This volume challenges the status quo by addressing a selection of intensely discussed themes in contemporary archaeological practice from a gender perspective.
Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.
As a minority religion in a predominantly Christian country, America's Muslims face many difficulties - lack of understanding of their cultural traditions by the majority of their fellow citizens, threats to their civil liberties based on their beliefs and ethnicity, and challenges to retaining a Muslim identity within their community.
Slags on Stage weaves cultural analysis with poetry and art criticism to explore the concept of the 'slag' and its place in contemporary British culture.
This book examines the potential of craft-centred education to influence the gender socialisation of rural children through a philosophical, sociological, and psychological lens.
Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal women's crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe.
This is the first dedicated overview of the international television romantic comedy genre, Mary Irwin builds on the critical work on cinematic romantic comedy to offer a dedicated critical analysis of the romantic comedy on the small screen.
Originally published in 1977, this lively collection of papers by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women's movements and community action at the time, in terms both of the recent developments in women's thinking and of their practical experience of involvement in community organizations and groups.
This lively economics textbook uniquely offers a comprehensive exploration of economic issues related to women, covering topics from marriage and family dynamics to work and pay.
A Re-mapping of Womanhood and Creativity investigates the diverse ways in which women set out to find a matrilineal line as a wellspring for creative transformation, and, through a lens of analytical psychology, how we read women's literary history and narratives about womanhood.
This book comprises a collection of the distinguished psychoanalyst Elisabeth Young-Bruehl 's papers ranging from 'Psychoanalysis and Social Democracy', 'Civilization and its Dream of Contentment', 'Reflections on Women and Psychoanalysis' and 'Psychobiography and Character Study'.
This incisive work provides a comparative political analysis of the women's movement in England, the United States, and Sweden from the 1960s to the present.
This book explores the marginalization that English as additional language (EAL) learners, immigrant or language-minoritized people confront when learning to socialize into using the language of schooling.
"Descalzos por el parque: familias, abandono y exclusión social" es un libro escrito por Fernando Vidal que explora la historia de exclusión y abandono de aquellos que viven en los parques públicos.
How can a collation of blog posts demonstrate the many elements of Autistic lived experience and guide readers on how to support development and change?
'Illuminating, thoughtful and scholarly' FINANCIAL TIMES'Does a fascinating job of exploring the history of women's bodies' GREG JENNER'Mind-blowing, fascinating stuff' BBC WOMAN'S HOUR'Authoritative, rich and wide-ranging, this is an immensely impressive work of scholarship' GUARDIANThroughout history, religious scholars, medical men and - occasionally - women themselves, have moulded thought on what 'makes' a woman.
From the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERForeword INDIES 2025 Book of the Year Finalist (Religion)"A blistering critique of the narrowing options for female leadership in the evangelical church.
This Handbook is an important contribution to the recent history of and contemporary debates on feminist, gender, and women's studies seen in a global perspective.