Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Davis Alexander K.)(Paperback)

Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Davis Alexander K.)(Paperback)

Today's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States--one that concerns more than mere 'potty politics.' Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred

Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing (Molotch Harvey)(Paperback)

View 'Public Restrooms' A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly.So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for

Democracy Administered: How Public Administration Shapes Representative Government (Bertelli Anthony Michael)(Paperback)

How does representative government function when public administration can reshape democracy? The traditional narrative of public administration balances the accountability of managers, a problem of control, with the need for effective administration, a problem of capability. The discretion modern

Intimate Frontiers: Sex, Gender, and Culture in Old California (Hurtado Albert L.)(Paperback)

This book reveals how powerful undercurrents of sex, gender, and culture helped shape the history of the American frontier from the 1760s to the 1850s. Looking at California under three flags--those of Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Hurtado resurrects daily life in the missions, at mining

Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter? (Davis Heath Fogg)(Paperback)

Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors, why do

The Voice of the Body (Lowen Alexander)(Paperback)

The Voice of the Body is the first publication in a single volume of Alexander Lowen's public lectures known as 'The Lowen Monographs.' This historical collection of twenty-two lectures by one of the founders of contemporary body-psychotherapy embodies the groundbreaking principles of Bioenergetics

Contesting Intersex: The Dubious Diagnosis (Davis Georgiann)(Paperback)

Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented by the American Sociological Association Winner, 2016 Donald Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology, presented by the American Sociological AssociationA personal, compelling perspective on how medical

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender (Boisvert Donald L.)(Paperback)

How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers

Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Schaverien Joy)(Paperback)

How do gender and sexual difference influence the erotic transference?Gender, Countertransference and the Erotic Transference offers new insights into working with complex transference and countertransference phenomena. Including views from a wide spectrum of theoretical backgrounds, it makes a

How to Poo Your Way to the Top (Mats & Enzo)(Paperback)

Just when you thought the bathroom was safe, Mats & Enzo are back. This time, they reveal how to maneuver through the real corridors of office power: the toilet. How, where, and when you poo can affect promotions, others perception of you, and all aspects of your career. Not convinced? Read How to

Writing Gender History (Downs Laura Lee)(Paperback)

How has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the discussion moves from women's

Gender: In World Perspective (Connell Raewyn)(Paperback)

How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn Connell, one of the world's leading scholars in

Unconquerable Sun (Elliott Kate)(Paperback / softback)

First in a galactic-scale, gender-swapped space opera trilogy inspired by the life of Alexander the

Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities (Bertaud Alain)(Pevná vazba)

An argument that operational urban planning can be improved by the application of the tools of urban economics to the design of regulations and infrastructure.Urban planning is a craft learned through practice. Planners make rapid decisions that have an immediate impact on the ground--the width of

Edinburgh (Chee Alexander)(Paperback)

From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is 'One of the great queer novels . . . of our time.'--Brandon Taylor, GQTwelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Maine whose powerful soprano voice wins him a place as

Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma (Iantaffi Alex)(Paperback)

Exploring how the essentialism of the gender binary impacts on clients of all genders, this ground-breaking book examines how historical, social and culturally gendered trauma emerges in clinical settings. Weaving together systemic ideas, autoethnography, narrative therapy and somatic experiencing,

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America (Fine Peter Claver)(Paperback)

Setting the Agenda: Mass Media and Public Opinion (McCombs Maxwell)(Paperback)

News media strongly influence how we picture public affairs across the world, playing a significant and sometimes controversial role in determining which topics are at the centre of public attention and action. Setting the Agenda, first published in 2004, has become the go-to textbook on this

Ruslan and Lyudmila (Pushkin Alexander)(Paperback)

In order to rescue his beloved Lyudmila, who has been abducted by the evil wizard Chernomor, the warrior Ruslan faces an epic and perilous quest, encoutering a multitude of fantastic and terrifying characters along the way. The basis for Glinka's famous opera of the same name, Ruslan and Lyudmila -

Speaking Up: Understanding Language and Gender (Jule Allyson)(Paperback)

Our language and gender have an enormous impact on how we understand ourselves and the world around us, and the way we are treated by society. Many popular ideas about gender and language are more complicated than they first appear. This book will change the way you think about language, and give

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History (Somerville Ian)(Paperback)

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the present, how the present is always historical, and how both past and present can power imagined futures.Divided into three distinct parts, the book uses

Myths to Live by (Campbell Joseph)(Paperback)

Myths, according to Freud's view, are of the psychological order of dream. Myths, so to say, are public dreams; dreams are private myths. There is no one quite like Joseph Campbell. He knows the vast sweep of man's panoramic past as few men have evern known it. -The Village Voice What is a properly

The Logic of Causal Order (Davis James a.)(Paperback)

This monograph is not statistical. It looks instead at pre-statistical assumptions about dependent variables and causal order. Professor Davis spells out the logical principles that underlie our ideas of causality and explains how to discover causal direction, irrespective of the statistical

Gender Violence, 2nd Edition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (O'Toole Laura L.)(Paperback)

How gender and sexuality can be life threatening From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and