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LGBT Studies and Queer Theory
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 54.50Find out how the tension between LGBT studies and queer theory exists in the classroom, politics, communities, and relationships LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory and the uneasy relationship between the two in the academic... more...
The Subjection of Women
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99John Stuart Mill's 1869 essay The Subjection of Women argues for equality between the sexes, putting forward ideas that were an affront to many at the time. His wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, is credited with co-authoring the essay. The Subjection of Women puts forward a detailed and passionate opposition to the social and legal inequalities imposed... more...
Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood
University of California Press 1985; US$ 19.16In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty years of public documents and newspaper accounts, as well as over two hundred interviews with both pro-life and pro-choice activists. She argues that moral... more...
Vindication of the Rights of Woman
The Floating Press 1792; US$ 4.99Mary Wollstonecraft wrote Vindication of the Rights of Woman in response to public debate and discussion about the education of women. She argues that women should be educated according to their station, and that they could be more than mere wives to their husbands and educators to their children. The text is one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. more...
Sociologie des rapports de sexe
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 2003; US$ 9.99Trop souvent encore les rapports de sexe sont considérés comme un sous-champ particulier de la sociologie alors qu?ils traversent l?ensemble de la discipline puisqu?ils interviennent dans tous les domaines de la société. Afin de l?établir, il ne suffit plus de s?en tenir à la notion de rapports sociaux de sexe qui, le plus généralement, est utilisée... more...
Hegemony and Heteronormativity
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective, whilst also examining the possibilities for... more...
Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 114.95Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations. This book will appeal to scholars working in the fields of gender, rurality, identity,... more...
The Man-Made World
The Floating Press 1911; US$ 4.99Early feminist author and advocate Charlotte Perkins Gilman is today best remembered for the haunting short story "The Yellow Wallpaper," which recounts the female protagonist's descent into madness. In addition to her prodigious body of fictional work, Gilman wrote a great deal of non-fiction, including scholarly and persuasive essays... more...
Gender Negotiations Among Indians in Trinidad 1917-1947
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 132.00This book is about the struggles of female and male descendants of Indian indentured migrants in Trinidad in the first half of the twentieth century, each desiring to preserve some aspects of the gender system brought from India between 1845 and 1917, which were important to their continued definition of ethnic identity and community in Trinidad. At... more...
Constructing Gendered Bodies
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 41.95Interest in sociological study of the body, theoretically and empirically, has increased dramatically in the 1990s. This book builds on this work by bringing together exciting and stimulating research which examines the social and cultural processes involved in the construction of gendered bodies and sexual practices. Contributors explore these issues... more...









