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Work, Labour and Cleaning
The Social Contexts of Outsourcing Housework
Inbunden, 2019
1263 kr
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The outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but there has been little research into White British women who work as independent providers of cleaning services. Work, Labour and Cleaning is a cross-cultural analysis based on new research into two particular …
Sharing Milk
Intimacy, Materiality and Bio-Communities of Practice
Av Shannon K. Carter, Beatriz M. Reyes-Foster
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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The feeding of human milk to socially and biologically unrelated infants is not a new phenomenon, but the Euroamerican values of individualism have generated expectations that mothers are individually responsible for feeding their own infants.Using a bio-communities of practice framework, this …
Austerity, Women and the Role of the State
Lived Experiences of the Crisis
Inbunden, 2020
1263 kr
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Using interviews with women from diverse backgrounds, Dabrowski makes an invaluable contribution to the debates around the gendered politics of austerity in the UK. Exploring the symbiotic relationship between the state’s legitimization of austerity and women’s everyday experiences, she reveals how …
Chinese Men’s Practices of Intimacy, Embodiment and Kinship
Crafting Elastic Masculinity
Av Siyang Cao
Inbunden, 2021
1263 kr
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This book explores Chinese young men’s views of manhood and develops a new concept of ‘elastic masculinity’ which can be stretched and forged differently in response to personal relationships and local realities.Drawing from empirical research, the author uses the term shenti (body-self) as a …
University Audit Cultures and Feminist Praxis
An Institutional Ethnography
Inbunden, 2025
1101 kr
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Being ‘REF-able’. The impact agenda. The student experience. University audit culture has infiltrated academic life, but how should we respond? Drawing on a five-year Institutional Ethnography of UK universities, the author provides a feminist take on the neoliberal university and abolitionist …
North Korean Women and Defection
Human Rights Violations and Activism
Av Hyun-Joo Lim
Inbunden, 2023
1193 kr
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Recent North Korean diaspora has given rise to female refugee groups fighting for the protection of women’s rights. Presenting in-depth accounts of North Korean women defectors living in the UK, this book examines how their harrowing experiences have become an impetus for their activism. The author …
Feminist Politics in Neoconservative Russia
An Ethnography of Resistance and Resources
Inbunden, 2022
1263 kr
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This is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s.Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the author illustrates how a new generation of activists chose feminism as their main political beacon, and how they negotiated the challenges of …
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism
Inbunden, 2024
1132 kr
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Embodying Irish Abortion Reform has been shortlisted for the 2025 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.Offering a unique perspective, this book explores the lived, embodied and affective experiences of reproductive rights activists living under, and mobilizing against, Ireland’s constitutional abortion …
Embodying Irish Abortion Reform
Bodies, Emotions, and Feminist Activism
Häftad, 2026
370 kr
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Embodying Irish Abortion Reform has been shortlisted for the 2025 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.Offering a unique perspective, this book explores the lived, embodied and affective experiences of reproductive rights activists living under, and mobilizing against, Ireland’s constitutional abortion …
Platforms, Sex, Work
Sexual Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age
Inbunden, 2027
1159 kr
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How is online sex work being reshaped by the rise of platform labour and the gig economy? In this book, Helen Rand examines the legal, economic, cultural and technological forces shaping online sex markets and the lived experiences of those working within them. Drawing on qualitative interviews …
Divorce Migration
Tales of Empowerment and Subordination from Ethnic Minority Women in Denmark
Häftad, 2026
392 kr
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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on women’s experiences of divorce among migrant communities from the Middle East and South Asia in Denmark, this book traces how gendered power operates across families, communities and state institutions. Through rich first-person …
