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  • Menopause in Iranian Muslim Women

    Gendered and Sexual Experiences of Menopausal Women

    by Elham Amini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers an original empirical study into the gendered and sexual experiences of Iranian Muslim women going through menopause. Using a biographical lifecourse lens, it explores the processes through which these experiences are shaped by hegemonic gender norms, as well as how these women express their agency. Centering the voices of Iranian Muslim women, this book links sexuality, ageing, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Biographical Research and the Meanings of Mothering

    Life Choices, Identities and Methods

    by Elham Amini, Laetitia Coles, Emma Cooke, Joan Cronin, Rosemary Crosse, Katarzyna Gajek, Jasneek Chawla, Fibian Lukalo, Claudia Malacrida, Michelle Millar, Jana Obrovská, Daniela Reimer ...
    What does mothering mean in different cultures and societies? This book extensively applies biographical and narrative research methods to mothering from international perspectives.This edited collection engages with changing attitudes and approaches to mothering from women’s individual biographical experiences, illuminating how socially anticipated tasks of mothering shaped through interlinking ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities

    Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

    by Finn Reygan, Julie Fish, Raffaella Ferrero Camoletto, Mark Hughes, Jamil Khan, Feliciano Villar, Elham Amini, Jill Wilkens, Karen Hvidtfeldt Madsen, Kinneret Lahad, Elizabeth Barry, Anna Siverskog, Vanessa Fabbre, Yvette Taylor, Toni Calasanti ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social divisions intersect to affect outcomes in later life.This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • The Body and Social Theory

    by Chris Shilling ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "Great to have a new edition - this is essential reading and provides a clear, accessible yet original overview of social theory and the body."- Sarah Nettleton***, University of York***"Lucidly argued and accessibly written, this book avoids the pitfalls of either too much naturalism or too much social constructivism. It is a book with something for everyone, from the classics in social theory on ... Read more

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  • Gender

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    by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Benjamin Davis ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The term "gender" was first distinguished from "sex" in the 1950s when psychologists began to discuss the idea of "gender roles," behaviors and responsibilities given to people by a society rather than flowing from their biology. Since then, leaders across disciplines have sought to better understand the roles of biology, psychology, and culture on gender. New language has emerged alongside rich ... Read more

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  • Gene Worship

    Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

    by Gisela Kaplan, Lesley J. Rogers ...
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  • The Body in Society

    An Introduction

    by Alexandra Howson ...
    In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others – we simply take them for granted. This new edition of a lively introduction to the sociology of the body examines what certain aspects of our bodies, such as the size, shape, smell and demeanour, reveal about the social organization of everyday life and how the body is crucial to the way we ... Read more

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  • Teenagers, Literacy and School

    Researching in Multilingual Contexts

    by Ken Cruickshank ...
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  • Medicine as Culture

    Illness, Disease and the Body

    by Deborah Lupton ...
    Lupton′s newest edition of Medicine as Culture is more relevant than ever.Trudy Rudge, Professor of Nursing, University of SydneyA welcome update of a text that has become a mainstay of the medical sociologist′s library.Alan Radley, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology, Loughborough UniversityMedicine as Culture introduces students to a broad range of cross-disciplinary theoretical perspectives ... Read more

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  • Why Feminism?

    Gender, Psychology, Politics

    by Lynne Segal ...
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  • Bioethics

    Methods, Theories, Domains

    by Marcus Düwell ...
    Series series Biomedical Law and Ethics Library
    This book is a philosophically-oriented introduction to bioethics. It offers the reader an overview of key debates in bioethics relevant to various areas including; organ retrieval, stem cell research, justice in healthcare and issues in environmental ethics, including issues surrounding food and agriculture. The book also seeks to go beyond simply describing the issues in order to provide the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD