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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General

Interdependencies Between Fertility and Women's Labour Supply (Hardcover, 2011): Anna Matysiak Interdependencies Between Fertility and Women's Labour Supply (Hardcover, 2011)
Anna Matysiak
R2,875 Discovery Miles 28 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book explores interlinkages between women's employment and fertility at both a macro- and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland. Similarly as many other studies on the topic, it refers to the cross-country variation in the macro-context for explaining cross-country differences in women's labour supply and fertility levels. However, in contrast to other studies, which mainly focus on Western Europe, it extends the discussion to Central and Eastern European countries. Furthermore, it looks at the macro-context from a multi-dimensional perspective, indicating its four dimensions as relevant for fertility and women's employment choices: economic (living standards), institutional (family policies), structural (labour market structures), and cultural (social norms). A unique feature of the study is the development of indices that measure the intensity of institutional, structural, and cultural incompatibilities between women's employment and fertility. These indices are used for ranking European countries from the perspective of the country-specific conditions for work and family reconciliation. A country where these conditions are the worst, but where women are additionally perceived as important income providers, is picked up for an in-depth empirical study of the interrelationship between fertility and women's employment choices.

Finally, against the review of theoretical concepts predominantly used for studying interdependencies between fertility and women's labour supply the book assesses the micro-level empirical studies available on the topic and proposes an analytical approach for modelling the two variables. Thereby, it also contributes to methodological developments in the field.

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Preventing Youth Violence - Rethinking the Role of Gender and Schools (Hardcover): V. Sundaram Preventing Youth Violence - Rethinking the Role of Gender and Schools (Hardcover)
V. Sundaram
R1,842 Discovery Miles 18 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Youth violence is a persisting social problem. National and global campaigns and interventions have sought to influence young people's behaviour and attitudes, yet rates of youth violence have not decreased significantly. Preventing Youth Violence: Rethinking the Role of Gender in Schools argues that young people's perspectives should inform future work on violence prevention and that particular attention should be given to how they relate to different forms of violence and also to the role of gender. This will enable future prevention work to be more targeted and to acknowledge teenagers' varying understandings of violence. The book indicates that British teenagers consider some forms of violence to be acceptable, understandable and even deserved, and that violence is not always viewed as problematic. It explores the reasons underlying these views on violence and considers how this knowledge can be used in prevention work in schools.

Nation, Immigration, and Environmental Security (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): J. Urban Nation, Immigration, and Environmental Security (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
J. Urban
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using the lens of postcolonial feminism and with particular focus on immigration accross the U.S.across/Mexico border, this book explores the processes by which security threats are identified and interpreted, and thus the relationship between national, civilizational, and environmental security within mainstream environment security discourse in the United States. Another distinctive element of the book is that its focus on the broader discourse of environmental security and immigration, examining the articulation of environmental security concerns over immigration across U.S. institutions such as the media, the state, NGOs, and academia to unpack the ways these threats are identified and interpreted.

Violence, Gender and Affect - Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Marita Husso,... Violence, Gender and Affect - Interpersonal, Institutional and Ideological Practices (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Marita Husso, Sanna Karkulehto, Tuija Saresma, Aarno Laitila, Jari Eilola, …
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents new conceptual and theoretical approaches to violence studies. As the first research anthology to examine violating interpersonal, institutional and ideological practices as both gendered and affective processes, it raises novel questions and offers insights for understanding and resolving social and cultural problems related to violence and its prevention. The book offers multidisciplinary perspectives on various forms and intersections of different types of violence. The research ranges from the early modern era to the present day in Europe, US, Africa and Australia, representing disciplines such as gender studies, history, literature, linguistics, media and cultural studies, psychology, social psychology, social work, social policy, sociology and environmental humanities. With its integrative approach, the book proposes new ideas and tools for academics and practitioners to improve their theoretical and practical understandings of these phenomena as a source of multidimensional inequality in a globalized world.

Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World - History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (Hardcover): Vanja Hamzic Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Muslim World - History, Law and Vernacular Knowledge (Hardcover)
Vanja Hamzic
R4,584 Discovery Miles 45 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation or gender identity is forbidden in contemporary international human rights law, yet in many interpretations of Islamic law, this is seen to contradict the tenets of Islam. Vanja Hamzic here offers a path-breaking historical and anthropological analysis of the discourses on sexual and gender diversity in the Muslim world. The first of its kind, the book sheds new light on the understanding of diversity and resistance to hegemonic visions of the self in Muslim societies. Combining first-hand ethnographic accounts of Muslims in contemporary Pakistan including the hijra community whose pluralist sexual and gender experience defy the disciplinary gaze of both international and state law with new archival research, this book provides a unique mapping of Islamic jurisprudence, court practice and social developments in the Muslim world. Hamzic provides a comprehensive look at the ways in which sexually diverse and gender-variant Muslims are seen, and see themselves, within the context of the Islamic legal tradition.

Media and Gender Adaptation - Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans (Hardcover): Lucy Irene Baker Media and Gender Adaptation - Regendering, Critical Creation and the Fans (Hardcover)
Lucy Irene Baker
R2,861 Discovery Miles 28 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Media and Gender Adaptation examines how fans and professionals change the gender of characters when they adapt existing work. Using research into fans, and case studies on Sherlock Holmes, Ghostbusters and Doctor Who, it illustrates the foundation of the process and ways the works engage with and critique media and gender at a political level. The default maleness of narratives in media are reworked to be inclusive of other points of view. Regendering as an adaptational technique relies on audience familiarity with existing works, however it also reveals an increasing trend in aggressive backlash against interpretations of media that include marginalised and minority communities. Combining analysis of fanfiction, television and big budget Hollywood productions, Media and Gender Adaptation also analyses fan responses to regendering in popular media. Through demographic surveys and interviews with fans, creators and broader audiences, a combination of playful and serious attitudes to gender are revealed to be part of how transformative fans (professional or not) adapt work. Specific fanfiction examples are analysed alongside professional works to reveal the depth and breadth of fannish play in regendered work and the constraints that professional adaptations are held to. It also reveals a schism in audiences, and those researching media, where the intersection of gender and race are sites of tension - nostalgia combining with expected representation of gender and race to create an aggressive defence of an original work that reiterates the mainstream hierarchies of gender and race.

Mothers and Work in Popular American Magazines (Hardcover, New): Kathryn Keller Mothers and Work in Popular American Magazines (Hardcover, New)
Kathryn Keller
R2,756 Discovery Miles 27 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Drawing on articles appearing in popular women's magazines from 1950 to 1989, this study documents changes in justifications of gender-based divisions of labor in the home and workplace. The study details the types of rationalizations that have been used to reconcile one new familial arrangement--two-parent workers with traditional gender values that promote men as breadwinners/fathers and women as housewives/mothers. The study reveals that changes have taken place only within the context of being a "good mother." A serious analysis of women's burden of being both breadwinner and homemaker, therefore, has not occurred. Women's magazines serve as moral guides for their readers, providing justifications for both working and nonworking readers. They rely heavily on "experts" to provide personal direction to their readers. This work is in the same vein as Susan Faludi's Backlash, which examines the use of the media in the control of gender ideologies.

Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Elisabeth Tauber, Dorothy L. Zinn
R3,890 Discovery Miles 38 900 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides new insights into an intense and long-standing debate on women, gender, and masculinity with an explicit focus on ethnographic writing. The six contributors to this book investigate and discuss the multiple connections between ethnographic writing and gender in both the history of anthropology and contemporary anthropology, underlining problems, potentialities, stereotypes, experiments, continuities, changes, and challenges. Building on a prologue by two Malinowski grandchildren and an exploration of the role that Bronislaw Malinowski's first wife, Elsie Masson, played in his literary presentation, the anthropologists collected here problematize writing gender and gendered writing in ethnography, revealing how these twin themes touch the history of the discipline itself and the classics of anthropology. Has the legacy of Writing Culture and Women Writing Culture obviated the need to consider gender in writing? Or could it be that the very mechanics of ethnographic writing are still imbued with hidden gendered divisions of labor? Following the editors' extensive overview of the question, the contributing authors tackle gender and ethnographic writing from various vantages: with a view to the past, but also to the influence of previous feminist critiques in the present, and with accounts of the issues they themselves have faced and the solutions they have devised.

Education and Gender (Hardcover): Debotri Dhar Education and Gender (Hardcover)
Debotri Dhar; Series edited by Colin Brock
R5,262 Discovery Miles 52 620 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is the relationship between gender andthe humanitarian function of education? How does this relationship change indifferent countries of the world? Educationand Gender draws on international research fromnumerous countries including the USA, UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa andthe Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationshipbetween gender and education. The contributors consider a range of issues, fromthe gender gap in educational attainment and pedagogical strategies and teachertraining to stereotyping in curriculum and gender issues in education policy, all the time rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specificgeographical contexts. Drawing on best practices word-wide, the contributorsidentify the current gaps and propose solutions to promote gender-just, equitable and pluralistic societies. Case studies provide real examples andeach chapter contains a summary of the key points within the chapter to enableeasy navigation, key questions to encourage you to actively engage with thematerial and a list of further reading to support you in taking yourexploration furthe

Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired - How Successful Women Lose Their Jobs (Hardcover): Martha Reeves Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired - How Successful Women Lose Their Jobs (Hardcover)
Martha Reeves
R2,782 Discovery Miles 27 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

So entrenched and powerful is the patriarchy within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement and argues that successful women executives threaten their male counterparts and their patriarchal culture, which responds by punishing them. Unlike other studies on the topic, Reeves explains the mechanisms by which gender discrimination operates--the dynamics of discrimination and the processes by which women in business are marginalized, subordinated, and excluded. Her book combines theory with first person case study accounts of 10 women who were suppressed, then fired. The result is a fresh, compelling argument that, despite claims to the contrary, the glass ceiling still exists. The patriarchy has simply devised subtle new ways to circumvent the legal remedies meant to crack through it.

Reeves reviews statistics on the role of women in work, patterns of horizontal and vertical segregation, and differences in the experiences of men and women, then turns to an assessment of the theories of women's subordination. She profiles each of her 10 women subjects, explains their education, career trajectory, and accomplishments. Their experiences reveal various mechanisms through which the patriarchy operates to subordinate successful women, such as communication patterns among men that minimize women's contributions, withholding of information, denial of status to women, intimidation tactics, and the double bind that women find themselves in when they seek fair treatment. After analyzing the women's termination in detail, Reeves discusses how each woman's personality played a role in her termination. Reeves ends by drawing conclusions on what the present and future seem to hold for women's progress in organizations, and particularly in publicly held corporations.

Heavy Burdens - Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church (Paperback): Bridget Eileen Rivera Heavy Burdens - Seven Ways LGBTQ Christians Experience Harm in the Church (Paperback)
Bridget Eileen Rivera
R449 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R43 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Foreword INDIES 2021 Finalist for Religion Religious faith reduces the risk of suicide for virtually every American demographic except one: LGBTQ people. Generations of LGBTQ people have been alienated or condemned by Christian communities. It's past time that Christians confronted the ongoing and devastating effects of this legacy. Many LGBTQ people face overwhelming challenges in navigating faith, gender, and sexuality. Christian communities that uphold the traditional sexual ethic often unwittingly make the path more difficult through unexamined attitudes and practices. Drawing on her sociological training and her leadership in the Side B/Revoice conversation, Bridget Eileen Rivera, who founded the popular website Meditations of a Traveling Nun, speaks to the pain of LGBTQ Christians and helps churches develop a better pastoral approach. Rivera calls to mind Jesus's woe to religious leaders: "They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them" (Matt. 23:4). Heavy Burdens provides an honest account of seven ways LGBTQ people experience discrimination in the church, helping Christians grapple with hard realities and empowering churches across the theological spectrum to navigate better paths forward.

Gender and Power in Eastern Europe - Changing Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity in Power Relations (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Gender and Power in Eastern Europe - Changing Concepts of Femininity and Masculinity in Power Relations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Katharina Bluhm, Gertrud Pickhan, Justyna Stypinska, Agnieszka Wierzcholska
R3,147 Discovery Miles 31 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the contradictory development of gender roles in Central and Eastern Europe including Russia. In light of the social changes that followed the collapse of communism and the rise of new conservatism in Eastern Europe, it studies new forms of gender relationships and reassesses the status quo of female empowerment. Moreover, leading scholars in gender studies discuss how right-wing populism and conservative movements have affected sociopolitical discourses and concepts related to gender roles, rights, and attitudes, and how Western feminism in the 1990s may have contributed to this conservative turn. Mainly focusing on power constellations and gender, the book is divided into four parts: the first explores the history of and recent trends in feminist movements in Eastern Europe, while the second highlights the dynamics and conflicts that gained momentum after neoconservative parties gained political power in post-socialist countries. In turn, the third part discusses new empowerment strategies and changes in gender relationships. The final part illustrates the identities, roles, and concepts of masculinity created in the sociocultural and political context of Eastern Europe.

Women's Political Participation in Bangladesh - Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Pranab... Women's Political Participation in Bangladesh - Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Pranab Kumar Panday
R3,793 R3,526 Discovery Miles 35 260 Save R267 (7%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women's political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the Fourth World Conference on Women, 1995, in Beijing, in which a Platform for Action signed by heads of governments expressed their countries' commitment to achieve 'gender equality and empowerment of women' through ensuring integration of the gender perspective at all levels. In Bangladesh, notable among the initiatives undertaken was the enactment of the Local Government (Union Parishads) (Second Amendment) of 1997, through which one-third of seats were reserved for women in the Union Parishad (UP) and the system of direct election was introduced to elect women members in reserved seats. The Act of 1997 is considered to be a milestone, since it has enhanced women's participation in the local government politics significantly. Against this background, the specific research questions that have been addressed in this volume include: the necessity of reform for enhancing women's participation in politics; the context against which the Government of Bangladesh enacted the Act and the reasons such an initiative was not taken earlier; the actors behind the reforms and their role in the reform process; and the impact of the reform on the state of women's participation at the local level in Bangladesh.

Paths to Parenthood - Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... Paths to Parenthood - Emotions on the Journey through Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Early Parenting (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Renata Kokanovic, Paula A. Michaels, Kate Johnston-Ataata
R3,370 Discovery Miles 33 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This interdisciplinary book explores the affective dimensions of becoming a parent, traversing the life-cycle journey of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting. Bringing together researchers from sociology, history, feminist studies, cultural studies, general medicine, and psychiatry, Paths to Parenthood analyses rich narratives that represent a diverse cross-section of parents, including migrants, same-sex couples, and single parents.

The Color Pynk - Black Femme Art for Survival (Hardcover): Omiseeke Natasha Tinsley The Color Pynk - Black Femme Art for Survival (Hardcover)
Omiseeke Natasha Tinsley
R2,005 Discovery Miles 20 050 Ships in 12 - 19 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.

The Queer Outside in Law - Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Senthorun Raj, Peter Dunne The Queer Outside in Law - Recognising LGBTIQ People in the United Kingdom (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Senthorun Raj, Peter Dunne
R3,640 Discovery Miles 36 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book contributes to current debates about "queer outsides" and "queer outsiders" that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as "outlaws" - through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing - to respectable "in laws" - through the emerging acceptance of same-sex families and self-identified genders. From the partial decriminalisation of homosexuality in the Sexual Offences Act 1967, to the provision of a bureaucratic mechanism to amend legal sex in the Gender Recognition Act 2004, bringing LGBTIQ people "inside" the law has prompted enormous activist and academic commentary on the desirability of inclusion-focused legal and social reforms. Canvassing an array of current socio-legal debates on colonialism, refugee law, legal gender recognition, intersex autonomy and transgender equality, the contributing authors explore "queer outsiders" who remain beyond the law's reach and outline the ways in which these outsiders might seek to "come within" and/or "stay outside" law. Given its scope, this modern work will appeal to legal scholars, lawyers, and activists with an interest in gender, sex, sexuality, race, migration and human rights law.

Theorizing Identities and Social Action (Hardcover): M Wetherell Theorizing Identities and Social Action (Hardcover)
M Wetherell
R1,542 Discovery Miles 15 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the doing and making of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together.

Women, Men and Everyday Talk (Hardcover, New): JC Oates Women, Men and Everyday Talk (Hardcover, New)
JC Oates
R3,573 Discovery Miles 35 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Women, Men and Everyday Talk brings together a selection of some of the author's key papers on language and gender, and provides an overview of the development of language and gender studies over the last 30 years, with particular emphasis on conversational data and on single sex friendship groups. The main theme running throughout the book is that gender plays a significant role in the construction of the linguistic landscape of our everyday lives. These lively essays on language and gender topics are illustrated with examples from the author's data-base of spontaneous talk, and are written in an accessible style.

Modern Jewish Women Writers in America (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): E Avery Modern Jewish Women Writers in America (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
E Avery
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After forty years of feminism, views of the traditional Jewish family, religion, and gender roles have changed. In the process a new literature has been created, new paradigms born, and many Jewish women writers have been reevaluated, reclaimed, and renamed, with their Jewish heritage often overlooked or misinterpreted." Modern Jewish Women Writers in America "includes groundbreaking essays and interviews with scholars and authors who reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from being Jewish.

Feminist Metaphysics - Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Charlotte Witt Feminist Metaphysics - Explorations in the Ontology of Sex, Gender and the Self (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Charlotte Witt
R4,954 Discovery Miles 49 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The present volume is an exciting new collection of original essays by outstanding feminist theorists including Sally Haslanger, Marilyn Frye and Linda Alcoff. Feminist Metaphysics is the first collection of articles addressing metaphysical issues from a feminist perspective. The essays cover central feminist topics including: the ontology of sex and gender, persons, identity and subjectivity, and the relations among experience, ideology and reality. Many of the papers combine cutting-edge feminist theory with contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of language. The volume is also distinctive in including articles representing both analytic and continental perspectives on metaphysics. The essays are philosophically sophisticated and are primarily intended for a professional audience of philosophers and feminist theorists.

The African-American Male - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition): Jacob U. Gordon The African-American Male - An Annotated Bibliography (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
Jacob U. Gordon
R1,374 Discovery Miles 13 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The plight of the Black male in American society has been well-documented by scholars and practitioners. Although Black males represent only 6 percent of the American population, they represent about 40 percent of the prison population; the number of Black males in prison and jail exceeds the number of Black males in higher education. The homicide rates for Black males were 72.5 percent per 100,000, nearly eight times higher than for White males. This bibliographic volume explores the extent to which American academia has addressed these problems. It will be an invaluable resource for researchers as well as practitioners in social service programs.

In addition to more than 400 annotated publications, the book includes a selected list of works on the African American male and a compilation of doctoral dissertations. This publication will serve as a reference in public as well as academic libraries, human service agencies, government policymaking agencies, and in academic courses in gender and ethnic studies, criminal justice, and social psychology.

Identity in the 21st Century - New Trends in Changing Times (Hardcover): M Wetherell Identity in the 21st Century - New Trends in Changing Times (Hardcover)
M Wetherell
R1,540 Discovery Miles 15 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bringing together leading scholars to investigate trends in contemporary social life, this book examines the current patterning of identities based on class and community, gender and generation, race, faith and ethnicity, and derived from popular culture, exploring debates about social change, individualization and the re-making of social class.

Sexuality and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover): Bradley A. TePaske Sexuality and the Religious Imagination (Hardcover)
Bradley A. TePaske
R1,137 Discovery Miles 11 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Stefan Horlacher Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Stefan Horlacher
R3,057 Discovery Miles 30 570 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book takes both transgender and intersex positions into account and asks about commonalities and strategic alliances in terms of knowledge, theory, philosophy, art, and life experience. It strikes a balance between works on literature, film, photography, sports, law, and general theory, bringing together humanistic and social science approaches. Horlacher adopts a non-hierarchical perspective and asks how transgender and intersex issues are conceptualized from a variety of different viewpoints and to what extent artistic and creative discourses offer their own uniquely relevant forms of knowledge and expression.

Corpus - An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (Hardcover): M. Casper, P. Currah Corpus - An Interdisciplinary Reader on Bodies and Knowledge (Hardcover)
M. Casper, P. Currah
R1,517 Discovery Miles 15 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Corpus begins with the argument that traditional disciplines are unable to fully apprehend the body and embodiment and that critical study of these topics urgently demands interdisciplinary approaches. The collection's 14 previously unpublished essays grapple with the place of bodies in a range of twenty-first century knowledge practices, including trauma, surveillance, aging, fat, food, feminist technoscience, death, disability, biopolitics, and race, among others. The book's projected audience includes teachers and scholars of bodies and embodiment, interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners, and scholars interested in the any of the substantive content covered in the book. The collection could be adopted in courses on the body at advanced undergraduate and graduate levels, including: cultural studies; queer, gender and sexuality studies; body and power; biopolitics; intersectional approaches to the body; anthropology of the body; sociology of the body; embodiment and space; digital bodies; anthropology of knowledge production; health, illness, and medicine studies; science, knowledge, and technology studies; and philosophy and social theory.

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