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Chinese Social Media - Social, Cultural, and Political Implications (Hardcover): Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Jian Xu Chinese Social Media - Social, Cultural, and Political Implications (Hardcover)
Mike Kent, Katie Ellis, Jian Xu
R4,362 Discovery Miles 43 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address critical perspectives on Chinese language social media, internationalizing the state of social media studies beyond the Anglophone paradigm. The collection focuses on the intersections between Chinese language social media and disability, celebrity, sexuality, interpersonal communication, charity, diaspora, public health, political activism and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The book is not only rich in its theoretical perspectives but also in its methodologies. Contributors use both qualitative and quantitative methods to study Chinese social media and its social-cultural-political implications, such as case studies, in-depth interviews, participatory observations, discourse analysis, content analysis and data mining.

Patriarchy and Its Discontents - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Paperback): Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen, Naomi Snider Patriarchy and Its Discontents - Psychoanalytic Perspectives (Paperback)
Jean Petrucelli, Sarah Schoen, Naomi Snider
R958 Discovery Miles 9 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Includes contributions from Gloria Steinem, Susie Orbach and V (formerly Eve Ensler) * Reflects the latest thinking in feminism and interpersonal psychoanalysis * Offers a rare non-Lacanian psychoanalytic guide to incorporating feminist thinking in contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice.

Queer Soul and Queer Theology - Ethics and Redemption in Real Life (Paperback): Thelathia Nikki Young, Laurel C Schneider Queer Soul and Queer Theology - Ethics and Redemption in Real Life (Paperback)
Thelathia Nikki Young, Laurel C Schneider
R1,173 Discovery Miles 11 730 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the root infinitive "to deem," the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate and re-value the richness of embodied experience that is implied in Christian incarnational theology and ethics. Offering a set of virtues gleaned from contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA) lives and communities, this book introduces a new framework of ethical reasoning. Battered and wrongly condemned by life-denying theologies of redemption and dessicating ethics of virtue, this book asserts that the resilience, creativity, and epistemology manifesting in queer lives and communities are essential to a more generous and liberative Christian theology. In this book, queer "virtues" not only reveal and re-value queer soul but expose covert viciousness in the traditional (i.e., inherently colonial and racist, and thus ungodly) "family values" of dominant Christian ethics and theology. It argues that such re-imagining has redemptive potential for Christian life writ large, including the redemption of God. This book will be a key resource for scholars of queer theology and ethics as well as queer theory, gender and race studies, religious studies, and theology more generally.

Gender and the Professions - International and Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover): Kaye Broadbent, Glenda Strachan,... Gender and the Professions - International and Contemporary Perspectives (Hardcover)
Kaye Broadbent, Glenda Strachan, Geraldine Healy
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines gender and professions in the 21st century. Historically the professions encompassed law, medicine and the church, all of which excluded women from participation. Industry and the 20th century introduced new professions such as engineering and latterly information technology skill and, whilst the increase in credentialism and accreditations open up further avenues for professions to develop, many of the 'newer' professions exhibit similar gendered characteristics, still based on a perceived masculine identity of the professional workers and the association of the professional with high level credentials based on university qualifications. In contrast, professions such as teaching and nursing, characterized as women's professions which reflected women's socially acceptable role of caring, developed as regulated occupations from the late 19th century. Since the 1970s and the women's movements, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity legislation and policies have aimed to break down the gendered bastion of the professions and grant women entry. With growing numbers of women employed in a range of professions and the political importance of gender equality gaining prominence globally, Gender and the Professions also considers how women and men are faring in a diverse range of professional occupations. Aimed at researchers, academics and policy makers in the fields of Professions, Gender Studies, Organizational Studies and related disciplines. Gender and the Professions provides new insights of women's experiences in the professions in both developed and less developed countries and in professions less often explored.

Untold Millions - Secret Truths About Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers (Hardcover): Grant Lukenbill, John Dececco Phd Untold Millions - Secret Truths About Marketing to Gay and Lesbian Consumers (Hardcover)
Grant Lukenbill, John Dececco Phd
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first definitive book on researching gay and lesbian market behavior, Untold Millions: The Truth About Gay and Lesbian Consumers in America will help marketers, advertisers, and public relations managers learn how to successfully market and research products for gay and lesbian consumers. Author Grant Lukenbill, a leading consultant on the cultural and motivational aspects of gay and lesbian consumer behavior, provides you with important procedures, research, and guidelines that businesses today are following in order to develop successful marketing strategies to this growing target audience. From this updated and revised edition, you'll receive current methods, new data, and sure-fire strategies that will help your company break into this market segment, satisfy intended customers, and boost company sales.Providing you with statistics and data from the first market research study of its kind, the Yankelovich MONITOR's Gay and Lesbian Perspective, this book gives you suggestions on what things need to be done within your company before planning your marketing strategies. You'll benefit from ideas and suggestions in Untold Millions that will help you create consumer-driven market strategies to gays and lesbians, including: recognizing that there are families and relationships in society that are not heterosexual acknowledging age differences and the needs of particular generations attracting customers by circulating non-discriminatory hiring policies through press releases and company memos, installing domestic partner health care plans, and identifying cultural reference points to which gays and lesbians can relate remembering that many gays and lesbians may look at business with cynicism and doubt and may be quick to interpret actions as victimization referring to the Wall Street project before addressing gay- and lesbian-specific issues focusing on the areas of individuality, a need for association, and the need to allevia

The Contest for Social Science - Relations and Representations of Gender and Class (Hardcover): Eileen Yeo The Contest for Social Science - Relations and Representations of Gender and Class (Hardcover)
Eileen Yeo
R862 Discovery Miles 8 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Opening in the period of revolutions between 1789 and 1850, this book explores the contention over social science from above and below. It breaks away from othodox interpretations of the development of social science to explore the subject as a contest for class and gender power.

Amazing Ace, Awesome Aro - An Illustrated Exploration (Hardcover, Illustrated edition): Victoria Barron Amazing Ace, Awesome Aro - An Illustrated Exploration (Hardcover, Illustrated edition)
Victoria Barron
R305 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440 Save R61 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The split attraction model? Alterous Love? Queerplatonic relationships? From the creator of Perfectly Queer: An Illustrated Introduction, this bold and brilliantly illustrated guide is written for anyone looking to explore the beautiful ace and aro communities; the acefluxes, the arospikes, the demis, the greys, the frays and more. Separate the myths and stereotypes, and discover some of the wonderful intricacies that shape each spectrum, including: forms of love and attraction, common identities, microlabels, flags, and the entertaining community-led culture. Packed with quizzes, activity sheets and a directory of further resources, this is a celebration of all things ace and aro!

Female Psychology: An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography - An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography (Paperback): Eleanor... Female Psychology: An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography - An Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography (Paperback)
Eleanor Schuker, Nadine A. Levinson
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical viewpoints. It is useful for both research and clinical study and may also provide a bridge to scholars, teachers, and clinicians outside of psychoanalysis itself.

International Marriages and Marital Citizenship - Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Hardcover): Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot,... International Marriages and Marital Citizenship - Southeast Asian Women on the Move (Hardcover)
Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Gwenola Ricordeau
R3,916 Discovery Miles 39 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While marriage has lost its popularity in many developed countries and is no longer an obligatory path to family formation, it has gained momentum among binational couples as states reinforce their control over human migration. Focusing on the case of Southeast Asian women who have been epitomized on the global marriage market as 'ideal' brides and wives, this volume examines these women's experiences of international marriage, migration, and states' governmentality. Drawing from ethnographic research and policy analyses, this book sheds light on the way many countries in Southeast Asia and beyond have redefined marriage and national belonging through their regime of 'marital citizenship' (that is, a legal status granted by a state to a migrant by virtue of his/her marriage to one of its citizens). These regimes influence the familial and social incorporation of Southeast Asian migrant women, notably their access to socio-political and civic rights in their receiving countries. The case studies analysed in this volume highlight these women's subjectivity and agency as they embrace, resist, and navigate the intricate legal and socio-cultural frameworks of citizenship. As such, it will appeal to sociologists, geographers, socio-legal scholars, and anthropologists with interests in migration, family formation, intimate relations, and gender.

Gender, Power, and Global Social Justice - The Healing Power of Psychotherapy (Paperback): Manijeh Daneshpour Gender, Power, and Global Social Justice - The Healing Power of Psychotherapy (Paperback)
Manijeh Daneshpour
R985 Discovery Miles 9 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Uniquely analyses how practitioners can use psychotherapy as a healing mechanism, focusing on the intersection of gender, power, and social justice within the global context Brimmed with case studies and reflective questions throughout. Each chapter covers individual, couple, and family therapy as well as training and supervising for both heterosexual and homosexual individuals.

Contemporary Israeli Cinema - Trauma, Ethics and Temporality (Paperback): Raz Yosef Contemporary Israeli Cinema - Trauma, Ethics and Temporality (Paperback)
Raz Yosef
R1,121 Discovery Miles 11 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A necessary examination of temporality, ethics, and trauma in Israeli film and television since the turn of the millennium. Original analysis of contemporary issues in Israeli media and culture, using feminist theory, queer theory, as well as critical race and postcolonial studies. Clear and nuanced analysis that will be helpful for those interested in trauma and memory studis, postcolonial studies, gende and sexuality studies, Jewish studies, Middle Eastern studies, and cultural studies.

Catharine Beecher - The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback): Cindy R. Lobel, Laura J. Ping Catharine Beecher - The Complexity of Gender in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback)
Cindy R. Lobel, Laura J. Ping
R1,058 Discovery Miles 10 580 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is an accessibly written account of Catharine Beecher's life that will appeal to both researchers and the general reader. Offers contextual overview of a prominent figure in 19th Century America Shines spotlight on a little-rememebered aspect of feminist history

The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback): Mona B. Livholts The Body Politics of Glocal Social Work - Essays on the Post-Anthropocentric Condition (Paperback)
Mona B. Livholts
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book shapes a situated body politics to re-think, re-write, and de-colonise social work as a post-anthropocentric discipline headed towards glocalisation, where human and non-human embodiments and agencies are entangled in glocal environmental worlds. It critically and creatively examines how social work can be theorised, practised, and written in renewed ways through dialogical and transdisciplinary practices. This book is composed of eight essayistic spaces, envisioning social work through embodied, glocal, and earthly entanglements. By drawing on research-based knowledge, autobiographical notes, stories, poetry, photographs, and an art exhibition in social work education, these essays provide readers with analysis and strategies that are useful for research, education, and practice as well as life-long learning. The book constitutes key literature for researchers, educators, practitioners, and activists in social work, sociology, architecture, art and creative writing, feminist and postcolonial studies, human geography, and post-anthropocentric philosophy. It offers the readers sustainable ways to re-think and re-write social work towards a glocal- and post-anthropocentric more-than-human worldview.

Tagore beyond Borders - Essays on His Influence and Cultural Legacy (Paperback): Mihaela Gligor, Elisabetta Marino Tagore beyond Borders - Essays on His Influence and Cultural Legacy (Paperback)
Mihaela Gligor, Elisabetta Marino
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Presents a collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore's creative art, social commitment, literary and artistic representation, and his unique position in the cultural history of modern India. 2. Contributors from India, Bangladesh, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and Romania look at a diversity of subjects including the travelogues, fiction, philosophy and cinematic representation of Tagore. 3. Tagore has a large following across the world - amongst the diaspora and outside it. This book will find circulation among them and also in departments of literature, comparative litereature, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, Asian studies, South Asian studies, and Tagore studies.

Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters - Place, Culture and Survival (Paperback): Nahid Rezwana, Rachel Pain Gender-Based Violence and Layered Disasters - Place, Culture and Survival (Paperback)
Nahid Rezwana, Rachel Pain
R1,119 Discovery Miles 11 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book investigates the widespread and persistent relationship between disasters and gender-based violence, drawing on new research with victim-survivors to show how the two forms of harm constitute 'layered disasters' in particular places, intensifying and reproducing one another. The evidence is now overwhelming that disasters and gender-based violence are closely connected, not just in moments of crisis but in the years that follow as the social, economic and environmental impacts of disasters play out. This book addresses two key gaps in research. First, it examines what causes the relationship between disasters and gender-based violence to be so widespread and so enduring. Second, it highlights victim-survivors' own accounts of gender-based violence and disasters. It does so by presenting findings from original research on cyclones and flooding in Bangladesh and the UK and a review of global evidence on the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawing on feminist theories, it conceptualises the coincidence of gender-based violence, disasters and other aggravating factors in particular places as 'layered disasters.' Taking an intersectional approach that emphasises the connections between culture, place, patriarchy, racism, poverty, settler-colonialism, environmental degradation and climate change, the authors show the significance of gender-based violence in creating vulnerability to future disasters. Forefronting victim-survivors' experiences and understandings, the book explores the important role of trauma, and how those affected go about the process of survival and recovery. Understanding disasters as layered casts light on why tackling gender-based violence must be a key priority in disaster planning, management and recovery. The book concludes by exploring critiques of existing formal responses, which often ignore or underplay gender-based violence. The book will be of interest to all those interested in understanding the causes and impacts of disasters, as well as scholars and researchers of gender and gender-based violence.

Transgender Identities - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback): Alessandra Lemma Transgender Identities - A Contemporary Introduction (Paperback)
Alessandra Lemma
R708 Discovery Miles 7 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is aimed at an introductory level, reviews relevant research literature about outcomes and has a clear clinical emphasis. It covers both working with adolescents and adults and adopts a broadly object-relational approach.

Career and Family - Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity (Paperback): Claudia Goldin Career and Family - Women's Century-Long Journey toward Equity (Paperback)
Claudia Goldin
R542 R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A renowned economic historian traces women's journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at home A century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose between having a career and a family. Today, there are more female college graduates than ever before, and more women want to have a career and family, yet challenges persist at work and at home. This book traces how generations of women have responded to the problem of balancing career and family as the twentieth century experienced a sea change in gender equality, revealing why true equity for dual career couples remains frustratingly out of reach. Drawing on decades of her own groundbreaking research, Claudia Goldin provides a fresh, in-depth look at the diverse experiences of college-educated women from the 1900s to today, examining the aspirations they formed-and the barriers they faced-in terms of career, job, marriage, and children. She shows how many professions are "greedy," paying disproportionately more for long hours and weekend work, and how this perpetuates disparities between women and men. Goldin demonstrates how the era of COVID-19 has severely hindered women's advancement, yet how the growth of remote and flexible work may be the pandemic's silver lining. Antidiscrimination laws and unbiased managers, while valuable, are not enough. Career and Family explains why we must make fundamental changes to the way we work and how we value caregiving if we are ever to achieve gender equality and couple equity.

Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Paperback): Minh T. N. Nguyen Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Paperback)
Minh T. N. Nguyen
R1,471 Discovery Miles 14 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s, domestic service has become an established sector of the labour market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways in which the practices and discourses of domestic service serve to forge and contest emerging class identities in post-reform Vietnam. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative data, including ethnographies, interviews, and narratives, it shows that such practices and discourses are rooted in cultural notions of gender and rural-urban difference and enduring socialist structures of feeling, which, in turn, clash with the realities of growing differentiation. Domestic workers' experiences reveal negotiations with class boundaries actively set by the urban middle class, who seek distinction through emerging notions and practices of domesticity. These boundaries are nevertheless riddled with gender and class anxiety on the side of the latter, partly because of the very struggles and contestations of the domestic workers. More broadly, Minh T. N. Nguyen links the often invisible intimate dynamics of class formation in the domestic sphere with wider political economic processes in a post-socialist country embarking on marketization while retaining the political control of a party-state. As a pioneering ethnographic study of domestic service in Vietnam today, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society, social anthropology, gender studies, human geography and development studies.

Gender, Orientalism, and the  War on Terror' - Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics (Hardcover):... Gender, Orientalism, and the War on Terror' - Representation, Discourse, and Intervention in Global Politics (Hardcover)
Maryam Khalid
R3,910 Discovery Miles 39 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers an accessible and timely analysis of the 'War on Terror', based on an innovative approach to a broad range of theoretical and empirical research. It uses 'gendered orientalism' as a lens through which to read the relationship between the George W. Bush administration, gendered and racialized military intervention, and global politics. Khalid argues that legitimacy, power, and authority in global politics, and the 'War on Terror' specifically, are discursively constructed through representations that are gendered and racialized, and often orientalist. Looking at the ways in which 'official' US 'War on Terror' discourse enabled military intervention into Afghanistan and Iraq, the book takes a postcolonial feminist approach to broaden the scope of critical analyses of the 'War on Terror' and reflect on the gendered and racial underpinnings of key relations of power within contemporary global politics. This book is a unique, innovative and significant analysis of the operation of race, orientalism, and gender in global politics, and the 'War on Terror' specifically. It will be of great interest to scholars and graduates interested in gender politics, development, humanitarian intervention, international (global) relations, Middle East politics, security, and US foreign policy.

Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda - Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators (Hardcover): Sara E. Brown Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda - Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators (Hardcover)
Sara E. Brown
R3,906 Discovery Miles 39 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity. This book explores and analyzes the role played by women who exercised agency as rescuers and as perpetrators during the genocide in Rwanda. As women, they took actions and decisions within the context of a deeply entrenched patriarchal system that limited their choices. This work examines two diverging paths of women's agency during this period: to rescue from genocide or to perpetrate genocide. It seeks to answer three questions: First, how were certain Rwandan women mobilized to participate in genocide, and by whom? Second, what were the specific actions of women during this period of violence and upheaval? Finally, what were the trajectories of women rescuers and perpetrators after the genocide? Comparing and contrasting how women rescuers and perpetrators were mobilized, the actions they undertook, and their post-genocide trajectories, and concluding with a broader discussion of the long-term impact of ignoring these women, this book develops a more nuanced and holistic view of women's agency and the genocide in Rwanda. This book will be of much interest to students of gender studies, genocide studies, African politics and critical security studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-the-Genocide-in-Rwanda-Women-as-Rescuers-and-Perpetrators/Brown/p/book/9780367188092, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality - A Practical Guide (Paperback): Catherine Knight Steele, Jessica H.... Doing Black Digital Humanities with Radical Intentionality - A Practical Guide (Paperback)
Catherine Knight Steele, Jessica H. Lu, Kevin C. Winstead
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- Written by a team of scholars who developed the first major Black Digital Humanities program at a research institution (the African American Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Maryland). - Written for an audience of practitioners, researchers, and graduate students to help prepare them to take on their own research and projects. - Each chapter features guiding questions, bullet lists of practical advice, and resources readers can use to implement best practices in their own work.

Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition - The Paradox of Independence (Hardcover): Debali Mookerjea-Leonard Literature, Gender, and the Trauma of Partition - The Paradox of Independence (Hardcover)
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the political and communal aspects of the Partition have received some attention, its enormous personal and psychological costs have been mostly glossed over, particularly when it comes to the splitting of Bengal. The memory of this historical ordeal has been preserved in literary archives, and these archives are still being excavated. This book examines neglected narratives of the Partition of India in 1947 to study the traces left by this foundational trauma on the national- and regional-cultural imaginaries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To arrive at a more complex understanding of how Partition experiences of violence, migration, and displacement shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in South Asia, the author analyses, through novels and short stories, multiple cartographies of disorientation and anxiety in the post-Partition period. The book illuminates how contingencies of political geography cut across personal and collective histories, and how these intersections are variously marked and mediated by literature. Examining works composed in Bengali and other South Asian languages, this book seeks to broaden and complicate existing conceptions of what constitutes the Partition literary archive. A valuable addition to the growing field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, gender studies, and literature.

Deviant Maternity - Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680-1800 (Paperback): Angela Joy Muir Deviant Maternity - Illegitimacy in Wales, c. 1680-1800 (Paperback)
Angela Joy Muir
R1,221 Discovery Miles 12 210 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is the first-ever book to explore illegitimacy in Wales during the eighteenth century. Drawing on previously overlooked archival sources, it examines the scope and context of Welsh illegitimacy, and the link between illegitimacy, courtship and economic precarity. It also goes beyond courtship to consider the different identities and relationships of the mothers and fathers of illegitimate children in Wales, and the lived experience of conception, pregnancy and childbirth for unmarried mothers. This book reframes the study of illegitimacy by combining demographic, social and cultural history approaches to emphasise the diversity of experiences, contexts and consequences.

The Sexual Politics of Asylum - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the UK Asylum System (Hardcover): Calogero Giametta The Sexual Politics of Asylum - Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the UK Asylum System (Hardcover)
Calogero Giametta
R4,347 Discovery Miles 43 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of being granted social and legal protection. But how does the asylum system intervene within claimants' understandings of themselves and in what ways does this affect their livelihoods in the country of arrival? The Sexual Politics of Asylum emerges from a 2 year long ethnography, which explores the experiences of 60 gender and sexual minority refugees in the UK. Bringing previously unheard stories to the forefront, this enlightening volume challenges dominant notions about the construction of sexuality and gender as an instrument for claiming rights in a world shaped by postcolonial relations. Giametta first examines why the migratory experience of the studied migrants is located within a set of humanitarian-inflected discourses that privilege suffering and trauma. This is then followed by an assessment of the respondents' biographical accounts, which consequently uncovers how being situated in liminal socio-political and legal interstices produces precarious forms of life. Whilst the topic of asylum for gender and sexual minorities has attracted wide media coverage over the past decade, there persists a lack of academic attention to the complex experiences of these refugees. As such, this timely book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in human rights, sociology, anthropology, migration, sexuality, gender and cultural studies, as well as people working within the refugee granting process.

Body Image - Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children (Paperback, 4th edition): Sarah Grogan Body Image - Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men, Women and Children (Paperback, 4th edition)
Sarah Grogan
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Takes a cultural development perspective, offering a unique approach which provides a clear, coherent framework for the book, and takes a balanced approach to quantitative and qualitative research * Features significant coverage of men and children as well as women, and contains useful indicators and lessons for how to promote positive body image, making this essential reading for students and academics across a range of disciplines, as well as professionals interested in body image * New edition includes the latest research and developments on topics including body image interventions, social media, incidence of dieting and cosmetic surgery, popular culture, and body scanning

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