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The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Lawby Andrea Barnes
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005; US$ 65.00The Handbook of Women, Psychology, and the Law is a groundbreaking book that presents legal and psychological perspectives on how society has responded to the most vital (and often controversial) contemporary women's issues. The Handbook covers such important topics as abortion, rape, domestic violence, sexual harassment, employment discrimination, divorce, poverty, welfare, and mental health. Written by experts in the fields of jurisprudence, clinical psychology, feminist psychology, ethics, and public policy, this essential volume shows how crucial social issues have effected civil and criminal law. This comprehensive resource Describes the evolution of gender-related legal decisions Explores sexual harassment in the workplace from... more...
Female Chauvinist Pigsby Ariel Levy
Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 11.99Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them. In her quest to uncover why this is happening, Levy interviews college women who flash for the cameras on spring break and teens raised on Paris Hilton and breast... more...
Gender, Identity, and Placeby Linda McDowell
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 70.50How is gender linked to geography? Do men and women live different lives in different parts of the world? And if gendered attributes are socially constructed, then how do femininity and masculinity vary over time and space? These are some of the questions Linda McDowell explores in this accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction to feminist perspectives on geography. more...
Sister Outsiderby Audre Lorde; Cheryl Clarke
Ten Speed Press 2012; US$ 12.99Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to... more...
Gender and Archaeologyby Roberta Gilchrist
Routledge 1999; US$ 39.95Gender and Archaeology is the first volume to critically review the development of what is now a key topic internationally, looking across a range of periods and material culture. more...
Professions and Patriarchyby Anne Witz
Routledge 1992; US$ 55.95This impressive and original study is one of the first books to combine mainstream sociology with feminism in exploring the subject of the professions and power. more...
Feminist Amnesiaby Jean Curthoys
Routledge 1997; US$ 37.95This book criticises current trends in feminist theory from the perspective of forgotten and allegedly outdated feminist ideas. more...
Baudrillard's Challengeby Victoria Grace
Routledge 2000; US$ 55.95This book draws on the full range of Baudrillard's work and is essential reading for students of sociology, feminist theory and cultural theory. more...
Feminisms and the Selfby Morwenna Griffiths
Routledge 1995; US$ 39.95Feminisms and the Self is both a critique and a construction of feminist philosophy, bringing an original contribution to the current debate surrounding identity and subjectivity. more...
Partial Visionsby Angelika Bammer
Routledge 1992; US$ 39.95Bammers book traces the radical utopianism of feminist politics in Euro-American, French and German women writers of the 1970s. She argues that feminist utopianism is not just visionary, but myopic - ie time and culture-bound - as well. more...