The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance
ISBN: 9780415165839 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, together with exciting and provocative new writings. It provides systematically arranged articles to guide the reader from topic to topic, and specially linked articles by scholars and teachers to explain key issues and put the extracts in context. This comprehensive volume:
* reviews women's contributions to theatre history * includes contributions from many of the top academics in this discipline * examines how theatre has represented... The Routledge Reader in Gender and Performance presents the most influential and widely-known, critical work on gender and performing arts, t...
|
|
cena:
265,01 zł |
Gender and the English Revolution
ISBN: 9780415214919 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of women and men in politics and society; and how conventional concepts of masculinity and femininity were called into question by the war and the trial and execution of an anointed King. Ann Hughes combines discussion of the activities of women in the religious and political upheavals of the revolution, with a pioneering analysis of how male political identities were fractured by civil war. Traditional parallels and analogies between marriage, the... In this fascinating and unique study, Ann Hughes examines how the experience of civil war in seventeenth-century England affected the roles of wome... |
|
cena:
193,64 zł |
Stuart Hall
ISBN: 9780415262675 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stuart Hall is one of the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. Having famously coined the term 'Thatcherism' in the 80s, and assessed New Labour as the 'Great Moving Nowhere Show'. His analysis of cultural practice over the past forty years has been politically engaged, addressing questions of class, 'race', ethnicity, and identity. James Procter's introduction places Hall's work within its historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts, providing a clear guide to his key ideas and influences, as well as his critics and his intellectual legacy, covering topics including: Media, Culture and...
Stuart Hall is one of the founding fathers of Cultural Studies. Having famously coined the term 'Thatcherism' in the 80s, and assessed New Labour as t...
|
|
cena:
101,89 zł |
Transcending the Boundaries of Law: Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory
ISBN: 9780415481403 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Transcending the Boundaries of Law' brings together three generations of the most respected feminist legal theorists in order to assess the past, the present and the future of feminist legal thought in the law and society tradition.
'Transcending the Boundaries of Law' brings together three generations of the most respected feminist legal theorists in order to assess the past, the...
|
|
cena:
244,62 zł |
Women's Movements in Asia: Feminisms and Transnational Activism
ISBN: 9780415487030 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts, it provides a full overview of the history of feminism, as well as the current context of the women's movement in 12 countries: the Philippines, China, Indonesia, Japan, Burma, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Korea, India and Pakistan. For each of these countries the manner in which feminism changes according to cultural, political, economic and religious factors is explored. The contributors investigate... Women's Movements in Asia is a comprehensive study of women's activism across Asia. With chapters written by leading international experts... |
|
cena:
249,71 zł |
My New Gender Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity
ISBN: 9780415538657 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an entire generation of trans writers and artists. This revised and expanded edition extends that legacy, offering an accessible foundation for examining gender in the reader's life and in the broader culture while arguing for the dismantling of all forms of oppression. For fans of the original,...
"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, s...
|
|
cena:
198,74 zł |
Studying Men and Masculinities
ISBN: 9780415578295 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a 'crisis in masculinity' still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Men and Masculinities offers an engaging and comprehensive overview of masculinity. Drawing on a wide range of cultural practices and texts from different genres and media, David Buchbinder examines the notion of patriarchy and the challenges to patriarchal power, including queer theory. The book considers whether crisis may in fact be built into the very structure of the masculine, and examines emergent masculinities post-9/11. ...The late-twentieth-century anxiety about a 'crisis in masculinity' still persists today, particularly in English-speaking cultures. Studying Me... |
|
cena:
275,19 zł |
Innocence, Knowledge and the Construction of Childhood: The Contradictory Nature of Sexuality and Censorship in Children's Contemporary Lives
ISBN: 9780415607636 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'difficult knowledge' - and highlights the way this regulation contributes to the construction of childhood.
This text provides a critical examination of the discourses that underpin the regulation of children's access to certain knowledge - understood as 'di...
|
|
cena:
249,71 zł |
Understanding Global Sexualities: New Frontiers
ISBN: 9780415673471 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent that a number of leading edge critical issues remain. This theory-building book explores some of the areas in which there is major and continuing debate, for example, about the relationship between sexuality and gender; about the nature and status of heterosexuality; about hetero- and...
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively ...
|
|
cena:
764,59 zł |
The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America's Public Companies
ISBN: 9780415872966 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women's progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and... Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women's progress since that ... |
|
cena:
265,01 zł |
Psychoanalysis and Feminism a Radical Reassessment of Freudian Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9780465046089 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the enemy. She argued that a rejection of psychoanalysis as bourgeois and patriarchal was fatal for feminism. However it may have been used, she pointed out, psychoanalysis is not a recommendation for a patriarchal society, but rather an analysis of one. "If we are interested in understanding and challenging the oppression of women," she says, "we cannot afford to neglect psychoanalysis." In an introduction written specially for this...
In 1974, at the height of the women's movement, Juliet Mitchell shocked her fellow feminists by challenging the entrenched belief that Freud was the e...
|
|
cena:
107,06 zł |
Gender and Child Welfare in Society
ISBN: 9780470681879 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in children's development
Considers ways in which raising questions about gender can help researchers and practitioners better understand family relationships and issues in chi...
|
|
cena:
246,54 zł |
The Living Goddesses
ISBN: 9780520229150 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original--and originally shocking--interpretation of prehistoric European civilization. Gimbutas flew in the face of contemporary archaeology when she reconstructed goddess-centered cultures that predated historic patriarchal cultures by many thousands of years. This volume, which was close to completion at the time of her death, contains the distillation of her studies, combined with new...
The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbu...
|
|
cena:
149,70 zł |
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body
ISBN: 9780520240544 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless ( ) prose, Bordo analyzes a whole range of issues connected to the body--weight and weight loss, exercise, media images, movies, advertising, anorexia and bulimia, and much more--in a way that makes sense of our current social landscape--finally This is a great book for anyone who wonders why women's magazines are always describing delicious food as 'sinful' and why there is a cake called Death by Chocolate. Loved it "--Katha Pollitt, Nation columnist and author of Subject...
"Unbearable Weight is brilliant. From an immensely knowledgeable feminist perspective, in engaging, jargonless ( ) prose, Bordo analyzes a whol...
|
|
cena:
160,97 zł |
Producing Desire: Changing Sexual Discourse in the Ottoman Middle East, 1500-1900volume 52
ISBN: 9780520245631 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues--in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define...
This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material--medical texts, legal documen...
|
|
cena:
160,97 zł |
Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History
ISBN: 9780520250055 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture--from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces-- mostly androcentric--that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality....
This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture--from prehistory ...
|
|
cena:
134,14 zł |
Writing Women's Worlds: Bedouin Stories
ISBN: 9780520256514 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. She explores how the telling of stories of everyday life challenges the power of anthropological theory to render adequately the lives of others and the way feminist theory appropriates Third World women.
Lila Abu-Lughod draws on anthropological and feminist insights to construct a critical ethnography of a small Awlad 'Ali Bedouin community in Egypt. S...
|
|
cena:
134,14 zł |
Ain't No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends, and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why It Matters
ISBN: 9780520274716 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers--and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help. By comparing low-income mothers' experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women's struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors...
Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S.--at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and...
|
|
cena:
456,12 zł |
Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf
ISBN: 9780520280106 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitation of oil allowed tribal rulers of the U.A.E, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait to dream big. How could fishermen, pearl divers and pastoral nomads catch up with the rest of the modernized world? Even today, society is skeptical about the clash between the modern and the archaic in the Gulf. But could tribal and modern be intertwined rather than mutually exclusive? Exploring everything from fantasy architecture to neo-tribal sports and from Emirati...
In the 1970s, one of the most torrid and forbidding regions in the world burst on to the international stage. The discovery and subsequent exploitatio...
|
|
cena:
134,14 zł |
Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform
ISBN: 9780520280120 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the erachanges in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and moreCharles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles...
This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the hi...
|
|
cena:
134,14 zł |