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Taylor & Francis Ltd What Even Is Gender
Book SynopsisDebates about gender are everywhere. Is it an inner identity, a biological fact, or an oppressive system? Should we respect it or resist it?What Even Is Gender? shifts the conversation in a fresh direction, arguing that these debates rest on a shared mistake: the idea that there is one thing called gender that both sides are arguing about. The authors distinguish a range of phenomena that established vocabulary often lumps together. This sheds light on the equivocations and false dichotomies of gender talk, and how they deny many of us the tools to make our needs, experiences, and concerns intelligible to others or even to ourselves.The authors develop a conceptual toolkit that helps alleviate the harms that result from the limitations of familiar approaches. They propose a pluralistic concept of gender feels that distinguishes among our experiences of diverse facets of gendered life. They develop a flexible approach to gender categories that reflects the value Trade Review'Briggs and George blow open the "gender debate" by questioning tired distinctions and unhelpful tropes about sex, gender, and gender identity, while fashioning new, multi-dimensional lenses through which we can begin to see human beings -- trans and otherwise -- in all their bio-psycho-social complexity. Anyone looking to move past politicised point-scoring and drain-circling disputes about social ontology will benefit from reading this book, with Briggs and George as their capable guides to a more nuanced sex and gender terrain.' - Brian D. Earp, University of Oxford, UKTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. All The Feels: Against "Gender Identity" 3. Don’t Hate the Player: Traits Versus Norms 4. "Above All That": Glorifying Indifference 5. Our Princess Is In Another Castle: There Is No Essence of Womanhood 6. Conclusion. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Data Publics
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion on Architecture Literature and The City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Cannabis Social Club
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Placating the Demons
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Touring Performance and Global Exchange 18501960
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Sexuality and Identities of the Borderlands
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Touring Performance and Global Exchange 18501960
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Taylor & Francis Digital Football Cultures
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Taylor & Francis Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society
Book SynopsisThe idea of a âleisure societyâ was in its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was predicted that the pattern of falling working hours which had been experienced in Western societies in the first half of the twentieth century would continue indefinitely. The leisure society has clearly not been realised. On the contrary: contemporary industrial societies seem to be characterised by a shortage of time, experienced as âtime squeezeâ and stress. The leisure society idea can be seen as the modern version of the age-old dream of a âlife of ease and plentyâ. This analytically and empirically rich book traces the idea in history, through biblical, classical Greek, medieval and nineteenth century utopian writings and into twentieth century concerns with dystopia and the impact of rapid technological change. The âleisure societyâ concept turns out to have been an elusive and short-lived phenomenon. For a variety of reasons, the trend towards shorter working hours ran out of steam in the last quarter of the twentieth century. However, while leisure scholars have deserted the topic, a diverse range of activists, including environmentalists, economists and feminists, continue to make the case for reducing working hours. Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? concludes that the on-going âstruggle for timeâ should be supported, for the sake of human health and well-being and for the sake of the planet. This is a valuable resource for students and academics in the fields of leisure studies, cultural studies, history, economics, sociology and political science. Trade Review"[Tony Veal] does a great job of offering a detailed overview of the leisure society debate and in setting the record straight by correcting some of the prevailing misconceptions about it. If anybody working within or outside leisure studies ever wanted to know what the predictions and ideas of leisure society were all about, they do not need to go any farther than this book." - Utsa Mukherjee Birkbeck, University of London, Annals of Leisure Research"[Tony Veal] does a great job of offering a detailed overview of the leisure society debate and in setting the record straight by correcting some of the prevailing misconceptions about it. If anybody working within or outside leisure studies ever wanted to know what the predictions and ideas of leisure society were all about, they do not need to go any farther than this book." - Utsa Mukherjee, Birkbeck, University of London, Annals of Leisure Research"If somebody wants to learn more about the history and the validity of the notion of the leisure society, Veal’s publication is a must. This publication provides a remarkably detailed and accurate account of positions taken with regard to the leisure society by different authors, beginning from the 1930s until today … to those who will try, in the future, to say something new about the concept of the leisure society. Please first read Tony Veal’s book. He may have said it already. This is truly an encyclopedia of the leisure society." – Jiri Zuzanek, University of Waterloo, Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure"Whatever Happened to the Leisure Society? authored by A. J. Veal invites the reader to explore the diverse range of scholarship around leisure, work and time. The discussions around leisure and labour remain essential for contemporary human societies due to its effect on human health and wellbeing." – Ashwin Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology, Leisure StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction, 1. Introduction: the elusive leisure society, 2. About work, leisure, non-work time and the leisure society, Part II: Pre-history and History, 3. The leisure society: pre-history, history, utopia, 4. Industrialisation, automation and the problem of work, rest and leisure: 1918-1939, 5. Work-leisure relationships and mass leisure: 1945-1959, 6. Futurism, post-industrialism and the leisure society, 7. The leisure society idea: 1960-1979, 8. Unemployment, the leisure ethic and the end of work: 1980-1999, Part III: Analysis, 9. Economics, work and leisure and the leisure society, 10. The leisure society’s critics, Part IV: The 21st Century, 11. Work-reduced futures for the 21st century, 12. The struggle for time. What next?
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Against Automation Mythologies Business Science Fiction and the Ruse of the Robots
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Against Automation Mythologies
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Travel Writing and the Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd HegelianLacanian Variations on Late Modernity Spectre of Madness
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Violence
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comics as a Research Practice Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame Routledge Research in Culture Space and Identity
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comics as a Research Practice
Book SynopsisThis book proposes a novel creative research practice in geography based on comics. It presents a transdisciplinary approach that uses a set of qualitative visual methods and extends from within the geohumanities across literary spatial studies, comics, urban studies, mobility studies, and beyond.Written by a geographer-cartoonist, the book focuses on narrative geographies' and embraces a geocritical and relational approach to examine comic book geographies in pursuit of a growing interest in creative, art-based experimental methods in the geohumanities. It explores comics-based research through interconnections between art and geography and through theoretical and methodological contributions from scholars working in the fields of the social sciences, humanities, literary geographies, mobilities, comics, literary studies, and urban studies, as well as from visual artists, comics authors, and art practitioners. Comics are valuable objects of geographical interest because of tTable of Contents1. Introduction: Enacting Comic Book Geographies Part 1: Assembling Comics for Creative Interventions in Urban Space 2. Comics as Assemblages: Building Urban Stories in the Public Sphere 3. Doing Urban Comics: Ethnographic Strolling Across ‘Peripheral’ Neighbourhoods Part 2: Moving Comics from Representation to Practice 4. Graphic Mobilities: Mobile Practices, Bodies, and Landscapes of Movement in Comics 5. Doing Comics on the Move: An Autoethnographic Account of Geographic Fieldwork
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Religion The Basics
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Correctness A Sociocultural Black Hole Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Political Correctness A Sociocultural Black Hole
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Religion
Book SynopsisDigital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society.Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online, including multisite reality, convergence practice, networked community, storied identity, shifting authority, and experiential authenticity, the book considers how digital religion both shapes, and is influenced by, religion offline. Questions asked include: How is religion being performed and reimagined through digital media and cultures? In what ways do the practices of religion online merge or correspond with shifts in perspective taking place in offline religious practice? How do the key findings of religion online reflect broader social, cultural, and structural practices observed within mobile, networked society? With case studies and furtTable of Contents1. What is Digital Religion? 2. Networked Community 3. Convergent Practice 4. Multisite Reality 5. Shifting Authority 6. Storied Identity 7. Experiential Authenticity 8. The Future of Digital Religion Glossary Bibliography Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge Handbook of Japanese Cinema
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bareback Porn Porous Masculinities Queer Futures
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Taylor & Francis Heritage Tourism and Cities in China
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Coffee and Cultural Change in Modern Japan Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exceptionalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Exceptionalism
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Policies for Sustainable Development
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Postworld InBetween Utopia and Dystopia
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background.The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics.This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and wTable of ContentsForeword: A Utopian/Dystopian Spectrum: From Friendship to Fear, From Consent to Coercion Gregory ClaeysUtopia and Dystopia in the 21st Century: Feminism, Intersectionality, and the Rejection of Binarism Katarzyna Ostalska and Tomasz FisiakPart I: Between Anthropocenic Dystopia And Ecological UtopiaChapter 1: In Need of New Narratives: Feminist Ustopian Fiction Challenging the Anthropocene Alessandra BollerChapter 2: Post-Anthropocentric Ethics of Care in Turn-of-the-Century Fiction Katarzyna WięckowskaChapter 3: Environmental Dys/Utopian Short Stories in Olga Tokarczuk’s Opowiadania Bizarne Agnieszka ŁowczaninPart II: The Materiality Of Posthuman Intersections And Speculative Discourse In Fiction And ArtChapter 4: Critical Hope: Relationalities in 21st-Century Speculative Fiction and Art Dunja M. MohrChapter 5: The Mesotopia: From Speculative Realism To Speculative Artistic Events Tristan VerranChapter 6: Neganthropic Architecture(s): Renee Gladman’s Speculative Reorientation of Science-Fiction Małgorzata MykPart III: Between History And Sexual Politics: Alternate Herstories And Historical AlternativesChapter 7: Temporal Politics: Entangling Fictions, Futures, and Histories in Contemporary and Historical Speculative Fiction Adam StockChapter 8: Utopia of Intimacy: "The Fear of the Flesh," Hyper-Sexualisation, Libidinal Exhaustion, and a New Sexual Politics beyond Oedipal (Wo)man Mark FeatherstoneChapter 9: Do Cyborgs Dream of (Becoming) People? The Alternative Non-Human Self in Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me Tomasz DobrogoszczPart IV: In-Between Feminist And Postfeminist Dys/UtopiasChapter 10: Twenty-First Century Gileads: Feminist Dystopian Fiction after Atwood—The Handmaid’s Tale, The Natural Way of Things, The Water Cure, and The Testaments Fiona TolanChapter 11: A Rage of Her Own: The Unpredictable Powers of Female Flight in Nnedi Okorafor’s The Book of Phoenix Svetlana StefanovaChapter 12: Feminist Utopianism in the Posthuman Worlds of Last Ones Left Alive by Sarah Davis-Goff and Individutopia by Joss Sheldon Katarzyna OstalskaChapter 13: Developing the F-word: Representing Adolescent Womanhood and Race in Young-Adult Dystopian Novels Cristina ParavanoPart V: Beyond The Gender And Structural Binaries In Dys/Utopian CinemaChapter 14: Alien Bodies, Alien Selves: Under the Skin (2013) and Beyond Tomasz FisiakChapter 15: Dys/utopian Narratives on the Screen: Beyond the Binaries in Children of Men and The Lobster Emrah Atasoy Chapter 16: Zombie Mayhem in Austen’s Hertfordshire—Intersectionality of Class and Gender Politics in Burr Steers’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Magdalena CieślakChapter 17: "Where did all you zombies come from?" Gendered Pasts, Presents and Futures in Robert Heinlein’s "All You Zombies" and the Film Adaptation Predestination Emily Cox-Palmer-White
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Postworld InBetween Utopia and Dystopia
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Politics of Obscenity in the Age of the Gutenberg Revolution
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Taylor & Francis Kathy Acker
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Taylor & Francis Aggression in Pornography
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Taylor & Francis How Museums Tell Stories
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Taylor & Francis Performance in a Time of Terror Five Sinhala Plays from Sri Lanka
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Power and Global Social Justice
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Gender Power and Global Social Justice
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Threat Communication and the US Order after 911
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Taylor & Francis China and England The Preindustrial Struggle for Justice in Word and Image
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Mobile Socialities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Race Class and Christianity in South Africa
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AntiFeminisms in Media Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd AntiFeminisms in Media Culture
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Property and Finance on the PostBrexit London Stage We Want What You Have
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Property and Finance on the PostBrexit London Stage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shame Temporality and Social Change Ominous Transitions Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
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