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"This is a new edition of R.W. Connell's text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world …
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.
Making Gender both critiques and builds upon recent anthropological theory. Scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Marshall Sahlins have explored the dialectic between how we shape culture and how culture shapes us in a framework known as "practice theory." Ortne…
Making Gender both critiques and builds upon recent anthropological theory. Scholars such as Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and Marshall Sahlins have explored the dialectic between how we shape culture and how culture shapes us in a framework known as "practice theory." Ortne…
This publication examines the way that contemporary film - across a range of genres - reflects today's changing gender roles. Contributors explore issues of femininity as well as masculinity, reflecting on the interface of popular cinema with gendered realities and feminist idea…
Young people tend to find themselves learning about sexuality and gender in their social settings. What implications does this have for their teachers and for the development of policy and practice in personal, social and health education? This book takes a look at the issues.
"In the age of the Grand Tour, foreigners flocked to Italy to gawk at its ruins and paintings, enjoy its salons and cafés, attend the opera, and revel in their own discovery of its past. But they also marveled at the people they saw, both male and female. In an era in which cast…
This work illuminates the social and cultural landscape of 18th-century Italy by exploring how questions of gender in music, art, literature, science, and medicine shaped perceptions of Italy in the age of the Grand Tour.
The dynamics of sickness and healing are examined in terms of male-female power relations in this study of an Egyptian village. Soheir Morsy goes beyond an account of gender dynamics in a culturally embedded medical discourse by putting her cases of "compromised" health in the c…
The dynamics of sickness and healing are examined in terms of male-female power relations in this study of an Egyptian village. Soheir Morsy goes beyond an account of gender dynamics in a culturally embedded medical discourse by putting her cases of "compromised" health in the c…
The medieval landscape, as viewed through the eyes of scholars, was hardly populated by women. Particularly, young unmarried women or "maidens" have been paid little attention. This book aims to fill that gap by examining the meaning, experiences and voices of young womanhood. T…
Bundel art. over de socio-culturele constructie van sekse en gender; o.a. seksuele ambiguïteit in de biologie, 17e eeuwse sapphisten, sodomie en recht. Bijdr. van o.a. Randolph Trumbach, Judith Shapiro en Marjorie Garber.