Examining the wide range of feminist research methods, Shulamit Reinharz explains the relationship between feminism and methodology, and challenges existing stereotypes. Concluding that there is no one correct feminist method, but rather a variety of perspectives, Reinharz argue…
Examining the wide range of feminist research methods, Shulamit Reinharz explains the relationship between feminism and methodology, and challenges existing stereotypes. Concluding that there is no one correct feminist method, but rather a variety of perspectives, Reinharz argue…
The authors introduce and explain traditional approaches to the study of sex and gender whilst acknowledging their weaknesses and exploring a range of alternative ways of tackling this extremely complex subject.
Presents a collection of essays written between the mid 1970's and mid 1980's looking at documented nonfiction and theories in relation to the body challenging the split between public and private.
Explores the question "what does it mean to 'be a man' in different cultures around the world?" A cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status
Explores the question "what does it mean to b̀e a man' om different cultures around the world?" A cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status.
This collection examines the construction of gender norms in early modern and modern Germany. The modes of reinforcement by the state, the church, the law and marriage and the resistance to these norms by individuals are central to the contributions.
This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. For the Middle Ages, the study of human behaviour generally signified the study of the morality of attitudes, choices, and actions. Moreover, moral analysis was not gender neutral: it presuppos…
"This book makes a vigorous reassessment of the moral dimension in Chaucer's writings. Concentrating mainly on The Canterbury Tales, Alcuin Blamires discloses how Chaucer adapts the composite inherited traditions of moral literature to shape the significance and the gender impli…