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  • Women's Work, Men's Property

    The Origins of Gender and Class

    by Stephanie Coontz, Peta Henderson ...
    “To some a book on the origins of sexual inequality is absurd. Male dominance seems to them a universal, if not inevitable, phenomenon that has been with us since the dawn of our species. The essays in this volume offer differing perspectives on the development of sex-role differentiation and sexual inequality, but share a belief that these phenomena did have social origins, origins that must be ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Social Science

    by Alexander Rosenberg ...
    Philosophy of Social Science provides a tightly argued yet accessible introduction to the philosophical foundations of the human sciences, including economics, anthropology, sociology, political science, psychology, history, and the disciplines emerging at the intersections of these subjects with biology. Philosophy is unavoidable for social scientists because the choices they make in answering ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Feminism and Ecology

    by Mary Mellor ...
    The relationship between feminism and ecology has grown in importance in recent years. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the ecofeminist movement and its history, as well as an extended analysis of the main perspectives within it.Mellor examines the connections between feminism and the green movement, and outlines the contributions of the major participants, while contextualizing ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

    by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal, Catherine Kingfisher, Elise A. Kramer, Lynn Kwiatkowski0, Louise Lamphere1, Frances Mascia-Lees2, Rayna Rapp3, Margot Weiss4, Elizabeth F. S. Roberts5, Kimberly Theidon6 ...
    Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark collection of essays provides a contemporary overview of feminist anthropology’s historical and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea

    Silent Politics

    by Carole Ammann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
    This book examines how women in Guinea articulate themselves politically within and outside institutional politics. It documents the everyday practices that local female actors adopt to deal with the continuous economic, political, and social insecurities that emerge in times of political transformations.Carole Ammann argues that women’s political articulations in Muslim Guinea do not primarily ... Read more

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  • A Passion for Difference

    Essays in Anthropology and Gender

    by Henrietta L. Moore ...
    In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality.Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human subject. She then considers why anthropologists have contributed relatively little to these debates, and suggests that ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems

    by Nancy Folbre ...
    A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economistIn this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research, including neoclassical economics, sociology, psychology, and evolutionary biology, to answer the defining ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gender Studies in Architecture

    Space, Power and Difference

    by Dörte Kuhlmann ...
    Analyzing a range of ideas from biological, evolutionary and anthropological theories to a variety of feminist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist and constructivist discourses, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to the problematics of gender and power in architectural and urban design.Topics range from conceptions of postulated matriarchal architecture in Old Europe to contemporary ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Race and Sexuality

    by Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Brandon Andrew Robinson, Cristina Khan ...
    The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways.This illuminating book delves into the interrelation of race and sexuality as inseparable elements of our identities and social lives. The authors approach the topic through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on power, social arrangements and hierarchies, and ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Fat Lives

    A Feminist Psychological Exploration

    by Irmgard Tischner ...
    Series series Women and Psychology
    Ever caught somebody – or yourself – checking out the content of a ‘fat’ person’s supermarket trolley? Ever wondered what lies behind this behaviour, or what it might be like to be at the receiving end of this judging gaze?Within the context of the current ‘obesity debate’, this book investigates the embodied experience of ‘being large’ from a critical psychological perspective. Using ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Gender and Migration

    by Caroline B. Brettell ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

    $34.99 USD