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Practising Feminism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95In Practising Feminism , contributors drawn from a range of backgrounds in anthropology, sociology and social psychology, explore different ways of practising feminism and their effect on gendered identities. The contributors examine feminism and gender identities in different cultures, feminism as a politics of transformation, the call for recognition... more...
Feminism/ Postmodernism/ Development
Routledge 1995; US$ 71.95Drawing on the experiences of women from Africa, Latin America and Asia, this book challenges traditional development practices of North over South, arguing for the inclusion of issues such as identity and political action as the way forward. more...
Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.95Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression is a penetrating and comprehensive study of the development of feminism over the last thirty years. The first part of this major new textbook examines feminist theory and feminist political strategy. The second section examines how contradictions of class, race, subculture and sexuality divide women.... more...
Feminism and Autobiography
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 64.95Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very different levels of autobiographical activity going on in feminist... more...
Gender Transformations
Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95This important book will be essential reading for anyone with an interest in how questions of gender remake and are remade by the social and economic conditions in which they occur. more...
Women's Contemporary Lives
Routledge 2001; US$ 37.95Questioning notions of female success through work, education and family, Hughes asks whether feminism promises the impossible. She argues for a fluid interpretation of female subjectivity. more...
New Politics of Masculinity
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 42.95The field of masculinities research continues to expand, and has become increasingly complex. Much of the contemporary analysis of men, masculinity and power has been influenced by the work of a number of profeminist writers who have been leading figures in developing new political interventions around men?s identities and power. These men have... more...
The Frailty Myth
Random House Publishing Group 2001; US$ 19.00Can women be equal to men as long as men are physically stronger? And are men, in fact, stronger? These are key questions that Colette Dowling, author of the bestselling The Cinderella Complex , raises in her provocative new book. The myth of female frailty, with its roots in nineteenth-century medicine and misogyny, has had a damaging effect on women's... more...
Sex In Question
Taylor and Francis 1996; US$ 61.95Since the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex", French feminist thought has informed and shaped the on-going debates in the English-speaking world. This book introduces English speakers to the work of a major group of French feminists - those de Beauvoir herself supported. more...
Gender and Civil Society
Routledge 2004; US$ 41.95This book not only draws together the concepts of gender and civil society, but also adopts an international perspective, highlighting the diverse trajectories of women organizing in different country contexts and the historical, cultural and more...









