Cultural studies

The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.

This book offers a comprehensive, evidence-based, and engaging inquiry into women's oppression and its mitigation through contemplative practices like meditation.

This book critically examines the concept of sexualised governmentalities, a framework for understanding the evolving discourse and power dynamics surrounding discrimination on the basis of sexual practices.

This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives.

This book focuses on the high-income Asia that experienced fast economic growth and rapid demographic change in recent decades.

This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West.

The miraculous history of Notre Dame de Paris its construction, near destructions and survival against all odds ';Vivid and engrossing the opening chapter repays the cover price.

Monty was just like any other dog.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them ';A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.

'The most important thing you'll read this year' Elle The incendiary new book about toxic masculinity and misogyny from Clementine Ford, author of the bestselling feminist manifesto, Fight Like A Girl.

Is the future of food looking bleak or better than ever?

';Immensely learned and ambitiousseam-bursting eclecticism and polymathic brio This is by any standards a significant book and its author deserves high praise.

Most people try out diets just to see if they work.

'If you're going to talk about women in the 21st century, you MUST read Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex.

In an increasingly polarised world, it sometimes feels impossible to talk to someone you disagree with, let alone change their mind.

A new, transformative history in Tudor times there were Black people living and working in Britain, and they were free ';This is history on the cutting edge of archival research, but accessibly written and alive with human details and warmth.

Wie keine andere wimmelt die deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur von Gespenstern, die unverarbeitete, verdrangte und unsichtbare Aspekte der Vergangenheit enthullen.

Get to grips with one of the world's most powerful books.

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate relationship between radicalism and sociability in late Georgian parliamentary and extra-parliamentary politics, focusing on the Foxite-Whig faction.

Women's Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, and society.

No more apologies for being a man!

Peter Carey is one of Australia's finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public.

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This book adopts an interdisciplinary social science approach.

Drawing on original primary data, this book offers a comparative account of the European bookshop model, charting how it has evolved in the contemporary economy, how recent industry transformations have impacted it, and how bookshops have sought to adapt to new market conditions.

Music sampling has become a predominantly digitalized practice.

This book advances the emerging work on using semi-structured interview data to analyze motives by providing the first book-length treatment of this underdeveloped methodological area in sociology and social science more broadly.

Zimdancehall is a musical movement in Zimbabwe that has grown significantly since 2010.

This book addresses the limitations of dominant ways of thinking about and doing politics in Northern Ireland.

Disbanding the Patriarchy: Sex Policy and Power presents evidence from Australia, Europe, India, the UK, and the USA, revealing the calculated efforts to impede progress, dictated by oligarchs, the media, religious dogmas, and androcentric leaders.

This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women.

This book adopts an interdisciplinary social science approach.

This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience.

This book examines the issues arising from British contested history by looking at how it came to be constructed, how it developed, and how attitudes over time have begun to change towards it.

This book explores the various types of Appropriate Dispute Resolution (ADR) applied in Nigeria, the UK, and the US.

African music’s most distinctive feature is the urbatextuality that transpires through its diversity and plural functions and the specific geographical, cultural, religious, linguistic, political, economic, and social contexts from which it evolves.

This book explores the crucial role of interpretation in medical radiology and beyond, emphasizing its pervasive influence on medical knowledge.

The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia.

This book addresses increasing concerns regarding the relationship between social capital and disaster, highlighting conceptual definitions related to social capital and disaster, family, community, vulnerability, disaster experience, and preparedness.