Forever Girls explores girlhood manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema within the conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolonial and postwar traumas, modernity, and democracy.
This book provides a unique, interdisciplinary and rights-based perspective on sexual and reproductive health, sexualised violence and gender-based violence (GBV) among refugees, displaced persons and other migrants.
Woman as gorgon, woman as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has dominated Western thinking defines women in a variety of patriarchally encoded roles.
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences.
An exhilarating biography of the iconic poet, essayist and activist Audre Lorde Read these chapters like a collection of poems that speak in chorus in all directions.
Six key texts by contemporary women writers are read afresh by leading critics, using insights from poststructuralist and new materialist feminist theory.
Through rapid cultural change and technological advances, kink subculture has become more visible and accessible--and less stigmatized--than ever before.
Through rapid cultural change and technological advances, kink subculture has become more visible and accessible--and less stigmatized--than ever before.
It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "e;the repressive hypothesis"e; and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "e;Victorian"e; still has largely negative connotations.
It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "e;the repressive hypothesis"e; and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "e;Victorian"e; still has largely negative connotations.
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.
This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of women's ascendance to leadership positions in the European Union as well as their performance in such positions.
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology.
The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of their biology.
How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets ';Whither goest thou, America,' asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road, ';in thy shiny car in the night?
How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets ';Whither goest thou, America,' asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road, ';in thy shiny car in the night?
This book provides a thoroughly documented discussion of ancient Roman ideologies of masculinity and sexuality with a focus on ancient representations of sexual experience between males.
International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups.
In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous accounts have acknowledged.
In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous accounts have acknowledged.
Catholicism as Musical Discourse reveals the important role that French-language sacred songs, written primarily for women, played in the evolution of the Catholic Reform over the long seventeenth century.
Communities across the world engage in gender practices that are seen by many as in conflict with women's rights, such as Muslim women's face veils and polygyny.
Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity explores how nostalgia-driven fantasies shape contemporary masculinity and capitalist culture, and how these dynamics constrain our ability to imagine new futures.
Nostalgia, Fantasy, and the Futures of Masculinity explores how nostalgia-driven fantasies shape contemporary masculinity and capitalist culture, and how these dynamics constrain our ability to imagine new futures.
