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Gendered Choices - Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm, Kate... Gendered Choices - Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm, Kate Thomas
R3,032 Discovery Miles 30 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This important book breaks new ground in addressing issues of gendered learning in different contexts across the (adult) life span at the start of the 21st century. Adult learning sits within a shifting landscape of educational policy, profoundly influenced by the skills agenda, by complex funding policies, new qualifications and the widening/narrowing participation debate. The book is unique in highlighting the centrality of gendered choices to these developments which shape participation in and experiences of lifelong learning.

"Gendered Choices" critically examines the continued expansion of a skills-based approach in areas of lifelong learning, including career decisions, professional identities and informal networks. It explores key intersections of adult learning from a gender perspective: notably participation, workplace learning and informal pathways.

Drawing on research from a range of contexts, "Gendered Choices "demonstrates that for women the public/private spaces of work and home are often conflated, although the gendering of 'choice' has largely been ignored by policy makers.

The themes of the book bring together some of these critical issues, explored through the multiple and fractured identities which constitute gendered lives. The book addresses these in an international context, with contributions from Canada, Spain and Iran that provide a wider international perspective on shared issues."

Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano
R4,243 Discovery Miles 42 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online forums, news reporting, advertising and fiction. This innovative work examines new and emerging forms of gender hybridisation in relation to complex socialisation and immigration contexts including the role of EU institutions in ascertaining asylum seekers' sexual orientation, and the European laws on gender policy. The book employs numerous analytical approaches including critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, multimodal analysis, literary criticism and anthropological and social research. The authors show how such texts can disrupt, question or complicate traditional notions of what it means to be a man, queering the idea that men possess fixed identities or desires, instead arguing that masculinity is constantly changing and negotiated through the cultural and political overlapping contexts in which it is regularly produced. These nuanced analyses will bring fresh insights for students and scholars of gender, masculinity and queer studies, linguistics, anthropology and semiotics.

Congressional Women - Their Recruitment, Integration, and Behavior, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Irwin N.... Congressional Women - Their Recruitment, Integration, and Behavior, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Irwin N. Gertzog
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a revision and update of Gertzog's successful 1984 study of women in the United States Congress. Now, 10 years later, the congressional roster is far different: Women have made major in-roads in numbers and prominence in the House of Representatives. Based upon interviews with 45 members of the 103rd Congress, this study examines the rise in the number of women elected, the circumstances leading to their success, and their integration into the workings of the institution, in both legislative and political terms.

Sexual Visuality From Literature To Film 1850-1950 (Hardcover): D. Denisoff Sexual Visuality From Literature To Film 1850-1950 (Hardcover)
D. Denisoff
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A must-read for scholars of visuality, gender and sexuality. Denisoff's study explores the ways in which gothic, sensation and "noir" literature and cinema manipulated common notions of the visual in order to challenge sex- and gender-based assumptions that marginalized certain people and desires. Addressing authors and directors such as Mary Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Virigina Woolf, Daphne du Maurier, Alfred Hitchcock, Otto Preminger and Fritz Lang, this study shows that what a society gets is often what it tries hardest not to see.

Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Lisa Foran, Rozemund Uljee Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida: The Question of Difference (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Lisa Foran, Rozemund Uljee
R4,217 Discovery Miles 42 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the relation between Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida by means of a dialogue with experts on the work of these mutually influential thinkers. Each essay in this collection focuses on the relation between at least two of these three philosophers focusing on various themes, such as Alterity, Justice, Truth and Language. By contextualising these thinkers and tracing their mutually shared themes, the book establishes the question of difference and its ongoing radicalization as the problem to which phenomenology must respond. Heidegger's influence on Derrida and Levinas was quite substantial. Derrida once claimed that his work 'would not have been possible without the opening of Heidegger's questions.' Equally, as peers, Derrida and Levinas commented on and critiqued each other's work. By examining the differences between these thinkers on a variety of themes, this book represents a philosophically enriching project and essential reading for understanding the respective projects of each of these philosophers.

Productive Men and Reproductive Women - The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German... Productive Men and Reproductive Women - The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Marion W Gray
R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male realms. These standards defined women's options largely as marriage and motherhood.

Queering Criminology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer Queering Criminology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Matthew Ball, Thomas Crofts, Angela Dwyer
R4,138 Discovery Miles 41 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Queer criminological work is at the forefront of critical academic criminology, responding to the exclusion of queer communities from criminology, and the injustices that they experience through the criminal justice system. This volume draws together both theoretical and empirical contributions that develop the growing scholarship being produced at the intersection of 'queer' and 'criminology'. Reflecting the diversity of research that is undertaken at this intersection, the contributions to this volume offer a deeper theoretical and conceptual development of this field alongside empirical research that illustrates the continued relevance and urgency of such scholarship. The contributions consider what it means to be queering criminology in the current political, social, and criminological climate, and chart directions along which this field might develop in order to ensure that greater social and criminal justice for LGBTIQ communities is achieved.

Men and Abortion - Lessons, Losses, and Love (Hardcover): Gary McLouth, Arthur B Shostak Men and Abortion - Lessons, Losses, and Love (Hardcover)
Gary McLouth, Arthur B Shostak
R2,818 Discovery Miles 28 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is a pioneering and revealing study of the meaning of the abortion experience for American men. The book draws on over 400 detailed surveys from men involved in an abortion, along with opinion data from secondary polls of American women.

Gender, Power and the Household (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed): L. McKie, S. Bowlby, S Gregory, Jo Campling Gender, Power and the Household (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
L. McKie, S. Bowlby, S Gregory, Jo Campling
R2,871 Discovery Miles 28 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ; dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .

Sex, Breath, and Force - Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era (Hardcover): Ellen Mortensen Sex, Breath, and Force - Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era (Hardcover)
Ellen Mortensen; Contributions by Jodi Dean, Cathrine Egeland, Elizabeth Grosz, Sara Heinamaa, …
R2,604 R2,337 Discovery Miles 23 370 Save R267 (10%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Living in the post-modern age, there is a growing sentiment of disenchantment in relation to the most facile aspects of dogmatic feminism. Nevertheless, the question of sexual difference still remains. Sex, Breath and Force asks how we should approach such a questioning today, given the fall of the great narratives and the plethora of theoretical discourses in circulation. What are the conditions of possibility for thinking of sexual difference as a foundational problem in the age of technology? And, how do the disciplines of social science, literary studies, philosophy, and film studies answer this challenge? This collection of essays provides a reassessment of the question of sexual difference, taking into account important shifts in feminist thought, post-humanist theories, and queer studies. The contributors offer new and refreshing insights into the complex question of sexual difference from a post-feminist perspective, and how it is reformulated in various related areas of study, such as ontology, epistemology, metaphysics, biology, technology, and mass media.

Abortion Law and Politics Today (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): Ellie Lee Abortion Law and Politics Today (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Ellie Lee
R2,877 Discovery Miles 28 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Women's needs are placed at the centre of this collection. The contributors discuss the extent to which the contemporary legal framework on abortion matches the needs of women faced with unwanted pregnancy. The book contains sections on Britain, including an account of the campaign to legalize abortion, written by those centrally involved with that campaign; international comparisons of abortion law, with chapters on France, the United States, Ireland and Poland; and chapters covering contemporary debates, including men's rights in abortion and abortion for foetal abnormality.

Women, Matrimonial Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) - Transforming Indian Justice Delivery System for... Women, Matrimonial Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) - Transforming Indian Justice Delivery System for Achieving Gender Justice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Neelam Tyagi
R4,398 Discovery Miles 43 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines the practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) as it stands today in the context of matrimonial disputes and for providing gender justice for women undergoing matrimonial litigation. ADR is a fairly recent but increasingly prevalent phenomenon that has significantly evolved due to the failure of the adversarial process of litigation to provide timely resolution of disputes. The book explores the merit and demerit of traditional litigation process and emergence, socio-legal framework, work environment and success rate of various ADR processes in general and for resolving matrimonial disputes in particular. It comprehensively discusses the role of various institutions and attitudes and perceptions of ADR practitioners. It analyzes the influence of patriarchal cultural assumptions of appropriate feminine behaviour and its effect on ADR practitioners like mediators and counsellors that leads to the marginalization of aggrieved woman's issues. With a brief analysis of the experience and challenges faced with the way the ADR process is conducted, the focus is on probing the vulnerability of aggrieved women. The book critiques the practice of ADR as it is today and offers constructive ways forward by providing suggestions, insights, and analysis that could bring about a transformation in the way justice is delivered to women. This in-depth study is an attempt to guide decision making by bringing forth and legitimizing the battered women's voice which often goes unrepresented, in the debate about the efficacy of ADR mechanism in resolving matrimonial disputes. The book is of interest to those working for justice for women, particularly in the context of matrimonial disputes -- legal professionals, mediators, counsellors, judges, academicians, women rights activists, researchers in the field of gender and women studies, social work and law, ADR educators, policymakers and general readers who are inclined and interested in bringing a gender perspective to their area of work.

Living & Dying - Meanings In Maithili Folklore (Hardcover): Dev Nath Pathak Living & Dying - Meanings In Maithili Folklore (Hardcover)
Dev Nath Pathak
R1,234 Discovery Miles 12 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, 1999 ed.): Cindy L. Carlson, Angela Jane Weisl Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (Hardcover, 1999 ed.)
Cindy L. Carlson, Angela Jane Weisl
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Rather, these positions were areas of contestation, constructions that did and still do create and interrogate notions of gender roles, areas of power, areas of disability. For example, chastity is an apparent given for both positions, but the chastity involved may have a number of possible cultural meanings or uses. The articles in Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages address many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions; the body and what it means to make it visible, whether in admiration, torture, or martyrdom; issues of physicality and abjection; creations of literary voice for women who write or create situations for them to be written about. A top-notch group of female scholars examines the meanings behind widowhood and virginity both individually and in relation to each other. The focus on both positions in the same volume makes Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages an unprecedented work.

Awakening Desire (Hardcover): Irene Alexander Awakening Desire (Hardcover)
Irene Alexander; Foreword by Paul Young
R1,019 R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others - Beyond Mourning and Melancholia (Hardcover): R. Kim Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others - Beyond Mourning and Melancholia (Hardcover)
R. Kim
R1,513 Discovery Miles 15 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Opening up contemporary debates about emotion in social and historical contexts, Women and Ireland as Beckett's Lost Others investigates the relationship between emotion, memory, exile and language. Using a psychoanalytic framework, this monograph traces discourses of mourning (Klein), melancholia (Freud) and abjection (Kristeva) in Beckett's prose and drama, and demonstrates how Ireland and women are often Beckett's objects of loss. This study primarily focuses on Beckett's exploitation of ambivalent yet conscious use of psychoanalytic concepts in his works on an aesthetic level. It also addresses the impact of one of the key events in Beckett's life, his self-imposed exile, on his poetics of grieving. By exploring Beckett's ambiguous representations of his homeland - Ireland - and women in general and the mother in particular throughout his oeuvre, this study unveils his uneasy relationship with them - an anxious part of his identity.

Affective Equality - Love, Care and Injustice (Hardcover): K Lynch, J. Baker, M. Lyons, Maggie Feeley, Niall Hanlon, Maeve... Affective Equality - Love, Care and Injustice (Hardcover)
K Lynch, J. Baker, M. Lyons, Maggie Feeley, Niall Hanlon, …
R1,532 Discovery Miles 15 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This groundbreaking book provides a new perspective on equality by highlighting and exploring affective equality, the aspect of equality concerned with relationships of love, care and solidarity. Drawing on studies of intimate caring, or "love laboring," it reveals the depth, complexity and multidimensionality of affective inequality.

Productive Men and Reproductive Women - The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German... Productive Men and Reproductive Women - The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Marion W Gray
R3,023 Discovery Miles 30 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The debate on the origins of modern gender norms continues unabated across the academic disciplines. This book adds an important and hitherto neglected dimension. Focusing on rural life and its values, the author argues that the modern ideal of separate spheres originated in the era of the Enlightenment. Prior to the eighteenth century, cultural norms prescribed active, interdependent economic roles for both women and men. Enlightenment economists transformed these gender paradigms as they postulated a market exchange system directed exclusively by men. By the early nineteenth century, the emerging bourgeois value system affirmed the new civil society and the market place as exclusively male realms. These standards defined women's options largely as marriage and motherhood.

Health Policy - International and Historical Dimensions (Hardcover): Nicholas Mercuro Health Policy - International and Historical Dimensions (Hardcover)
Nicholas Mercuro; Edited by Jurgen Backhaus
R3,454 Discovery Miles 34 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Part of a series offering international reviews of comparative public policy, this volume provides comparative perspectives on family law and gender bias. The topics discussed include: the concept of the natural family and the American family; gender and racial sterotype; and patriarchy in China.

Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate (Hardcover): J. Freedman Gendering the International Asylum and Refugee Debate (Hardcover)
J. Freedman
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Refugees and asylum seekers are the subject of major debates both at national and international level. But the debates exclude a gendered perspective that considers the experiences and needs of men and women. This study provides a comprehensive account of the situation of women refugees globally and explains how they differ from men. Looking at causes of refugee flows, international laws and conventions and their application, the policies and legislation of Western governments, and lived experiences of refugees themselves, this book is a much-needed addition to the migration literature.

Paternity and Fatherhood - Myths and Realities (Hardcover): Lieve Spaas Paternity and Fatherhood - Myths and Realities (Hardcover)
Lieve Spaas; Edited by (associates) Trista Selous
R2,881 Discovery Miles 28 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Paternity and fatherhood: is there more than an etymological difference between these two apparently synonymous terms? What do we understand by "paternity" and "fatherhood?" These crucial questions lie at the heart of this collection of essays selected from the humanities and social sciences. As an anthropological document, this book offers compelling evidence to support the premise that there is a profound difference between the biological reality of paternity and the cultural construct of fatherhood. At the same time, the theories of Freud and Lacan provide a background for many of the author's critical explorations of a kaleidoscope of literary texts, legal documents, case histories, painting and letters. Through their discussion of the relations, attitudes, emotions and values generated by the paternity/fatherhood distinction, the essays in this collection broaden our understanding of how dichotomy has evolved in Western societies and offer insights into its manifestations in some post-colonial cultures.

Defending Pornography - Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (Paperback, New Ed): Nadine Strossen Defending Pornography - Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (Paperback, New Ed)
Nadine Strossen
R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography. Reissued with a new foreword and introduction by the author.

Gender Epistemologies in Africa - Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities (Hardcover): O. Oyewumi Gender Epistemologies in Africa - Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities (Hardcover)
O. Oyewumi
R2,873 Discovery Miles 28 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. If gender emerges out of particular histories and social contexts, we must therefore pay attention to the histories of genderings as well as the continuous ways in which gender is made and remade in everyday interactions, and by institutions. In this sense then, "gender" is actually more about gendering--a process--rather than something inherent in social relations.

Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland - Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland - Women, Political Protest and the Prison Experience (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Azrini Wahidin
R4,171 Discovery Miles 41 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the contours of women's involvement in the Irish Republican Army, political protest and the prison experience in Northern Ireland. Through the voices of female and male combatants, it demonstrates that women remained marginal in the examination of imprisonment during the Conflict and in the negotiated peace process. However, the book shows that women performed a number of roles in war and peace that placed constructions of femininity in dissent. Azrini Wahidin argues that the role of the female combatant is not given but ambiguous. She indicates that a tension exists between different conceptualisations of societal security, where female combatants both fought against societal insecurity posed by the state and contributed to internal societal dissonance within their ethno-national groups. This book tackles the lacunae that has created a disturbing silence and an absence of a comprehensive understanding of women combatants, which includes knowledge of their motivations, roles and experiences. It will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, politics and peace studies.

Bodies of Work - The Labour of Sex in the Digital Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Rebecca Saunders Bodies of Work - The Labour of Sex in the Digital Age (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Rebecca Saunders
R1,549 Discovery Miles 15 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a timely and innovative exploration of the vital relationship between sex and capitalism in the digital age. It provides a lively, provocative analysis of how specifically digital forms of capitalist accumulation and labour shape and discipline the contemporary sexual body. Rebecca Saunders focuses on pornography in order to investigate the impact of digital forms of capitalism on contemporary sexuality and reveals the centrality of pornography to the digital attention economy, affective economics, the information economy, the creative industries and neoliberalism. Saunders uncovers a fundamental shift in the aesthetics and meaning of pornographic film, from a genre concerned with representing sexual pleasure to one that has become focused on representing sex as labour. Contemporary pornographic film is therefore read as a sign and symptom of how digital forms of capitalism regulate the twenty-first century sexual body through digital interfaces and technologies. Bodies of Work analyses major porn studios, dominant streaming platforms, significant directors and performers and queer and alternative pornographies, and presents new and significant concepts such as sexual datafication, the labour of visibility and interventionist pornography. Discussing pornographic film, sexuality, digital culture, labour and capitalism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars across gender studies, media and cultural studies, digital humanities and economics.

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