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  • Gypsy Feminism

    Intersectional Politics, Alliances, Gender and Queer Activism

    by Laura Corradi ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Clumsy stereotypes of the Romani and Travellers communities abound, not only culturally in programmes such as Big Fat Gypsy Weddings, but also amongst educators, social workers, administrators and the medical profession. Gypsy cultures are invariably presented as ruled by tradition and machismo. Women are presented as helpless victims, especially when it comes to gendered forms of violence. The ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

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  • Gender: The Key Concepts

    Edited by Mary Evans, Carolyn Williams ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term. Taking a truly interdisciplinary and global view of gender studies, ... Read more

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  • Liberation Sociology

    by Joe R. Feagin, Hernan Vera, Kimberly Ducey ...
    Many people of all ages today continue to be attracted to sociology and other social sciences because of their promise to contribute to better political, social, and moral understandings of themselves and their social worlds-and often because they hope it will help them to build a better society. In a world of new movements and deepening economic inequality following the Great Recession, this new ... Read more

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  • Gender and Migration

    by Caroline B. Brettell ...
    Series series Immigration and Society
    Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor markets, laws and policies, and the transnational model of migration, Caroline Brettell tackles a ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Gender

    by Harriet Bradley ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are current gender relations changing? What new paths are ‘femininity’ and ‘masculinity’ taking? What would it be like to live in a ... Read more

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  • Gender Inequality in Our Changing World

    A Comparative Approach

    by Lori Kenschaft, Roger Clark, Desiree Ciambrone ...
    Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach focuses on the contemporary United States but places it in historical and global context. Written for sociology of gender courses, this textbook identifies conditions that encourage greater or lesser gender inequality, explains how gender and gender inequality change over time, and explores how gender intersects with other hierarchies ... Read more

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  • Arguing about Disability

    Philosophical Perspectives

    Edited by Kristjana Kristiansen, Simo Vehmas, Tom Shakespeare ...
    Disability is a thorny and muddled concept - especially in the field of disability studies - and social accounts contest with more traditional biologically based approaches in highly politicized debates. Sustained theoretical scrutiny has sometimes been lost amongst the controversy and philosophical issues have often been overlooked in favour of the sociological. Arguing about Disability fills ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Feminist Translation Studies

    Local and Transnational Perspectives

    Edited by Olga Castro, Emek Ergun ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
    Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to ... Read more

    $92.99 CAD

  • Working with Men

    Feminism and Social Work

    by Kate Cavanagh, Viviene E Cree ...
    One of feminism's key contributions to improving social work practice has been to expose the gender-blindness which has characterized social work policy and literature.Working with Men extends and diversifies this contribution by presenting a controversial collection of essays written by feminists about men. In what has been a previously unexplored area of social work, the contributors to Working ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Prejudice

    Society, discrimination and moral exclusion

    by Cristian Tileagă ...
    Series series Explorations in Social Psychology
    This book offers a critical synthesis of social psychology’s contribution to the study of contemporary racism, and proposes a critical reframing of our understanding of prejudice in European society today. Chapters place a special emphasis on the diversity and intensity of prejudices against Romani people in a liberal, progressive, decent, enlarged Europe. Chapters ask how we can reconcile the ... Read more

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  • Gender Equality in Primary Schools

    A Guide for Teachers

    by Helen Griffin ...
    This hands-on guide supports primary teachers and other school staff in challenging gender stereotypes, and sets out advice on how to implement gender equality and respect in the curriculum, and in all areas of school life.An increase in the number of transgender children - and a recognition of gender reassignment as a protected characteristic under the 2010 Equality Act - means that all primary ... Read more

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  • Intersections of Mothering

    Feminist Accounts

    Edited by Carole Zufferey, Fiona Buchanan ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood
    This book presents new interdisciplinary and intersectional research about women as mothers, highlighting that alternative accounts of mothering can challenge normative societal assumptions and broaden understandings of women as mothers, mothering and motherhoods.Mothering occurs within unequal power relations associated with the disadvantages and privileges of an unjust and patriarchal society. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD