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Neoliberalism and Subjectivity in Latin America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Valerie Walkerdine Neoliberalism and Subjectivity in Latin America (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Valerie Walkerdine
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines subjectivity and neoliberalism in Latin America. The chapters, first published in the journal Subjectivity, cover a range of topics, from work to childcare to violence to university education In the Introduction, Julian Medina Zarate and Flavia Uchoa point out the complex history of the arrival and take-up of neoliberalism across the continent, the deep-seated role of colonial and post-colonial violence, thus the specificity of modes of governance in the complex relationship between the North and the South. The chapter by Antar Martinez Guzman considers the role of neoliberalism in the huge rise in male violence across the country, exploring hyper-violent masculinities in the context of social precarity. Antonio Stecher and Alvaro Soto Roy discuss the transformations in work identities and thus the consequences for subjectivity for workers in three kinds of employment in neoliberal Chile. Fabio d'Oliviera studies phsychologists operating in an increasingly precarised service sector in public assistance programmes in Brazil. Hernan Pulido Martinez explores the role of artefacts in the introduction of discourses and practices related to quality within a university in Colombia. Ana Vergara discusses parent-child relations in the context of neoliberal Chile.

The Maternal in Creative Work - Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art (Paperback): Elena Marchevska, Valerie... The Maternal in Creative Work - Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art (Paperback)
Elena Marchevska, Valerie Walkerdine
R1,247 Discovery Miles 12 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity. This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the 'unfit mother' and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering. The Maternal in Creative Work will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies and art theory and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis.

The Maternal in Creative Work - Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art (Hardcover): Elena Marchevska, Valerie... The Maternal in Creative Work - Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art (Hardcover)
Elena Marchevska, Valerie Walkerdine
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Maternal in Creative Work examines the interrelation between art, creativity and maternal experience, inviting international artists, theorists and cultural workers to discuss their approaches to the central feminist question of the relation between maternity, generation and creativity. This edited collection explores various modes and forms of art practice which look at mothers as subjects and as artists of the maternal experience, and how the creative practice is used to accept, negotiate, resist or challenge traditional conceptions of mothering. The book brings together some of the major projects of maternal art from the last two decades and opens up new ways of conceptualizing motherhood as a creative and communicative practice. Chapters include intergenerational discussion of art practices in the 20th and 21st centuries, representations of breastfeeding and infertility in creative projects, the notion of the 'unfit mother' and childlessness, together with the experiences of women and men that take on maternal identities through many forms of kinship and social mothering. The Maternal in Creative Work will be essential reading for interdisciplinary students and scholars in cultural studies, gender studies and art theory and will have wider appeal to audiences interested in maternity, childcare, creativity and psychoanalysis.

Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (Paperback): Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (Paperback)
Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine
R1,048 Discovery Miles 10 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been - and are still - central to the history of women and their relation to domestic and educational practices. A crucial issue is the contrast between what it spoken about girls and women, and what girls and women can speak about. The contributors relate this theme specifically to women's position as mothers and the education of girls and women.

Counting Girls Out (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Valerie Walkerdine Counting Girls Out (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Valerie Walkerdine
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered mind. The 'Girls and Mathematics Unit' led by Valerie Walkerdine has, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation in this area. The book tackles issues and prejudice and examines and puts into perspective many claims that have been made about women's minds. It also probes the relationship between evidence and explanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, but boys are credited even when they do not?

Counting Girls Out (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed): Valerie Walkerdine Counting Girls Out (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Valerie Walkerdine
R5,129 Discovery Miles 51 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The question about girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false "evidence", and theorizing about the gendered body and the genedered mind. The "Girls and Mathematics Unit" led by Valerie Walkerdine has, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation in this area. Based on research, the book tackles issues and truisms, such as - "women are irrational, illogical and to close too their emotions to be any good at mathematics" and examines and puts into perspective these and other claims that have been made about women's minds. It analyzes the relationship between evidence and explanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, and boys credited even when they perform poorly?

Changing the Subject - Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Julian Henriques, Wendy... Changing the Subject - Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Julian Henriques, Wendy Hollway, Cathy Urwin, Couze Venn, Valerie Walkerdine
R4,004 Discovery Miles 40 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Changing the Subject is a classic critique of traditional psychology in which the foundations of critical and feminist psychology are laid down. Pioneering and foundational, it is still the groundbreaking text crucial to furthering the new psychology in both teaching and research. Now reissued with a new foreword describing the changes which have taken place in the discipline over the last few years, Changing the Subject will continue to have a significant impact on thinking about psychology and social theory.

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Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (Hardcover): Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine Routledge Revivals: Language, Gender and Childhood (1985) (Hardcover)
Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, Valerie Walkerdine
R3,974 Discovery Miles 39 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1985, this book brings together recent work on women and children from the nineteenth-century to the present. The contributors explore in different ways, and from different points of view, the way in which issues of language have been - and are still - central to the history of women and their relation to domestic and educational practices. A crucial issue is the contrast between what it spoken about girls and women, and what girls and women can speak about. The contributors relate this theme specifically to women's position as mothers and the education of girls and women.

Rethinking Community Research - Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): David Studdert,... Rethinking Community Research - Inter-relationality, Communal Being and Commonality (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
David Studdert, Valerie Walkerdine
R821 Discovery Miles 8 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It turns community thinking on its head by understanding community not as an object but as a relational process with sociality at its core. Based on fieldwork from one market town and the work of Hannah Arendt, it demonstrates how a new approach to social practices can illuminate our understanding of commonality and communal being. Whilst community has become both a much-derided and much-touted term, this thought-provoking work shows that it is at the heart of social process. It will appeal to researchers of sociology, social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well as those involved in public policy design and implementation.

Changing the Subject - Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (Paperback, 2nd edition): Julian Henriques, Wendy... Changing the Subject - Psychology, Social Regulation and Subjectivity (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Julian Henriques, Wendy Hollway, Cathy Urwin, Couze Venn, Valerie Walkerdine
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Learning through Interaction: Volume 1 - The Study of Language Development (Paperback): Gordon Wells Learning through Interaction: Volume 1 - The Study of Language Development (Paperback)
Gordon Wells; Contributions by Allayne Bridges, Peter French, Margaret Maclure, Chris Sinha, …
R1,514 Discovery Miles 15 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There have been many studies of children learning to talk, but perhaps none as comprehensive - in terms of the number of children involved, the period of continuous observation and the scope of the analysis - as the Bristol Study of Language Development. This is the first full-length volume to be written by members of the research team and it is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. It synthesises the research to date and discusses some key socio- and psycholinguistic themes with reference to transcribed excerpts from spontaneous conversations recorded by the team and to experimental data. The authors' central argument is that conversation provides the natural context of language development and that the child learns through exploring his world of interaction with other people. The quality of learning is seen to depend particularly on the strategies that adults employ to develop and extend children's contributions to interaction. This has important practical implications for the transition from home to school, and the second part of the book examines the differences and similarities between the talk that goes on in these two environments. The final chapter considers the development of literacy. The model of language development presented here will make stimulating and challenging reading for a wide range of sociologists, psychologists and educationalists as well as being of particular interest to linguists.

Growing Up Girl - Psycho-Social Explorations of Class and Gender (Hardcover): Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody Growing Up Girl - Psycho-Social Explorations of Class and Gender (Hardcover)
Valerie Walkerdine, Helen Lucey, June Melody
R2,033 R1,887 Discovery Miles 18 870 Save R146 (7%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout the Western world our social fabric is being transformed, leaving few lives untouched. Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organization of family, education, and work.

Growing Up Girl explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. It explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labor market and examines the profound but different regulation to which young women of all social positions are subjected. Tracing three groups of girls from their early childhood to young adulthood, the volume sheds light on the social, cultural, and psychological dynamics confronting young women today. It highlights the fragility and the fiction of the "I can have everything" girls, providing a ground-breaking and sobering antidote to platitudes about a feminine future. Growing Up Girl is essential reading for all those concerned with the lives of girls and women today.

Daddy's Girl - Young Girls and Popular Culture (Paperback): Valerie Walkerdine Daddy's Girl - Young Girls and Popular Culture (Paperback)
Valerie Walkerdine
R960 Discovery Miles 9 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When she's itty bitty and blond, wearing ribbons and curls and an aura of money, she's adorable and vulnerable, the tiny, innocent heart of our culture. But when the little girl comes from the working class, she's something else. Just what, and why so little is said about it, are the questions Valerie Walkerdine asks in Daddy's Girl, a book about how we see young girls, how they see themselves, and how popular culture mediates the view. Walkerdine's study looks at little girls on television and in the movies, in advertisements and popular songs. In figures from Annie to Shirley Temple in any number of her plucky poor girl roles, she shows us little orphans saddled with the task of representing the self-sufficient working class on the one hand and the loveable object of middle class charity on the other. The real working class girl, whose fantasies feed on a strange mix of these images and the rest of what popular culture offers, with all its glamorized sex and violence, is also the object of Walkerdine's attention. Reflecting on her own working class roots and taking us into the homes and the confidence of working class girls today as they watch television and movies and listen to popular songs, she gives us a sense, at once troubling and poignant, of the portrayal and manipulation of little girls as a canny part of the production of civilized femininity. At the center of this work is the issue of how girl children are taught to think of themselves and how their depiction puts them in their place. This concern leads Walkerdine to questions about television and parental control, about Freud's seduction theory and the origins of fantasy, about the political and erotic meaning of the ubiquitous gaze our culture trains on the little girl, and about academics' approach to the subject.

Cultural Studies And Communication (Paperback, New): David Morley, James Curran, Valerie Walkerdine Cultural Studies And Communication (Paperback, New)
David Morley, James Curran, Valerie Walkerdine
R1,630 Discovery Miles 16 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A companion volume to the best-selling Mass Media and Society. this collection provides a lively and authoritative introduction to cultural studies, written by some of the most influential scholars and researchers in the field. It offers a critical guided tour of the key debates raised by feminism, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and theories of ideology. It goes beyond a narrow definition of cultural studies in terms of the audience to consider the entire communication circuit from production to consumption within a wider theoretical framework.

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