Performing Masculinity
ISBN: 9781349367597 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - including literature, classical ballet, sports, rock music, films and computer games - from the early nineteenth century to the present day.
This interdisciplinary study analyzes the ways in which signs of masculinity have been performed across a wide variety of contexts and genres - includ...
|
|
cena:
195,42 zł |
Acts of Manhood: The Performance of Masculinity on the American Stage, 1828-1865
ISBN: 9781349343041 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
Investigates how and why the performance of American masculinity changed so dramatically on and off the nineteenth-century American stage.
|
|
cena:
195,42 zł |
The Uwi Gender Journey: Recollections and Reflections
ISBN: 9789766405823 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them powerful academics and leaders, as they collaborated to institutionalize gender and development studies at the University of West Indies.
Documents the visionary commitment and struggles for recognition and respect of a relatively small cohort of dedicated feminist scholars, each of them...
|
|
cena:
217,50 zł |
Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9781349298525 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Theodore Roosevelt, John Steinbeck, and Owen Wister, and analyzes the democratic politics of masculinity in American literature and positions the American West as central to modernism.
This book argues for the importance of 'cowboy masculinity, ' from late nineteenth-century dime novels, to the writings of Willa Cather, Ernest Heming...
|
|
cena:
195,42 zł |
Routledge Revivals: Homosexuality: A Research Guide (1987)
ISBN: 9781138280908 / Angielski / Twarda / 853 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points of view -- and, given that the major traditions of modern homosexual research began in Europe, is not restricted to works in English.. In general topics that are densely covered in the literature are presented in this guide selectively, with some less studied topics, such as Economics and Music, fleshed out with signposts to more comprehensive research. It seeks to not only mirror existing publications, but also to stimulate new work by... First published in 1987, this book encompasses a broad range interdisciplinary research into homosexuality -- displaying a full spectrum of points ... |
|
cena:
1228,12 zł |
Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinites in the Second World War
ISBN: 9781526100696 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and investigates the extent to...
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the ...
|
|
cena:
457,85 zł |
African Masculinities: Men in Africa from the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present
ISBN: 9781349529216 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities.
While masculinity studies enjoys considerable growth in the West, there is very little analysis of African masculinities.
|
|
cena:
390,87 zł |
Black Masculinity in the Obama Era: Outliers of Society
ISBN: 9781349493333 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Obama era. In the era of the first black president, Barack H. Obama, this book gauges the status of black masculinity and provokes discourse to discover whether his election and presence has had an influential impact on black male achievement. A purposeful sample of black males was asked, what does it mean to be a black male in the 21st century? Throughout the interviews with black males, we learn that the 'Obama Effect' has not had the intended...
Black Masculinity in the Obama Era provides an in-depth examination of the current state of black males and identifies the impact of living in the Oba...
|
|
cena:
195,42 zł |
Mama's Boy: Momism and Homophobia in Postwar American Culture
ISBN: 9781349445493 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual development of her children, in particular her sons. Deemed worst of all was the outcome of homosexuality, since the period saw an intense policing of sexual deviance. van den Oever zooms in on four instances of the cultural representation of Momism: The Grotto, by Grace Zaring Stone, Suddenly Last Summer, by Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, and Portnoy's Complaint, by Philip Roth, to offer new commentary on canonical texts, a...
In postwar America, the discourse of Momism advanced the idea that an over-affectionate or too-distant mother hampers the social and psychosexual deve...
|
|
cena:
195,42 zł |
Dylematy Taty
ISBN: 9788365636027 / Polski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dylematy niedoświadczonego taty to zbiór ok. 30 felietonów na temat tacierzyństwa pisanych z przymrużeniem oka przez świeżo upieczonego ojca. Książka powinna zainteresować zarówno młode matki, jak i przerażonych tatusiów, których rzeczywistość przerosła marzenia i oczekiwania. Tematyka felietonów dotyczy różnych aspektów życia Rodziców, takich jak karmienie, usypianie, wyjścia na spacer czy na plac zabaw, a wszystko okraszone refleksjami autora na temat zmieniającej się współcześnie roli ojca w życiu dziecka.
Atutem ilustracji są humorystyczne ilustracje Anny... Dylematy niedoświadczonego taty to zbiór ok. 30 felietonów na temat tacierzyństwa pisanych z przymrużeniem oka przez świeżo upieczonego ojca. K...
|
|
28,49 zł |
Globalized Fatherhood
ISBN: 9781785333408 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men ...
|
|
cena:
163,50 zł |
The Man in the Mirror: Discussion and Application Guide
ISBN: 9781508818540 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Man in the Mirror is not a book you can simply read, lay aside, and expect to have all your problems neatly solved and put behind you. We have designed the discussion and application questions in this Guide, to enable you, either in a small group or on your own, to systematically identify and address the challenges you face as a man seeking to follow Jesus as a faithful disciple.
The Man in the Mirror is not a book you can simply read, lay aside, and expect to have all your problems neatly solved and put behind you. We have des...
|
|
cena:
45,32 zł |
Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television
ISBN: 9781138053694 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of quality television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about the effects of women s equality on men, masculinity, and the relationship between men and women. Drawing upon studies of contemporary television programs, including popular series viewed internationally such as Mad Men, The League, Hung, Breaking Bad, Louie, and Girls, this book explores the ways in which...
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of quality television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculini...
|
|
cena:
219,99 zł |
Mostly Straight: Sexual Fluidity Among Men
ISBN: 9780674976382 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those categories are too rigid. They are, they insist, "mostly straight." They're straight, but they feel a slight but enduring romantic or sexual desire for men. To the uninitiated, this may not make sense. How can a man be "mostly" straight? Ritch Savin-Williams introduces us to this new world by bringing us the stories of young men who consider themselves to be mostly straight or sexually fluid. By hearing about their lives, we discover a radically... Most of us assume that sexuality is fixed: either you're straight, gay, or bisexual. Yet an increasing number of young men today say that those cat... |
|
cena:
126,65 zł |
The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion
ISBN: 9780700624782 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the justifications of territorial conquest. They told stories of exhilarating perils, boundless landscapes, and erotic encounters that elevated their chauvinism, avarice, and violence into forms of nobility. As self-proclaimed avatars of American exceptionalism, Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. suggests in The American Elsewhere, adventurers transformed westward expansion into a project of romantic nationalism. A study of US expansionism from 1815-1848,...
As important cultural icons of the early nineteenth-century United States, adventurers energized the mythologies of the West and contributed to the ju...
|
|
cena:
317,80 zł |
Staying Attached: Fathers and Children in Troubled Times
ISBN: 9781782205944 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War and the social moves from patriarchal fatherhood to the multiple ways of doing "dad." The book questions why fathers have been marginalized by therapists working with children and families. It proposes that theories of psychotherapy, including attachment theory, have failed to sufficiently take fathers' love for their children and the reality of changing social fatherhoods into account, consequently affecting related practice. Different contemporary family structures and...
This book is about the changing social contexts for fathering in the United Kingdom since the end of the Second World War and the social moves from pa...
|
|
cena:
189,28 zł |
Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
ISBN: 9781781383001 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence...
This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines ori...
|
|
cena:
589,83 zł |
Queer Maghrebi French: Language, Temporalities, Transfiliations
ISBN: 9781781382790 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines original French language data from my ethnographic fieldwork in France with a wide array of recent narratives and cultural productions including performance art and photography, films, novels, autobiographies, published letters, and other first-person essays to investigate how these queer men living in France and the diaspora stake claims to time and space, construct kinship, and imagine their own future. By closely examining empirical evidence...
This book investigates the lives and stories of queer Maghrebi and Maghrebi French men who moved to or grew up in contemporary France. It combines ori...
|
|
cena:
161,54 zł |
The Lives of Stay-At-Home Fathers: Masculinity, Carework and Fatherhood in the United States
ISBN: 9781787435025 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Family forms in the United States are continuing to evolve. Fathers choosing to stay home to care for their children while their wives work is an emerging trend. In this book, the author explores why stay-at-home fathers chose carework over paid work, how such a choice shapes their masculine identities and their fathering styles, and where they find themselves positioned in their communities. Scholars and students interested in families, gender, masculinity, and parenting will find this book informative and engaging for understanding diverse family arrangements.
Family forms in the United States are continuing to evolve. Fathers choosing to stay home to care for their children while their wives work is an emer...
|
|
cena:
263,89 zł |
Jak być wystarczająco dobrym tatą. Audiobook
ISBN: 9788365864512 / Polski / Plastikowa / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. „Poradnik dla ojców, którzy chcą wiedzieć wszystko (i to szybko) o swoim nowo narodzonym dziecku.
Dziecko to rewolucja, ale książka »Jak być wystarczająco dobrym tatą« pomoże Ci przez nią przejść. Zawarłem w niej syntezę najbardziej przydatnych informacji i sposobów na to, żeby nie stracić kontroli nad życiem i odnaleźć się w najważniejszej roli – w roli ojca. Ta książka pomoże ci przetrwać najgorsze chwile po narodzinach dziecka, bo jest instrukcją obsługi nie tylko potomka, lecz także związku.” „Poradnik dla ojców, którzy chcą wiedzieć wszystko (i to szybko) o swoim nowo narodzonym dziecku.
Dziecko to rewolucja, ale książka »Jak ... |
|
33,16 zł |