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The Beauty Mythby Naomi Wolf
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99The bestselling classic that redefined our view od the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty." more...
Gender & Sexualityby Chris Beasley
Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 53.00Draws together all the important strands of gender analysis in a timely and impressive overview that is invaluable to students and academics taking courses on gender and feminist theory, sexuality and masculinity. more...
Hard Knocksby Janice Haaken
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 26.95Shows how cultural contexts shape how stories about domestic abuse get told, and offers tools for bringing psychology into discussions of group dynamics in the domestic violence field. This book explores the contentious issue of how to acknowledge forms of female aggression while still preserving a gender analysis of intimate partner violence. more...
Big Girls Don't Cryby Rebecca Traister
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 9.99REBECCA TRAISTER, whose coverage of the 2008 presidential election for Salon confirmed her to be a gifted cultural observer, offers a startling appraisal of what the campaign meant for all of us. Though the election didn’t give us our first woman president or vice president, the exhilarating campaign was nonetheless transformative for American women and for the nation. In Big Girls Don’t Cry, her electrifying, incisive and highly entertaining first book, Traister tells a terrific story and makes sense of a moment in American history that changed the country’s narrative in ways that no one anticipated.It was all as unpredictable as it was riveting: Hillary Clinton’s improbable rise, her fall and her insistence (to... more...
Christa Wolf's Utopian Visionby Anna K. Kuhn
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 33.00This is a book-length chronological study in English of Christa Wolf's works. more...
Love and the Lawby Jan Bowen
Allen & Unwin 2000; US$ 25.40The law impacts on every aspect of our lives, our personal lives included. This book seeks to go beyond lovers' quarrels to examine the rights of kids, the legal consequences of separation or divorce, contraception, sexual assault, same-sex relationships and other legal issues. 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$ 59.95This 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$ 41.95This 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$ 59.95This book draws on the full range of Baudrillard's work and is essential reading for students of sociology, feminist theory and cultural theory. more...









