Sex & sexuality
På engelsk, emne: social aspects
Why He's So Last Minute and She's Got it All Wrapped Up (Bog, paperback)
Fifty Ways to Play: BDSM for Nice People (Bog, paperback)
På engelsk, emne: social aspects
Why He's So Last Minute and She's Got it All Wrapped Up (Bog, paperback)
Fifty Ways to Play: BDSM for Nice People (Bog, paperback)
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality ...
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This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were redefined during the upheava...
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This book offers a rigorous analysis of the contemporary ideologies of gender and places the work of controversial sexologist John Money at the center of its analysis, demonstrating the influence of h...
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Shows how gender identities mesh with those constituted by caste, class, religion and sexual preferences, forming a set of arrangements that have evolved through history. This book enables the reader ...
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illustrations...
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This excellent new reader offers students an informed overview of some of the most significant sociological work produced on gender over the last three decades....
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A collection of essays on gender, which includes themes such as the social constitution of gender; the nature of sexual oppression; the relation of gender to family, class, race, and culture; and femi...
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This excellent new reader offers students an informed overview of some of the most significant sociological work produced on gender over the last three decades....
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New edition of a popular and highly lauded introduction to gender - the first edition won Choice's outstanding academic title award. Provides an excellent survey of the key theoretical approaches ...
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New edition of a popular and highly lauded introduction to gender - the first edition won Choice's outstanding academic title award. Provides an excellent survey of the key theoretical approaches ...
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Taking gender to mean both the forms of identity which follow biological definitions of sex (the social identities of male and female, masculine and feminine), as well as the social and intimate relat...
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By re-examining ancient notions of sexual difference, bodies, culture, and identity, this book shows that Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, Epicureans and others force us to reassess what is at stake in d...
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Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. This study introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. It includes a discussion o...
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Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. This study introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. It includes a discussion o...
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The United States is obsessed with virginity -- from the media to schools to government agencies. In "The Purity Myth, " Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is damaging...
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Tells the story of glamour. This book explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. It also examines with w...
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This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social histor...
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Using observations from a mixed-sex slimming club, interviews with men whom medicine might label overweight or obese and other sources, this study urges a rethink of weight or fat as a public health i...
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Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. This book presents three ...
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Using observations from a mixed-sex slimming club, interviews with men whom medicine might label overweight or obese and other sources, this study urges a rethink of weight or fat as a public health i...
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Based on letters, diaries and oral histories, this title explores the impact of the 'war to end all wars' on the male body. It argues that military experiences led to a greater sharing of gender ident...
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Examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum the author calls BlueSky. This title presents an analysis of the social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a s...
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31 black & white illustrations...
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31 black & white illustrations...
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25 b/w photos & an eight page colour insert 4 tables, 1 map...
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Illustrations...
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This title explores the intimate, material and sensory spaces of the home to uncover how gender roles are performed within our personal, private worlds. It shows how everyday items ranging from perfum...
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Explores the ways in which anorexic women use their eating to control their bodies. It argues that the female body in modern Western culture is understood as open and accessible and female appetite as...
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Every year, millions of women have their lives turned inside out by the experience of pregnancy. This book takes a critical look at the powerful vested interests in the pregnancy business and at the s...
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By examining the history of menopause over the course of the twentieth century, this work shows how the experience and representation of menopause has been profoundly influenced by biomedical developm...
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Veiling is a globally polarizing issue, a locus for the struggle between Islam and the West and between contemporary and traditional interpretations of Islam. This book examines the vastly misundersto...
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* Written in an accessible but scholarly manner, this is the first British--edited and authored collection on lesbian and gay psychology. * Leading names in the field discuss a broad range of concern...
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Veiling - of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects - has existed in countless cultures and religions from time immemorial. This title examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world...
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Since earliest times, women have been involved with the making of pottery, and this tradition is still in place today. This book gives an insight into the various societies around the world in which s...
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Using a variety of methodologies and a wide range of case studies, the contributors describe and debate how pop music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct "masculine" and ...
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* Gives an up--to--date analysis of the relations between gender and technology * Deals with popular themes such as Donna Harraway's work on "cyborgs" * Provides a continuation to the arguments that...
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"Women and the Colonial Gaze" examines the way images of women have been used by colonizers and subject peoples to define the colonial relationship. endnotes, index...
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In this feminist history of eight centuries of private life in China, the author inserts women into the history of technology and adds technology to the history of women. Bray takes issue with the Ori...
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What does it mean to be human? To be human is, in part, to be physically sexed and culturally gendered. Yet not all bodies are clearly male or female. This book traces the changing definitions, percep...
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Using a variety of methodologies and a wide range of case studies, the contributors describe and debate how pop music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct "masculine" and ...
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Are new technologies and machineries helpful for our understanding of gender? This study analyzes the interrelations of gender and technology. It considers how the terms of gender are embodied in tech...
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