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Between violence, vulnerability, resilience and resistance
How are the structures of power and the notion of agency among Syrian women during the recent Syrian conflict connected? Rand El Zein investigates gender politics around displacement, conflict, the body, and the nation, examining how Arab television news discursively represented the experiences o...
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Foucault's strange eros
In this deeply original consideration of Foucault’s erotic ethics, Lynne Huffer provocatively rewrites Foucault as a Sapphic poet. She uncovers eros as a mode of thought that erodes the interiority of the thinking subject.
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Reworking the computer age
A global history of the computer age from the perspective of work, gender, and emotions.
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Black mothers and attachment parenting
Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents’ choices are thus made deeply sign...
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Manifestations of male image in the world’s cultures
Manifestations of Male Image in the World’s Cultures shows a single cultural phenomenon from a number of diverse perspectives. Methods used to analyze the titular male image range from Literary Studies and Cultural Studies to Media Studies.
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Taking stakes in the unknown
In 2001, Freestyle, a survey exhibition curated by Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum in Harlem, introduced both a young generation of artists of African descent and the ambitious yet knowingly opaque term post-black to a pre-9/11 and pre-Obama world. Nana Adusei-Poku contextualizes the term post...
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Searching for the body
In the early fifteenth century, two Tibetan monks debated how to transform the body ritually into a celestial palace inhabited by buddhas. Searching for the Body demonstrates the significance of this debate for understandings of Tibetan Buddhism as well as conversations on representation and embo...
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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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Disrupting rape culture
Pussy grabbing; hot mommas; topless protest; nasty women. Whether hypersexualised, desexualised, venerated or maligned, women’s bodies in public space continue to be framed as a problem. A problem that is discursively ‘solved’ by the continued proliferation of rape culture in everyday life. Inde...
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Sex crimes
This book is the first to investigate all aspects of sexual crimes and the policy and management initiatives developed to address them from a transnational, global perspective
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Penis envy and other bad feelings
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal anecdotes to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti fans out to a broader consideration of neoliberal pragmati...
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Feminist conversations on peace
EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. What is feminist peace? How can we advocate for peace from patriarchy? What do women, globally, advocate for when they use the term 'peace'? This edited collection brings together conversations across borders and boundaries to explor...
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The sexual politics of black churches
In essays and conversations, leading writers reflect on how Black churches have participated in recent discussions about issues such as marriage equality, reproductive justice, and transgender visibility. They consider the varied ways that Black people and groups negotiate the intersections of re...
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Hearing sexism
Analyzing the voices of Kurt Cobain, Kate Bush, Björk and others, Müller demonstrates how gender is performed vocally and interacts with gendered aspects of embodiment and affect.
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Toward a feminist ethics of nonviolence
Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together major feminist thinkers to debate Cavarero’s call for a postural ethics of nonviolence and a sociality rooted in bodily interdependence.Toward a Feminist Ethics of Nonviolence brings together three major feminist thinkers—Adriana Cavarero,...
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Religion, the secular, and the politics of sexual difference
Global struggles over women's roles, rights, and dress increasingly cast the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. When advocates for equality speak in terms of rights and modern progress, or reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals, both te...
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Hijras, lovers, brothers
This engrossing ethnography of one of South Asia’s third gendered or trans populations reveals not a group of marginalized others but a way of life composed of laughter, struggles, and desires. The book shows how hijras trouble how we read queerness, kinship, and the psyche.
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Hunting girls
Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable part of a woman's maturity. She discusses campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency ...
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Liberty's prisoners
A look at how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary system in the United States, reissued with a new preface that connects these early penitentiaries to our present debates over mass incarcerationLiberty’s Prisoners examines how chang...
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The matter of virtue
A feminist approach to gendered virtues and female agency in medieval and early modern literatureIf material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cann...
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Bishkek boys
Pioneering: 1st long-term ethnographic study on an urban neighbourhood in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Unique embedding of author: linking detailed micro-level insights from everyday encounters in a particular urban neighbourhood to larger-scale changes in Kyrgyz society, such as migration, econo...
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Women in radio
Women in Radio: Unfiltered Voices offers a fascinating look at the women who built their career in broadcasting, the issues specific to them, and their contributions to their field. Each story paints a unique portrait of a person’s or a group’s legacy to the radio industry.
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The millennial mosaic
The Millennial Mosaic provides an unmatched examination of Canada’s youngest adults, unveiling the news that they are an upgrade on older Canadians, and what it means for the future of Canada.
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An unrecognized contribution
Women in nineteenth-century Toronto owned factories and stores, were involved in professions and vocations, and were not housebound uneducated women as historians generally suggest. Elizabeth Gillan Muir shows how wide-ranging women’s activities were — from owning taverns, schools, and market gar...
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Miss confederation
Amidst the grand and heady spectacle of the balls, banquets, and events of the Confederation Conferences of October 1864, Mercy Coles was seeking adventure and love. She wasn’t concerned with writing for posterity, or with propriety. Miss Confederation shows history being made, without the stiffn...
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Canadian women in the sky
Canadian Women in the Skytraces a century of Canadian women’s progress in aviation and space flight. From the first woman to climb on aboard a flying machine as a passenger to a female astronaut’s second visit to the International Space Station, these women cracked the sky-blue glass ceiling to a...
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Trafficking trajectories
Highlights the role structural vulnerability plays in the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors before, during, and after traffickingDrawing on survivor narratives and ethnographically rich accounts from frontline workers in New England, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, Traff...
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Sultana's dream
Sultana’s Dream, first published in 1905 in a Madras English newspaper, is a witty feminist utopiaa tale of reverse purdah that posits a world in which men are confined indoors and women have taken over the public sphere, ending a war nonviolently and restoring health and beauty to the world."T...
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Loving in the war years
An updated edition combining two classic works of Chicana and queer literature, with a new introduction by renowned writer and luminary, Cherríe Moraga. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this updated edition of Loving in the War Years combines Moraga’s classic m...
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So we can know
An anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.
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Escape from kabul
Winner, 2026 Orwell Prize for Political WritingThe extraordinary true story of the Afghan women judges who fought for justice in the courtroom, and then fought to escape with their lives, from the bestselling British author Across twenty years of U.S.-backed government, Afghan women obtained leg...
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Awkward
Startlingly imaginative nonfiction about a very particular if common and much-maligned state of being.
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Watching women
De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences provides a platform for disseminating topical analyses of current events, showcasing new theoretical, empirical or applied research across the social sciences and related fields. Through engaging storytelling and in-depth analysis, it presents new work that...
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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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Navigating black joy for black women leaders in higher education
Through deeply personal narratives, critical storytelling, and intersectional analysis, Navigating Black Joy for Black Women Leaders in Higher Education explores how Black women cultivate, sustain, and embody joy as a transformative force in higher education and beyond.
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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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Transforming japan
Feminism is changing the lives of women and men throughout Japan.
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Xhosa masculinities and manhood in south africa
Sipungu provides an interdisciplinary exploration of what it means to be a traditionally initiated Xhosa man with a visible physical disability. Employing qualitative methods, including interviews, group discussions, and auto-ethnographic reflections, this unique study presents a rich tapestry of...
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Women's voices
Women's Voices: Global Perspectives on the Right to Vote is a special global collection of essays, published as a companion to personal stories about the importance of the right to vote by women in several countries captured on video and produced with the assistance of LexisNexis and the Internat...
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Gender, sexuality and peace education
This edited volume explores how collegiate peace educators can address gender and sexuality effectively. It covers interdisciplinary practices, classroom and campus approaches, and topics like trigger warnings, sex trafficking, and campus sexual assault. The book includes diverse disciplinary per...
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Rights and wrongs
This valuable guide to women and the law offers a concise view of US law as it has affected women's constitutional rights, their position in marriage, their opportunities in employment, and their control over their bodies. This new edition outlines advances and setbacks in the legal status of wom...
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More women on boards
This book explores the complexities of increasing the number of women on boards globally. It examines cultural and legal differences, challenges, and successful strategies. The book includes research and stories from 42 contributors across 17 countries, offering diverse solutions to achieve gende...
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Gender and climate finance in africa
Offering an in-depth analysis of gender-responsive climate finance in Africa, this volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore policy frameworks, financial inclusion mechanisms, and gender equity strategies in climate finance.
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Angela davis
Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.
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Choice words
With reproductive freedom under unprecedented attack, this powerful literary collection takes back the conversation on abortion.
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Good time party girl
Dirty Helen lived life by her rules. This irascible and defiant woman chucked tradition behind her as she fought for her independence the only way she knew how-on her back.
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A question of choice
A memoir filled with “valuable, passionate insights” from the lawyer who argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case to the Supreme Court (Kirkus Reviews).More than 40 years ago, the highest court in the land handed down a decision that would forever alter the lives of women throughout the United States...
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Whose story is this?
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me and the forthcoming memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence.
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Women, religion, and emotions in modern germany and beyond
Analyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond th...
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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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