Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Fausto-Sterling Anne)(Paperback)

Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (Fausto-Sterling Anne)(Paperback)

Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Barker Joanne)(Paperback)

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty,

Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity (Hertzmann Leezah)(Paperback)

Sexuality and Gender Now uses a psychoanalytic approach to arrive at a more informed view of the experience and relationships of those whose sexuality and gender may not align with the heterosexual 'norm'. This book confronts the heteronormative bias dominant in psychoanalysis, using a combination

Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama (Aughterson Kate)(Paperback)

Shakespeare and Gender guides students and teachers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies

Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide (Richards Christina)(Paperback)

Questions of sexuality and gender affect everyone and therefore have an inevitable relevance in the consulting room. Yet with interpretations and manifestations of both varying greatly from person to person, understanding the inherent complexities of sexuality and gender can be a daunting task for

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

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy (Murray Jacqueline)(Paperback)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume,

Discriminating Sex: White Leisure and the Making of the American Oriental (Sueyoshi Amy)(Paperback)

Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy

Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala (Mokkil Navaneetha)(Paperback)

America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies (Benshoff Harry M.)(Paperback)

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively

Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (Pascoe C. J.)(Paperback)

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning

The New Asceticism: Sexuality, Gender and the Quest for God (Coakley Sarah)(Paperback)

Each chapter of The New Asceticism concentrates on a contentious issue in contemporary theology - the role of women in the churches, homosexuality and the priesthood, celibacy and the future of Christian asceticism - in an original thesis about the nature of desire which may start to heal many

The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality, and Gender (Manuel Zenju Earthlyn)(Paperback)

'What does liberation mean when I have incarnated in a particular body, with a particular shape, color, and sex?' In The Way of Tenderness, Zen priest Zenju Earthlyn Manuel brings Buddhist philosophies of emptiness and appearance to bear on race, sexuality, and gender, using wisdom forged through

Blackheath (Baron Adam)(Paperback)

Holding a mirror up to contemporary gender politics and exposing the flaws and failures of so-called equal parenting, Adam Baron's Blackheath is a moving and sharply comic tale of life-after-children, revealing the awful truth at the heart of modern family life: love is not enough. Amelia has

Gender on the Edge: Transgender, Gay, and Other Pacific Islanders (Besnier Niko)(Pevná vazba)

Transgender identities and other forms of gender and sexuality that transcend the normative pose important questions about society, culture, politics, and history. They force us to question, for example, the forces that divide humanity into two gender categories and render them necessary,

The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze (Holleb Morgan Lev Edward)(Paperback)

There can be confusion around the appropriate terminology for trans and queer identities, even within the trans community itself. As language is constantly evolving, it can be especially difficult to know what to say. As a thorough A-Z glossary of trans and queer words from 'ace' to 'xe', this

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

None of Us Is Yet a Robot: Five Performances on Gender Identity and the Politics of Transition (Frankland Emma)(Paperback)

Gender and the Politics of History (Scott Joan Wallach)(Paperback)

This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women's history, arguing that political and social

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body (Hogan Susan)(Paperback)

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading researchers and lesser-known voices, it contains

Queen Anne - The Politics of Passion (Somerset Anne)(Paperback / softback)

Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser's life of Marie Antoinette or Amanda Foreman's 'The Duchess', 'Queen Anne' is historical biography at its

Sexuality and the Psychology of Love (Freud Sigmund)(Paperback)

From Simon & Schuster, Sexuality and the Psychology of Love is Sigmund Freud's exploration of sexuality and the psychology of love. Sexuality and the Psychology of Love is Freud at his most brilliant, raising the curtain on a new era of sexual and social awareness, with an introduction from Philip

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Hill Collins Patricia)(Paperback)

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist

The Ethics of Identity (Appiah Kwame Anthony)(Paperback)

Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do 'identities' constrain