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  • The Beauty Mythby Naomi Wolf

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 10.99

    The 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...

  • Advertising Culturesby S Nixon

    Sage Publications Ltd. 2003; US$ 52.00

    The economic and cultural role of the `creative industries' has gained a new prominence and centrality in recent years. This new salience is explored here through the most emblematic creative industry: advertising. Advertising Cultures also marks a significant contribution to the study of gender and of commercial cultures through its detailing of the way gender is written into the creative cultures of advertising and into the subjective identities of its key practitioners. more...

  • Gender & Sexualityby Chris Beasley

    Sage Publications Ltd. 2005; US$ 53.00

    Draws 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...

  • Sex in Advertisingby Tom Reichert; Jacqueline Lambiase

    Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 54.95

    Sex in Advertising: Perspectives on the Erotic Appeal is the first book to thoroughly tackle important issues about sex in advertising. What is it? Does it work? How does it affect individuals and society? Well-respected scholars and popular writer more...

  • Prostitution and Beyondby Rohini Sahni; V Kalyan Shankar; Hemant Apte

    SAGE India 2008; US$ 29.95

    What is the diversity of perspectives on sex work in India today? This edited. volume addresses this question through its sections on feminist discourse, ethnographic. studies, socio-economic-legal-health frameworks and cultural reflections. The first section explores the space for women in prostitution within mainstream. feminist discourse in India, and the way it has evolved over time. The second. section emphasizes on the heterogeneity of sex work practices with their historical. vestiges, contemporary manifestations and urban-rural contrasts. The third section. examines the interface of society and prostitution, tracing economic and social. undercurrents, health concerns and legal regulations. The final section focuses. on the bearings... more...

  • Half the Skyby Nicholas D. Kristof; Sheryl Wudunn

    Knopf Publishing Group 2009; US$ 11.99

    From two of our most fiercely moral voices, a passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation: the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. With Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the extraordinary women struggling there, among them a Cambodian teenager sold into sex slavery and an Ethiopian woman who suffered devastating injuries in childbirth. Drawing on the breadth of their combined reporting experience, Kristof and WuDunn depict our world with anger, sadness, clarity, and, ultimately, hope. They show how a little help can transform the lives of women and girls abroad. That Cambodian girl... more...

  • Beyond My Controlby Nancy Friday

    Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009; US$ 15.99

    35 years later, the follow-up to the groundbreaking mega-bestseller My Secret Garden, explores the nature of our sexual fantasies. more...

  • Where Men Are Wives and Mothers Ruleby Mary Ann Clark

    UPF 2001; US$ 44.95

    While much theological thinking assumes a normative male perspective, this study demonstrates how our ideas of religious beliefs and practices change in the light of gender awareness. more...

  • Boys Adriftby Leonard Sax

    Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.99

    Family physician, psychologist, and acclaimed author of Why Gender Matters reveals the truth about what’s driving the decline of American boys—and what we can do about it. more...

  • Sex and the Stateby Mala Htun

    Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 22.00

    Sex and the State explores patterns of gender-related policy reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. more...