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Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology

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This wide-ranging collection demonstrates the continuing impact of evolutionary thinking on social psychology research. This perspective is explored in the larger context of social psychology, which is divisible into several major areas including social cognition, the self, atti…

Women and gender in Islam: historical roots of a modern debate

by Ahmed, Leila

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Leila Ahmed brengt met dit boek een eigenzinnige bijdrage aan het debat over vrouwen en islam. Zij doet dit vanuit historisch perspectief, door ontwikkelingen te beschrijven in het islamitisch discours over vrouw en sekse vanaf de Oudste Tijden tot nu. Centraal staat de vraag of…

Analyzing Violence Against Women

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This timely anthology brings into sharp relief the extent of violence against women. Its range is global and far reaching in terms of the number of victims. There are deeply entrenched values that need to be rooted out and laid bare. This text offers a philosophical analysis of …

Foreign bodies

by Lingis, Alphonso

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Analyses how our culture elaborates our naturally evolved bodies by calling upon the new means contemporary thinkers have used to understand the body. He explains how we make our bodies foreign to ourselves and envisages what they may become."--Publisher.

Gender, race, and class in media: a critical reader

by Dines, Gail, Humez, Jean McMahon

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From gender issues in Desperate Housewives, to race in Ugly Betty, gender biases in video games, and portrayals of the American family in Extreme Makeover, to analyzes of new genres like fandom and social media - no other book is so successful in engaging students in critical me…

An archive of feelings: trauma, sexuality, and lesbian public cultures

by Cvetkovich, Ann

fromSeries Q.

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In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing - and archiving - accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. Cvetkovich contend…

Sexual selection

by Andersson, M. B.

fromMonographs in behavior and ecology

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Bright colors, enlarged fins, feather plumes, song, horns, antlers, and tusks are often highly sex dimorphic. Why have males in many animals evolved more conspicuous ornaments, signals, and weapons than females? How can such traits evolve although they may reduce male survival? …

Men's friendships

by Nardi, Peter M.

fromResearch on men and masculinities series

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"Men's Friendships" offers an analysis of the differences within each of the genders and the social forces that shape the ways friendship is organized. Through varying perspectives the contributors show that a variation exists within as well as between the genders. They focus on…

Lesbians, women and society

by Ettorre, Elizabeth, (E.M.)

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De auteur is van Italiaanse afkomst en bracht 4 jaar in een Amerikaans klooster door, voordat zij in GB een carrière als socioloog begon; dit werk is een uitw. van haar proefschr. en behandelt o.a.: 'social lesbianism', lesbisch(e) bewustzijn, praktijk en feminisme; bevat enquêt…

Cinderella goes to market: citizenship, gender and women's movements in East…

by Einhorn, Barbara

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De auteur belicht in dit boek de positie van vrouwen voor en na val van het staatssocialisme in Oost-Duitsland, Polen, Tsjecho-Slowakije en Hongarije en toont hoe de thema's rond gender vandaag zijn in het hart van potentieel explosieve processen van sociale en politieke transfo…

The keys to happiness: sex and the search for modernity in fin-de-siècle…

by Engelstein, Laura

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[Engelstein's] sensitivity to the interplay of conceptions of gender and class with politics and science makes the book valuable not only to Russianists, but to historians of culture and society in general. ... Laura Engelstein has made a remarkable contribution to the scholarly…