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eBook available 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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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 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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Forthcoming 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
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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Caring for the 'Holy Land'

Filipina Domestic Workers in Israel

Liebelt, C.

Subjects: Refugee and Migration Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available 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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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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Forthcoming 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
eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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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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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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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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eBook available 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.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema

A Beauvoirian Perspective

Boulé, J.-P. & Tidd, U. (eds)

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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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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.

Subjects: History (General) Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published February 1998
Gender and Germanness

Cultural Productions of Nation

Herminghouse, P. & Mueller, M. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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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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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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.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Published November 2000
Gender Issues in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union

Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion

Roth, S. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

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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

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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

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Published December 2011
Gendered Money

Financial Organization in Women's Movements, 1880-1933

Jonsson, P. & Neunsinger, S.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General)

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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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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.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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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.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
Published December 2003
Girl Making

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

Bloustien, G.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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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.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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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.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology
eBook available 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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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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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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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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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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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)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
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

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
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eBook available 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)

Hb
eBook available 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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eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming 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
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
Published December 2001
Managing Reproductive Life

Cross-Cultural Themes in Fertility and Sexuality

Tremayne, S. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published April 2011
Mapping Difference

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

Rubchak, M. J. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
Paperback available
Published November 1999
Marriage and Its Obstacles in Jewish Law

Essays and Responsa

Jacob, W. & Zemer, M. (eds)

Subjects: Jewish Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Pb
Published April 2011
The Masculine Woman in Weimar Germany

Sutton, K.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History: 20th Century to Present

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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.

Subjects: History: World War I Gender Studies and Sexuality

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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)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published March 2013
Militant Lactivism?

Attachment Parenting and Intensive Motherhood in the UK and France

Faircloth, C.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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

Hb
Paperback available
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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Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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eBook available 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)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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Published April 2008
The Nomads of Mykonos

Performing Liminalities in a 'Queer' Space

Bousiou, P.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Travel and Tourism Anthropology (General)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Forthcoming 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

Paperback available
eBook available Forthcoming 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.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Paperback available
Published June 1998
Partners in Production?

Women, Farm, and Family in Ireland

O'Hara, P.

Subjects: History (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
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)

Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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

Hb
Published December 2005
Population, Reproduction and Fertility in Melanesia

Ulijaszek, S.J. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 2007
Professional Identities

Policy and Practice in Business and Bureaucracy

Ardener, S. & Moore, F. (eds)

Subjects: Applied Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
Published August 2009
Reconceiving the Second Sex

Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

Inhorn, M. C., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Goldberg, H. & Cour Mosegaard, M. la (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available Published October 2007
Reproductive Disruptions

Gender, Technology, and Biopolitics in the New Millennium

Inhorn, M. C. (ed)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

hb
eBook available 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

Hb
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.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality
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)

Hb
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Published December 2004
Sartre, Self-formation and Masculinities

Boulé, J.-P.

Subjects: Cultural Studies (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Hb
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eBook available 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

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
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)

Pb
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)

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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)

Hb
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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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)

Hb
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)

Hb
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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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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)

Hb
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Published October 2009
The Surplus Woman

Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918

Dollard, C. L.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality History (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Paperback available
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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eBook available 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)

Hb
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

Hb
Paperback available
Forthcoming 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
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)

Hb
Published June 2003
A Venetian Island

Environment, History and Change in Burano

Sciama, L.

Subjects: Environmental Studies (General) Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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Forthcoming 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
eBook available Published October 2017
The Voice of Prophecy

And Other Essays

Ardener, E.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
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eBook available 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

Hb
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eBook available 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

Hb
Paperback available
eBook available 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

Hb
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eBook available Published March 2008
Where There Is No Midwife

Birth and Loss in Rural India

Pinto, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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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

Hb
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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

Hb
Paperback available
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)

Hb
Published November 1998
Women and Russian Culture

Projections and Self-Perceptions

Marsh, R. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
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

Hb
Paperback available
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)

Hb
eBook available 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)

Hb
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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 (General) Anthropology of Religion

Hb
Paperback available
Published August 1995
Women in Contemporary Russia

Koval, V. (ed)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

Hb
Published March 2006
Women in Polish Cinema

Mazierska, E. & Ostrowska, E.

Subjects: Film and Television Studies Gender Studies and Sexuality

Hb
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eBook available 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

Hb
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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

Hb
Paperback available
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

Hb
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

Hb
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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

Hb
eBook available 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

Hb
eBook available Published November 2011
Young Men in Uncertain Times

Amit, V. & Dyck, N. (eds)

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

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eBook available 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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eBook available 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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Abortion in Post-revolutionary Tunisia

Politics, Medicine and Morality

Maffi, I.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Political and Economic Anthropology

Achieving Procreation

Childlessness and IVF in Turkey

Demircioğlu Göknar, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

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

After Difference

Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory

Heywood, P.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality

Against Machismo

Young Adult Voices in Mexico City

Ramirez, J.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General) Cultural Studies (General)

Ambiguous Pleasures

Sexuality and Middle Class Self-Perceptions in Nairobi

Spronk, R.

Subjects: Anthropology (General) Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

Ambiguous Transitions

Gender, the State, and Everyday Life in Socialist and Postsocialist Romania

Massino, J.

Subjects: History: 20th Century to Present Gender Studies and Sexuality

An American Icon in Puerto Rico

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play

Aguiló-Pérez, E. R.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General) Sociology

Anthropology and Sexual Morality

A Theoretical Investigation

Salazar, C.

Subjects: Theory and Methodology Gender Studies and Sexuality

The Anthropology of the Fetus

Biology, Culture, and Society

Han, S., Betsinger, T. K., & Scott, A. B. (eds)

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Cultural Studies (General)

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)

Autonomy

Life Cycle, Gender, and Status among Himalayan Pastoralists

Rao, A.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Anthropology (General)

Being a Sperm Donor

Masculinity, Sexuality, and Biosociality in Denmark

Mohr, S.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality Sociology

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

Bishkek Boys

Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital

Schröder, P.

Subjects: Gender Studies and Sexuality Refugee and Migration Studies Urban Studies

Black Lambs and Grey Falcons

Women Travelling in the Balkans

Allcock, J. & Young, A.

Subjects: Travel and Tourism Gender Studies and Sexuality

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)

Breast Feeding and Sexuality

Behaviour, Beliefs and Taboos among the Gogo Mothers in Tanzania

Mabilia, M.

Subjects: Medical Anthropology Gender Studies and Sexuality

Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Kofti, D.

Subjects: Political and Economic Anthropology Sociology Gender Studies and Sexuality

'Brothers' or Others?