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Book SynopsisAn investigation of the origins of human sexual excitement; Stoller uses as source material pornography, daydreams and rituals that are commonly regarded as perverted. He suggests that similar elements are present in the erotic fantasies of both perverse and non-perverse people.

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Book SynopsisThis text is a case study of a woman, otherwise intelligent and apparently sane, who was convinced that she had internally a full set of functioning male sex organs. This account of her diagnosis and treatment is illustrated by excerpts from the patient-analyst dialogue during her therapy.

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Book SynopsisThe author of this text claims that psychoanalysis offers in its clinical goals and its vision of possibility, insight into the nature of subjectivity and the quality of good relations with others. It continues centuries of reflection and imagination about the good life.Trade Review"A ture contribution to analytic knowledge that merits reading by both analysts and cultural anthropologists." Warren S. Poland, Psychoanalytic Quarterly "An engagingly sincere piece of soulsearching by a widely respected psychological theorist... Three cheers for Nancy Chodorow for doing what she can to move the elephantine Freudian establushment a few inches closer to a psychology of joyous diversity." Theodore Roszak, San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle"

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Book SynopsisWhile scholarship in lesbian/gay studies, queer studies, and studies of gender and sexuality has had an enormous impact on medieval studies, little attention has been paid thus far to women who chose to live according to same-sex affectivity and desire.

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Book SynopsisTo be a virgin or a widow never promised a stable, uniform status to a woman during the Middle Ages. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages addresses many facets of these two female positions in medieval literature: gender constructions;Table of ContentsAppealing to Ecclesiastical Chivalry: The Widowed Queen in the Encomium Emmae ; R.S.Hollis A Widow's Chaste Vow: Mapping the Influence of Marie's La Vie de Sainte Audre�n Isabella, Countess of Suffolk; V.Blanton-Whetsell Closed Doors: An Epithalamium for Queen Edith, Widow and Virgin; M.Otter Performing Virginity: Sex and Violence in the Katherine Group; S.Salih The Paradox of Virginity with the Anchoritic Tradition: The Masculine Gaze and the Feminine Body in the Wohunge Group; S.M.Chewning Unrepresentable Rape and the Represented Church in Medieval Saints' Lives; K.C.Kelly Widowed Virgins, Viragos, and Authority in the Man of Law's Tale; C.C.Baswell The Violent Violation of Virginia: Family Violence in the Physician's Tale; S.P.Prior Between the Living and the Dead: Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romance; R.Hayward The Disorder of Violence/The Violence of Order: Abjection in the Prioress' Tale; K.M.Hobbs A Fountain Sealed, a Garden Enclosed: Literary Constructions of the Virgin Mary in Medieval French Story, Drama, and Lyric; J.M.Davis Virginity at Court: The Trials of the Virgin in the N-Town Cycle; C.L.Carlson Helpful Widows, Virgins in Distress: Women's Friendship in French Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries; A.Roberts The Widow as Virgin: Desexualized Narrative in the Livre de la Cit�es Dames; A.J. Weisl Transgressive Tears: The Pedagogy of Grief and the Image of the Grieving Widow in Medieval French Culture; L.A.Callahan

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Book SynopsisJudith Herman has noted that 'the most common post-traumatic disorders are those not of men in war but of women in civilian life.' How have women survived, both individually and collectively, in the face of unimaginable trauma?Trade Review"Recommended for academic libraries." - Library Journal "Henke's book introduces fascinating questions about trauma in women's lives, and the possible drive toward creative writing involving 'self healing.'" - Biography "Henke's arguments are consistently insightful and convincing and the glimpses she allows us into the lives of these women are always fascinating." - Canadian Literature "...Henke has given us a richly detailed map...which readers of life-writing, feminist cultural production, and trauma studies alike will gratefully refer." - Tulsa Studies in Women's LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: COLLETE'S AUTOFICTIONS: GENRE AND ENGENDERMENT The Earthly Paradise My Apprenticeships: The Specter of Willy Break of Day Postscript PART II: H. D.: PSYCHOANALYTIC SELF-IMAGING The Gift Adult Trauma and the Madrigal Cycle: Asphodel and Bid Me to Live PART III: ANAIS NIN'S INTERIOR CITIES: INCEST, ANXIETY AND FATHER-DAUGHTER LOSS FATHER-DAUGHTER LOSS Father Loss and Incest Daughter Loss and Maternal Anxiety Narrative Recovery PART IV: JANET FRAME'S NEW ZEALAND AUTOBIOGRAPHY : A POSTCOLONIAL ODYSSEY PART V: AUDRE LORDE'S AFRICAN-AMERICAN TESTIMONY Biomythography: Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Autopathography: The Cancer Journals and A Burst of Light PART VI: SYLVIA FRASER'S MY FATHER'S HOUSE : A CANADIAN MEMOIR OF SEXUAL TRAUMA AND NARRATIVE RECOVERY Conclusion Notes Works Cited and Consulted

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Book SynopsisGiven the significance of spiritual direction in modern Christianity, surprisingly little attention has been given to the tradition upon which today s spiritual direction is built.Trade Review'A Woman's Way promises to make a valuable contribution to these continuing debates, contesting accepted understandings of gender hierarchies in the past and providing detailed evidence of the contribution women have made to the universal search for meaning.' - Shurlee Swain, Journal of Religious HistoryTable of ContentsDirection in the Desert Direction Comes West The Age of Spiritual Advice The Visionary and the Confessor-Interrogator The Dawn of the Golden Age The Golden Age Continued Direction and Revolution Contemporary Spiritual Direction

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Book SynopsisThis exhaustive exploration of the sociocultural, political, and economic roles of African women through history demonstrates how African women have shaped—and continue to shape—their societies.Women play essential, critical roles in every society;Trade ReviewIn this wide-ranging study, emerging scholar of women's and gender history Amponsah (doctoral student, Univ. of Texas) and prolific UT historian Falola, the author or editor of more than 100 books, explore the complex roles of African women as wives and mothers, religious practitioners, workers and employers, artists and authors, government officials, and consumers and purveyors of education. . . . Summing Up: Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword Chronology Introduction: African Women in History 1. Women and Courtship and Marriage 2. Women and Family 3. Women and Religion 4. Women and Work 5. Women and the Arts and Literature 6. Women and Government 7. Women and Education Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNotes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - PART 1: THE FRAMEWORK - Women, Recession and Adjustment in the Third World: Some Introductory Remarks; H.Afshar & C.Dennis - Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries: The Impact on Women; F.Stewart - Male Bias in Structural Adjustment; D.Elson - Gender Equity and Efficiency in Adjustment Programmes; I.Palmer - PART 2: CASE STUDIES - Adjustment From Below: Low-Income Women, Time and the Triple Role in Guayaquil, Ecuador; C.O.N.Moser - Structural Adjustment and Gender in the Cote d'Ivoire; W.W.Vagliani - Women, Authoritarianism and Marker Liberalisation in Chile 1973-1989; G.Waylen - The Christian Churches and Women's Experience of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria; C.Dennis - Women and Work: Ideology not Adjustment at Work in Iran; H.Afshar - PART 3: POLICIES - Politicising Gender and Structural Adjustment; G.Ashworth - Final Declaration... Beyond the Debt Crisis: Structural Transformation; M.MolyneuxTable of ContentsNotes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - PART 1: THE FRAMEWORK - Women, Recession and Adjustment in the Third World: Some Introductory Remarks; H.Afshar & C.Dennis - Structural Adjustment in Developing Countries: The Impact on Women; F.Stewart - Male Bias in Structural Adjustment; D.Elson - Gender Equity and Efficiency in Adjustment Programmes; I.Palmer - PART 2: CASE STUDIES - Adjustment From Below: Low-Income Women, Time and the Triple Role in Guayaquil, Ecuador; C.O.N.Moser - Structural Adjustment and Gender in the Cote d'Ivoire; W.W.Vagliani - Women, Authoritarianism and Marker Liberalisation in Chile 1973-1989; G.Waylen - The Christian Churches and Women's Experience of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria; C.Dennis - Women and Work: Ideology not Adjustment at Work in Iran; H.Afshar - PART 3: POLICIES - Politicising Gender and Structural Adjustment; G.Ashworth - Final Declaration... Beyond the Debt Crisis: Structural Transformation; M.Molyneux

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Book SynopsisHARRIET BRADLEY is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, having previously taught at Sunderland and Durham. Her research interests include women's work and employment, trade unions and labour history, social inequalities and gender. She is author of Men's Work, Women's Work and Fractured Identities.

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Book SynopsisThis collection sets out how a gendered approach to political economy can help us understand the inherently gendered structures that characterise our society, and provide the foundation for a truly interdisciplinary social science.Trade Review'...the book illuminates the various ways that gender analysis is important to the relatively broad purview of the new political economy.' - Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Towards Gendered Political Economy; J.Cook & J.Roberts PART I Gendered Political Economy and Feminist Analysis; G.Waylen Rational Economic Families? Economics, the Family and the Economy; J.Humphries Gender and Family in the Formation of Human Capital; J.Gardiner Gender at the Macroeconomic Level; D.Elson Inclusion/Exclusion: The Janus Face of Citizenship; R.Lister PART II Comparative Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship: Latin America and the Former Socialist States; M.Molyneux Flexible Employment - Implication for a Gendered Political Economy of Citizenship; J.Cook The Restructuring of the Gendered Political Economy: Transformations in Women's Employment; S.Walby New Dimensions to Gendered Power Relations in Families; C.Smart Globalization, Gender and Migration: The Case of International Marriage in Japan; N.Piper The Political Economy of Social Reproduction: The Case of Cuba in the 1990s; R.Pearson Index

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Book SynopsisJANICE MCLAUGHLIN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Newcastle, UK. Her research interests include contemporary feminist theorising and technology and society.

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Book SynopsisGay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated.From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodies and cities. Drawing on extensive collections of interviews, visuals and written media accounts, photographs, advertisements, and her own participation in these parades, Lynda Johnston gives a vibrant account of âqueer tourismâ in New Zealand, Australia, Scotland and Italy. For each place, she looks at how the relationship between the viewer and the viewed produces paradoxical concepts of bodily difference, and considers how the queered spaces of gay pride parades may prompt new understandings of power and tourism.Trade Review'Johnston's books is an extremely credible addition to the present gay and lesbian scholarship. It provides an excellent, critical review of politics and performances at gay Pride parades, written with clarity of style'. - Neil Michael Walsh, Journal of Tourism and Cultural ChangeTable of ContentsList of Figures. Acknowledgements 1. Proud Beginnings 2. Queer(y)ing Tourism Knowledges 3. Bodies: Camped up Performances 4. Street Scenes: Tourism with(out) Borders 5. Sex in the Suburbs or the CBD? 6. Cities as Sexualised Sites of Queer Consumption 7. Paradoxical Endings

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Book SynopsisJane Ussher takes a unique approach to the study of the material and discursive practices associated with the construction and regulation of the female body.Trade Review'The book is thought provoking and represents an exciting advance in Jane Ussher’s scholarship over the past twenty years, initially expressed through her original and challenging accounts of the psychology of the female body and women’s madness. Overall there is an upbeat message for women and a rallying cry and inspiration to challenge the ‘patriarchal gaze’ and its impact on our mental and physical well-being.' - Paula Nicolson, Royal Holloway University of London, UK'This is a terrifically readable account of the wrongs done women by rendering ‘the fecund female body’ a site of meaningless, monstrous abjection. Together with ways of combating this with examples from Jane Ussher’s own personal life, as well as with examples from the visual arts, and from group and individual women’s re-telling of their experiences, Managing the Monstrous Feminine does much to render speakable the unspeakable, specifically regarding ‘PMS’.' - Janet Sayers, University of Kent at Canterbury, UKTable of ContentsManaging the Monstrous Feminine: Regulating the Reproductive Body. Mad, Bad, Bloody Women: The Shame of Menarche and Pathologizing of Premenstrual Change. Embodying the Grotesque Feminine: The Pregnant and Postnatal Body. The Horror of this Living Decay’: Menopause and Aging Body. Regulation and Resistance: Women's Negotiation of Embodied Subject Positions. Appendix One: Details of the Interviews with Women on PMS, PND and Widlife. Appendix Two: Details of Women Centred Psychological Therapy Package

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Book SynopsisFollowing a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics  Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the book''s agenda for a new form of cultural critique and a truly political lesbian and gay studies. Sinfield renews his call for an ''Englit'' that incorporates ongoing study of the cultures of ethnicity, gender and sexuality.Challenging the assumptions that have shaped the study of English literature, Sinfield engages provocatively with topics such as the gendering of literary culture, the sexual politics of psychoanalysis during the Cold War and the history of cultural materialism. He discusses such key figures as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Walt Whitman, Arthur Miller, Holly Hughes, Audre Lorde and Jeanette Winterson.This influential invTable of ContentsSituating Cultural Politics – Queer Reading (2004) Foreword 1. Shakespeare and Dissident Reading 2. Art as Cultural Production 3. Un-American Activities 4.Beyond Englit Notes. Texts Cited. Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comparative, cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries. Along side an analysis of this key topic stands a critique of existing theoretical models and the proposal of a revised analytical framework.Unlike previous works this new study employs mixed-methodological research design combining quantitative and qualitative data - a large N-analysis based on general policies and statistical information concerning every country in the sample with more in-depth case-studies. This volume includes original empirical data regarding the presence of women in the armed forces of NATO countries, proposes an index of âgender inclusivenessâ and assesses the factors that affect womenâs military roles. The book also presents two new key case studies â Portugal and the Netherlands - based on both documentary sources and in-depth interviews of both men and women officers in the two countries.This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of strategic studies, gender and women studies and military history. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Women in the Military: A Global Overview 2. Gender Relations, Gendered Organizations and the Military 3. Social and Political Dilemmas of Women’s Military Service 4. The Military Institution and Social Change 5. Gender Integration in the Armed Forces: A Cross-National Comparison of Policies and Practices in the NATO Countries 6. Portugal and the Netherlands: Military and Social Contexts 7. Interpersonal Dynamics of Gender Integration: The Case of the Officer Corps Concluding Remarks Conclusion Appendices Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2009 Feminist & Women''s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) Book Award!Many women find mothering a shocking experience in terms of the extremity of feelings it provokes, and the profound changes it seems to prompt in identity, relationship and sense of self. However, although motherhood can catapult us into a state of internal disarray, it can also provide us with a unique chance to make ourselves anew. How then do we understand this radical potential for transformation within maternal experience? In Maternal Encounters, Lisa Baraitser takes up this question through the analysis of a series of maternal anecdotes, charting key destabilizing moments in the life of just one mother, and using these to discuss many questions that have remained resistant to theoretical analysis the possibility for a specific feminine-maternal subjectivity, relationality and reciprocity, ethics and otherness.Working across contemporary phTrade Review"A welcome addition to the Women and Psychology Series of books. ... It can be used to both teach and prompt discussions about motherhood across multiple disciplines." - Sue Child, University of Exeter, UK, in Sociology"This is an extremely unusual, subtle and important book. Lisa Baraitser produces a demanding and timely theoretical argument that presents maternity as a site for the construction of subjectivity and for the development of a new understanding of the ethics of relationality. She draws together an array of contemporary feminist, philosophical and psychoanalytic theory, whilst maintaining an authorial voice that is intensely personal, lively, accessible, humorous and humane. Maternal Encounters is a remarkable achievement." - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, University of London "This is a beautifully written text, demonstrating considerable skill. Lisa Baraitser has produced a book that speaks of a scholar who is a highly original thinker, with a capacity to simultaneously craft an engaging story alongside the deft handling of complex theory." - Dr Gail Lewis, Reader in Identities and Psycho-Social Studies, Open University"A welcome addition to the Women and Psychology Series of books. ... It can be used to both teach and prompt discussions about motherhood across multiple disciplines." - Sue Child, University of Exeter, UK, in Sociology"Maternal Encounters is a bold and beautiful book. ... Baraitser is able, a generation later, to go much further than (Adrienne) Rich in staking a strong claim for the ethical and political importance of the maternal to wider understandings of the human condition ... Baraitser brilliantly employs maternal anecdote in her writing, beginning each chapter with a rich descriptive account of maternal experience, and then further interrupting the ‘academic’ text throughout the chapter with more anecdotes. ... Baraitser’s skill as a writer is dazzling, and it is, in part, this skill that enables her to produce what is one of the most affective and insightful phenomenological accounts of the maternal ever written. ... Despite its theoretical sophistication, this book manages to be incredibly lucid. It flows and is easy to follow and read. ... There are not many academic books that move their readers to tears, make them gasp in recognition or laugh out loud; I guarantee that Maternal Encounters will move you in profound ways." - Imogen Tyler, Lancaster University, UK, in Subjectivity"This is an extremely unusual, subtle and important book. Lisa Baraitser produces a demanding and timely theoretical argument that presents maternity as a site for the construction of subjectivity and for the development of a new understanding of the ethics of relationality. She draws together an array of contemporary feminist, philosophical and psychoanalytic theory, whilst maintaining an authorial voice that is intensely personal, lively, accessible, humorous and humane. Maternal Encounters is a remarkable achievement." - Stephen Frosh, Birkbeck College, University of London "This is a beautifully written text, demonstrating considerable skill. Lisa Baraitser has produced a book that speaks of a scholar who is a highly original thinker, with a capacity to simultaneously craft an engaging story alongside the deft handling of complex theory." - Dr Gail Lewis, Reader in Identities and Psycho-Social Studies, Open UniversityTable of ContentsMaternal Encounters. Maternal Alterity: Mum’s the Word. Maternal Transformations: Oi Mother, Keep Ye' Hair On! Maternal Interruptions: I, Yi, Yi, Yi, Yi, I Like You Very Much, Si, Si, Si, Si, Si, I Think You're Grand. Maternal Love: On Mother Love and Unexpected Weeping. Maternal Stuff: Maternity and the Encumbered Body. Intentions, Inconsistencies, Inconclusions.

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Book SynopsisThis book analyses changes in gender relations, as a result of globalization, in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally, but have enough economic and political security to have some power in determining their own responses to global forces. Individual countries obviously face challenges that are to some extent unique, although the prescriptions for economic and social restructuring are based on a common competitive logic.Remapping Gender in the New Global Order draws on examples from four countries on the semi-periphery of power but still located in the top category of the UNDPâs Human Development Index. At one end is Norway, one of the worldâs richest and most developed welfare-states, and, at the other, is Mexico, a country that is considerably poorer and more susceptible to the power of the United States and international agencies. Australia and Canada, the other two semi-peripheral countries examined, are in the middle. Also included are comparisons with the epicentre of the âcoreâ base of power â the United States. The individual chapters focus on the effect on specific groups of people, including males and indigenous groups, the mechanisms people use to both cope with dramatic social changes, and the strategies and alliances that are used to affect the course of changes. It covers topics that range from implications of labour migration on care regimes to globalismâs effect on masculinity and the âmale breadwinnerâ model. Trade Review'As a research tool this book is very useful, providing avenues of further research through its large number of references for each chapter and statistical details'. - Linda Ding Watterson, MC ReviewsTable of Contents1. Remapping Gender in the New Global Order Part 1: Changing Gender Landscapes of Globalization 2. The Shifts in Gender Norms through Globalization: Gender on the Semi-periphery of Power 3. Gender, Care Work and Globalization: Local Problems and Transnational Solutions in the Norwegian Welfare State 4. Northward Bound Mexican Labour Migration with a Gender Perspective 5. The Problem of Social Reproduction under Neoliberalism: Reconfiguring the Male-breadwinner Model in Australia Part 2: Remapping Gendered Spaces 6. Masculinity and Masculinism under Globalization: Reflections on the Canadian Case 7. Indigenous Peoples and the Topography of Gender in Mexico and Canada 8. Women’s Activism and the Marketing of the Nonprofit Community 9. Canada’s 3-D’s: The Rise and Decline of the Gender-based Policy Capacity Part 3: Surviving and Resistance: Strategies and Action 10. Reordering Globalism?: Feminist and Women’s Movements in the Semi-Periphery 11. Engendering Accountability in Government Budgets in Mexico 12. Transnational Class and Gender Networking between the North and the South: Overcoming Diversity or Reproducing Dependencies?

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Book SynopsisProviding valuable insights into an element of European nationalism and modernist culture, this book explores the development of the 'Zionist body' as opposed to the traditional stereotype of the physically weak, intellectual Jew. It charts the cultural and intellectual history showing how the 'Muscle Jew' developed as a political symbol of national regeneration.Trade Review'This is a seminal book. It is a book that any one interested in European thought from the 1860s to the Holocaust and the founding of the state of Israel must read. It is a book of depth and breadth; one that reflects the inordinate strength of a discipline about how to flex its muscles without embarrassment.' - Sander L. Gilman, Emory University'Presner's Muscular Judaism is evidence of excellent scholarship. His book is an outcome of a serious, illuminating, and original dissertation project that successfully integrates its insights into a well-established field of research and contributes to an ongoing critical discussion on the origins and implications of the Zionist discourse. The book is very well written, its arguments are clear and convincing. Presner's use of theory is useful but not exaggerated, and his historiographical methods are very productive' - Journal of Israeli History, September 2008Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Origins of Muscular Judaism 2. The Rhetoric of Regeneration: "Clear Heads, Solid Stomachs, and Hard Muscles" 3. The Aesthetics of Regeneration: Martin Buber, E.M. Lilien, and the Aesthetic State 4. The Gymnastics of Regeneration: The Anatomo-Politics of the Jewish Body 5. The Land of Regeneration: Seafaring Jews and the Zionist Colonial Imaginary 6. Soldiers of Regeneration: The Military Might of Old-New Maccabees and the Great War. Concluding Remarks

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Book SynopsisReproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate the paternal metaphor. While this shift affects our understandings of everything from narratives to law to time, it also suggests a point of potential political intervention, allowing us to identify the full implications of these changes.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Prologue; Introduction; Chapter 1a REPRODUCTIVE PREHISTORIES; Chapter 2 THE END OF POP; Chapter 3 LAW IN THE AGE OF MECHANICAL REPRODUCTION; Chapter 4 UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION; Chapter 5 DIGITAL DAD;

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Book SynopsisReconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods and can serve as a vital tool for policy makers, analysts, and practitioners. The research examines a range of topics of interest to scholars and professionals including: purposes of Higher Education, administrative leadership, athletics, diversity, student activism, social class, the history of women in postsecondary institutions, and quality and science in the globalized university. Students enrolled in Higher Education and Educational Policy programs will find this book offers them tools for thinking differently about policy analysis and educational practice. Higher Education faculty, managers, deans, presidents, and policy makers will find this book contributes significantly to their own policy analysis, practice, and discourse. Elizabeth J. Allan is anTable of ContentsList of ContributorsForeword, Judith Glazer-RaymoAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Elizabeth J. Allan, Susan V. Iverson, and Rebecca Ropers-Huilman2. Feminist Poststructuralism Meets Policy Analysis: An Overview, Elizabeth J. AllanPart 1: Productions of Power through Presence within Absence3. Corrective Lenses: Suffrage, Feminist Poststructural Analysis, and the History of Higher Education, Jana Nidiffer 4. Purposes of Higher Education and Visions of the Nation in the Writings of the Department of Education, Tatiana Suspitsyna5. The Discursive Framing of Women Leaders in Higher Education, Suzanne Gordon, Susan V. Iverson, and Elizabeth J. AllanPart 2: Subjects and Objects of Policy6. Developing Students: Becoming Someone But Not Anyone, Susan Talburt7. Title IX Policy and Intercollegiate Athletics: A Feminist Poststructural Critique, Jennifer Lee Hoffman, Susan V. Iverson, Elizabeth J. Allan, and Rebecca Ropers-Huilman8. Consuming Higher Education: Who Is Paying the Price? Jeni Hart and Jennifer HubbardPart 3: Discursive Constructions of Change9. Motivated to Make a Difference: Student Change Agents' Gendered Framing of Engagement, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman10. Producing Diversity: A Policy Discourse Analysis of Diversity Action Plans, Susan V. Iverson11. Knowledge Capital and Excellence: Implications of a Science-Centered University for Gender Equity, Nelly P. Stromquist12. Questions and Complexities in Feminist Poststructural Policy Analysis, Rebecca Ropers-Huilman, Susan V. Iverson, and Elizabeth J. AllanIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing dozens of real-life examples, Dr Ronn Elmore attempts to empower men to relate more honestly to black women by achieving true intimacy, and also aims to inspire women to expect a higher level of loving.

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning author of We Should All Be Feminists and Americanah gives us this powerful statement about feminism today—written as a letter to a friend.A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a childhood friend, a new mother who wanted to know how to raise her baby girl to be a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie’s letter of response: fifteen invaluable suggestions—direct, wryly funny, and perceptive—for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. Filled with compassionate guidance and advice, it gets right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century, and starts a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.A Skimm Reads Pick ● An NPR Best Book of the Year

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Book Synopsis“Like man, woman is a human being.”   When The Second Sex was first published in Paris in 1949—groundbreaking, risqué, brilliantly written and strikingly modern—it provoked both outrage and inspiration. The Independent Woman contains three key chapters of Beauvoir’s masterwork, which illuminate the feminine condition and identify practical social reforms for gender equality. It captures the essence of the spirited manifesto that switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and continues to exert profound influence on feminists today.

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Book SynopsisProbing into numerous questions about gender and sexuality, Dale Martin delves into the biblical texts anew and unearths surprising findings. Avoiding preconceptions about ancient sexuality, he explores the ethics of desire and marriage and pays careful attention to the original meanings of words, especially those used as evidence of Paul's...

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Book SynopsisIn this revised and expanded best seller, Rogers argues for equal rights in both the church and society for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people. He describes how he moved away from opposition to support, charts the church's history of using biblical passages to oppress marginalized groups, argues for a Christ-centered reading of...

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Book SynopsisThe notion of citizenship, with its balancing of rights and responsibilities, has become a dominant way of articulating sexual politics today. In The Sexual Citizen, David Bell and Jon Binnie critically explore the notion of sexual citizenship as a way to think through the ever-changing political, legal, social and cultural landscapes of sexuality. The book examines sexual citizenship in a number of key sites of contemporary sexual politics (the market, marriage, the military, the city, the family) and focuses on a number of key theoretical debates on sexuality in relation to consumption, space and globalization. Critiquing existing theories of sexuality and citizenship, and drawing on a wide range of theoretical perspectives, The Sexual Citizen addresses both the promises and limitations of using the discourses of citizenship in the context of contemporary sexual politics. The Sexual Citizen will be of interest to students and academics in Trade Review'The Sexual Citizen is a provocative and highly readable volume that brings together the literatures on citizenship and sexuality. Bell and Binnie explore the meaning of the sexual citizen in relation to the city, debates around same-sex marriage, the military and globalization. The Sexual Citizen is a reliable guide to current debates on citizenship and sexuality.' Professor Steven Seidman, University at Albany, State University of New York 'This book is tantalizing, evocative, and approachable ... anyone keen to begin thinking carefully about our current struggle for sexual rights would do well to engage with Bell and Binnie's critique.' Canadian Journal of Sociology Online "This is a thoughtful and stimulating book that I highly recommend." Gavin Brown, Sexualities "This short, sharp, and succinct account by Bell and Binnie covers its topic very well and can be highly recommended for anyone who wants to get a quick grasp of the field and the issues. It is also a polemic: the authors have a clear, radical stand to take, which makes for a lively series of points to debate, too. And because it is relatively short, I can see many virtues to its use as a student text." American Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1. Sexing Citizenship. 2. Sexual Politics And Sexual Citizenship. 3. Marriage, The Military And The Sexual Citizen. 4. The Sexual And The Social. 5. Sexual Democracy And Urban Life. 6. The Love That Dares Not Forget Its Brand Name. 7. Transnational Sexual Citizenship. 8. Turn It Into Love. 9. Hard Choices. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisWritten in a clear and accessible style, with lots of examples from Anglo-American media, Gender and the Media offers a critical introduction to the study of gender in the media, and an up-to-date assessment of the key issues and debates.Trade Review"Gill's thorough contemplation of theoretical works along with empirical research projects provides an excellent and up-to-date account of the relationship of gender to and with the media." Sociology "This book is extremely well written, which adds to its excellence as a text that combines an expert synthesis of the literature and Gill's own insightful analysis. Gill's book is suitable as a core text for any media studies, cultural studies and gender studies course as an update of Van Zoonen's 1994 text, since it contains an analysis of a diverse body of work made suitable for undergraduate level thanks to Gill's accessible writing style." Gender and Education "Brilliant - a must-read for all media educators." Newsletter of the Media Education Association "Gender and the Media is excellent throughout and confronts the reader with an embarras de richesse of insights." Feminism and Psychology "Gender and the Media is a lively and stimulating read and works as an excellent introduction for students in the field of media and gender studies. It is also a grown-up book that moves beyond the current feminist preoccupation with 'girls', to a renewed focus on 'women' in their infinite variety. I strongly recommend it." European Journal of Women?s Studies "A new masterpiece in the field of feminist media studies. Gender and the Media sheds new light on where we have been, and where we are going. It will be a staple of all media studies and women's studies classes for at least the next decade." Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "This is a thorough, lucid study which includes a good deal of new and original material, presenting it with admirable theoretical fluency yet in a clear and student-friendly way." Angela McRobbie, Goldsmiths College "Rosalind Gill's book is an invaluable contribution to the field of gender and media research. Well written and engaging, it offers an overview of contemporary representations of gender, a sense of the main theoretical and methodological approaches at issue and a grounding in the cultural politics of the field." Cynthia Carter, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPreface 1. Gender and the Media 2. Analysing Gender in Media Texts 3. Advertising and Postfeminism 4. News, Gender and Journalism 5. Talk Shows 6. Gender in Magazines 7. Postfeminist Romance

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Book SynopsisSince the end of the eighteenth century, the pursuit of a true lovea has been enshrined in the expectations of Western societies. We regard this pursuit as our right, and organize our lives around it. However, the possibility that love is becoming more difficult to achieve in the West has begun to attract considerable attention.Trade Review"What's happening to love? In this deeply important, and well crafted book, Evans explores the cultural premises underlying our fantasies about it. Over the last two hundred years in the West, she argues, we have personalized and sexualized love, and unhitched it from marriage. But then we have de-eroticized sex, and unwittingly thinned out the cultural soil which might nurture the bonds we so care to preserve. This is not because we're bad people but because we're swimming around in a culture of love we need to radically rethink."Arlie Russell Hochschild, University of California at Berkeley, and author of the forthcoming Commercialization of Intimate Life and Other EssaysTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Chapter One: What is This Thing Called Love?. Chapter Two: Going Back. Chapter Three: The Language of Love. Chapter Four: The Rules of Love. Chapter Five: The Limits of Love. Chapter Six: The Future of Love. Bibliography. Index

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