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  • Changing Narratives of Sexuality

    Contestations, Compliance and Womens Empowerment

    by Susie Jolly, Professor Deevia Bhana, Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, Cecilia Sardenberg, Samia Huq, Assistant Professor Mona Ali, Penny Johnson, Mulki Al-Sharmani ...
    Series series Feminisms and Development
    Changing Narratives of Sexuality examines the tensions and contradictions in constructions of gender, sexuality and women's empowerment in the various narrations of sexuality told by and about women. From storytelling to women's engagement with state institutions, stories of unmarried women and ageing women, a sex scandal and narrations of religious influence on women's subjectivities and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • The Natural Way of Things

    A Novel

    by Charlotte Wood ...
    **“A rare kind of writer and a formidable one.” —The New York Times“Wood inserts the reader straight into the jaws of her story, never relenting until the devastating end. If you raced through I Who Have Never Known Men or The Handmaid’s Tale and are looking for something with the same bite, this book belongs on your TBR.” —Marie ClaireThe prescient feminist fable and international classic ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • K

    by Bernardo Kucinski ...
    A remarkable novel written by the Brazilian journalist Bernardo Kucinski. K is the story of a father who searches desperately for his daughter, ‘disappeared’ during the military dictatorship in Brazil. The father is himself a refugee from Poland in the 1930s. He is racked by feelings of guilt—that because he was immersed in his Yiddish writing and scholarship, he did not really know his daughter ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Living Constitution

    by David A. Strauss ...
    Series series Inalienable Rights
    Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia once remarked that the theory of an evolving, "living" Constitution effectively "rendered the Constitution useless." He wanted a "dead Constitution," he joked, arguing it must be interpreted as the framers originally understood it. In The Living Constitution, leading constitutional scholar David Strauss forcefully argues against the claims of Scalia, Clarence ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale

    Women in the International Division of Labour

    by Maria Mies ...
    Series series Critique Influence Change
    'It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production - mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies - constitutes the perennial basis upon which "capitalist productive labour" can be built up and exploited.'First published in 1986, Maria Mies's progressive book was hailed as a ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Abortion & Life

    by Jennifer Baumgardner, Tara Todras-Whitehill ...
    Baumgardner's groundbreaking new book includes abortion testimonials by Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, and others."In her role as author and activist, Jennifer Baumgardner has permanently changed the way people think about feminism . . . and will shape the next hundred years of politics and culture." —The Commonwealth Club of California, hailing Baumgardner as one of Six ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bodies in Resistance

    Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Wendy Harcourt ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks. From diverse disciplinary perspectives, the book looks at how feminists are engaged ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Sustainable Development Goals in the Asian Context

    Edited by Jan Servaes ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents research that focuses on Sustainable Development in Asia. Chapters are extended works of papers presented at Communication/Culture and The Sustainable Development Goals (CCSDG): Challenges for a New Generation, an international conference held in Chiang Mai University in December 2015. The chapters address assessments of Millennium Development Goals in several Asian countries ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Displacement by Development

    Ethics, Rights and Responsibilities

    by Peter Penz, Jay Drydyk, Pablo S. Bose ...
    For decades, policy-makers in government, development banks and foundations, NGOs, researchers and students have struggled with the problem of how to protect people who are displaced from their homes and livelihoods by development projects. This book addresses these concerns and explores how debates often become deadlocked between 'managerial' and 'movementist' perspectives. Using development ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Wives, Mistresses and Matriarchs

    Asian women today

    by Louise Williams ...
    This is the untold story of the women of Asia. It is not a tale of the submissive oriental beauties of western fiction, but the true stories of prime ministers, factory labourers, business magnates, mistresses and prostitutes. It is a true story of extraordinary power and humiliating poverty in a region which is facing the most profound social changes the world has ever seen. It is a book about ... Read more

    $10.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Culture of Mean

    Representing Bullies and Victims in Popular Culture

    by Emily D. Ryalls ...
    Series Book 30 - Mediated Youth
    The Culture of Mean is the first book-length feminist critical exploration of representations of youth bullying in media. Bringing into conversation scholarship on feminism, media, new communication technologies, surveillance, gender, race, sexuality, and class, Emily D. Ryalls critically examines the explosion of discourse about youth bullying that has occurred in the United States during the ... Read more

    $43.09 USD

  • Education, Gender and Development

    A Capabilities Perspective

    by Mari-Anne Okkolin ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender perspective, the book narrates the stories of women who have successfully built their educational ... Read more

    $68.99 USD