What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.
What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by the so...
What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.
What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the so...
There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this new movement for women's liberation. A key feature of that movement was its challenge to liberal democracy, tackling not just political issues but the very nature of the political system itself. This work takes the feminist movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand to be broadly representative of that challenge, with due attention to cultural particularities. Feminist writings, designed to bring new converts and to communicate the aims and views of the...
There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this...
This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/feminist 'pro-sex' perspectives have become prevalent in analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex, while heterosex, if mentioned at...
This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with o...
This volume presents and evaluates key social theories and a global range of empirical studies on internet dating, considering whether internet dating is driven by commercial or consumerist logic or by more technical or reflexive approaches to finding sexual or love partners. It pays particular attention to the possibilities of internet dating for different genders, sexualities, and cultures, seeking to understand internet dating in a way that does not just replicate the logic of heternormative narratives of romance, but considers the divergences from this narrative as non-heterosexual and...
This volume presents and evaluates key social theories and a global range of empirical studies on internet dating, considering whether internet dat...
Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships.
Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate ...
