In Practising Feminism, contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds in anthropology, sociology and social psychology to explore different ways of practising feminism and the effect these practices have on gendered identities. The contributors explore feminism and gender differences between different ... more »

VORWORT 'Paare im Wandel' ist entstanden aus der Erkenntnis und den Erfahrungen, dass nur die, die Beziehung haben, und diese verändern wollen, wirklich etwas tun können. Menschen zu ermuntern ihre Partnerschaft als ein lebenslanges Experiment zu sehen, ist ein Anliegen von 'Paare im Wandel'. Beratung ... more »

Imaginary Bodies is a collection of essays that offer a sustained challenge to traditional philosophical notions of the body, sex and gender. Moira Gatens explores alternative positions to dualism by exploring psychoanalytic, Foucaultian and Spinozist notions of embodiment. The book traces a largely ... more »

Women Organising is the first study to bring organization theory and the real-life experiences of women organizing together. Helen Brown uses the example of the Greystone Women's Centre in Britain to illustrate the struggles of women seeking to manage without becoming bureaucratized, to find a sense ... more »

What happens when a body is presented as a stage, and dramas unfold across it--is it Performance Art or pornography? The Explicit Body examines the controversial and often shocking issues which surround the use of the female body in performance art. Since the early 1960s, women in performance art ... more »

Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist literary criticism, leading scholars chart the development of the practice from the middle ages to the ... more »

Lucas, a musician and translator, comes home one day to find a cryptic postcard on his doorstep. This postcard sets in motion a series of bizarre, seemingly interconnected events, leading Lucas and his girlfriend, Nuria, to be kidnapped by a religious cult with roots stretching back to the thirteenth ... more »

While Victorian tourism and Victorian sexuality have been the subject of much recent critical interest, there has been little research on a characteristically nineteenth-century phenomenon relating to both sex and travel: the honeymoon, or wedding journey. Although the term 'honeymoon'was coined in the ... more »

Third book, chronologically in the Beebo Brinker series. This title gives us Laura and Beebo, living together in the big city. Jack's around to help out, which is a good thing, because life with Beebo isn't easy for Laura, who finds it impossible to cope with her lover's jealousy, drinking and violence ... more »

Why is feminist research carried out in international relations (IR)? What are the methodologies and methods that have been developed in order to carry out this research? Feminist Methodologies for International Relations offers students and scholars of IR, feminism, and global politics practical insight ... more »

a selection from the first chapter: Almighty God, to whose efficacious Word all things owe their original, abounding in his own glorious Essence with infinite goodness and fecundity, did in the beginning Create Man after his own likeness, Male and Female, created he them; the true distinction of which ... more »

Lania, eine junge, gut aussehende Frau erlebt in den antiken Ruinen Roms eine sonderbare Begegnung. Sie trifft Angelo, einen ebenso weisen wie pragmatischen Lehrer, dessen Botschaften sie zunächst skeptisch stimmen. Sie soll nicht länger der Schimäre von der Frau anhängen, die ebenso gut ein Mann sein ... more »