Abstract Bodies
Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender
ISBN: PB: 9780300271898,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
400 pp., 25,4x19,1 cm, 103 colour illus., 53 black&white illus.
An innovative analysis of 1960s abstract sculpture that draws on transgender studies and queer theory.
Now back in print, Abstract Bodies was the first book to bridge the interdisciplinary field of transgender studies with the discipline of art hist...
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£35.00
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(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love
Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work
ISBN: PB: 9780300264753,
Yale University Press,
April 2022
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
320 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to "make it" in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work.
Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social med...
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£17.99
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Hell Hath No Fury
Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature
ISBN: HB: 9780300223118,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
Throughout the Christian tradition, descriptions of hell's fiery torments have shaped contemporary notions of the afterlife, divine justice, and physical suffering. But rarely do we consider the roots of such conceptions, which originate in a group o...
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£55.00
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Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
ISBN: PB: 9780300257311,
Yale University Press,
May 2021
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
320 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arab...
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£15.99
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Devotion
ISBN: PB: 9780300240221,
ISBN: HB: 9780300218626,
Yale University Press,
September 2018
112 pp., 17,8x12,1 cm, 11 black&white illus.
112 pp., 17,8x12,1 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic – its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our cultu...
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£7.99
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£13.99
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Ill Composed
Sickness, Gender, and Belief in Early Modern England
ISBN: PB: 9780300224306,
ISBN: HB: 9780300200706,
Yale University Press,
October 2016
296 pp., 23,0x14,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,0x14,6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In the first in-depth study of how gender determined perceptions and experiences of illness in early modern England, Olivia Weisser invites readers into the lives and imaginations of ordinary seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britons. Drawing on a...
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£28.00
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£70.00
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Gender Nonconformity and the Law
ISBN: HB: 9780300125856,
Yale University Press,
March 2016
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
256 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act's scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination b...
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£70.00
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Erotic Doll
A Modern Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029,
Yale University Press,
December 2013
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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£42.50
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Nature's Noblemen
Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-century American West
ISBN: HB: 9780300136067,
Yale University Press,
July 2013
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book Monica Rico explores the myth of the American West in the nineteenth century as a place for men to assert their masculinity by "roughing it" in the wilderness and reveals how this myth played out in a transatlantic context. R...
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£49.00
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Women, Work, and Politics
The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9780300171341,
Yale University Press,
September 2011
224 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
224 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
Looking at women's power in the home, in the workplace, and in politics from a political economy perspective, Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth demonstrate that equality is tied to demand for women's labour outside the home, which is a function o...
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£25.00
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