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  • Female Cartoonists in the United States Female Cartoonists in the United States
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    Female Cartoonists in the United States

    This book provides an introduction to women cartoonists in the US, reading their work from a feminist, literary and stylistic perspective, which shines a light on their innovative and unique narratives and graphic languages.From rabid feminists to...
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  • Women, Reentry and Employment Women, Reentry and Employment
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    Women, Reentry and Employment

    Women, Reentry and Employment: Criminalized and Employable? explores the conflicting discourses about employment for women who are exiting prison. It empirically outlines the landscape of employability supports available to reentering women, the 'steps...
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  • Gidget Gidget
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    Gidget

    Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise examines the multiplicity of books, films, TV shows, and merchandise that make up the transmedia Gidget universe from the late 1950s to the 1980s. The book examines the Gidget phenomenon as an early and...
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  • Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction
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    Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction

    Female Sexuality in Modernist Fiction: Literary Techniques for Making Women Artists provides a chronological investigation of the innovative writing styles of canonical modernist writers to reveal a shift in gendered representations of sexual...
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  • Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy
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    Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy

    Authority, Gender, and Midwifery in Early Modern Italy: Contested Deliveries explores attempts by church, state, and medical authorities to regulate and professionalize the practice of midwifery in Italy from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth...
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  • Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism
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    Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism

    This edited volume engages with a range of geographical, political and cultural contexts to intervene in ongoing scholarly discussions on the intersection of nationalism with gender, sexuality and race.The book maps and analyses the racially and sexually...
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  • Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil
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    Agrifood System Transitions in Brazil

    This book explores the agrifood system transitions in Brazil to provide a new understanding of the trajectory of agriculture and rural development in this country. It accentuates the increasing diversifi cation and hybridization of food production and...
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  • Clemence Dane Clemence Dane
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    Clemence Dane

    This feminist investigation of the works of Clemence Dane joins the growing body of research into the relationship of female-authored texts to the ideology and cultural hegemony of the Edwardian and inter-war period. An amalgam of single-author study and...
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  • Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious
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    Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious

    Emotions, Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious argues for the need to consider many other factors, drawn from disciplines such as socio-biology, evolutionary psychology, the study of the emotions, the adaptive unconscious, the senses and...
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  • Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism
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    Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism

    Sexual Citizenship and Queer Post-Feminism makes new connections between post-feminism and queer theory to explore the complexities of contemporary gender and sexuality. In a wide-ranging examination of sex education, safe sex, and sexual healthcare,...
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  • Aggression in Pornography Aggression in Pornography
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    Aggression in Pornography

    Aggression in Pornography focusses on the issue of violence in mainstream pornography and examines what we know, what we think we know, and what are some surprising research findings and insights about the place of violence within pornography today. The...
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  • Gender Diversity and Sport Gender Diversity and Sport
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    Gender Diversity and Sport

    This timely and urgent text presents cutting-edge research exploring the complexities of barriers to inclusive access to sport and physical activity, and discusses how sport, and society, can move forward beyond the gender binary, in both theory and...
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  • Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction
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    Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction

    Myths and Fairy Tales in Contemporary Women's Fiction explores contemporary feminist, postmodernist, and postcolonial women writers' use and revisions of fairy tales and myths. With close readings of works ranging from Margaret Atwood to Doris Lessing to...
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  • Women and Legislative Representation Women and Legislative Representation
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    Women and Legislative Representation

    This book studies the proportion of women in national parliaments. More precisely, it seeks to identify the factors that influence the percentage of female parliamentarians, paying particular attention to the electoral system. The author seeks to...
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  • Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing
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    Women and Experience in Later Medieval Writing

    This volume examines the common medieval notion of life experience as a source of wisdom and traces that theme through different texts and genres to uncover the fabric of experience woven into the writings by, for, and about women.
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  • British Victorian Women's Periodicals British Victorian Women's Periodicals
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    British Victorian Women's Periodicals

    British Victorian Women's Periodicals explores themes and patterns of poetry publication in a variety of women's periodicals published throughout the Victorian era to answer questions about taste, style, and the significance of poetry to our...
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  • Digesting Race, Class and Gender Digesting Race, Class and Gender
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    Digesting Race, Class and Gender

    How are the ways that race organizes our lives related to the ways gender and class organize our lives? How might these organizing mechanisms conflict or work together? In Digesting Race, Class, and Gender, Ivy Ken likens race, class, and gender to foods...
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  • Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s
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    Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s

    Acknowledgements Introduction Precarious Bread - Charlotte Smith I 'A Disciple of a Better System' - Charlotte Smith II 'Poetry [and] Politics' - Mary Robinson I "The Best and the Wisest" - Mary Robinson II 'Newgate Before My Eyes' - Elizabeth Inchbald I...
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  • Men in Caring Occupations Men in Caring Occupations
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    Men in Caring Occupations

    PART I: INTRODUCTION Introducing Men in Non-Traditional Occupations Identities; with A.Pullen (In)visibility Gender, Service and Emotions PART II: OCCUPATIONAL CONTEXTS Gender, Performativity, Space: Male Cabin Crew and the Negotiation of Identity; ...
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  • A Feminine Cinematics A Feminine Cinematics
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    A Feminine Cinematics

    This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and...
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  • Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History
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    Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History

    This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf's historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, German...
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  • The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers
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    The Catholic Church and Unruly Women Writers

    This collection covers varied perspectives on both canonical and lesser-known Catholic women writers, all focusing on unruliness in what is commonly thought of as a restrictive site of writing for women: Catholicism. This volume is comprised of fourteen...
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  • Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory
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    Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory

    Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and queer theory to explore the unstable relationship between heterosexual masculine identity and cultural representation, this book examines the ways straight men are queered and abjected in literature, theory, and film.
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  • Understanding Suicide Understanding Suicide
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    Understanding Suicide

    Sociologists have debated suicide since the early days of the discipline. This book assesses that body of work and breaks new ground through a qualitatively-driven, mixed method 'sociological autopsy' of one hundred suicides that explores what can be...
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  • Identity in the 21st Century Identity in the 21st Century
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    Identity in the 21st Century

    Introduction - Negotiating Liveable Lives: Intelligibility and Identity in Contemporary Britain; M.Wetherell Part I: CLASS AND COMMUNITY  Individualisation and the Decline of Class Identity;  A.Heath, J.Curtice  & G.Elgenius 'I...
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  • Theorizing Identities and Social Action Theorizing Identities and Social Action
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    Theorizing Identities and Social Action

    Introduction: The Identity/Action Relation; M.Wetherell PART I: BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL TRAJECTORIES Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood; H.Elliott, Y.Gunaratnam, W.Hollway & A.Phoenix Biography, Education...
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  • The Demands of Motherhood The Demands of Motherhood
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    The Demands of Motherhood

    Drawing on qualitative interviews with forty middle-class mothers living in Northern Ireland and the US, this book explores the strategies women adopt, as they take on and creatively re-make motherhood in ways which allow them to cope.
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  • Surviving Teenage Motherhood Surviving Teenage Motherhood
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    Surviving Teenage Motherhood

    This book explores the experiences of pregnant teenagers, their partners, and midwives, from pregnancy realisation through the early years of motherhood. It examines changing attitudes to female sexuality and moral discourses on adolescent subjectivity...
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  • Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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    Contesting Stories of Childhood Sexual Abuse

    Located within a burgeoning therapeutic/self-help culture this book explores stories of childhood sexual abuse, recovered memories and multiple personalities, and explodes the myths surrounding women who, without memories, redefine themselves as victims.
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  • Gender and Spoken Interaction Gender and Spoken Interaction
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    Gender and Spoken Interaction

    Gender and Spoken Interaction presents a diverse collection of language and gender research with an exclusive focus on spoken interaction. The volume explores how gender is accomplished and reflected in spoken interaction, in relation to other...
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  • Gender and Interpersonal Violence Gender and Interpersonal Violence
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    Gender and Interpersonal Violence

    Drawing on research from a variety of disciplines, this edited collection challenges conventional understandings of gendered interpersonal violence, and identifies emerging sites and forms of resistance to it.
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  • Rethinking Trafficking in Women Rethinking Trafficking in Women
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    Rethinking Trafficking in Women

    What should be done about trafficking in women? This book argues that the question to be asked is, 'What cannot be done about trafficking in women?' Exploring the complex relationship between security, subjectivity and politics, Aradau argues that...
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  • Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890 Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890
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    Sexual Perversions, 1670-1890

    List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface; J.Peakman Introduction part I:What is Sexual Perversion?; J.Peakman Introduction part II: Sexual Perversion Pre-Sexology; J.Peakman Staging Perversion: The Restoration's Sexual Allegory of (un) Civil...
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  • Men and the Language of Emotions Men and the Language of Emotions
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    Men and the Language of Emotions

    In Men and the Language of Emotions, Dariusz Galasinski challenges the commonly held association of rationality with masculinity, involving distancing from the language of emotions. Drawing on a major study of heterosexual men talking about their life...
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  • Postfemininities in Popular Culture Postfemininities in Popular Culture
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    Postfemininities in Popular Culture

    Addressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and postfeminism, this book examines a range of popular female/feminist icons and paradigms. It offers an innovative and forward-looking...
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