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New Labour's Women MPs
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 55.95It was not long after the election of a record number of women to the House of Commons in 1997 that the backlash began. The criticism was all-encompassing: they wore the wrong clothes, they voted the wrong way and they were concerned with the wrong issues. Above all, they were accused of failing to make difference, to have failed women, and were dismissed... more...
Dying to be a Man
Routledge 2005; US$ 49.95Based on field research and interviews in the USA and Brazil, Dying to be a Man explores how manhood or male identity is shaped in poor urban settings, how it is that some young men resist the prevailing norms, what the implications are for more...
Feminist Perspectives on the World Bank Project
Routledge 2005; US$ 69.95In this book, an international team of contributors including Diane Elson, Suzanne Bergeron and Cheryl Doss, provide an assessment of the World Bank. more...
Family First
Free Press 2013; US$ 16.00Do you feel that your family is not what it used to be, or what it has the potential to be? Do you worry that the parenting decisions you're making today may be scarring your child for life? Do you sometimes feel you are in a tug-of-war with the world over who will shape your child's values and beliefs? With Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for... more...
Political Theory and Feminist Social Criticism
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 35.00Brooke Ackerly examines the methods by which Third World feminist activists have criticised society. She argues that their activities show how feminist theory can move beyond its theoretical impasse towards articulating a social criticism relevant to dealing with real world inequalities. more...
Understanding Marriage
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 58.00This book draws together a wide range of new developments in the study of marital interaction. The book should be of great interest both to those who study couple interaction, and to those who work with couples to help them resolve their differences, and improve their communication. more...
A Defense of Abortion
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00David Boonin has written the most thorough and detailed case for the moral permissibility of abortion yet published. This major book will be especially helpful to those teaching applied ethics and bioethics in philosophy or in law and medicine and to general readers for whom abortion remains a high-profile issue. more...
A Companion to Gender History
Wiley 2008; US$ 213.95A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human... more...
The Curious Feminist
University of California Press 2004; US$ 27.95In this collection of lively essays, Cynthia Enloe makes better sense of globalization and international politics by taking a deep and personal look into the daily realities in a range of women's lives. She proposes a distinctively feminist curiosity that begins with taking women seriously, especially during this era of unprecedented American influence.... more...
Same-Sex Affairs
University of California Press 2003; US$ 28.95At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex sexual subcultures had emerged in the Pacific Northwest: one among the men and boys who toiled in the region's logging, fishing, mining, farming, and railroad-building industries; the other among the young urban white-collar workers of the emerging corporate... more...









