Announcing new titles in Gender Studies from Blackwell Publishers & Polity
I thought that members of the GENDER-RELIGION discussion group may be
interested in the following titles from Blackwell Publishers & Polity Press.
The Masculinities Reader
Edited by Stephen Whitehead and Frank Barrett
The Masculinities Reader provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to
the key debates informing the study of masculinity. Structured in an
accessible format, the book makes available in a single text some of the
most important work on a range of subjects including male power;
patriarchy; management and organizations; sexualities; gay friendships;
sport; intimacy; identity; hegemonic masculinity; violence; schooling;
language; homophobia; Black, Latino and Chicano masculinities; families;
media; postmodernism; and subjectivity.
400 pages, November 2001
0-7456-2688-2 £55.00 / $62.95 hb
0-7456-2689-0 £15.99 / $27.95pb
Gender and the Political Economy of Development – From Nationalism to
Globalization
Shirin Rai
In this important book, Rai considers how the structures of economic and
political power frame men and women, and examines the consequences of these
gendered positionings. Rai situates differing gender-based theories in the
context of wider historical and political processes such as colonialism,
post-colonialism, Cold war politics, the New world order, globalisation and
democritisation.
224 pages, December 2001
0-7456-1490-6, £50 / $67.95 hb
0-7456-1491-4 £14.99 / 32.95 pb
Metamorphoses
Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming
Rosi Braidotti
This book takes attempts to reset priorities within the poststructuralist
feminist agenda. Addressing notions such as embodiment, immanence, sexual
difference, nomadism, and materiality of the subject, this book also
provides a vivid overview of contemporary culture, with special emphasis on
technology and the social inequalities it induces.
320 Pages December 2001
0-7456-2576-2 hb £50.00 / $59.95
0-7456-2577-0 pb £14.99 / $24.95
Jung – A Feminist Revision
Susan Rowland
Proposing a re-orientation of Jungian studies in its relationship to
feminism, this book espouses that feminism has neglected Jung to its own
detriment. While evaluating the reasons for this neglect, Jung: A Feminist
Revision uses the diversity of feminist critical tools from historical
analysis to poststructuralism. Essential reading for students of feminist
theory, psychoanalytical theory, literature and psychology.
208 pages December 2001
0-7456-2516-9 £55.00 / $64.95 hb
0-7456-2517-7 £14.99 / $29.95 pb
Sexuality & Gender
Edited by Christine Williams & Arlene Stein
Gathered here are thirty-two of the best essays on the sociology of sex &
gender. As society shapes the expression of sexual desire through cultural
images and social institutions, sociologists examine how sexual behaviour
shapes and is shaped by, social norms. Several of the most eminent and
readable social theorists drive this important new line of sociological
thought & they are represented here.
416 pages December 2001
0-6312-2271-5 £60.00 / $67.95
0-6312-2272-3 £17.99
If you would like an inspection copy of any of these books and teach an
appropriate course with more than 10 students, please email me at
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Yours sincerely,
Sarah Proom
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I thought that members of the ICBH-Gender discussion group may be
interested in the following publications from Polity:
Masculine Domination
Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu argues that masculine domination is so deeply ingrained in our
unconscious that we hardly perceive all of its dimensions. He goes on to
analyse masculine domination as a paradigmatic form of symbolic violence
and examines whether or not it is possible to neutralize the mechanisms
which perpetuate it. This book – which was a best-seller in France – will
be of interest to those involved in study across the social sciences and
humanities.
144 Pages April 2001
0-7456-2264-x hb £40.00
0-7456-2265-8 pb £13.99
Making Sense of Men’s Magazines
Peter Jackson
Nick Stevenson
Kate Brooks
This book is an original study which enables us to understand the appeal of
men’s magazines, the ways in which they are constructed and understood, and
many of the complex questions they raise for both men and women. The
authors give particular attention to the gendered and commercial character
of men’s magazines, and the implications they have for the way we
understand capitalism, masculinity and consumption in the modern world.
224 pages August 2001
0-7456-2175-9 hb £50.00 / $59.95
0-7456-2176-7 pb £14.99 / $24.95
If you would like an inspection copy of either/both of these books and
teach an appropriate course with more than 10 students, please email me at
[log in to unmask] with your address & course details. If you
would like more information on a book or information on how to order a
copy, please email me at the same address.
Did you know that you can now keep in touch with new books, print and
online journals in your subject area by signing up for Blackwell
Publishers' new e-mail alerting service,
SELECT?
We'll send you regular e-mail updates (at a frequency you choose), on the
publications and/or
subjects of your choice, including journal tables of contents, links to
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http://select.blackwellpublishers.co.uk
Please feel free to forward this message to any relevant person or list. I
apologise for any cross posting that may have occurred. I look forward to
hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Anthony Cond
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