Mother-Love and Abortion: A Legal Interpretation offers a profound exploration of the complex philosophical, legal, and relational dimensions of abortion.
Fighting for the River portrays womens intimate, embodied relationships with river waters and explores how those relationships embolden local communities resistance to private run-of-the-river hydroelectric power plants in Turkey.
Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories explores the evolving intersections of feminist theory with postcolonial histories, offering a critical examination of the challenges that shape feminist thought across different geopolitical contexts.
It is not Egypts 2011 revolution that opened a space for womens and feminist activism, butas this book showsthe long history of womens activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution.
Disreputable Womenis a deeply transdisciplinary study of how black women use sex work and place making to claim economic, bodily, and sexual autonomy in a militarized city that is intent on displacing and caging them.
The book provides a comprehensive theoretical exploration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools drawing on critical insights from across the disciplines of sociology, psychology, history, and queer theory to present a robust theoretical foundation for school-wide approaches to LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Offering a thorough introduction to notions of gender in contemporary global literature, Global Literature and Gender uses postcolonial theories alongside theories of space and place, theories of globalization, and reference to the Posthuman and the Anthropocene as competing narratives of the contemporary.
This book uses feminist and postcolonial approaches to archival research and interviews to interrogate the persistence of colonial logics in contemporary counterterrorism practice, exposing how forms of state violence are normalised and legitimised.
A Psychoanalysis Influenced by Dissidence, Decoloniality, and Feminism analyzes the intersection of psychoanalysis with feminisms, decolonial theories, philosophy and queer theory.
Novel Histories: British Women Writing History, 1760-1830 argues that British women's history and historical fiction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries changed not only the shape but also the political significance of women's writing.
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth.
In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines how representations of British envoys-diplomats, officials, and spies- in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carre, as well as in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period.
In Diplomacy in Postwar British Literature and Culture, Krzakowski examines how representations of British envoys-diplomats, officials, and spies- in fiction and non-fiction by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell, Olivia Manning, and John le Carre, as well as in the films of Alfred Hitchcock respond to the political instability of the postwar period.
A sequel to her seminal book on Chaucer's House of Fame, Sheila Delany's elegant and innovative study of Chaucer's Legend of Good Women explores what it meant to be a reader and a writer, and to be English and a courtier, in the late fourteenth century.
Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products-films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media-to individuate through them the dynamics of memory.
Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema (1860-1920) explores the variations in the portrayal of female illness in Italian fin de siecle literature and early cinema.
Gender Justice and the Law presents a collection of essays that examines how gender, as a category of identity, must continually be understood in relation to how structures of inequality define and shape its meaning.
This volume situates My Antonia as a novel that stands the test of time by including in its pages an extraordinarily wide range of historical, cultural, literary, psychological, thematic, perceptual, and stylistic issues.
Cosmopolitanism and the Development of the International Criminal Court analyzes a set of prominent and competing discourses that emerged in the context of the development and establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
It is not Egypts 2011 revolution that opened a space for womens and feminist activism, butas this book showsthe long history of womens activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution.
Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, Theory, and Postcolonial Histories explores the evolving intersections of feminist theory with postcolonial histories, offering a critical examination of the challenges that shape feminist thought across different geopolitical contexts.
Was nineteenth-century British philanthropy the "e;truest and noblest woman's work"e; and praiseworthy for having raised the nation's moral tone, or was it a dangerous mission likely to cause the defeminization of its practitioners as they became "e;public persons"e;?
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Reproduction provides an in-depth approach to issues of gender and reproductive justice from a wide variety of countries and perspectives, with particular attention to the range of reproductive injustices that flow from racism and sexism.
Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood.
The book provides a comprehensive theoretical exploration of LGBTQ+ inclusion in schools drawing on critical insights from across the disciplines of sociology, psychology, history, and queer theory to present a robust theoretical foundation for school-wide approaches to LGBTQ+ inclusion.
This volume serves as an essential resource for advanced graduate students, early-career faculty, and anyone seeking a deeper, more dynamic understanding of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of qualitative research in education.