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Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction - The Myth of Hercules and Omphale in the Visual Arts, 1500-1800

The book examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale which became an important topic in the visual arts, 1500-1800. It offers an analysis o...

Latin American Politics in the Neoliberal Era - The Changing Dynamics of Class Struggle

Challenging centuries-old systems and barriers as the only study on the contemporary dynamics of the class struggle within the context of...

Masculinity, Marriage, and Rural Men in Urban China - Modest Expectations

This book explores the conjuncture and interrelationship between three so-called 'crises' facing Chinese society: a crisis of marriage, a...

Contestatory and Creative Poetics for a Time of Climate Catastrophe - Volume 1 - Per Se

This volume is a collaborative work of ficto-critical ecopolitics written by two Australian scholar-poets based in the Western Australian...

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law

Marxist Ideology and Soviet Criminal Law (1980) is about differences between theory and practice in the Soviet Union. It looks at the way...

Overcoming Objectification - A Carnal Ethics

Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics provides a critical analysis of the widely used (particularly in feminist philosophy) concept...

Women's Lives

What are the patterns dominating women's lives today? What are the issues which confront women in their relationships, work, and families...

Rio as Method - Collective Resistance for a New Generation

Rio as Method brings together a Rio de Janeiro-based network of scholars, activists, attorneys, and political leaders center their Brazil...

The Agri-Food System in Question - Innovations, Contestations, and New Global Players

To mitigate climate, biodiversity, and public health crises, the global agrifood system needs radical change. The Global North remains ce...

Two-Level Role Theory and EU Migration - Negotiations with the Visegrad Group

Applying role theory and Putnam's two-level game framework to the 2015 migration crisis, this book shows how European countries contested...

Planning for the Wrong Pandemic - Covid-19 and the Limits of Expert Knowledge

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why ...

Pandemic Societies - A Critical Public Health Perspective

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak prese...

The Sociology of Emotions - Feminist, Cultural and Sociological Perspectives

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the field of the Sociology of Emotions, incorporating sociological, feminist and cultural pe...

On the Sovereignty of Mothers - The Political as Maternal

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil ...

Women Attached - The Daily Lives of Women with Young Children

First published in 1985, this title was one of the first empirical studies in geography to deal with the special problems of women with y...

Current Issues Facing Men and Boys - A Case for Urgent Change

This important book offers an accessible overview and timely examination of the unique challenges faced by men and boys in contemporary s...

Representation - Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices

The highly anticipated Third Edition of one of the most popular and influential books ever written in media and cultural studies. A genui...

Environmental Intimacies from India's Northeast - Psycho-Social Implications for Pro-Environment Behaviour

This book explores the intimate relationship of the people of North East India with the environment evinced from their traditional belief...

Preparing Literature Reviews - Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches

This book is an accessible guide on how to prepare qualitative and quantitative literature reviews. The 6th edition of this bestselling b...

Women in the Community

First published in 1977, this book by women involved in community work and community action explores some of the links between the women'...

The Grounds of Gaming

How do we make space for video games in the places where we live, work, and play-and who is allowed to feel welcome there? Despite attemp...

Hear Our Stories - Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University

"Despite focused efforts to stop the perpetration of campus sexual violence, the statistic that one in four college women will experience...

Inspired and Outraged - The Making of a Feminist Physician

A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild's journey from 1950's good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist f...

The Raging Grannies: Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs and - Wild Hats, Cheeky Songs and Witty Actions for a Better World

Women's courage is ancient. Women fought against slavery and offered shelter to hunted runaways, demanded economic justice for the starvi...

Finding Our Way - Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics

Another City is Possible with Participatory Budgeting

Foundations of Pediatric Practice for the Occupational Therapy Assistant

This best-selling text provides an essential introduction to the theoretical foundations to clinical pediatric care within occupational t...

Leadership Enrichment and Development - Peer and Self-Mentoring Women in Higher Education

This book shares the LEAD (Leadership Enrichment and Development) method, a framework for supporting and facilitating leadership identity...

Dougla Poetics - Orientations of Indianness and Mixedness in Trinidad

Rooted in lived experiences and real conversations, this book challenges mixed-race studies which often prioritise Black/white binaries i...

Methods and Approaches in Comparative Political Analysis

This book focuses on the methods and approaches in comparative politics while tracing the evolution of the discipline. Exploring its hist...

Global Migration: Mafias, States and Hybrid Warfare

"This book covers the issue of global migration flows, with a particular focus on irregular migration. It presents and evaluates the prin...

World-Changing Women - 150 Women Who Rewrote the Histories of Ancient Egypt, Israel, Greece and Rome

Countless books have been written about prominent women in Greece and Rome, so we know all about Medea, Sappho, Lucretia, Boudica and Cle...

Marginalised Groups in India - Historiography, Politics, and Policies

This book intersects marginality, politics, and policies by focusing on the narratives of selective marginalised groups within India. It ...

ICT, the Business Sector and Smart Cities

This book examines smart cities through the lens of the ICT-driven transformation of the economy and economic systems and the resulting c...

European Minorities in Times of Crisis - Negotiating Identities

Europe has been struggling with a series of challenging global crises. Caught between the shockwaves and counter-measures are Europe's mi...

Social and Psychological Factors of Cannabis Use in Later Life by Generation Jones - Still Dazed and Confused

This book investigates cannabis use among those born between 1954 and 1965. Combining quantitative data and qualitative personal narrativ...

Touched by Biko

In Touched by Biko, Andile M-Afrika writes about his memories of Ginsberg, the black township across the Buffalo River from central King ...

Writing Is Revision - Compositions from the Feminist Fringe

Writing is Revision: Compositions from the Feminist Fringe merges personal and scholarly insights, challenging traditional narratives to ...

Kropotkin Now! - Life, Freedom & Ethics

Globalization and the Transitional Cultures - An Eastern Perspective

Nag debates the ideological and rational growth of globalization as a fuel of modernity and analyzes the perspectives of marginalized sec...

Birth Justice - From Obstetric Violence to Abolitionist Care

Reproductive injustice is an urgent global problem. We are faced with the increased criminalization of abortion, higher maternal and neon...

On Social Closure - Theorising Exclusion, Exploitation, and Elimination

In his book On Social Closure, Jürgen Mackert seeks to reinvigorate the idea of social closure and bring it back as a basic sociological ...

Social Data Analytics in the Cloud with AI

This textbook helps students and educators prepare for the future by studying and teaching in the cloud and learning how to use modern cl...

The Pocket Guide to Feminism - A Survival Kit

A woman's life is different. This is clear when a stranger's catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the...

New Directions in Environmental Participation

Originally published in 1988, for this volume the editors chose to deal directly with current developments in environmental participation...

Rapiers and Battleaxes - The Women's Movement and Its Aftermath

The long and bitter struggle for the vote is certainly the most spectacular part of the history of women's emancipation. Originally publi...

DYKE'S DAY, A HOLIGAY

Globalised Resistance and the Bring Back Our Girls Movement - New Dimensions of Transnational Activism

This book uncovers how women's movements in the Global South are changing the face of transnational activism in their mobilisations again...

The Tragic Life of Lady Jane Grey

Explores the life and tragic fate of Lady Jane Grey, the nine-day queen of England, examining her role amid the political chaos following...

Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms - Digitally Constructing Gender and Sexualities

Young Adulthood Across Digital Platforms explores how they engage with mobile applications, incorporating them into their everyday lives ...

The Meaning and Use of Housing - International Perspectives, Approaches and Their Applications

Originally published in 1993, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments....

The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II - Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities

Architecture and the urban are connected to challenges around violence, security, race and ideology, spectacle and data. This multidiscip...

Women, Social Science and Public Policy

Originally published in 1985, Women, Social Science and Public Policy looks at what difference the debate over the position of women had ...

Genesis - Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

"As it absorbs data, gains agency, and intermediates between humans and reality, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will help us to address eno...

Revolutionizing Women's Education at the University of Oxford - Single-Sex Colleges and Identity Theory, 1870-2022

This book delves into the impacts and consequences of the policy of co-residence at the University of Oxford, investigating why and how w...

Forest Lost - Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon

Forest Lost is an ethnography of forest carbon offsets and the wider effort to make the living rainforest valuable in the Brazilian Amazon.

Queering Professionalism - Pitfalls and Possibilities

Bringing together authors from diverse fields such as child and youth care, education, and social work, this book seeks to challenge conv...

On Speaking Terms - Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

On Speaking Terms examines the sociolinguistic and non-verbal codes that enact interpersonal avoidance relationships in more than one hun...

Environmental Policy, Assessment and Communication

First published in 1988, chapters in this volume deal directly with research on those environmental matters on which government agencies ...

Gender, Tourism Entrepreneurship and Social Policy

This timely volume is a novel and important contribution to scholarly literature on gender and tourism entrepreneurship, utilising femini...