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  • Skype: Bodies, Screens, Space

    by Robyn Longhurst ...
    Despite the popularity of Skype with video many of us are still figuring out how to ‘do’ it. Interviews reveal that we can now run the programme but we are less certain about how to ‘perform’ in front of the webcam. Seeing ourselves in the box on the side can feel strange. We are not quite sure which bits of our bodies to display on the screen, how much to move around the room, or move the device ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Bodies

    Exploring Fluid Boundaries

    by Robyn Longhurst ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    This is one of the first books to introduce students to the key concepts and debates surrounding the relationship between bodily boundaries, abject materiality and spaces. The text includes original interview and focus group data informed by feminist theory on the body and uses case studies to illustrate the social construction of bodies. It will critically engage students in topical questions ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Space, Place, and Sex

    Geographies of Sexualities

    by Robyn Longhurst, Lynda Johnston ...
    Series series Why of Where
    This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight the complex nature of sex and sexuality and how they are connected to both virtual and physical spaces and ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Maternities

    Gender, Bodies and Space

    by Robyn Longhurst ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    Over the past decade geographers have shown a growing interest in 'the body' as an important co-ordinate of subjectivity and as a way of understanding further relationships between people, place and space. To date, however geographers have published little on what is one of, if not the, most important of all bodies - bodies that conceive, give birth and nurture other bodies. It is time that ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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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

    $23.00 USD

  • Feminism After Postmodernism?

    Theorising Through Practice

    by Marysia Zalewski ...
    Highly original and stimulating, this book provides a detailed overview of postmodern feminist theory and practice. Subjects covered include: *the differences between the feminism of the 1970s and contemporary feminism *liberal, radical, socialist and postmodern feminisms *feminist reactions to the growth in reproductive technologies *how feminism informs debates about the subject, epistemology ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

    Feminist Reflections

    Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill ...
    Series series Transformations
    Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Autoethnography as Feminist Method

    Sensitising the feminist 'I'

    by Elizabeth Ettorre ...
    Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the ‘feminist I’. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of political responsibility - a key issue for feminists who function as cultural mediators. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Questioning Identity

    Gender, Class, Nation

    Edited by Kath Woodward ...
    Series series Understanding Social Change
    Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Making Sense of Fatherhood

    Gender, Caring and Work

    by Tina Miller ...
    As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first anticipate and then experience fatherhood for the first time. Her original, longitudinal research ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Bathing - the Body and Community Care

    by Julia Twigg ...
    Community care lies at the intersection of day-to-day life and the public world of service provision. Using the lens of one particular activity - bathing - this book explores what happens when the public world of professionals and service provision enters the lives of older and disabled people. In doing so it addresses wider issues concerning the management of the body, the meaning of carework and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Bodies at Work

    by Carol Wolkowitz ...
    ′After reading this book it will be more difficult to "do" the sociology of work and the sociology of the body in the absence of the other. In some quite exquisite ways it throws down a challenge which practitioners in both fields will find difficult to ignore′ - Paul Stewart, former editor of Work, Employment and Society, University of the West of EnglandBodies at Work provides the first full ... Read more

    $94.49 USD