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The Moment Of Lift - How Empowering Women Changes The World (Paperback): Melinda Gates The Moment Of Lift - How Empowering Women Changes The World (Paperback)
Melinda Gates 1
R280 R219 Discovery Miles 2 190 Save R61 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'We need this message more than ever' - Malala Yousafzai

The right to:

Spend your own money. Go to school. Earn an income. Access contraceptives. Work outside the home. Walk outside the home. Choose whom to marry. Get a loan. Start a business. Own property. Divorce a husband. See a doctor. Drive a car.
All of these rights are denied to women in some parts of the world.

The Moment of Lift is the Sunday Times bestselling debut from Melinda Gates, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment.

'How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings – and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.'

For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to lift a society up, you need to stop keeping women down.

In this moving and compelling book, Melinda shares the stories of the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world and the lessons she’s learned from them. As she writes in the introduction, “That is why I had to write this book – to share the stories of people who have given focus and urgency to my life. I want all of us to see ways we can lift women up where we live.”

Melinda’s unforgettable narrative is backed by startling data as she presents the issues that most need our attention – from child marriage to lack of access to contraceptives to gender inequity in the workplace. And, for the first time, she writes about her personal life and the road to equality in her own marriage. Throughout, she shows how there has never been more opportunity to change the world – and ourselves.

Writing with emotion, candour, and grace, she introduces us to remarkable women and shows the power of connecting with one another.

When we lift others up, they lift us up, too.

Gypsy Feminism - Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism (Paperback): Laura Corradi Gypsy Feminism - Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism (Paperback)
Laura Corradi
R620 Discovery Miles 6 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. Women are presented as helpless victims, especially when it comes to gendered forms of violence. The reality, however, is much more complicated. In Gypsy Feminism, Laura Corradi demonstrates how Romaphobia - racist and anti-Gypsy rhetoric and prejudice, pervading every level of society - has led to a situation where Romani communities face multiple discrimination. In this context, the empowerment of women and girls becomes still more difficult: until recently, for example, women have largely remained silent about domestic violence in order to protect their communities, which are already under attack. Examining feminist research and action within Romani communities, Corradi demonstrates the importance of an intersectional approach in order to make visible the combination of racism and sexism that Gypsy women face every day. This concise and authoritative book will appeal to scholars and students in the areas of Sociology, Cultural Studies, Women's and Gender Studies and Anthropology, as well as Politics, Media Studies, Social Policy, and Social Work. It is also an invaluable resource for activists, community and social service workers, and policymakers.

The Panic Years - 'Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf' Pandora Sykes (Paperback): Nell Frizzell The Panic Years - 'Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf' Pandora Sykes (Paperback)
Nell Frizzell
R295 R231 Discovery Miles 2 310 Save R64 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'As informative as it is poetic' Dolly Alderton 'Compassionate, funny and beautifully written' Daisy Buchanan ------------------------------ Every woman will experience the panic years in some way between her mid-twenties and early-forties. This maddening period of transformation and personal crisis is recognisable by the myriad of decisions we make - about partners, holidays, jobs, homes, savings, friendships - all of which are impacted by the urgency of the single decision that comes with a biological deadline, the one decision that is impossible to take back; whether or not to have a baby. But how to stay sane in such a maddening time? How to know who you are and what you might want from life? How to know if you're making the right decisions? Raw, hilarious and beguilingly honest, Nell Frizzell's account of her panic years is both an arm around the shoulder and a campaign to start a conversation. This affects us all - women, men, mothers, children, partners, friends, colleagues - so it's time we started talking about it with a little more candour. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING - 'Loved this book! Highly recommend for any woman (or man!) during the weird time in your 20s' ***** - 'Those panicky feelings of being a 24-30 something put into words' ***** - 'This book brings forth a sigh of relief. Excellent book that really taps into what so many of us are thinking and feeling, but not saying' *****

Performing the Wound - Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Hardcover): Niki Tulk Performing the Wound - Practicing a Feminist Theatre of Becoming (Hardcover)
Niki Tulk
R4,058 Discovery Miles 40 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Creating trauma-sensitive, interdisciplinary performance and research Vital need for trauma-informed performance practice Adding scholarship on Cecilia Vicuna and Renee Green specifically, as BIPOC female artists Trauma studies and performance studies growing areas internationally Healing in creating performance, that is not therapy Equipping artists and makers with language around trauma

Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left - Psychoanalytic Theory and Intersectional Politics (Hardcover): Alicia Valdes Toward a Feminist Lacanian Left - Psychoanalytic Theory and Intersectional Politics (Hardcover)
Alicia Valdes
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

- Interdisciplinary approach is valuable for a wide market of scholars and professionals in the fields Psychoanalysis, Feminisms, and Political Philosophy. - Very topical in its examination of sexual difference/oppression in its relation to other forms of inequality. - Departs from traditional feminist readings on antagonism that pivot around the sole axis of sex and/or gender and instead provides a broader and intersectional approach.

Nightbitch - Stylist's summer cult breakout (Paperback): Rachel Yoder Nightbitch - Stylist's summer cult breakout (Paperback)
Rachel Yoder
R304 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R57 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Looking for a summer read with bite? 'OUTRAGEOUS, SMART, FUN' BONNIE GARMUS, Sunday Times bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'BRILLIANT' Stylist 'INCREDIBLE' Carmen Maria Machado One day, the mother was a mother but then, one night, she was quite suddenly something else... At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind. Instead, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice... 'Terrifically alive' Observer 'I tore through it' Lisa McInerney 'The spiritual successor to Angela Carter' Evening Standard 'Funny and unnerving as hell' Jenny Offill

Muslim Textualities - A Literary Approach to Feminism (Hardcover): Jean M. Kane Muslim Textualities - A Literary Approach to Feminism (Hardcover)
Jean M. Kane
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, Muslim women writers located in Europe and American entered the cultural mainstream. Literary and visual productions negotiated static visual emblems of Islam, most prominently "the veil." They did so not by rejecting veiling practices, but by adapting Muslim resources, concepts and visual tradition to empowerment narratives in popular media. Mainstream reception of their works has often overlooked or misread these negotiations. Muslim Textualities argues for more flexible and capacious interpretation, with particular attention to visibility as a metaphor for political agency and to knowledge of cultural contexts. This provocative volume aims to articulate Muslim female agency through clear and accessible analysis of the theory and concepts driving the interpretation of these works. Scholars interested in the working representations of Muslim women, feminist subjectivities, and the complexities of gender roles, patriarchy, and feminism will find this volume of particular interest.

Transdisciplinary Feminist Research - Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Paperback): Carol Taylor, Jasmine Ulmer,... Transdisciplinary Feminist Research - Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice (Paperback)
Carol Taylor, Jasmine Ulmer, Christina Hughes
R1,273 Discovery Miles 12 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

What is feminist transdisciplinary research? Why is it important? How do we do it? Through 19 contributions from leading international feminist scholars, this book provides new insights into activating transdisciplinary feminist theories, methods and practices in original, creative and exciting ways - ways that make a difference both to what research is and does, and to what counts as knowledge. The contributors draw on their own original research and engage an impressive array of contemporary theorising - including new materialism, decolonialism, critical disability studies, historical analyses, Black, Indigenous and Latina Feminisms, queer feminisms, Womanist Methodologies, trans studies, arts-based research, philosophy, spirituality, science studies and sports studies - to trouble traditional conceptions of research, method and praxis. The authors show how working beyond disciplinary boundaries, and integrating insights from different disciplines to produce new knowledge, can prompt important new transdisciplinarity thinking and activism in relation to ongoing feminist concerns about knowledge, power and gender. In doing so, the book attends to the multiple lineages of feminist theory and practice and seeks to bring these historical differences and intersections into play with current changes, challenges and opportunities in feminism. The book's practically-grounded examples and wide-ranging theoretical orbit are likely to make it an invaluable resource for established scholars and emerging researchers in the social sciences, arts, humanities, education and beyond.

Male Supremacism in the United States - From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right (Hardcover):... Male Supremacism in the United States - From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right (Hardcover)
Emily K. Carian, Alex DiBranco, Chelsea Ebin
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First comprehensive treatment of recently emerging anti-feminist, sexist and misogynistic movements Examines their ideologies and activities, as well as their links to the established far right Sheds new light on violently misogynistic online communities that have inspired 'Incel' terrorism against women

Male Supremacism in the United States - From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right (Paperback):... Male Supremacism in the United States - From Patriarchal Traditionalism to Misogynist Incels and the Alt-Right (Paperback)
Emily K. Carian, Alex DiBranco, Chelsea Ebin
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First comprehensive treatment of recently emerging anti-feminist, sexist and misogynistic movements Examines their ideologies and activities, as well as their links to the established far right Sheds new light on violently misogynistic online communities that have inspired 'Incel' terrorism against women

Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality - The Transnational Lives of Renee Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney (Hardcover):... Women, Citizenship, and Sexuality - The Transnational Lives of Renee Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney (Hardcover)
Melanie C. Hawthorne
R3,755 Discovery Miles 37 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Until well into the twentieth century, the claims to citizenship of women in the US and in Europe have come through men (father, husband); women had no citizenship of their own. The case studies of three expatriate women (Renee Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney) illustrate some of the consequences for women who lived independent lives. To begin with, the books traces the way that ideas about national belonging shaped gay male identity in the nineteenth century, before showing that such a discourse was not available to women and lesbians, including the three women who form the core of the book. In addition to questions of sexually non-conforming identity, women's mediated claim to citizenship limited their autonomy in practical ways (for example, they could be unilaterally expatriated). Consequently, the situation of the denizen may have been preferable to that of the citizen for women who lived between the lines. Drawing on the discourse of jurisprudence, the history of the passport, and original archival research on all three women, the books tells the story of women's evolving claims to citizenship in their own right.

Violence and Resistance in Sikh Gendered Identity (Paperback): Jaspal Kaur Singh Violence and Resistance in Sikh Gendered Identity (Paperback)
Jaspal Kaur Singh
R1,233 Discovery Miles 12 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the constructions and representations of male and female Sikhs in Indian and diasporic literature and culture through the consideration of the role of violence as constitutive of Sikh identity. How do Sikh men and women construct empowering identities within the Indian nation-state and in the diaspora? The book explores Indian literature and culture to understand the role of violence and the feminization of baptized and turbaned Sikh men, as well as identity formation of Sikh women who are either virtually erased from narratives, bodily eliminated through honor killings, or constructed and represented as invisible. It looks at the role of violence during critical junctures in Sikh history, including the Mughal rule, the British colonial period, the Partition of India, the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in India, and the terror of 9/11 in the United States. The author analyzes how violence reconstitutes gender roles and sexuality within various cultural and national spaces in India and the diaspora. She also highlights questions related to women's agency and their negotiation of traumatic memories for empowering identities. The book will interest scholars, researchers, and students of postcolonial English literature, contemporary Indian literature, Sikh studies, diaspora studies, global studies, gender and sexuality studies, religious studies, history, sociology, media and films studies, cultural studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.

Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands - Queering the Margins (Paperback): Suzanne Clisby Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands - Queering the Margins (Paperback)
Suzanne Clisby
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on border thinking, postcolonial and transnational feminisms, and queer theory, Gender, Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands brings an intersectional feminist and queer lens to understandings of borderlands, liminality, and lives lived at the margins of socio-cultural and sexual normativities. Bringing together new and contemporary interdisciplinary research from across diverse global contexts, this collection explores the lived experiences of what Gloria Anzaldua might have called 'threshold people', people who live among and in-between different worlds. While it is often challenging, difficult, and even dangerous, inhabiting marginal spaces, living at the borders of socio-cultural, religious, sexual, ethnic, or gendered norms can create possibilities for developing unique ways of seeing and understanding the worlds within which we live. This collection casts a spotlight on the margins, those 'queer spaces' in literary, cinematic, and cultural borderlands; postcolonial and transnational feminist perspectives on movement and migration; and critical analyses of liminal lives within and between socio-cultural borders. Each chapter within this unique book brings a critical insight into diverse global human experiences in the 21st Century.

The Gender-Sensitive University - A Contradiction in Terms? (Paperback): Eileen Drew, Siobhan Canavan The Gender-Sensitive University - A Contradiction in Terms? (Paperback)
Eileen Drew, Siobhan Canavan
R1,227 Discovery Miles 12 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism. This book demonstrates that awareness of gender equality and gender sensitivity are essential for pulling contemporary academia back from the brink. New forms of leadership are fundamental to reforming our institutions. The concept of a gender-sensitive university requires re-envisioning academia to meet these challenges, as does a different engagement of men and a shift towards fluidity in how gender is formulated and performed. Academia can only be truly gender sensitive if, learning from the past, it can avoid repeating the same mistakes and addressing existing and new biases. The book chapters analyse these challenges and advocate the possibilities to 'fix it forward' in all areas. Representing ten EU countries and multiple disciplines, contributors to this volume highlight the evidence of persistent gender inequalities in academia, while advocating a blueprint for addressing them. The book will be of interest to a global readership of students, academics, researchers, practitioners, academic and political leaders and policymakers who share an interest in what it takes to establish gender-sensitive universities. This book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Systemic Bias - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover): Michael Filimowicz Systemic Bias - Algorithms and Society (Hardcover)
Michael Filimowicz
R1,586 Discovery Miles 15 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Systemic Bias: Algorithms and Society looks at issues of computational bias in the contexts of cultural works, metaphors of magic and mathematics in tech culture, and workplace psychometrics. The output of computational models is directly tied not only to their inputs but to the relationships and assumptions embedded in their model design, many of which are of a social and cultural, rather than physical and mathematical, nature. How do human biases make their way into these data models, and what new strategies have been proposed to overcome bias in computed products? Scholars and students from many backgrounds, as well as policy makers, journalists, and the general reading public will find a multidisciplinary approach to inquiry into algorithmic bias encompassing research from Communication, Art, and New Media.

(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran - Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital... (Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran - Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media (Hardcover)
Rachel Gregory Fox
R4,061 Discovery Miles 40 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed as a consequence of its (re)production and (re)distribution. In what ways is information reframed? The chapters in this book therefore analyse the reiterative processes via which Afghan, Pakistani, and Iranian women are represented in a range of contemporary media. By considering how Muslim women have been exploited as part of neo-imperial, state, and patriarchal discourses, the book charts possible-and unexpected-routes via which Muslim women might enact resistance. What is more, it asks the reader to consider how they, themselves, embody the role of witness to these resistant subjectivities, and how they might do so responsibly, with empathy and accountability.

Hannah More in Context (Hardcover): Kerri Andrews Hannah More in Context (Hardcover)
Kerri Andrews; Sue Edney
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book relocates the long life and literary career of the poet, playwright, novelist, philanthropist and teacher Hannah More (1745-1833) in the wider social and cultural contexts that shaped her, and which she helped shape in turn. One of the most influential writers and campaigners of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, More's reputation has suffered unfairly from accusations of paternalism and provincialism, and misunderstandings of her sincerely-held but now increasingly unfamiliar evangelical beliefs. Now, in this book, readers can explore a range of essays rooted in up-to-the-minute research which examines newly-recovered archival materials and other evidence in order to present the fullest picture yet of this complex and compelling author, and the era she helped mould with her words.

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Paperback): Simone De Beauvoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (Paperback)
Simone De Beauvoir
R473 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R113 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s.She vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

Female Criminality and "Fake News" in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos (Hardcover): Stacey L. Parker Aronson Female Criminality and "Fake News" in Early Modern Spanish Pliegos Sueltos (Hardcover)
Stacey L. Parker Aronson
R3,917 Discovery Miles 39 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies the Early Modern Spanish broadsheet, the tabloid newspaper of its day which functioned to educate, entertain, and indoctrinate its readers, much like today's "fake news." Parker Aronson incorporates a socio-historical approach in which she considers crime and deviance committed by women in Early Modern Spain and the correlation between crime and the growth of urban centers. She also considers female deviance more broadly to encompass sexual and religious deviance while investigating the relationship between these pliegos sueltos and the transgressive and disruptive nature of female criminality. In addition to an introduction to this fascinating subgenre of Early Modern Spanish literature, Parker Aronson analyzes the representations of women as bandits and highway robbers; as murderers; as prostitutes, libertines, and actors; as Christian renegades; as enlaved people; as witches; as miscegenationists; and as the recipients of punishment.

Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic (Hardcover): Lilly Workneh, Jestine Ware, Sonja... Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic (Hardcover)
Lilly Workneh, Jestine Ware, Sonja Thomas, Diana Odero; Edited by Cashawn Thompson
R784 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R139 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback): Sandrine Berges The Routledge Guidebook to Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Paperback)
Sandrine Berges; Series edited by Anthony Gottlieb
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the greatest philosophers and writers of the Eighteenth century. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book. Her most celebrated and widely-read work is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. This Guidebook introduces:

  • Wollstonecraft s life and the background to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • The ideas and text of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
  • Wollstonecraft s enduring influence in philosophy and our contemporary intellectual life

It is ideal for anyone coming to Wollstonecraft s classic text for the first time and anyone interested in the origins of feminist thought. "

The Feminist Shaw - Shaw and the Contemporary Literary Theories of Feminism (Hardcover): Nishtha Mishra The Feminist Shaw - Shaw and the Contemporary Literary Theories of Feminism (Hardcover)
Nishtha Mishra
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book takes us through the life and works of George Bernard Shaw as a feminist. It critically explores his major plays to showcase how his works discuss ideas, practices, discourses, and ideologies that are considered to be antecedents to the modern feminist movements. While the involvement of male feminists in feminist movements prior to the twentieth century were sporadic, isolated, and relatively unconnected, Shaw used the dramatic form of realistic theatre to communicate socialist and feminist ideas to his contemporary audience. The volume sheds light on how Shaw in his plays and prefaces exposes the iniquities suffered by women. His women characters do not conform to the Victorian notions of femininity; voice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and realisation of personal worth; and break free from the typical mythical representation in literature, to pave the way for the future generations of female character. Shaw's women break the stereotypes of Victorian society to voice and follow their dreams and desires without the fear of societal sanction. Through selections from texts such as Back to Methuselah, Pygmalion, Candida, Arms and the Man, Saint Joan, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Man and Superman, The Black Girl in search of God, and The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles, this book highlights how Shaw gave the world ideologies that have since been adapted by the second- and third-wave feminists. Foregrounding Shaw's critical role in strengthening feminist characters in modern literature, this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism, theatre studies, feminism, freudian studies and gender studies.

Bad Feminist (Paperback): Roxane Gay Bad Feminist (Paperback)
Roxane Gay
R385 R308 Discovery Miles 3 080 Save R77 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny and insightful essays, Roxane Gay takes us through the journey of her evolution as a woman (Sweet Valley High) of colour (The Help) while also taking readers on a ride through culture of the last few years (Girls, Django in Chains) and commenting on the state of feminism today (abortion, Chris Brown). The portrait that emerges is not only one of an incredibly insightful woman continually growing to understand herself and our society, but also one of our culture. Bad Feminist is a sharp, funny and sincere look at the ways in which the culture we consume becomes who we are, and an inspiring call-to-arms of all the ways we still need to do better.

#MeToo - A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Hardcover): Lisa M. Corrigan #MeToo - A Rhetorical Zeitgeist (Hardcover)
Lisa M. Corrigan
R3,905 Discovery Miles 39 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection on #MeToo activism challenges the overwhelming whiteness and straightness of #MeToo discourse and coverage. Using intersectional and decolonial frameworks and historical, archival, organizational and legal methods, these essays offer a rich exploration of #MeToo to understand how activism around sexualized violence reproduce and harm a wide variety of people. The swift and powerful arrival of #MeToo as a compilation of complaints about sexual misconduct (especially in the workplace) has created pressure to dive deeper into the history of sexual assault and abuse in the United States. #MeToo: A Rhetorical Zeitgeist answers the call for more complicated analyses of systemic sexual harassment and abuse with essays that are deeply concerned with the whiteness and heterosexuality of #MeToo coverage and media framing to understand how and why #MeToo began to capture the public's attention in 2017 against the backdrop of Donald J. Trump's presidential administration. These essays offer the first comprehensive study of the rhetorical politics of #MeToo. They tackle the complexities of sexual harassment, sexual violence and rape beyond white celebrity discourse to understand: how both violence and #MeToo activism affect transgender people; how #MeToo fails Black male victims of assault and rape; how Indian-American masculinity and comedy skirt sexual accountability; how the legal and affective precedent in the Supreme Court during the Kavanaugh hearings amplified concerns about sexual assault and rape; decolonial approaches to resisting sexualized violence from indigenous peoples; and narratives about assault from within the higher education community. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Women's Studies in Communication.

Women Who Buy Sex - Converging Sexualities? (Paperback): Sarah Kingston, Natalie Hammond, Scarlett Redman Women Who Buy Sex - Converging Sexualities? (Paperback)
Sarah Kingston, Natalie Hammond, Scarlett Redman
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Drawing on empirical data from women who pay for sexual services and those who provide services to women, this ground-breaking study is the first of its kind in the UK, detailing the experiences of women who pay for sex in an explicit, direct, prearranged way. Unlike previous research on clients, which has predominantly focused on men who buy sex or women who engage in romance tourism in places such as the Caribbean, this innovative research offers new and original insights into the demand side of commercial sex. Too often, it is assumed that only men pay for sex from women or other men. Women are assumed to be service providers and are unimaginable as clients. This book therefore offers a radical departure from existing scholarship on commercial sex. In addition, the book examines the experiences of couples who pay for commercial sex, a client group that has received scant investigation. The book explores women's reasons for their engagement in commercial sex services, their backgrounds and characteristics, their strategies for remaining safe and managing potential risks, as well as their sexual health strategies. The nature of sexual service bookings with women clients is also examined, exploring the types of services women seek, the places where bookings occur and the fess they pay. Finally, the experiences of men, women and trans sex workers who provide sexual services to women are examined. By drawing on our unique data and comparing it to the literature on men clients, we present our theory 'Converging Sexualities'. We argue that commercial sex is a site of behavioural convergence and that women clients are behaving in ways that could be described as masculine or feminine. Our study therefore offers new ways to understand sexuality. This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of sexuality, sex work and women's behaviour.

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