Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences – serie
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Masculinities in Transition
Av V. Robinson, J. Hockey
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary …
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
Inbunden, 2010
1098 kr
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This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to …
Sex, Power and the Games
Av K. Woodward
Inbunden, 2012
989 kr
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This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport.
Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions
Av Sally Hines, Yvette Taylor m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
537 kr
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This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, …
Intersections between Feminist and Queer Theory
Av D. Richardson, J. McLaughlin m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
1098 kr
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Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and …
Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India
Av J. Belliappa
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.
Masculinities, Care and Equality
Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives
Av N. Hanlon
Inbunden, 2012
537 kr
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This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men …
Same Sex Marriages
New Generations, New Relationships
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships …
Queer Presences and Absences
Av Yvette Taylor, Michelle Addison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
552 kr
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This book explores changes and continuations in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer lives, identities and spatial practices in the 21st century from around the globe, using a range of methods to connect pasts, places and policies with contemporary times, linking individual and social …
Politics of In/Visibility
Being There
Inbunden, 2015
537 kr
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Visibility matters in contemporary societies; online, in the media and in the public eye. But who is seen and how? Are women still seen through a male gaze? This book explores the politics of looking and being looked at, and the relationship between actual and virtual worlds, for example in sport, …
Making 'Postmodern' Mothers
Pregnant Embodiment, Baby Bumps and Body Image
Av M. Nash
Inbunden, 2012
569 kr
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Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood.
Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine …
New Politics of Fatherhood
Men's Movements and Masculinities
Av Ana Jordan
Inbunden, 2019
825 kr
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This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men’s movements, and fathers’ rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men’s movements, their politics, and the identities …
Men, Masculinities and Methodologies
Inbunden, 2013
989 kr
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This book contributes to the growing literature on men and masculinities, but does so through a methodological lens. It addresses methodological approaches and challenges for feminist and pro-feminist studies of men and masculinities.
Bisexuality
Identities, Politics, and Theories
Av Surya Monro
Inbunden, 2015
989 kr
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This book provides an accessible introduction to bisexuality studies, set within the context of contemporary social theory and research. Drawing on interviews conducted in the UK and Colombia, it maps out the territory, providing a means of understanding sexualities that are neither gay, nor …
Women and Violence
The Agency of Victims and Perpetrators
Av Heather Widdows, Herjeet Marway
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Chapter 4 of this book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. Topics covered include rape, pornography, prostitution, suicide bombing and domestic violence. The volume …
Sexual Politics of Ballroom Dancing
Av Vicki Harman
Inbunden, 2018
737 kr
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This book presents an engaging sociological investigation into how gender is negotiated and performed in ballroom and Latin dancing that draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as the author’s own experience as a dancer. It explores the key factors underpinning the popularity of this …
Reframing Reproduction
Conceiving Gendered Experiences
Av M. Nash
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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How do rapid social and technological changes shape reproductive realms today? This book considers the complex choices, anxieties and challenges that come alongside postmodern reproduction for women and men in the West. Topics include surrogacy, fatherhood, sperm banking, egg donation, …
Lesbian Lives in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia
Post/Socialism and Gendered Sexualities
Av F. Stella
Inbunden, 2014
1316 kr
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This book explores the everyday lives of 'lesbian' women in urban Russia. It explores changes and continuities by examining generational differences, and attends to regional variation by considering what 'lesbian' life looks like in different locations, problematising essentialist accounts of …
Queer Post-Gender Ethics
The Shape of Selves to Come
Inbunden, 2014
1425 kr
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Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer …
Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism
Inbunden, 2014
552 kr
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Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism draws together established and emerging academics that have a key interest in men, masculinity, travel and tourism. Through the chapters collected in this volume the reader will be exposed to cutting edge research and writing that offer global and local …
Black Women's Bodies and The Nation
Race, Gender and Culture
Av S. Tate
Inbunden, 2015
1098 kr
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Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic Black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean and the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the …
Gay Men’s Working Lives, Retirement and Old Age
Inbunden, 2017
989 kr
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This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1924–86. It draws on data collected from interviews with 82 men in Australia, England, New Zealand, and USA. The first half of the book concentrates on the men’s working lives, while …
Masculinities in Transition
Av V. Robinson, J. Hockey
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications of this for the nature of contemporary …
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality
Häftad, 2010
1098 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics and inequalities as these (dis)connect across time and place, and are re-constituted in relation to …
Sex, Power and the Games
Av K. Woodward
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the social and cultural impact of the Olympic Games, examining gender and sport, the inequalities between nations and people and at what the Games offer and how they are changing, in relation to spectacles, spectatorship and culture, including the links between art and sport.
Sexualities: Past Reflections, Future Directions
Häftad, 2012
569 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection examines recent theoretical and methodological debates, shifts in law and policy, and social and cultural changes around sexuality. It sets out new ways of conceptualizing and researching sexuality and explores persistently marginalised and re-traditionalised sexual practices, …
Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India
Av J. Belliappa
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.
Masculinities, Care and Equality
Identity and Nurture in Men's Lives
Av N. Hanlon
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores men's ambiguous relationship with intimate caring work within a context where carefree and nurturing expectations for men are competing for influence. For men, to be more involved carers clashes with commonly valued expectations of them as men and this book analyses how men …
Same Sex Marriages
New Generations, New Relationships
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Based on extensive couple and individual interviews with young same sex couples who have legally formalized their relationships, this book argues that same sex marriages as they are lived need to be understood in terms of interlinked developments in lesbian and gay life, heterosexual relationships …
