Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations in Melanesia have been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness, and with equal good humour, the insights of Western social s…
Identifies a growing dissonance between men and women, citing statistics that identify disparities between the experiences and attitudes of each gender, while noting the pervasiveness of crimes against women.
Identifies a growing dissonance between men and women, citing statistics that identify disparities between the experiences and attitudes of each gender, while noting the pervasiveness of crimes against women.
"This second edition is a highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth century"--
"In Reading the East India Company, Betty Joseph offers an innovative account of how archives - and the practice of archiving - shaped colonial ideologies in Britain and British-controlled India during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on the British East India C…
This book explores the unprecedented historical phenomenon of Soviet young women's en masse volunteering for World War II combat in 1941 and writes it into the twentieth-century history of women, war, and violence. It narrates a story about a cohort of Soviet young women who cam…
"Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects o…
Bangkok has been at the frontier of capitalism's drive into the global south for three decades. Rapid development has profoundly altered public and private life in Thailand. In her provocative study of contemporary commerce in Bangkok, Ara Wilson captures the intimate effects of…
Charting the dramatic changes and the deep continuities that have characterized the cinemas of Eastern Europe in recent decades, this work questions and revaluates such notions as the 'European', 'postcommunist' and 'national' cinema.
"Excavating the Medieval Image argues that the illuminated image is best understood as thoroughly integrated in the material context of the manuscript - and thus, integrated in a cultural context of production and reception. Seen in this way, the illuminated manuscript becomes a…
