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  • The Double Standard

    A Feminist Critique of Feminist Social Science

    by Margrit Eichler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, The Double Standard is a powerfully written book challenging the logic of much of the feminist literature in the social sciences. Although loyal to the tradition of feminist scholarship, Margaret Eichler argues that many feminist writers have unintentionally reinforced the sexual stereotypes that they seek to destroy, by using the wrong conceptual tools and the wrong ... Read more

    Was $69.99 USD Now $42.99 USD

  • Nonsexist Research Methods

    A Practical Guide

    by Margrit Eichler ...
    In accessible and jargon-free language, Margrit Eichler provides a systematic approach to identifying, eliminating, and preventing sexist bias in social science research. She begins with a general discussion of the problems and implications of sexism in research, and then identifies four primary sources of bias: androcentricity, overgeneralization, gender insensitivity, and double standards. Three ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Minds of Our Own

    Inventing Feminist Scholarship and Women’s Studies in Canada and Québec, 1966–76

    Edited by Wendy Robbins, Meg Luxton, Margrit Eichler, Francine Descarries ...
    This book of personal essays by over forty women and men who founded women’s studies in Canada and Québec explores feminist activism on campus in the pivotal decade of 1966-76. The essays document the emergence of women’s studies as a new way of understanding women, men, and society, and they challenge some current preconceptions about “second wave” feminist academics.The contributors explain how ... Read more

    $40.39 USD

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  • The Ethics of Human Enhancement

    Understanding the Debate

    Edited by Steve Clarke, Julian Savulescu, C.A.J. Coady, Alberto Giubilini, Sagar Sanyal ...
    We humans can enhance some of our mental and physical abilities above the normal upper limits for our species with the use of particular drug therapies and medical procedures. We will be able to enhance many more of our abilities in more ways in the near future. Some commentators have welcomed the prospect of wide use of human enhancement technologies, while others have viewed it with alarm, and ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics

    Edited by Christine Straehle ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Applied Ethics
    Vulnerability is an important concern of moral philosophy, political philosophy and many discussions in applied ethics. Yet the concept itself—what it is and why it is morally salient—is under-theorized. Vulnerability, Autonomy, and Applied Ethics brings together theorists working on conceptualizing vulnerability as an action-guiding principle in these discussions, as well as bioethicists, medical ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Criminological Theory

    An Analysis of its Underlying Assumptions

    by Stuart Henry, Werner J. Einstadter ...
    Criminological Theory is an examination of the major theoretical perspectives in criminology today. Werner J. Einstadter and Stuart Henry lay bare various theorists' ideas about human nature, social structure, social order, concepts of law, crime and criminals, the logic of crime causation, and the policies and practices that follow from these premises. Material is presented and organized around ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Working Relationally with Girls

    Complex Lives/Complex Identities

    Edited by Marie Hoskins ...
    Discover how girls develop a sense of self as they struggle to make sense of complexand complicated timesWorking Relationally with Girls: Complex Lives, Complex Identities examines the experience of being a girl in today’s society and the difficulties social work practitioners face in developing a universal theory that represents that experience. This unique book analyzes howand whygender is still ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Manufacturing 'Bad Mothers'

    A Critical Perspective on Child Neglect

    by Karen Swift ...
    Series series Heritage
    Child neglect has been characterized over the past century as a problem of deficient care of children by mothers. A complex and punitive child welfare system has emerged, based on a view that the children of these mothers require legally sanctioned rescue by those better suited to care for them. Karen Swift challenges both the accepted view of child neglect and the present official response to it ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

    Edited by Steven Hitlin, Stephen Vaisey ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Human beings necessarily understand their social worlds in moral terms, orienting their lives, relationships, and activities around socially-produced notions of right and wrong.Morality is sociologically understood as more than simply helping or harming others; it encompasses any way that individuals form understandings of what behaviors are better than others, what goals are most laudable, and ... Read more

    $206.09 USD

  • Narrative Therapy

    Making Meaning, Making Lives

    by Catrina Brown, Tod Augusta-Scott ...
    "This volume is especially useful in demonstrating the effects of placing social discourses at the center of therapy. It gores many sacred cows of the larger modernist therapeutic community, but in doing so it offers new ideas for mental health professionals attempting to help their clients with common and serious life problems." —PSYCRITIQUES"This compilation is an insightful read for ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • 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

    $92.69 USD

  • Good Education in an Age of Measurement

    Ethics, Politics, Democracy

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    The widespread use of the measurement of educational outcomes in order to compare the performance of education within and across countries seems to express a real concern for the quality of education. This book argues that the focus on the measurement of educational outcomes has actually displaced questions about educational purpose. Biesta explores why the question as to what constitutes good ... Read more

    $66.99 USD