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Hamlet's Hereditary Queen - Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power (Paperback): Kerrie Roberts Hamlet's Hereditary Queen - Performing Shakespeare's Silent Female Power (Paperback)
Kerrie Roberts
R1,098 Discovery Miles 10 980 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

WHY PUBLISH: - The author applies over 15 years experience and insights as a theatre practitioner to her argument. - The book offers a fresh vantage point for a play that has been exhaustively analysed. - Shakespeare scholarship travels well globally, and so the work will appeal to a broad, international, English-speaking audience.

Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love - Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga (Paperback): Peter Admirand Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love - Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga (Paperback)
Peter Admirand
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book offers a creative and accessible exploration of two comic book series: Y: The Last Man and Saga It examines themes pertinent to the 21st century and its challenges, such as those of diversity and religious pluralism, issues of gender and war, heroes and moral failures, and forgiveness and seeking justice Through close interdisciplinary reading and personal narratives, the author delves into the complex worlds of Y and Saga in search of an ethics, meaning, and a path resonant with real world struggles Reading these works side-by-side, the analysis draws parallels and seeks common themes around four central ideas: seeking and making meaning in a meaningless world; love and parenting through oppression and grief; peacefulness when surrounded by violence; and the perils and hopes of diversity and communion This timely, attentive, and thoughtful study will resonate with scholars and students of comic studies, media and cultural studies, philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and popular culture studies

Identity and Digital Communication - Concepts, Theories, Practices (Paperback): Rob Cover Identity and Digital Communication - Concepts, Theories, Practices (Paperback)
Rob Cover
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Explores how fast-changing communication technologies, platforms, applications and practices impact how we perceive ourselves, others, relationships and bodies. * Shows how authentic, curated self-identity is increasingly formed, performed and engaged with through digital cultural practices, and these practices need to be understood if we are to make sense of identity in the 2020s and beyond * Features critical accounts, everyday examples, and case studies focusing on key platforms from Instagram to TikTok.

Women Philosophers on Autonomy - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover): Alberto L. Siani, Sandrine Berges Women Philosophers on Autonomy - Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover)
Alberto L. Siani, Sandrine Berges
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We encounter autonomy in virtually every area of philosophy: in its relation with rationality, personality, self-identity, authenticity, freedom, moral values and motivations, and forms of government, legal, and social institutions. At the same time, the notion of autonomy has been the subject of significant criticism. Some argue that autonomy outweighs or even endangers interpersonal or collective values, while others believe it alienates subjects who don't possess a strong form of autonomy. These marginalized subjects and communities include persons with physical or psychological disabilities, those in dire economic conditions, LGBTI persons, ethnic and religious minorities, and women in traditional communities or households. This volume illuminates possible patterns in these criticisms of autonomy by bringing to light and critically assessing the contribution of women throughout the history of philosophy on this important subject. The essays in this collection cover a wide range of historical periods and influential female philosophers and thinkers, from medieval philosophy through to contemporary debates. Important authors whose work is considered, among many others, include Hildegard of Bingen, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Mary Wollstonecraft, Susan Moller Okin, Helene Cixous, Iris Marion Young, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. Women Philosophers on Autonomy will enlighten and inform contemporary debates on autonomy by bringing into the conversation previously neglected female perspectives from throughout history.

Finding Me - A Memoir (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition): Viola Davis Finding Me - A Memoir (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Viola Davis
R774 R632 Discovery Miles 6 320 Save R142 (18%) In Stock
Cosplayers - Gender and Identity (Paperback): A. Luxx Mishou Cosplayers - Gender and Identity (Paperback)
A. Luxx Mishou
R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Cosplayers: Gender and Identity is an examination of identity practices in cosplay, as expressed by cosplayers themselves. It challenges the assumed correlation between cosplay and cosplayer identity and considers the lived experiences of cosplayers engaging in the fan practice of sartorial performance. Through a series of chapters covering the blurring lines of gender, sexualized fantasy in real spaces, and nostalgia, the author argues that observational data run the risk of affirming normative expectations of identity in the absence of cosplayer narratives, and produce misreadings that generalize. The work develops and builds an understanding of a complex cultural system of art, engaging with multiple methodologies to make identity, fandom, and critical analysis on the parts of participants and observers alike. This is an accessible and innovative study suitable for scholars and students in gender studies, cultural studies, sexuality studies, sociology, and media studies.

Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies - Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh... Postcolonial Feminism in Management and Organization Studies - Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh (Hardcover)
Vijayta Doshi
R1,400 Discovery Miles 14 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The term feminism is often treated as a stable and universalizing politics and practice. For postcolonial feminism, the issues of interest are not only social and cultural inequalities in terms of caste, class, colour, ethnicity, gender, and religion, but also historical, political, and geographical inequalities in terms of 'Third World', 'Global South' and 'remnants of the colonial past'. Postcolonial feminism pays nuanced attention to historical diversity and local specificity of feminist issues. This book draws upon the work grounded specifically in the context of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh to demonstrate the plurality of thinking. In mainstream management and organization studies, context is often understood as a present, static field. This book discusses how context is an important consideration for any management and organization study and for feminist studies in management and organization studies. It informs the way we need to understand context, not just as 'present' but also the 'past'. Postcolonial feminism highlights the historical roots and past privileges of a context which often get overlooked in the management and organization studies where context is mostly seen in the present. This unique contribution to postcolonial feminism in management and organization studies highlights the contributions of women writers, poets, and activists such as Christina Stringer, Elena Samonova, Gayatri Spivak, Mary Douglas, Naila Kabeer, and Uzma Falak. Each of these women have engaged with writing that have the potential to enrich and transform understanding of postcolonial feminism in management and organization studies, making this book a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and advanced students.

Women in the European Countryside (Paperback): Henry Buller Women in the European Countryside (Paperback)
Henry Buller
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Much of the literature published so far on gender relations in rural areas has either focused on comparisons of the position of men and women, or explored the position of women given prevailing structural forces and behavioural 'norms' that restrict the autonomy of women as human agents. This groundbreaking book broadens the debate by developing our understanding of how societal processes produce and sustain gender divisions, particularly in rural areas, highlighting aspects of rural women's lives previously invisible in the literature. Illustrated by case studies from France, Germany, Greece, Norway and Sweden, the book examines the critical issues of education and training, entrepreneurship, leadership, limited work and service opportunities, social mobility, and work experiences. In doing so, the contributors provide a fascinating comparative study of both national-regional and broader European realities.

Eleanor in the Village - Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village... Eleanor in the Village - Eleanor Roosevelt's Search for Freedom and Identity in New York's Greenwich Village (Paperback)
Jan Jarboe Russell
R464 R382 Discovery Miles 3 820 Save R82 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A "riveting and enlightening account" (Bookreporter) of a mostly unknown chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Village, shed her high-born conformity, and became the progressive leader who pushed for change as America's First Lady. Hundreds of books have been written about FDR and Eleanor, both together and separately, but yet she remains a compelling and elusive figure. And, not much is known about why in 1920, Eleanor suddenly abandoned her duties as a mother of five and moved to Greenwich Village, then the symbol of all forms of transgressive freedom--communism, homosexuality, interracial relationships, and subversive political activity. Now, in this "immersive...original look at an iconic figure of American politics" (Publishers Weekly), Jan Russell pulls back the curtain on Eleanor's life to reveal the motivations and desires that drew her to the Village and how her time there changed her political outlook. A captivating blend of personal history detailing Eleanor's struggle with issues of marriage, motherhood, financial independence, and femininity, and a vibrant portrait of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world, this unique work examines the ways that the sensibility, mood, and various inhabitants of the neighborhood influenced the First Lady's perception of herself and shaped her political views over four decades, up to her death in 1962. When Eleanor moved there, the Village was a zone of Bohemians, misfits, and artists, but there was also freedom there, a miniature society where personal idiosyncrasy could flourish. Eleanor joined the cohort of what then was called "The New Women" in Greenwich Village. Unlike the flappers in the 1920s, the New Women had a much more serious agenda, organizing for social change--unions for workers, equal pay, protection for child workers--and they insisted on their own sexual freedom. These women often disagreed about politics--some, like Eleanor, were Democrats, others Republicans, Socialists, and Communists. Even after moving into the White House, Eleanor retained connections to the Village, ultimately purchasing an apartment in Washington Square where she lived during World War II and in the aftermath of Roosevelt's death in 1945. Including the major historical moments that served as a backdrop for Eleanor's time in the Village, this remarkable work offers new insights into Eleanor's transformation--emotionally, politically, and sexually--and provides us with the missing chapter in an extraordinary life.

The Color Pynk - Black Femme Art for Survival (Paperback): Omiseeke Natasha Tinsley The Color Pynk - Black Femme Art for Survival (Paperback)
Omiseeke Natasha Tinsley
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Color Pynk is a passionate exploration of Black femme poetics of survival. Sidelined by liberal feminists and invisible to mainstream civil rights movements, Black femmes spent the Trump years doing what they so often do best: creating politically engaged art, entertainment, and ideas. In the first full-length study of Black queer, cis-, and trans-femininity, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley argues that this creative work offers a distinctive challenge to power structures that limit how we color, gender, and explore freedom. Tinsley engages 2017-2020 Black femme cultural production that colorfully and provocatively imagines freedom in the stark white face of its impossibility. Looking to the music of Janelle Monae and Kelsey Lu, Janet Mock's writing for the television show Pose, the fashion of Indya Moore and (F)empower, and the films of Tourmaline and Juliana Huxtable, as well as poetry and novels, The Color Pynk conceptualizes Black femme as a set of consciously, continually rescripted cultural and aesthetic practices that disrupts conventional meanings of race, gender, and sexuality. There is an exuberant defiance in queer Black femininity, Tinsley finds-so that Black femmes continue to love themselves wildly in a world that resists their joy.

Gender Diversity and Inclusion at Work - Divergent Views from Turkey (Hardcover): Zeynep OEzsoy, Mustafa Senyucel, Beyza Oba Gender Diversity and Inclusion at Work - Divergent Views from Turkey (Hardcover)
Zeynep OEzsoy, Mustafa Senyucel, Beyza Oba
R1,386 Discovery Miles 13 860 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The purpose of this book is to investigate gender diversity practices and discourse developed by listed companies in Turkey. It pursues this aim by advancing knowledge about business relations affecting workplace gender diversity. The research builds on Bourdieu's field approach and implements a Thematic Analysis following Braun and Clarke's (2006) guidelines. The findings of the book are based on data collected from unstructured interviews and secondary sources such as the official documents of national and international organizations, newspapers, legislation, and web pages of the related parties. The findings suggest that the implementation of gender diversity practices may require a transformation of perspective and the conditions regarding the political, economic, and cultural realm for realization of a pervasive movement. Due to the conservative and patriarchal culture, authoritarian rule and neoliberal policies, gender diversity and inclusion are not seen as issues that should be resolved through the commitment and collaboration of a field. Consequently, diversity management practices are instrumentalized by the business community as a means for corporate communication and image building rather than actively building a diverse workforce.

Plans for Sentences (Paperback): Renee Gladman Plans for Sentences (Paperback)
Renee Gladman
R658 Discovery Miles 6 580 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"These sentences-they-will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying brilliance, Gladman's book blurs the distinctions between text and image, recognizing that drawing can be a form of writing, and vice versa: a generative act in which the two practices not only inform each other but propel each other into futures. In this radical way, drawing and writing become part of a limitless loop of energy, unearthing fertile possibilities for the ways we think about poetry. If Gladman ascribes to any particular type of poetics, here in Plans for Sentences, we are sure to find that it is robustly grounded in a poetics of infinite language.

Seeking Peace - A Spiritual Journey from Worry to Trust (Stay Connected Journals for Catholic Women #5) (Paperback): Allison... Seeking Peace - A Spiritual Journey from Worry to Trust (Stay Connected Journals for Catholic Women #5) (Paperback)
Allison Gringas, Allison Gingras
R385 R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Save R67 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Monstrous and the Vulnerable - Framing British Jihadi Brides (Hardcover): Leonie B.  Jackson The Monstrous and the Vulnerable - Framing British Jihadi Brides (Hardcover)
Leonie B. Jackson
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and called for Muslims around the world to migrate there. Over the next five years, around 150 women left the UK to heed this invitation, and the so- called 'jihadi brides' were rarely out of the news. This book traces the media fascination with those who joined the 'caliphate', including Sally Jones, Aqsa Mahmood and Shamima Begum. Through an analysis of the media that presented the 'brides' for public consumption, Leonie B. Jackson reveals the gendered dualistic construction of IS women as either monstrous or vulnerable. Just as the monstrous woman was sensationalised as irredeemably evil, the vulnerable girl was represented as groomed and naive. Both subjects were constructed in such a way that women's involvement in jihadism was detached from men's, scrutinised more closely, and explained through gender stereotypes that both erased the agency of female extremists and neglected their stated motivations. As Jackson demonstrates, these media representations also contributed to the development of new norms for dealing with the 'brides', including targeted killing and the revocation of citizenship. While the vulnerable girl was potentially redeemable, the monstrous woman was increasingly considered expendable.

Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis - Oedipus Gay (Paperback): Jorge N Reitter Heteronormativity and Psychoanalysis - Oedipus Gay (Paperback)
Jorge N Reitter
R944 Discovery Miles 9 440 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Accessibly written. Presents a critique of the heteronormativity of psychoanalysis. Includes Freudian and Lacanian perspectives.

Red Hot Mamas - Coming into Our Own at Fifty (Paperback, Bantam trade pbk. ed): Colette Dowling Red Hot Mamas - Coming into Our Own at Fifty (Paperback, Bantam trade pbk. ed)
Colette Dowling
R514 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R60 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Colette Dowling's uplifting book celebrates the myriad possibilities for women who are now turning 50. "Red hot mamas" are the dozens of women (some famous, some not) who are defying stereotypes to discover renewed power and vitality at midlife. In honest, empowering language, the women share with readers their energetic approaches to menopause, career changes, family life, and intimacy.

LGBTQ Digital Cultures - A Global Perspective (Paperback): Paromita Pain LGBTQ Digital Cultures - A Global Perspective (Paperback)
Paromita Pain
R1,125 Discovery Miles 11 250 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Help students understand digital media and digital cultures created, for, about or by queer and transgender people, activists, educators, and artists who work with or research ways to use digital means and measures to combat different forms of oppression, and explore self-expression and identity. - Contributions are written by researchers, activists, and academics whose diverse international experiences as LGBTQ advocates and community workers have provided them with unique access and insights into this traditionally marginalized populace and their use of social media and digital technology. - Examines questions of inclusion and, perhaps, more importantly, exclusions of certain voices and the different ways, age, race, class and disability intersect in specific social, cultural and global contexts throughout the collection. - Encourages dialogue and investigation of the transformative potential of digital activism and platforms from a global perspective.

Can the Monster Speak? - Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback): Paul B Preciado Can the Monster Speak? - Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts (Paperback)
Paul B Preciado; Translated by Frank Wynne
R387 R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem (Paperback, 1st Ballantine Books ed): Carolyn G. Heilbrun The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem (Paperback, 1st Ballantine Books ed)
Carolyn G. Heilbrun
R662 R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Save R69 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Carolyn G. Heilbrun has devoted her life to the study of female destiny. In her now-classic Writing a Woman's Life, she eloquently revealed that those who have written about women's lives throughout the centuries have suppressed the truth of the female experience in order to make the written life conform to society's expectations of what a woman's life should be. In that book Heilbrun drew on the experiences of celebrated literary women - George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Adrienne Rich - to invite all women to write their own scripts, without inhibition. Now, in The Education of a Woman, Heilbrun draws on the life of one of the most controversial women of our time, a woman who most definitely, in word and in deed, wrote her own script. According to Heilbrun, Steinem "searched within her own gender for a destiny unconstrained and unprescribed - for herself, and for other women less unambiguously at home in their bodies."

Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism - Australia, Race and Place (Hardcover): Lisa Slater Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism - Australia, Race and Place (Hardcover)
Lisa Slater
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of belonging. Why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety inform public opinion and "solutions" to Indigenous inequality? In its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of settler colonialism, emotions and ethical belonging, Anxieties of Belonging has far-reaching implications for understanding Indigenous-settler relations.

Dear World - A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace (Paperback): Bana Alabed Dear World - A Syrian Girl's Story of War and Plea for Peace (Paperback)
Bana Alabed
R401 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R73 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Surrendered Participant Workbook (Paperback): Barbara L Roose Surrendered Participant Workbook (Paperback)
Barbara L Roose
R484 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R79 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Toxic Masculinity - Men, Meaning, and Digital Media (Paperback): John Mercer, Mark Mcglashan Toxic Masculinity - Men, Meaning, and Digital Media (Paperback)
John Mercer, Mark Mcglashan
R1,124 Discovery Miles 11 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

provides an overview of the politics of toxic masculinity and the competing discourses of masculinity that the term brings into view presents a diversity of disciplinary perspectives, critical frameworks and objects of study in the analysis of toxic masculinity draws together essays that ask critical questions about the relations between masculinity, power (and marginality) during a time of cultural and social change.

French Dishes for English Tables (Hardcover, 4th Facsimile edition): Anthony Eyre French Dishes for English Tables (Hardcover, 4th Facsimile edition)
Anthony Eyre 1
R393 R319 Discovery Miles 3 190 Save R74 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
Gender and Finance - Addressing Inequality in the Financial Services Industry (Paperback): Ylva Baeckstroem Gender and Finance - Addressing Inequality in the Financial Services Industry (Paperback)
Ylva Baeckstroem
R1,401 Discovery Miles 14 010 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book is extremely current and includes a discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on equality. Uniquely combines expertise and research from finance, psychology and gender to demonstrate how the financial services industry arrived at its current state. Provides practical solutions for how institutions can implement more gender equal strategies.

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