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'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2022-06-23
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The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans...
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Polity
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2022-06-15
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This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities,...
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Polity
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2022-02-25
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Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes...
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Polity
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2022-02-25
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*A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*'This will blow you away'- Stylist'Joly's prose is sensitive and heartbreaking...darkly compelling' - Business Post'An extraordinary and...
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Quercus
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2022-02-03
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Today, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and other manifestations...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-10-18
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How does gender influence social movements?How do social movements deal with gender? In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-08-23
Collection :
Social Movements
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***RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank...
Editeur :
Cassell
Parution :
2021-07-08
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A comprehensive overview of feminist scholarship edited by an internationally recognized and leading figure in the field Companion to Feminist Studies provides a broad overview of the rich history and the multitude of approaches, theories, concepts, and debates central...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-24
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Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-11-19
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
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What did gay men do in women’s liberation—and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-11-13
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How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men?How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn Connell – one of the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-11-10
Collection :
Short Introductions
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What if the most joyful act was not to transgress a norm but to erect it?What if creativity consisted in enunciating a law under the pretext of violating it? And what if it turned out that you, who claim to prefer exceptions, only talk about them because they allow you...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-10-22
Collection :
Theory Redux
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More than fifty years after the beginning of the Women's Movement, women are still not "making it" in traditionally male careers.Women start their careers on parity with men but generally end them far earlier, having achieved less status, lower compensation, and less...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
Parution :
2020-09-03
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On June 3, 2015, massive women’s street demonstrations took place in many cities across Argentina to protest against femicide. Under the slogan Ni una menos, Not One (Woman) Less, thousands of women took to the streets to express their outrage at systematic violence...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-06-24
Collection :
Critical South
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How should we talk about desire, power and equality in the wake of the #Me Too debate? For Carolin Emcke, bestselling author and winner of the German Peace Prize, the debate demonstrates one thing above all: a conversation about abuse and sexuality has emerged that can...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-17
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This new book by Massimo Recalcati focuses on the psycho-social life of the son. Comparing and contrasting the tragic story of Oedipus by Sophocles and the parable of the prodigal son, Recalcati argues that all common parenting strategies, whether authoritarian or...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-04-03
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A comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies, featuring original contributions from leading experts from around the world The Companion to Women's and Gender Studies is a comprehensive resource for students and scholars alike,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-03-26
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Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed, traditional gender norms...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-01-17
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Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-10-11
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