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Published May 2020
Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia
Politics, Medicine and Morality
Maffi, I.
After the revolution of 2011, the electoral victory of the Islamist party ‘Ennahdha’ allowed previously silenced religious and conservative ideas about women’s right to abortion. This book explores the changes and continuity in the local discourses and practices related to the body in Tunisia during this time.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published June 2015
Achieving Procreation
Childlessness and IVF in Turkey
Demircioğlu Göknar, M.
Managing social relationships for childless couples in pro-natalist societies can be a difficult art to master. With ethnographic research gathered in northwestern Turkey, this book explores infertility and assisted reproductive technologies within a secular Muslim population and how social experience leads to a decision for — or against — having an IVF.
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Published July 2012
After The History of Sexuality
German Genealogies with and Beyond Foucault
Spector, S., Puff, H. & Herzog, D. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published February 2018
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Heywood, P.
This book is a contribution to the anthropology of Italy and of Europe as an ethnography of queer activism in Bologna; and, at the same time, it is an intervention in a set of ongoing theoretical debates in anthropology surrounding the perennial problem of the relationship between ethnographic data and anthropological analysis. It combines discussions of identity and difference, ethics, the fieldwork setting, and anthropology’s turn to ontology.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2008
Against Machismo
Young Adult Voices in Mexico City
Ramirez, J.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2012
Ambiguous Pleasures
Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi
Spronk, R.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published July 2019
Ambiguous Transitions
Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania
Massino, J.
Ambiguous Transitions provides an accessible, intimate exploration of gender and citizenship in socialist Romania. Author Jill M. Massino connects women’s everyday lives to larger political, economic, and social processes, challenging conventional understandings of life in socialist Romania as uniformly oppressive.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2022
An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.
Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this monograph, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez explores the ways through which women and girls in Puerto Rico construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published January 2006
Anthropology and Sexual Morality
A Theoretical Investigation
Salazar, C.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2017
The Anthropology of the Fetus
Biology, Culture, and Society
Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)
As a biological, cultural, and social entity, the human fetus is a multifaceted subject which calls for equally diverse perspectives to fully understand. Anthropology of the Fetus seeks to achieve this by bringing together specialists in biological anthropology, archaeology, and cultural anthropology, all with the ultimate goal of developing a holistic anthropology of the fetus.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 1996
Austrian Women in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Good, D. F., Grandner, M., & Maynes, M. J. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Published June 1998
Autonomy
Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists
Rao, A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2024
Becoming Good Women
Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka
Batatota, L. S.
This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2018
Being a Sperm Donor
Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark
Mohr, S.
Through ethnographic explorations of the everyday lives of Danish sperm donors, Being a Sperm Donor explores how masculinity and sexuality are reconfigured in a time in which the norms and logics of (reproductive) biomedicine have become ordinary, and examines how the latter’s socio-cultural and political dimensions become intertwined with men’s intimate sense of self.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published January 2006
A Belle Epoque?
Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
Holmes, D. & Tarr, C. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Belonging in Unhomely Homelands
Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs
Grujić, M.
Belonging in Unhomely Lands takes a feminist approach to examine the intricate dynamics of gender, national affiliation and belonging in the context of internal displacement and territorial disputes faced by Kosovo Serbs since the ethnic conflict and tensions two decades ago.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2017
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Schröder, P.
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity, author Philipp Schröder explores integration and urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek. Bishkek Boys offers unique insights into how post-Socialist economic liberalization, rural-urban migration and (state) ethnic nationalism have reshaped social relations among the boys who come of age in this Central Asian urban environment.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies
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Published November 2000
Black Lambs and Grey Falcons
Women Travelling in the Balkans
Allcock, J. & Young, A.
Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2024
Black Schoolgirls in Space
Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain
Ohito, E. O. & Mock Muñoz de Luna, L.
Black Schoolgirls in Space is a theoretical turn that advances the growing interest in transnational girlhoods by focusing on the Black girls as actors and agents in the construction of not only girlhood but also the educational worlds in which girlhoods are contained.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
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Published April 2006
The Body of the Queen
Gender and Rule in the Courtly World, 1500-2000
Schulte R. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published June 2005
Breast Feeding and Sexuality
Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania
Mabilia, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2023
Broken Glass, Broken Class
Transformations of Work in Bulgaria
Kofti, D.
Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2008
'Brothers' or Others?
Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt
Fábos, A. H.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2011
Caring for the 'Holy Land'
Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel
Liebelt, C.
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Published March 2019
Categories in Context
Gender and Work in France and Germany, 1900–Present
Berrebi-Hoffmann, I., Giraud, O., Renard, L., & Wobbe, T. (eds)
Despite the wealth of empirical research into the interrelationships of gender and labor available, little is known about the forms of classification and categorization shaping these social phenomena. Categories in Context enriches our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed in France and Germany.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Sociology
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Forthcoming May 2025
Challenging Norms
Family Planning as a Reflection of Social Change in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe
Hein-Kircher, H., Hiemer, E.-M., & Nešťáková, D. (eds)
An enlightening and geographically wide-ranging re-examination of family planning in twentieth-century Eastern Europe, Challenging Norms interrogates the correlation between social attitudes to family planning and social, economic, and political modernization. In doing so, this volume highlights how these changes provide invaluable insights into ever-evolving societal norms and values.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2005
Changing Sex and Bending Gender
Shaw, A. & Ardener, S. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology
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Published November 2023
Children are Everywhere
Conspicuous Reproduction and Childlessness in Reunified Berlin
Joshi, M.
This book explores everyday experiences of parenting and childlessness of ‘ethnic’ Germans in Berlin, who came of age around the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brings them into conversation with theories on parenting, waithood, non-biological intimacies, and masculinities.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2011
Children, Families, and States
Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe
Hagemann, K., Jarausch, K. H. & Allemann-Ghionda, C. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Educational Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2021
Cinemas of Boyhood
Masculinity, Sexuality, Nationality
Shary, T. (eds)
Drawing from political sociology, pop psychology, and film studies, Cinemas of Boyhood features an eclectic range of films from British and Indian cinemas to silent Hollywood and the new Hollywood of the 1980s, culminating in a comprehensive overview of the diverse concerns surrounding representations of boyhood in film.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2008
Civil Society and Gender Justice
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Hagemann, K., Michel, S. & Budde, G. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Published June 2002
Class and Other Identities
Gender, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Writing of European Labour History
Voss, L. Heerma van & Linden, M. van der (eds)
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2023
Cognition, Risk, and Responsibility in Obstetrics
Anthropological Analyses and Critiques of Obstetricians’ Practices
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
Volume 2 in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at cognition, risk, and responsibility in obstetrics. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand obstetricians' differing ideologies and motives for practicing as they do.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2009
Colette's Republic
Work, Gender, and Popular Culture in France, 1870-1914
Tilburg, P. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General)
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Published February 2020
Comrades in Arms
Military Masculinities in East German Culture
Smith, T.
Without question, the East German National People’s Army sought to exemplify traditional masculine ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Yet depictions of the military in East German film and literature were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works have portrayed violence, vulnerability, military theatricality, and a range of masculinities.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 2008
Conceiving Kinship
Assisted Conception, Procreation and Family in Southern Europe
Bonaccorso, M. M. E.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2024
Contested Femininities
Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Lynn, J.
Contested Femininities for the first time contributes a long-view study of constructions of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) in the illustrated press providing an incredible scope of inquiry spanning the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war occupation, and a divided German.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies
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Published January 2023
Cosmopolitan Refugees
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Ripero-Muñiz, N.
Exploring the dynamics of identity formation processes in diasporic spaces, this book analyses how gender, cultural and religious practices are renegotiated in a situation of displacement. The author presents the comparative case study of Somali migrant women in Nairobi and Johannesburg: two cosmopolitan urban hubs in the global South.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2013
Creating a Nation with Cloth
Women, Wealth, and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora
Addo, P.-A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2014
The Cultural Politics of Reproduction
Migration, Health and Family Making
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Khanna, S. K. (eds)
Charting the experiences of migrant communities, the volume examines the relationship between movement, reproduction, and health. Informed by research in Europe, Britain, South and East Asia, Canada and Northern America, the chapters examine how healthcare experiences of migrants are embedded in their own worldviews and influenced by wider state systems.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2001
Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Concepts of Kinship in South Asian Practice
Böck, M. & Rao, A. (eds)
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2007
Cultures of Abortion in Weimar Germany
Usborne, C.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Published April 2018
Cutting Cosmos
Masculinity and Spectacular Events among the Bugkalot
Mikkelsen, H. H.
Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.
Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published June 2017
The Dance of Nurture
Negotiating Infant Feeding
Van Esterik, P. & O'Connor, R. A.
Breastfeeding and child feeding at the center of nurturing practices, yet the work of nurture has escaped the scrutiny of medical and social scientists. The Dance of Nurture integrates ethnography, biology and the political economy of infant feeding to detail the efforts to improve infant feeding practices globally by UN agencies and advocacy groups concerned with solving global nutrition and health problems.
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Published March 2021
Deconstructing Dolls
Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play
Forman-Brunell, M. (ed)
Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2002
Defiance and Compliance
Negotiating Gender in Low-Income Cairo
El-Kholy, H.A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published August 2016
The Devil's Wheels
Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
Disko, S.
During the unprecedented modernization of Germany’s Weimar Republic, motorcycle culture instantiated the new link between consumption and identity. Motorcycles became symbols of masculinity and freedom that exposed the problems and allures of mass-consumption and modern values. The Devil’s Wheels analyzes motorcycle culture, and reassesses mechanized life in Weimar Germany.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Transport Studies
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Published November 2022
Different from the Others
German and Dutch Discourses of Queer Femininity and Female Desire, 1918–1940
Sturgess, C.
Presenting for the first time a comparative and socio-cultural history of queer femininities in Germany and the Netherlands for an English-speaking audience, Different from the Others highlights this submerged history and engages queer authors and activists from the Netherlands to challenge and redress conceptualizations of queer femininity in the interwar period.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: World War I History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2009
Dismantling the Dream Factory
Gender, German Cinema, and the Postwar Quest for a New Film Language
Baer, H.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2011
Ecofeminism and Rhetoric
Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse
Vakoch, D. A. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Cultural Studies (General) Sociology
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Published July 2016
Economic Citizenship
Neoliberal Paradoxes of Empowerment
Sa'ar, A.
Economic Citizenship explores shifting responsibility for the welfare of minority and poor citizens, which has shifted from states to local communities through neoliberalization. This has produced odd discursive blends of justice, solidarity, and wellbeing, and placed the languages of feminist and minority rights side by side with the language of apolitical consumerism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published September 2018
Elite Malay Polygamy
Wives, Wealth and Woes in Malaysia
Zeitzen, M. K.
An ethnography of elite polygamy in urban Malaysia, this volume explores the impact this growing practice has on Malay gender relations, examining the varied and often-conflicted polygamy narratives of elite Malay women, who manage their lives and loves under the “threat” of husbands able to marry another woman without their knowledge or consent.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published December 1998
Engendering Forced Migration
Theory and Practice
Indra, D. (ed)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Theory and Methodology
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Published March 2021
Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Transnational Approaches
Moletsane, R., Wiebesiek, L.,Treffry-Goatley, A. & Mandrona, A. (eds)
Girls and young women from rural and indigenous communities around the world face some of the most adverse social issues in the world despite the existence of protective laws and treaties. This collected volume explores the potential of participatory visual method (PVM) for girls and young women in these communities.
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Published September 2012
Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema
A Beauvoirian Perspective
Boulé, J.-P. & Tidd, U. (eds)
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Published July 2011
Fatness and the Maternal Body
Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy
Unnithan-Kumar, M. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
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Published September 2017
Fertility, Conjuncture, Difference
Anthropological Approaches to the Heterogeneity of Modern Fertility Declines
Kreager, P. & Bochow, A. (eds)
In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them. Fertility transition, rather than the story of the triumphant spread of Western birth control rationality, family forms, and modern technology to the whole world, reveals a diversity of reproductive means and ends continuing before, during, and after transition.
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Published March 2023
Fixing Motorcycles in Post-Repair Societies
Technology, Aesthetics and Gender
Jderu, G.
Taking motorcycling in Romania as an ethnographic entry point, this book documents how bikers handle the inevitable moment of malfunction and breakdown. Using both mobile and sedentary research methods, the book describes the joys and troubles experienced by amateur mechanics, professional mechanics and untechnical male and females when fixing bikes.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2003
French Women in Politics: Writing Power
Paternal Legitimization and Maternal Legacies
Ramsay, R. L.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published March 2020
Friendship without Borders
Women's Stories of Power, Politics, and Everyday Life across East and West Germany
Leask, P.
Drawing on a set of interviews and a thousand letters written over fifty years, Friendship, Power, and Everyday Life considers how a group of women, self-defined as non-political, experienced, accepted, rejected, or countered the exercise of power across twentieth-century regimes in Germany.
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Published February 1998
Gender and Germanness
Cultural Productions of Nation
Herminghouse, P. & Mueller, M. (eds)
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Published April 2014
Gender History in a Transnational Perspective
Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders
Janz, O. & Schönpflug, D. (eds)
“This collection of essays addresses important topics in the history of European feminisms. It goes beyond national histories to examine transnational contacts, comparisons, and transfers… The essays are by an interesting collection of authors, some already very well known in the field, and others promising junior scholars.” · Ann Taylor Allen, University of Louisville
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Published October 2017
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Barkaia, M. & Waterston, A. (eds)
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering to adjust to the new economic, social and political order. Gender in Georgia brings together an international group of feminist scholars to explore the socio-political conditions that have shaped gender dynamics in Georgia from the late 19th century to the present.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)
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Published May 2023
Gender in Germany and Beyond
Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert
Evans, J. V. & Rose, S. E. (eds)
Jean Quataert’s former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataert’s shaping of the field of modern German, Women’s and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarship, setting a precedent for the future of the field.
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Published November 2000
Gender Issues in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
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Published September 2008
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Roth, S. (ed)
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Published May 2022
Gender, Power, and Non-Governance
Is Female to Male as NGO Is to State?
Timmer, A. D. & Wirtz, E. (eds)
Using Sherry Ortner’s analogy of Female/Nature, Male/Culture, this volume interrogates the gendered aspects of governance by exploring the NGO/State relationship. By examining how NGOs/States perform gendered roles and actions and the gendered divisions of labor involved in different types of institutional engagement, this volume attends to the ways in which gender and governance constitute flexible, relational, and contingent systems of power.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Development Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2017
Gender, Violence, Refugees
Buckley-Zistel, S. & Krause, U. (eds)
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals
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Published December 2011
Gendered Money
Financial Organization in Women's Movements, 1880-1933
Jonsson, P. & Neunsinger, S.
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Published August 2007
Gendering Modern German History
Rewriting Historiography
Hagemann, K. & Quataert, J. H. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2019
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Hagemann, K., & Harsch, D., & Brühöfner, F. (eds)
Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements offers new and critical insight into the state of the research on post-war German history from a gender perspective. Using the concept of “entanglement,” this volume investigates the ways in which East and West German gender relations were socially and politically intertwined.
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Published April 2023
The Girl in the Pandemic
Transnational Perspectives
Mitchell, C. & Smith, A. (eds)
The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandemic future may bring for girls and young women.
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Published December 2003
Girl Making
A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female
Bloustien, G.
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Published January 2016
Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Mitchell, C. & Rentschler, C. (eds)
Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.
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Published December 2023
Girls in Global Development
Figurations of Gendered Power
Switzer, H., Desai, K., & Bent, E. (eds)
Slating new directions in conversations surrounding gender, development, human rights, investment, and equality, Girls in Global Development theorizes the intersection of girlhood and global development through the novel concept of “Girls in Development” or GID.
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Girls Take Action
Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women
Vanner, C. (ed)
An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology
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Published July 2018
Global Fluids
The Cultural Politics of Reproductive Waste and Value
Kroløkke, C.
Embedded in feminist communication, sociological, and anthropological scholarship, Global Fluids examines the ways in which women’s body products (such as urine, eggs, and placentas) become valuable ingredients in the fertility and cosmetics industries, and develops cultural politics of reusability and extensibility to discuss the moral limits of their global distribution.
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Published October 2014
Globalized Fatherhood
Inhorn, M. C., Chavkin, W. & Navarro, J.-A. (eds)
Looking through a twenty-first century lens, anthropologists, sociologists, and cultural geographers consider fatherhood from Peru to India to Vietnam. The volume highlights the globally emergent, transnationally inflected transformations in fathering, fatherhood, and family life, suggesting that men throughout the world are responding to globalization as fathers in creative and unprecedented ways.
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Published November 2021
Good Enough Mothers
Practicing Nurture and Motherhood in Chiapas, Mexico
López, JM
Motherhood in Mexico is profoundly shaped by the legacy of colonialism. This ethnography situates motherhood in a critical global health analysis of maternal health inequalities and interventions in the southeast state of Chiapas.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published July 1996
The Hegemonic Male
Masculinity in a Portuguese Town
Vale de Almeida, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2003
Hitler's Dancers
German Modern Dance and the Third Reich
Karina, L & Kant, M.
Subjects: Performance Studies History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2013
Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema
Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity
Fritsche, M.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2016
Honour and Violence
Gender, Power and Law in Southern Pakistan
Shah, N.
This volume explores the implication of modern law in the seemingly ancient cultural practice of karo kari, which allows male family members to take the lives of female relatives accused of adultery. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations at work in Upper Sindh, Pakistan.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2021
How is a Man Supposed to be a Man?
Male Childlessness – a Life Course Disrupted
Hadley, R. A.
The global trend of declining fertility rates and an increasingly ageing population has serious implications for individuals and institutions alike. Childless men are mostly excluded from ageing, social science and reproduction scholarship and almost completely absent from most national statistics. This book examines the lived experiences of a hidden and disenfranchised population: men who wanted to be fathers.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2007
Identity and Networks
Fashioning Gender and Ethnicity across Cultures
Bryceson, D., Okely, J., & Webber, J. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Theory and Methodology Sociology
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Published August 1997
Identity, Gender and Poverty
New Perspectives on Caste and Tribe in Rajasthan
Unnithan-Kumar, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2008
Impotent Warriors
Perspectives on Gulf War Syndrome, Vulnerability and Masculinity
Kilshaw, S.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2024
Intimate Histories
African Americans and Germany since 1933
Klopprogge, N.
Intimate Histories investigates the role and conceptualizations of intimacy between African American and German relations between 1933 through 1990. Reviewing issues surrounding anti-miscegenation laws, casual sexual encounters, and unique friendships, this book traces how intimacy became an important site of transnational racial history.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2018
Intimate Mobilities
Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World
Groes, C. & Fernandez, N. T. (eds)
This book explores how various types of migration that are often seen as distinct phenomena – such as marriage migration, romance tourism and sex work migration – are in fact variations of cross-border mobilities that evolve around experiences and constructions of “intimacy”, and are facilitated by and deeply entwined with issues of power, gender and sexuality.
Subjects: Mobility Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2024
Invisible Labours
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Middlemiss, A. L.
Invisible Labours traces women’s experiences of miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly in the second trimester before legal viability and shows how such events are positioned as less ‘real’ or significant when the foetal being does not, or will not, survive. It describes the reproductive politics of this specific category of pregnancy loss in England.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2009
Islam and New Kinship
Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon
Clarke, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2000
Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah
Reoccupying the Territories of Silence
Lentin, R.
Subjects: Genocide History Gender Studies and Sexuality Jewish Studies
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Published November 1995
Jewish Explorations of Sexuality
Magonet, J. (ed)
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Published February 2003
The Journalism of Milena Jesenská
A Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe
Hayes, K. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Literary Studies Jewish Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published January 2010
Kristeva in Focus
From Theory to Film Analysis
Goodnow, K.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2011
Landscapes of Relations and Belonging
Body, Place and Politics in Wogeo, Papua New Guinea
Anderson, A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2007
Learning on the Shop Floor
Historical Perspectives on Apprenticeship
Munck, B. de, Kaplan, S. L. & Soly, H. (eds)
Subjects: History (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland
An Exploration of Gender, Visibility, Movement and Placemaking
Lubit, A. J.
The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 2017
Living Before Dying
Imagining and Remembering Home
Davies, J.
This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the different behaviours of men and women.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2021
Living Like a Girl
Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond
Vogel, M. & Arnell, L. (eds)
With a particular focus on girls who have experienced interventions by social services, the contributions in Living Like a Girl expand our understanding of contemporary European girlhood by demonstrating how social problems are managed in different cultural contexts, political and social systems.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology Cultural Studies (General) Sustainable Development Goals
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Published July 2017
Mad Mädchen
Feminism and Generational Conflict in Recent German Literature and Film
McCarthy, M.
The last two decades have been frequently discordant for German feminism, as a new cohort of activists has come of age and challenged many of the movement’s strategic and philosophical orthodoxies. This book offers an incisive cultural analysis of these trans-generational debates, identifying characteristic features of their representation in German literature, film, and media.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Media Studies Film and Television Studies Literary Studies
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Published July 2016
Made In Egypt
Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop Floor
Chakravarti, L. Z.
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between the emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) elites, who are caught in an intensely competitive globalized supply chain, and the local realities of the daily lives of their young, educated, and mixed-gender labor force.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Sociology
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Published September 2023
Madness, Bureaucracy and Gender in Mumbai, India
Narratives from a Psychiatric Hospital
Strauss, A.
Regional mental hospitals in India are perceived as colonial artefacts in need of reformation. In the last two decades, there has been discussion around the maltreatment of patients, corruption and poor quality of mental health treatment in these institutions. This ethnography scrutinizes bureaucracy of these asylum-like institutions in the context of national change and the global mental health movement.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2012
The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama
Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
Pype, K.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Media Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life
Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality
Tremayne, S. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2011
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Rubchak, M. J. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published November 1999
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law
Essays and Responsa
Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)
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Published April 2011
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany
Sutton, K.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published November 2008
Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema
Black Peters and Men of Marble
Mazierska, E.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 1998
Mastering Soldiers
Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit
Ben-Ari, E.
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2012
Maternalism Reconsidered
Motherhood, Welfare and Social Policy in the Twentieth Century
Klein, M. van der, Plant, R. J., Sanders, Nichole, & Weintrob L. R. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published November 2021
Medieval Intersections
Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages
Weikert, K. & Woodacre, E. (eds)
With contributions on topics ranging from medieval gynecology to clerical masculinity, this interdisciplinary collection highlights the various ways “status” can be interpreted relative to gender, and what these two interlocked concepts can reveal about the construction of gendered identities in the Middle Ages.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published December 2019
Men Under Fire
Motivation, Morale, and Masculinity among Czech Soldiers in the Great War, 1914–1918
Hutečka, J.
In historical writing on World War I, Czech-speaking soldiers serving in the Austro-Hungarian military are primarily studied as Czechs, rarely as soldiers, and never as men. Men under Fire provides a groundbreaking analysis of this oft-overlooked cohort, drawing on a wealth of soldiers’ private writings to explore experiences of exhaustion, sex, loyalty, authority, and combat itself.
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Published November 2006
The Men We Loved
Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture
Kaplan, D.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Peace and Conflict Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published March 2013
Militant Lactivism?
Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France
Faircloth, C.
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Published August 2020
Modernity and the Unmaking of Men
Schubert, V.
Responding to the renewed emphasis on the significance of village studies, this book focuses on aging bachelorhood as a site of intolerable angst when faced with rural depopulation and social precarity. Based on ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in contemporary Macedonian society, the book explores the intersections between modernity, kinship and gender.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2005
Nameless Relations
Anonymity, Melanesia and Reproductive Gift Exchange between British Ova Donors and Recipients
Konrad, M.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2014
Narrating Victimhood
Gender, Religion and the Making of Place in Post-War Croatia
Schäuble, M.
Based on fieldwork in rural Dalmatia in the Croatian-Bosnian border region, this book provides a unique account of the politics of ambiguous Europeanness from the perspective of those living at Europe's margins. Narrating Victimhood examines the continuing contestations over truth, history & memory that have helped shape this region.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2014
Negotiating Identity in Scandinavia
Women, Migration, and the Diaspora
Akman, H. (ed)
“The anthology provides careful analysis based on rich empirical material that illuminates the complexity of the region (and of the migration processes that have occurred in the last thirty years) represented and acted upon as the Nordic…[Its] strength lies in its ability to pose central research questions at the crossroad between the making of the ‘Nordic’ and the original ways through which diasporic communities create gendered forms of belonging that transcend the nation-state. This ability to move between the local and the global through original and reflexive methodologies locates the anthology’s work within a broader international scholarship.” · Diana Mulinari, Center for Gender Studies, University of Lund
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies
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Published June 2015
New Imaginaries
Youthful Reinvention of Ukraine's Cultural Paradigm
Rubchak, M.J. (ed)
Contributors to this volume infuse their work with Western elements, although vestiges of Soviet-style ideas, research methodology and writing linger. This, as a result, is a paradigm articulating “New Imaginaries” — neither Soviet nor Western — offering a fresh portrait of Ukrainian society seen through a new generation of feminist scholars.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published October 2014
Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
Nighttime breastfeeding and sleep for many new parents in the United States is fraught with intense challenges. Through a close ethnographic examination, this volume explores the impact of conflicting medical guidelines about breastfeeding and infant sleep, and uncovers cultural tensions about expectations for children, parents, and their relationship.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Nighttime Breastfeeding
An American Cultural Dilemma
Tomori, C.
In this updated edition, the author describes shifting medical guidance that increasingly supports breastfeeding yet remains largely separated from infant sleep guidance. The volume also provides a path towards more equitable approaches to nighttime infant care grounded in reproductive justice.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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The Nomads of Mykonos
Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space
Bousiou, P.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2008
Not Born a Refugee Woman
Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices
Hajdukowksi-Ahmed, M., Khanlou, N. & Moussa, H. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2023
Obstetric Violence and Systemic Disparities
Can Obstetrics Be Humanized and Decolonized?
Davis-Floyd, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
The final volume in this landmark 3-volume series on The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians looks at the challenges, and even violence, that obstetricians face across the world. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the diverse challenges that obstetricians must overcome.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals
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Published June 2023
Obstetricians Speak
On Training, Practice, Fear, and Transformation
Floyd-Davis, R. & Premkumar, A. (eds)
For the first time ever in a social science work, obstetricians tell their own stories of training, practice, fear, and transformation. This book is a must-read for students, social scientists, and all maternity care practitioners who seek to understand the ideologies and motives of individual obstetricians.
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Published June 1998
Partners in Production?
Women, Farm, and Family in Ireland
O'Hara, P.
Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2012
Patients and Agents
Mental Illness, Modernity and Islam in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Callan, A.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Published May 2011
Patrons of Women
Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal
Hertzog, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published November 2022
Pepsi and the Pill
Motherhood, Politics and Film in Britain and France, 1958–1969
Oliver-Powell, M.
With the reintroduction of many important debates surrounding reproductive rights, migration and nationalism, Pepsi and the Pill brings to the fore examples and critical historical and media analysis of British and French films in the popular culture and political discourses of 1960s Western Europe.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2007
The Pleasure of a Surplus Income
Part-Time Work, Gender Politics, and Social Change in West Germany, 1955-1969
Oertzen, C. von
Subjects: History (General) History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2005
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia
Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)
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Published March 1997
Post-war Women's Writing in German
Feminist Critical Approaches
Weedon, C. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Literary Studies
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Published March 2022
The Precarity of Masculinity
Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon
Kovač, U.
This book follows young Cameroonian men who aspire to migrate abroad and play football for a living while analyzing masculinities in West Africa. The book argues that the athletic aspirations of young Cameroonians and their propensity to consult with Pentecostal Men of God offer new insights about the nature of social mobility in the neoliberal age.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published January 2000
Productive Men and Reproductive Women
The Agrarian Household and the Emergence of Separate Spheres during the German Enlightenment
Gray, M.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2007
Professional Identities
Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy
Ardener, S. & Moore, F. (eds)
Subjects: Applied Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2022
Punching Back
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Rana, J.
In the Netherlands, girls and young women are increasingly active in women-only kickboxing. The general assumption, in the Netherlands and in western Europe more broadly, is that women’s sport is a form of secular, feminist empowerment. Muslim women’s participation would then exemplify the incongruence of Islam with the modern, secular nation-state. Punching Back provides a detailed ethnographic study that contests this view.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Queer and Trans Life
Anthropological Futures
Posocco, S., Gonzalez-Polledo, E.J., Aaberg, L., & Altay, T. (eds)
Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments in futurity. It presents emerging queer and trans anthropological research in and about European contexts.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2018
Reconceiving Muslim Men
Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times
Inhorn, M. C. & Naguib, N. (eds)
Through anthropological accounts of Muslim men’s everyday lives in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and diasporic settings, Reconceiving Muslim Men explores the creative ways in which Muslim men care for and nurture their families and communities. By focusing on reproduction, love, and care, this volume showcases Muslim men’s humanity.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex
Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction
Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)
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Published May 2024
Religious Sensibilities in Pursuit of Sexual Well-Being
African Diasporic Communities in the Netherlands
Bakuri, A. Z.
Through detailed ethnographic analysis, this book shows how religious sensibilities inform the health practices, issues of sexuality and well-being of the Ghanian-Dutch and Somali-Dutch communities residing in the Randstad area of the Netherlands.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion
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Published October 2004
Reproductive Agency, Medicine and the State
Cultural Transformations in Childbearing
Unnithan-Kumar, M. (ed)
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions
Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium
Inhorn, M. C. (ed)
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Published March 2020
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation
Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Gender, Family, and Religion in Italy and Germany, 1800–1918
Baumeister, M., Lenhard, P., & Nattermann, R. (eds)
Rethinking the Age of Emancipation aims at a critical reassessment of the development of the two “late” nations, Italy and Germany, from a new and transnational perspective. Essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examine the discursive relationships among nationalism, war, and emancipation as well as the ambiguous roles of historical protagonists with competing loyalties.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published August 2022
The Return of Polyandry
Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet
Fjeld, H. E.
This book describes the surprising increase in polyandry in Panam valley during the 1980s. It explores married lives in polyandrous houses and develops a theory of a flexible kinship of potentiality through the lens of a farming village in Tibet Autonomous Region.
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Published May 2000
A Reversal of Fortunes?
Women, Work, and Change in East Germany
Alsop, R.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present Cultural Studies (General)
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Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities
Boulé, J.-P.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published April 2020
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Layne, L. L. (ed)
We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published May 2023
Servants of Culture
Paternalism, Policing, and Identity Politics in Vienna, 1700-1914
Natarajan, A.
Using a wide range of material including legal, criminal, literary, and political sources, Servants of Culture brings forward the previously neglected history of a mass migration of women from the Habsburg Empire’s countryside to work as servants for bourgeois households, inns and hotels during the second half of the 19th century. At the time, socio-political players claimed to want to improve the living and working conditions of these migrants but as Natarajan demonstrates these efforts resulted in an increase in surveillance and a restriction of freedoms for women and servants in Viennese history.
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2005
Sex and the Empire That Is No More
Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion
Matory, J. L.
Subjects: Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Sex, Risk, and Society
When Is Sex Dangerous?
Pollock, S. H.
When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts.
Subjects: Sociology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2007
Sex, Thugs & Rock 'n' Roll
Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany
Fenemore, M.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2022
Sexscapes of Pleasure
Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy
Zambelli, E.
Drawing from ethnographic research, this book brings together the narratives of Italian and migrant women pole dancing for leisure, women pole and lap dancing for work, as well as women selling sex. By tracing commonalities in women’s processes of subjectivation and othering across the non/sex working women divide, the book foregrounds the intersecting structures of oppression under which women negotiate selfhood.
Subjects: Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published February 1996
Sexual Politics and the European Union
The New Feminist Challenge
Elman, R. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology
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Published November 2022
Sexual Self-Fashioning
Iranian Dutch Narratives of Sexuality and Belonging
Roodsaz, R.
Focusing on premarital sex, homosexuality, and cohabitation outside marriage, this book provides an ethnographic account of sexuality among the Iranian Dutch. It argues that by embracing, rejecting, and questioning modernity in stories about sexuality, the Iranian Dutch actively engage in processes of self-fashioning.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Anthropology (General)
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Published February 1996
Sexual Subordination and State Intervention
Comparing Sweden and the United States
Elman, R. A.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 2004
Sexuality and German Fascism
Herzog, D. (ed)
Subjects: History: World War II Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2017
Sisters in Arms
Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968
Karcher, K.
Drawing on a wealth of new source material, Sisters in Arms gives a bracing account of how radical feminism was enacted by key German leftist organizations, such as the infamous Red Army Faction and June 2 Movement. These groups often diverged ideologically and tactically, but all demonstrated the potency of militant feminism within postwar protest movements.
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published November 2018
Sofia Coppola
The Politics of Visual Pleasure
Backman Rogers, A.
Sofia Coppola: The Politics of Visual Pleasure interprets Coppola’s oeuvre to date from a resolutely feminist and philosophical perspective. Using the work of a range of feminist theorists, Backman Rogers situates Coppola’s work as a critique of postfeminist lifestyles that offer the viewer a feminist and feminine philosophy through beguilement, mood and surface.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published April 2024
State Intimacies
Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India
Fiks, E.
State Intimacies examines the mundane workings, ambiguity, and fragilities of care in post-colonial rural North India. The experience of reproductive chronicity is grounded in women’s everyday realities and experiences in sterilization camps and other healthcare settings in rural Rajasthan.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sustainable Development Goals
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Published October 2009
The Surplus Woman
Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918
Dollard, C. L.
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Published June 2015
Thai in Vitro
Gender, Culture and Assisted Reproduction
Whittaker, A.
In Thailand, infertility remains a source of stigma for couples using assisted reproductive technologies in the quest for a child. This ethnographic account of public and private clinics explores this experience of infertility and the pursuit of assisted reproductive technologies by Thai couples.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published May 2021
To See a Moose
The History of Polish Sex Education
Kościańska, A.
Guiding the reader through the development of sex education in Poland, Agnieszka Kościańska looks at how it has changed from the 19th century to the present day. The book also identifies the women and men who changed the way sex was written about in the country, and how they established the field of Polish sexology.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Published January 1998
Towards Emancipation
German Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century
Diethe, C.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2023
Translocal Care across Kosovo’s Borders
Reconfiguring Kinship along Gender and Generational Lines
Leutloff-Grandits, C.
By tracing long-distant family relations with a special focus on cross-border marriages, this study looks at the reconfiguration of care relations, gender and generational roles among kin-members of Kosovo, who now live in different European states.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published February 2010
Transnational Families, Migration and Gender
Moroccan and Filipino Women in Bologna and Barcelona
Zontini, E.
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published June 2003
A Venetian Island
Environment, History and Change in Burano
Sciama, L. D.
Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published April 2018
The Virago Story
Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon
Riley, C.
The Virago Story provides a comprehensive history of classic feminist publisher Virago, along with an up-to-date analysis of the four waves of feminism, new strands of feminist analysis and praxis, and publishing trends.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 20th Century to Present
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Published July 2023
Visions of Marriage
Politics and Family on Kinmen, 1920-2020
Chiu, H.-C.
Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. It provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.>
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published October 2017
The Voice of Prophecy
And Other Essays
Ardener, E.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2020
Waithood
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Inhorn, M. C. & Smith-Hefner, N. J. (eds)
The concept of “Waithood” was developed by political scientist Diane Singerman to describe the expanding period of time between adolescence and full adulthood as young people wait to secure steady employment and marry. The contributors to this volume employ the waithood concept as a frame for richly detailed ethnographic studies of “youth in waiting” from a variety of world areas.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published February 2016
War and Women across Continents
Autobiographical and Biographical Experiences
Ardener, S., Armitage-Woodward, F., & Sciama, L.D. (eds)
Drawing on family materials, records, and eyewitness accounts, this book shows the impact of war on individual women caught up in diverse, and often treacherous, situations. Historical and modern chapters draw on vivid stories worldwide to answer the question: “How do women act in dangerous wars?”
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)
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Published February 2001
War on the Homefront
An Examination of Wife Abuse
Haley, S. & Braun-Haley, E.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Applied Anthropology
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Published August 2010
Weimar Publics/Weimar Subjects
Rethinking the Political Culture of Germany in the 1920s
Canning, K., Barndt, K. & McGuire, K. (eds)
Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published September 2018
What is Work?
Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
Sarti, R., Bellavitis, A., & Martini, M. (eds)
Every society has a definition of what work is, and isn’t. What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary overview of work as it applies to the highly gendered realm of household economies, drawing from scholarship on gender history, economic sociology, family history, civil law, and feminist economics.
Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2008
Where There Is No Midwife
Birth and Loss in Rural India
Pinto, S.
Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published August 2015
Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana
Adinkrah, M.
Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on these alleged witches.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Anthropology of Religion Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published December 2008
Women and Men in Love
European Identities in the Twentieth Century
Passerini, L.
Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published June 2001
Women and Modernity in Weimar Germany
Reality and its Representation in Popular Fiction
Petersen, V. R.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published November 1998
Women and Russian Culture
Projections and Self-Perceptions
Marsh, R. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 1998
Women and Socialism - Socialism and Women
Europe Between the World Wars
Gruber, H. & Graves, P. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published September 2014
Women and the City, Women in the City
A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History
Maksudyan, N. (ed)
Accessing court records, state archives, oral sources, literary material, memoirs, and newspapers, the contributors to this volume reconstruct women’s lives in the Ottoman Empire, from Aleppo to Sofia, and from Jeddah to Istanbul. The seven chapters offer a wide panorama of the Ottoman urban geography, with a specific concern for gender roles.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Urban Studies History (General)
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Published June 2002
Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation
Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation
Abdo, N. & Lentin, R. (eds)
Subjects: Peace and Conflict Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published December 2001
Women as Sacred Custodians of the Earth?
Women, Spirituality and the Environment
Low, A. & Tremayne, S. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology of Religion Sustainable Development Goals
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Published August 1995
Women in Contemporary Russia
Koval, V. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Forthcoming April 2025
Women in Israel
Anthropological, Feminist, and Personal Perspectives
Hertzog, E.
This book is a comprehensive feminist examination of women's diverse experience in Israeli society over four decades and analyzes society during this time. As an ethnography, the book emphasizes a commitment to social justice and equality, and challenges prevailing social and gender research approaches.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published March 2006
Women in Polish Cinema
Mazierska, E. & Ostrowska, E.
Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published November 2007
Women Migrants From East to West
Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe
Passerini, L., Lyon, D., Capussotti, E. & Laliotou, I. (eds)
Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Mobility Studies History: 20th Century to Present
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Published October 1995
Women of Prague
Ethnic Diversity and Social Change from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Iggers, W.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History: 18th/19th Century
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Published September 2012
Women of Two Countries
German-American Women, Women's Rights and Nativism, 1848-1890
Bank, M.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 18th/19th Century
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Published March 1995
Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe
Historical Essays, 1978-1991
Herlihy, D.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: Medieval/Early Modern
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Published February 2001
Women, Power, and the Academy
From Rhetoric to Reality
Kearney, M.-L. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Educational Studies
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Forthcoming June 2025
Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India
Feminist and Ethical discourse on Sex Selective Abortions
Suryanarayanan, S.
This book reviews the feminist, ethical and legal discourse on sex selective abortions and draws on women’s empowerment as an analytical lens to examine the son preference expressed in the notion of Vansh (lineage) among pregnant women.
Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Medical Anthropology
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Published January 2006
The Women's Camp in Moringen
A Memoir of Imprisonment in Germany 1936-1937
Herz, G.
Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality
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Published July 2017
The Women's Liberation Movement
Impacts and Outcomes
Schulz, K. (ed)
This collection represents the first systematic reflection on the impact and outcomes of the women’s liberation movement in different areas and topics of Western societies. It systematically investigates movement outcomes in one country in the light of a reflective social movement theory and compares them to developments in other countries.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present
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Published April 2002
Writing Mothers and Daughters
Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women
Giorgio, A. (ed)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)
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Published January 1998
A Year of Revolutions
Fanny Lewald's Recollections of 1848
Lewis, H. (ed)
Subjects: History: 18th/19th Century Literary Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology
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Published November 2011
Young Men in Uncertain Times
Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published July 2011
Youth Gangs and Street Children
Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
Heinonen, P.
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. By focusing on gender as the defining element of these children’s lives — as they describe it in their own words — this book offers a clear analysis of how the unequal and antagonistic gender relations that are tolerated and normalized by everyday school and family structures shape their lives at home and on the street.
Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)
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Published October 2022
Ӧmie Sex Affiliation
A Papuan Nature
Rohatynskyj, M.
The practice of affiliating the female child with the mother and the male child with the father was considered a rare and inexplicable practice in Papua New Guinean ethnography at the time the original data was collected some forty years ago. Marta Rohatynskyj undertakes a shift in her analytical concepts to reveal the deep-seated disjuncture between female and male that this practice represents.
Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies
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