open-concept floor plans and spare, geometric furnishi...
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Mitzvah girls
Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community. Ayala Fader examines language, gender, and the body from infancy to adulthood, showing how Hasidic girls in Brooklyn become women responsible for rearing th...
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Muslim lives in eastern europe
Muslim Lives in Eastern Europe examines how gender identities were reconfigured in a Bulgarian Muslim community following the demise of Communism and an influx of international aid from the Islamic world. Kristen Ghodsee conducted extensive ethnographic research among a small population of Pomaks...
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Navigating gender identity in india
Navigating Gender Identity in India addresses the significant gap in research by examining the specific problems encountered by female, male, intersex, and other gender-fluid identities in their daily lives in India.
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Non-binary genders
Methodologically innovative in its use of mixed-media diary research, this timely book offers a focused sociological study of non-binary people’s identities and experiences in the UK. From negotiating a sense of legitimacy when ‘not feeling trans enough’ to how identities can shift over time, it...
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One soul we divided
The first book-length selection from the extraordinary unpublished diary of the late-Victorian writer “Michael Field”—the pen name of two female coauthors and romantic partnersMichael Field was known to late-Victorian readers as a superb poet and playwright—until Robert Browning let slip Field’s ...
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Overcoming the challenge of structural change in research organisations
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, the authors describe the experiences of the project’s implementation in seven Gender Equality Inno...
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Pedagogies of possibility for negotiating sexuality education with young people
Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with Young People offers a sustained and critical consideration of the possibilities and politics of engaging with young people in the redevelopment and delivery of contemporary approaches to Sexuality Education.
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People, spaces and places in gendered environments
Demonstrating how women and other marginalized groups respond to the limits and options imposed by the history and structure of spaces, this volume envisions a world beyond colonial, able-bodied, class and patriarchal limitations where freedom of movement functions for all.
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Perfect me
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today’s worldThe demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to which we judge ourselves a success or failure....
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Period
A bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruationMenstruation is something half the world does for a week at a time, for months and years on end, yet it remains largely misunderstood. Scientists once thought of an individual’s period as useless, and some doc...
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Pregnancy interrupted
A compassionate, evidence-based look at pregnancy loss—how and why it happens, and why the assurances of the medical industry don’t reflect the realityOne of the most prevalent myths about human pregnancy is that of all possible outcomes, a baby is the most likely. Pregnancy Interrupted challenge...
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Producing inclusive feminist knowledge
In the global South there is potential for politics to marginalize the diverse perspectives of subaltern communities. Exploring ongoing and new feminist dialogues in the global South, this book examines the ways in which dominant epistemologies are challenged, unique identities formed, and the im...
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Researcher
ResearcHER smashes stereotypes to show you that research is not just conducted by men and women in lab coats or stuck in stuffy offices; researchers are women from diverse geographies, are disabled and able-bodied, are transgender, nonbinary, queer. Researchers look just like you, and you could b...
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Running, identity and meaning
Running, Identity and Meaning showcases how gender, class, age and ethnicity influence whether and how different groups participate in the sport, and explores its role in the reproduction of social structure and the search for distinction.
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Selling women short
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street ...
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Serving the wealthy
The invisible relationship between the ultra-rich and their domestic workersBehind the facades of luxurious Parisian buildings, the immense gates of châteaux, and the bay windows of vast villas on the Côte d'Azur, live the invisible workers who serve the ultra-wealthy of France. Housekeepers, but...
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Sex and secularism
How gender inequality is built into the conception of modern secular nation-statesJoan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, she challenges one of the central claims of the "clash of civilizations" polemic—that seculari...
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Social research matters
From the vantage point of forty years in social research and the study of families, Julia Brannen offers an invaluable account of how research is conducted and ‘matters’ at particular times. This fascinating work covers key developments in the field that remain of vital concern to society and dem...
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Sport, gender and development
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Sport, Gender and Development brings together an exploration of sport feminisms to offer new approaches to research on Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) in global and lo...
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Sport, gender and mega-events
This volume unpicks mega-events as gendered entities and showcases how they both position athletes in relation to one of two binary sex positions and also push the boundaries of what we see and accept as a recognisably gendered male or female body.
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Sports charity and gendered labour
Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of audiences.
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Storying the immobilities of gender violence in the uk and mexico
This book is a unique image-based bilingual (English and Spanish) book of textual and visual narratives of gender-based violence (GBV) in the UK and Mexico, framed with a critical commentary that sets these stories in the context of GBV in both countries.
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Taken for granted
How the words we use—and don't use—reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "openly gay" so widely used but "openly straight" is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "male nurse," "working mom," and "white trash"? Taken for Granted exposes the subtly encoded ways we ta...
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Teaching and making peace in every relationship
Dating and domestic violence are two the most frequently occurring forms of gender-based violence, both in the United States and globally. This book is intended to help address misconceptions about dating and domestic violence, thereby helping to inform readers who can and should be involved in p...
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The body positivity movement
The Body Positivity Movement: A Story of ‘Acceptable’ Fatness investigates the contemporary body positivity movement and its origins. Starting in 1969, using memoirs, life writing and autobiography, author Gemma Lucy Gibson traces body positive activities and practices of the fat activist movemen...
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The emerald handbook of family and social change in the global south
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This handbook presents chapters on the family in the Global South, acknowledging gender differences and their impact on individuals and societies in those nations and cultures.
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The great refusal
What happens when the West interferes in the sexual politics of nations in the postcolonial Global SouthSince the end of the Cold War, many Western nations have increasingly sought to integrate gay rights into their diplomacy, foreign policy, and international development programs. In The Great R...
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The invention of international order
The story of the women, financiers, and other unsung figures who helped to shape the post-Napoleonic global orderIn 1814, after decades of continental conflict, an alliance of European empires captured Paris and exiled Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating French military expansionism and establishing th...
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The missionary, the catechist and the hunter
An engaging, well researched examination of the role played by Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland
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The mother of all questions
Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.
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The new arab man
Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduct...
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The rainbow vote
Why LGBTQ+ voters are a politically distinct and electorally important constituencyToday, it is not uncommon for politicians to court LGBTQ+ voters, with ads on Grindr and appearances at Pride parades. But, as Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte shows, “rainbow voters” are not merely another sociodemographic...
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The slow moon climbs
A surprising look at the role of menopause in human history—and why we should change the ways we think about itAre the ways we look at menopause all wrong? Susan Mattern says yes and, in The Slow Moon Climbs, reveals just how wrong we have been. From the rainforests of Paraguay to the streets of ...
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The soldier's reward
A sweeping history of intimacy and family life in France during the age of revolutionThe French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars devastated Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. The Soldier’s Reward recovers the stories of soldiers and their relationships to family and domestic life during this...
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The tolls of uncertainty
An indispensable investigation into the American unemployment system and the ways gender and class affect the lives of those looking for workThrough the intimate stories of those seeking work, The Tolls of Uncertainty offers a startling look at the nation’s unemployment system—who it helps, who i...
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Trans
How the transgender experience opens up new possibilities for thinking about gender and raceIn the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in th...
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Trans athletes’ resistance
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
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Transgender and non-binary prisoners’ experiences in england and wales
Rich in inimitable detail, Transgender and Non-Binary Prisoners’ Experiences in England and Wales documents the lived experiences of trans women and non-binary persons incarcerated in men’s prisons, critically analysing Prison Service policies and practices to suggest ways to improve their condit...
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Unconditional equals
Why equality cannot be conditional on a shared human “nature” but has to be for allFor centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. But appeals to natural equality invited gradations of natural diff...
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Understanding trans health
What does it mean for someone to be ‘trans’? What are the implications of this for healthcare provision? Drawing on the findings of an extensive research project, this book addresses urgent challenges and debates in trans health. It interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography...
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Victorian sappho
What is Sappho, except a name? Although the Greek archaic lyrics attributed to Sappho of Lesbos survive only in fragments, she has been invoked for many centuries as the original woman poet, singing at the origins of a Western lyric tradition. Victorian Sappho traces the emergence of this idealiz...
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Voices of resistance
Voices of Resistance: Music, Femicide, and Gender Justice in Spain and Greece examines how feminist musical practices across Southern Europe confront femicide and gender-based violence through mourning, memory, and political resistance.
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