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Men, Masculinities and Intimate Partner Violence examines how gender and other social identities and inequalities shape experiences of, and responses to, violence in intimate relationships.
The Gender-Sensitive University explores the prevailing forces that pose obstacles to driving a gender-sensitive university, which include the emergence of far-right movements that seek to subvert advances towards gender equality and managerialism that promotes creeping corporatism.
"This book explores the 'material-discursive entanglement' of how we both make the world with our words and how the materiality of the world forces us to put words on it. It uses the metaphor of refraction to show how material things and technologies can be used to refract discourses and articulate the concerns and voices producing them"--
Explores contemporary social theory and developments in the study of sexuality through the analysis of law and its practices. Each chapter explores the power of discourse in law in relation to homosexualities, examining how homosexuals resist and disrupt these legal discourses.
David Neumarks work on gender and labor markets appears for the first time in one book here with new introductory material.
Sexual identity has emerged into the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations into the nation's politics. This book is a reflection on the effects of these discourses on non-normative modes of sexuality and on the country more generally.
Explores how the All India Democratic Women's Association (a socialist women's organization based in India) has flourished in neoliberalism's shadow.
Examines the phenomenon of rape with a feminist philosophical discourse concerning women's or 'feminine' subjectivity and selfhood. This title demonstrates how the hierarchical dichotomy of male active versus female passive sexuality - which obscures the true nature of rape - is embedded in the dominant western symbolic frame.
A social and cultural history of girls in the German youth movements in the pre-Nazi era.
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