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Performance and Communities eBook Series

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  • Performing Maternities

    Political, Social and Feminist Enquiry

    Edited by Kate Aughterson, Jess Moriarty ...
    Series Book 4 - Performance and Communities
    Performing Maternities is a collection of essays, creative work, images and scripts which emerged out of an online international symposium held at Brighton University in November 2020. Collectively, the contributors challenge, celebrate and share the normative, the queer, the transgressive, the joy and the pain of performing maternity. The book asks key questions about the construction of maternal ... Read more

    $120.89 CAD

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  • Material Girls

    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

    by Kathleen Stock ...
    PREORDER KATHLEEN STOCK'S NEW BOOK DO NOT GO GENTLE: THE CASE AGAINST ASSISTED DEATH (APRIL, 2026)'A clear, concise, easy-to-read account of the issues between sex, gender and feminism . . . an important book' Evening Standard'A call for cool heads at a time of great heat and a vital reminder that revolutions don't always end well' Sunday TimesMaterial Girls is a timely and trenchant criti... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Mother Wave

    Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism

    Edited by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, Fiona Joy Green ...
    Matricentric feminism seeks to make motherhood the business of feminism by positioning mothers’ needs and concerns as the starting point for a theory and politic on and for the empowerment of women as mothers. Based on the conviction that mothering is a verb, it understands that becoming and being a mother is not limited to biological mothers or cisgender women but rather to anyone who does the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • For Argument's Sake: Evidence That Reason Can Change Minds

    by Tom Stafford ...
    Are we irrational creatures, swayed by emotion and entrenched biases? Modern psychology and neuroscience are often reported as showing that we can't overcome our prejudices and selfish motivations. Challenging this view, cognitive scientist Tom Stafford looks at the actual evidence. Re-analysing classic experiments on persuasion, as well as summarising more recent research into how arguments ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Autoethnography

    Edited by Tony E. Adams, Stacy Holman Jones, Carolyn Ellis ...
    Awards2023 H.L. “Bud” Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo “It’s a Way of Life” Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.“Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities of Maybe,” received the 2023 National Communication Association's Ethnography Division Best Book Chapter Award.The second edition of the award ... Read more

    Was $126.99 CAD Now $112.67 CAD

  • A Passion for Ignorance

    What We Choose Not to Know and Why

    by Renata Salecl ...
    An original and provocative exploration of our capacity to ignore what is inconvenient or traumaticIgnorance, whether passive or active, conscious or unconscious, has always been a part of the human condition, Renata Salecl argues. What has changed in our post-truth, postindustrial world is that we often feel overwhelmed by the constant flood of information and misinformation. It sometimes seems ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Noise: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood

    by Danusia Malina-Derben ...
    THE BOOK THAT ANSWERS: HOW CAN I BE A MOTHER AND STILL BE ME?Part manifesto, part memoir, part guide; this book unflinchingly flips conventional thinking surrounding motherhood on its head.From Danusia Malina-Derben, mother of 10, entrepreneur, thought leader, and critically acclaimed podcast host - this is a long-awaited, no-holds-barred book on why our current thinking about modern motherhood is ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mothering Performance

    Maternal Action

    Edited by Lena Šimić, Emily Underwood-Lee ...
    Mothering Performance is a combination of scholarly essays and creative responses which focus on maternal performance and its applications from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives.This collection extends the concept and action of ‘performance’ and connects it to the idea of ‘mothering’ as activity. Mothering, as a form of doing, is a site of never-ending political and personal production; ... Read more

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  • Music of Motherhood

    History, Healing, and Activism

    Edited by Martha Joy Rose, Lynda Ross, Jennifer Hartmann ...
    Mothering and music are complex and universal events, the structure and function of each show remarkable variability across social domains and different cultures. Although mother studies and studies in music are each recognized as important areas of research, the blending of the two topics is a recent innovation. The chapters in this collection bring together artists and scholars in conversations ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • Critical Autoethnography

    Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life

    Edited by Robin M. Boylorn, Mark P. Orbe ...
    Series series Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
    Critical Autoethnography: Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life, Second Edition, examines the development of the field of critical autoethnography through the lens of social identity. Contributors situate interpersonal and intercultural experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, citizenship, sexuality, and spirituality within larger systems of power, oppression, and privilege ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Childlessness in the Age of Communication

    Deconstructing Silence

    by Cristina Archetti ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Cristina Archetti started researching childlessness after being diagnosed with "unexplained infertility". She soon discovered that, although involuntary childlessness affects an increasing number of women and men across the world, this topic is shrouded taboo and shame. This book is both a first-person reflection about the existential questions posed by involuntary childlessness and a readable ... Read more

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  • Narratives, Health, and Healing

    Communication Theory, Research, and Practice

    Edited by Lynn M. Harter, Phyllis M. Japp, Christina S. Beck ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This distinctive collection explores the use of narratives in the social construction of wellness and illness. Narratives, Health, and Healing emphasizes what the process of narrating accomplishes--how it serves in the health communication process where people define themselves and present their social and relational identities. Organized into four parts, the chapters included here examine health ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD