How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This text aims to bring clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conf…
In this text Sylvia Walby, thoroughly investigates changes in contemporary gender relations. She deals, both theoretically and substantively, with the diversity of gender relations, especially in relation to locality, nation and age. The book examines the changes in the economic…
In this book, renowned feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with…
Offers an introduction to the disciplines of gender and queer theory. Guiding the reader through complex theory, this title presents queer theory as continuous with feminist theory. It explains nuanced theoretical terminology. It is suitable for those with an interest in gender …
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesoto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that has exte…
This volume offers scholarship on feminist perspectives in marketing. Through many controversial discussions, it highlights and challenges assumptions about women and gender in marketing theory and practice from both historical and current contexts. Key issues and debates includ…
How have theories about gender and communication evolved and been influenced by first-, second-, and third-wave feminisms? This book surveys the field of gender and communication with a focus on gender and communication theories and methods, and also helps readers develop analyt…
