Books in the Perspectives on Gender series

The essays in this collection explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements, skinheads and more.

Barbara Ryan provides a brilliant historical and comparative analysis of the feminist movement in the USA, detailing its ideologies and activism from the suffage movement to the 1990s.

Explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. This book provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde.

Offers an insightful account of becoming and being a feminist. Specifically, the study focuses on Australian women from the ages of 18-35 and offers a new understanding of feminist identity in a globalised world. Hercus from James Cook University of Northern Queensland.

Regulating Sex is an anthology that presents debates over the role of the state in constructing and controlling erotic practice, intimacy, and identity. The purpose of this edited volume is to address sexual dilemmas in law and the state in substantive areas such as same-sex domestic partnerships, sexual economies, and childhood sexuality via a series of spirited dialogues between socio-legal scholars from diverse disciplinary, national, and political perspectives.

Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violence--for example, that childhood abuse, alcohol, and drugs are direct causes of rape.

The essays in this collection explore the link between gender and racism in a variety of racial and white supremacy organizations, including white separatists, the Christian right, the militia/patriot movements and skinheads.

Discusses the various ways that sex and sexuality are regulated by government and society. From the clean up of Times Square to the sodomy statutes still on the books in many states, there are numerous methods for government to intervene and otherwise seek to influence sexuality and sexual behaviour.

Complex Inequality sifts through the complexities surrounding wage differences and economic restructuring in the US to provide an important new understanding of the differences gender, race and class make in inequality.

Examining the lives of single, working-class mothers in rural America, this book investigates the life of the still stigmatized single-mom. It finds that most rely on low-paid jobs, welfare, inconsistent child support, and help from family and friends just to get by as they often don't have enough money to provide for themselves or their children.

Illustrates how and why American education disadvantages working-class women when they are children and adults. Drawing upon the life stories of these women, this work describes and analyzes the politics and psychodynamics that shape working-class life, schooling, and identity.

This book takes us inside America's Child Protective Services, for an in-depth look at the entire organization, examining the role of the agency from the initial dealing with a family, to the end when a case is discharged.

An ethnographic study that examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women's organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. It tells the story of social actors purposefully weaving cross-border relationships.

A study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history.

This study on women's community activism demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against social problems. It focuses on the complex ways that gender, race ethnicity, culture, class and sexuality shape women's political consciousness and organizing in the USA.

This book takes a critical look at the organizations and officials that process rape victims to see how the structure of their respective organizations often prevent them from providing responsive care.

Takes issue with the negative view of self-help dominating feminist scholarship by exploring the relationship between gender, the ideas and strategies of women's self help groups and feminism.

Explores the connections among motherhood, work, politics and the community in low-income urban environments. It reveals the significant legacies of the social movements of the 1960s as well as the War on Poverty.

This volume presents a variety of unique perspectives on mothering as a socially constructed relationship, assessing many of the political, legal and cultural debates surrounding the issue.

This collection on demonstrates the diversity of women's struggles against problems such as racism, violence, homophobia and economic security, and focuses on the ways that gender, culture, class shape women's political consciousness in the USA.

Looks at the state of feminist sociological gender and women's studies research in four regions of the world - Africa, Asia, Latin America/Caribbean, and Europe - as represented by many countries. This title features an essay that explains how social science research on women and/or gender issues has been shaped by economics, politics and culture.

Facing the polar forces of an epidemic of Cesarean sections and epidurals and home-like labor rooms, American birth is in transition. This book offers the voices of various practitioners, women trying to help women, as they struggle with this increasingly split vision of birth.

Presents a cross-disciplinary weave of poststructuralist feminism, Marxist theory, and ethnographic accounts of women workers for multinational firms in export-processing zones. This book tells a tale of stasis followed by decay and disposability, as women enter the workforce unskilled and are forced to leave before they acquire skills.