Placing a central focus on the concerns of students today, this text deals with important, timely topics such as intersectionality, transgender issues, sexualisation and objectification. It combines up-to-date research with an approachable and engaging writing style, while also providing students with hands-on exercises and thought-provoking debate topics. Flexible teaching resources support every kind of instructor's course.

It hadn't been written in the stars for me that some day my depressing existence during World War II would propel me across the Atlantic and land me smack in the middle of the greatest gamble of my life. But I was ready for it. I had nothing to lose.