Challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, this book investigates remembering and forgetting as socially constituted activities.
Challenging the traditional view of memory as the product and property of individual minds, this book investigates remembering and forgetting as socia...
Provides an overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis, and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructionist theory. Each chapter analyzes the historical and cultural contexts of a wide range of issues, including anxiety, the family and ageing.
Provides an overview of how to do social constructionist research and analysis, and an understanding of the concrete implications of social constructi...
Investigates the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations, demonstrating how gender is constructed through the practices of power. This book explores: how theorizing on power is affected when gender is taken into account; post-Foucauldian theory of gender and power; and whether it is possible to separate gender and power.
Investigates the complex strands that inextricably link gender and power relations, demonstrating how gender is constructed through the practices of p...
Argues that the shift from 'pathological' to 'gay affirmative' research merely substitutes one depoliticized construction of lesbianism for another. This work contends that the gay affirmative model is incompatible with radical feminist theory in which lesbianism is a political statement representing the bonding of women against male supremacy.
Argues that the shift from 'pathological' to 'gay affirmative' research merely substitutes one depoliticized construction of lesbianism for another. T...
The old model of lesbianism as a pathological affliction has largely given way to a liberal social scientific one which presents it as an alternative lifestyle, a way of loving, a sexual preference, or a source of personal fulfilment. This controversial book argues that the shift from 'pathological' to 'gay affirmative' research merely substitutes one depoliticized construction of lesbianism for another. The author contends that the gay affirmative model is fundamentally incompatible with radical feminist theory in which lesbianism is a political statement representing the bonding of women...
The old model of lesbianism as a pathological affliction has largely given way to a liberal social scientific one which presents it as an alternative ...
