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New directions in women, peace and security
What does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations. Today the Wom...
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Gendered justice?
Built upon the foundations of women’s real-life experiences, which have real-world implications, Gendered Justice? introduces a range of recommendations and implications for both policy and practice in the field of criminal justice.
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The professionalisation of women’s sport
The Professionalisation of Women’s Sport draws upon the expertise of a range of scholars from the fields of sport sociology, sport history, sport economics to critically discuss the complex and often fragmented histories of women’s involvement in professional sport.
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Very important people
A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's...
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A local history of global capital
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While th...
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How women became poets
How the idea of the author was born in the battleground of genderWhen Sappho sang her songs, the only word that existed to describe a poet was a male one—aoidos, or “singer-man.” The most famous woman poet of ancient Greece, whose craft was one of words, had no words with which to talk about who ...
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The silver women
The construction of the Panama Canal is typically viewed as a marvel of American ingenuity. What is less visible, and less understood, is the project’s dependence on the labor of Black migrant women. The Silver Women shifts the focus of this monumental endeavor to the West Indian women who travel...
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We are not born submissive
A philosophical exploration of female submission, using insights from feminist thinkers—especially Simone de Beauvoir—to reveal the complexities of women’s reality and lived experienceWhat role do women play in the perpetuation of patriarchy? On the one hand, popular media urges women to be indep...
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Marxism and the oppression of women
Decades after initial publication, Vogel's book remains an essential contribution to the development of a materialist theory of gender oppression.
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Women in western political thought
In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to understand why the gap between formal and real gender equality persists. Our philosophical herita...
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Remaking women
Contrary to popular perceptions, newly veiled women across the Middle East are just as much products and symbols of modernity as the upper- and middle-class women who courageously took off the veil almost a century ago. To make this point, these essays focus on the "woman question" in the Middle ...
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Gender, true crime and criminology
Interest in true crime as a form of popular entertainment has sky-rocketed in recent years. Gender, True Crime and Criminology challenges traditional definitions of the genre, expanding representations of victimhood and how we understand true crime audiences in gendered terms.
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Erased
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Pat...
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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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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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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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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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Brotherhood is a constant possibility
A deeply personal, provocative portrait of how race, culture and sexuality intersect to reshape what it means to be an Asian man in North America today. What does it mean to be an Asian man in North America? In this timely and insightful memoir, Ryan Cho unpacks ideas about masculinity and Asian...
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Carry on
An exploration of the messy but liberating process of defining and decentring inner narratives of shame, fear and regret for one’s own queer identity. Queerphobic and transphobic messaging can arrive from nearly any direction, and once queer and trans people are exposed to the fear, disgust and j...
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How do i sexy?
A practical and insightful consideration of what it means to be sexual as a trans, queer person from activist Mx. Nillin Lore. What even is “sexy,” and how do you do it? A tough question for trans and nonbinary queers struggling to find their sexual selves in a landscape rife with misogynistic, t...
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Economies of the male body
An intimate portrayal of masculinity in Egypt from lively, grounded, and fresh perspectivesBased on long-term research in Cairo and Alexandria and grounded in ethnographic stories and intimate portrayals, Economies of the Male Body takes up masculinity in Egypt from an important new angle: male b...
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Turkic epics and the nation builders' ideal man
Focusing on two foundational Turkic epics, the Kyrgyz Manas and the Anatolian Köroğlu, this study offers a comparative analysis of masculine ideals and generational authority and the uses to which they were put by nation-builders and rebels.
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Fashioning the dandy
The book offers a unique view on dandyism as a cultural tradition, based not merely on fashionable attire, but also as a particular lifestyle with specific standards of behaviour, bodily practices and conceptual approaches to dress.
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The autists
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis. Until the 1980s, autism was regarded as a condition found mostly in boys. Even in our time, autistic girls and women have largely remained undiagnosed....
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After screen life
A study of gender, faith and ageing among Malaysian screen workers, foregrounding Muslim women’s labour, resilience and visibility behind the screen.
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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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Visual misogyny
This volume contains two Open Access chapters. Visual Misogyny is a key contribution to media, cultural and gender studies that investigates the disturbing prevalence of visual gendered hate in digital spaces and explores the dehumanising force of the circulation of such images on social media pl...
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Incels in the italian manosphere
Incel and red pill online groups are expanding rapidly in Italy, where narratives of self-victimization and violence against women propagate among young men facing economic hardship. This book provides a timely, comprehensive analysis of the ‘negative solidarity’ rooted in the economic and social...
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Write like a man
How virility and Jewishness became hallmarks of postwar New York’s combative intellectual sceneIn the years following World War II, the New York intellectuals became some of the most renowned critics and writers in the country. Although mostly male and Jewish, this prominent group also included w...
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Women who dare
A riveting, multifaceted history of women’s exploration of Greenland and a stirring portrait of a nation contending with the climate crisis and the legacy of colonialismArctic exploration is dominated by the myth of the valiant male hero, yet this mythmaking leaves us with a skewed sense of histo...
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The femininity puzzle
The »femininity puzzle« presents itself in two ways: first in the role of effeminization of the male Jew in antisemitic discourse, and then in the transgressive forms of femininity connected to Jewish women, especially the allosemitic Orientalization in the figure of the »Beautiful Jewess«.
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Napoleon's closet
Margaret Waller’s fresh account of the paradoxical history of male clothing centers on an unlikely pair: Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart who crowned himself emperor of France, and Pierre Antoine Le Boux La Mésangère, the defrocked priest who became Europe’s premier fashion editor.
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Autocratic genderwashing
Why autocratic leaders have adopted gender-equality reforms as a way to legitimize their ruleAuthoritarian governments are often seen as attacking gender equality. Vladimir Putin, Viktor Orbán, and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan have made well-publicized critiques of feminism. But, as Elin Bjarnegård and P...
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Affective worldmaking
This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of af...
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Queer god de amor
Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical...
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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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How to lead when men fail
A lively new translation of Plutarch’s The Excellence of Women, a remarkable collection of stories about brave and clever female leaders in ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and North AfricaIn times of peace, the women of the ancient Mediterranean had few chances to exercise leadership. But when fail...
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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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Global domestic workers
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Drawing from the EU-funded DomEQUAL research project across 9 countries in Europe, South America and Asia, this comparative study explores the conditions of domestic workers around the world and the campaigns they are conducting to impro...
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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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Dirty dragging
The ambivalence of mimetic practices under apartheid, National Socialism, and Jim Crow – new queer theoretical reflections on drag from a transoceanic perspective.
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Amnesty international and women's rights
Miriam Ganzfried offers a comprehensive look at Amnesty International’s work on women’s rights. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archival material from the Swiss and the German sections, she shows how women activists strategized to make AI increase i...
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Father time
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn’t it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber-stamped this venera...
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Postmigrant counterpublics
Conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and sexually dissident urban contexts in Germany.
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Living with an infected planet
Living with an infected planet has led to an unprecedented crisis of care, especially since the outbreak of the coronavirus. Elke Krasny presents a feminist mapping of key terms and key images defining the “pandemicscape.” Arguing against going back to normal, she outlines a new global internatio...
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Empire of purity
How the US crusade against prostitution became a tool of empireBetween the 1870s and 1930s, American social reformers, working closely with the US government, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and ...
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The great refusal
What happens when the West interferes in the sexual politics of postcolonial Global South nationsSince 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 Refusal...
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One step sideways, three steps forward
The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant’s journey in life has involved detours and sidesteps—not the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology. In this engaging and moving ...
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Global contestations of gender rights
Against the backdrop of a long history of unequal rights implementation, this volume addresses the questions of why and in which ways gender equality has become contested in various political contexts. Local case studies examine the relevant structural, institutional, and socio-cultural causes of...
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Misogyny beyond the west
Centered on the Golden Forum, Hong Kong’s only right-leaning online community with a distinct subculture, Misogyny Beyond the West explores how misogyny manifests and circulates online in times of sociopolitical upheaval.
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