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  • Lesbians, Women & Society

    by E M Ettorre ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, Lesbians, Women and Society presents an analysis of lesbianism as a phenomenon that developed from a ‘personal problem’ or ‘individual deviance’ to a social movement with political ambitions. Social lesbianism, an important concept introduced in the text, refers to the emergence of a public expression of lesbianism and is a stage in the process of establishing a lesbian ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Sovereignty, Technology and Governance after COVID-19

    Legal Challenges in a Post-Pandemic Europe

    This book imagines how Europe might re-organise and re-group after the COVID-19 crisis by assessing its effectiveness when responding to it. For this purpose, it directs its focus on: i) sovereignty challenges; ii) technological challenges and iii) governance challenges. These three challenges do not present hermetic legal problems, they intersect and connect on many levels. The book shows this by ... Read more

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  • Travellers in the Mediterranean: Linguistic and Cultural Encounters

    Series Book 11 - Moving Texts / Testi mobili
    Spanning a variety of journeys from the nineteenth century to modern times, this collection of essays o ers important insights into cultural encounters, practices and perceptions, as American, Arab, British and French travellers experienced and still experience them in the Mediterranean, and in countries such as Greece, Italy, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon. Through an investigation of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge International Handbook of Comparative Psychology is an international reference work that offers scientists and students a balanced overview of current research in the field of comparative psychology and animal behavior.The book takes an integrative approach to animal behavior, with most of the chapters discussing research involving both proximate (developmental and mechanistic) and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Before Birth

    Understanding Prenatal Screening

    Edited by Elizabeth Ettorre ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Featuring contributions from the UK, Finland, The Netherlands and Greece, this unique book explores the ongoing tensions and important ethical, legal and social issues related to the development of prenatal screening and the growth of new genetic technologies. ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Gendering Addiction

    The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not? ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gendered Moods

    Psychotropics and Society

    Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men, yet very little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use.Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of psychotropic drug use, based on studies of long-term psychotropic drug users and the content of drug advertising. The authors argue that gender differences in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Autoethnography as Feminist Method

    Sensitising the feminist 'I'

    Autoethnography is an ideal method to study the ‘feminist I’. Through personal stories, the author reflects on how feminists negotiate agency and the effect this has on one's political sensibilities. Speaking about oneself transforms into stories of political responsibility - a key issue for feminists who function as cultural mediators. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Edited by Giuseppe Maria Ettorre ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This open access book offers a comprehensive review of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with a particular focus on the pathobiology and clinical aspects of the disease, including diagnosis and treatment. HCC is becoming one of the most common causes of cancer-related death worldwide. It is the fifth most common malignancy in men and the ninth in women, with an estimated 500,000 to 1 million new ... Read more

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  • Health, Culture and Society

    Conceptual Legacies and Contemporary Applications

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book traces the history of formative, enduring concepts, foundational in the development of the health disciplines. It explores existing literature, and subsequent contested applications. Feminist legacies are discussed with a clear message that early sociological and anthropological theories and debates remain valuable to scholars today. Chapters cover historical events and cultural ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health

    Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'. Illustrating the importance of contextualizing the body as a cultural entity, this book demonstrates that the spaces and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Reproductive Genetics, Gender and the Body

    This book is all about reproductive genetics, a sociological concept developed to define the use of DNA-based technologies in the medical management and supervision of reproduction and pregnant women. In a searching analysis, Elizabeth Ettorre uncovers the hidden social processes involved in the development of these technologies.Focussing on prenatal screening, she explores how the key concepts of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD