Books in the Transformations series

This book explores 'difficult conversations' in feminist theory as an integral part of social and theoretical transformations.

Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created in terms of sex, race and class. Essential reading for all those interested in issues of consumption, citizenship and gender.

Using Lacanian psychoanalysis as a starting point, Campbell examines contemporary feminism's turn to accounts of feminist 'knowing' to create new conceptions of the political.

"Women and the Irish Diaspora" looks at the changing nature of national and cultural belonging both among women who have left Ireland and those who remain. It tracks some of the ways that Irish modernity can be understood differently by looking specifically at women's lives.

By a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis across contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the newspaper journalism of Naomi Wolf - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated by the frameworks in which it is presented.

Presents a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book puts forward an argument that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural practices, potentially limit rather than enhance operational effectiveness.

Demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and 'multicultural' paradigms.

Challenges the assumption that science what scientists say. This book shows the dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. It provides readers with an accessible introduction to its theories and methods.

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television, this work examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. It is also useful for courses such as Film and Television Studies.

This work extends the cultural turn in legal and criminological studies by interrogating our responses to the image. It provides a space to think through problems of ethics, social authority and the legal imagination.

In this study, Sneja Gunew sets out to interrogate the ways in which the transnational discourse of multiculturalism may be related to the politics of race and indigineity, grounding her discussion in a variety of national settings and a variety of literary, autobiographical and theoretical texts.

EuroAmerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. This book argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of 'perinatal mortality' referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth.

This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory.

A fresh start from which to consider the far-reaching implications of this relationship. Draws on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters.

Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community, whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism.

The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorizations of nation, race, gender and sexuality.

Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit.

Drawing on the resources of five other volumes in the series, "Transforming Vestries" creates a single source designed specifically for this governing body. The chapters will highlight the nature - and the needs - of vestry membership: stewardship, leadership, evangelism, discipleship, and vital congregational life.

As more and more people spend longer periods of their lives outside conventional families and couples, radical transformation in personal life is underway. This book presents theory of queer individualization that proposes a psychosocial way of understanding social change in three aspects of personal life - sociability, sexuality and self.

In the Episcopal Church, it seems the only real purpose and end of Christian discernment is professional ordination, either to the priesthood or to the vocational diaconate.

How can Episcopalians reclaim evangelism primarily as an enriching spiritual practice? What styles and practices of spirituality do most to enrich our sense of evangelical calling?

Provides a variety of models to feed our growing hunger to more forward in mission and hope to a more abundant future.

This exciting collection of work from leading feminist scholars including Elspeth Probyn, Penelope Deutscher and Chantal Nadeua engages with and extends the growing feminist literature on this fascinating topic.

A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, it takes feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.