White Weddings

Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture

By Chrys Ingraham

This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this...

Published January 31st 2008 by Routledge.

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The Caveman Mystique

Pop-Darwinism and the Debates Over Sex, Violence, and Science

By Martha McCaughey

Has evolution made men promiscuous skirt chasers? Pop-Darwinian claims about men's irrepressible heterosexuality have become increasingly common, and increasingly common excuses for men's sexual aggression. The...

Published October 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Judith Butler in Conversation

Analyzing the Texts and Talk of Everyday Life

By Bronwyn Davies

How has Judith Butler’s writing contributed to thought in the Social Sciences and the Humanities? The participants in this project draw on various aspects of...

Published August 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

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International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities

Edited by Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, Keith Pringle

The Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The...

Published June 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Gender Trouble Makers

Education and Empowerment in Nepal

By Jennifer Rothchild

International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development...

Published October 19th 2006 by Routledge.

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Home

By Alison Blunt, Robyn Dowling

‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social...

Published August 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

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The Beauty Industry

Gender, Culture, Pleasure

By Paula Black

The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become...

Published May 28th 2004 by Routledge.

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For the Love of Women

Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members...

Published November 13th 2003 by Routledge.

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Embodied Lives:

Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

By Rosemary A. Joyce, Lynn M. Meskell

Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices,...

Published August 14th 2003 by Routledge.

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Gender in Transnationalism

Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

By Ruba Salih

A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a...

Published June 12th 2003 by Routledge.

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