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  • Understanding Sex for Sale

    Meanings and Moralities of Sexual Commerce

    Edited by May-Len Skilbrei, Marlene Spanger ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale
    The problem of prostitution, sex work or sex for sale can often be misunderstood, if we do not take into consideration its spatial, temporal and political context.Understanding Sex for Sale aims to understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation between sex ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Prostitution Research in Context

    Methodology, Representation and Power

    Edited by Marlene Spanger, May-Len Skilbrei ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale
    The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics. Which dilemmas and ethical aspects need to be taken into account when producing qualitative data within a highly politicised and moral-infected realm? These two questions are exactly what Spanger and Skilbrei aim to unpack in this unusual ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • The Men and the Boys

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  • Introduction to Gender

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  • Gender, Identity and Place

    Understanding Feminist Geographies

    by Linda McDowell ...
    Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant as feminist recognition of the differences between women, their diverse experiences in different parts of the world and the importance of location in the social construction of knowledge has placed varied geographies at ... Read more

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  • Theorising Childhood

    Citizenship, Rights and Participation

    Edited by Claudio Baraldi, Tom Cockburn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Focusing on children's citizenship, participation and rights, this edited collection draws on the work of a number of leading scholars in the sociology of childhood. The contributors explore a range of themes including: tensions between pragmatism and grand theory; revisiting agency/structure debates in the light of children; the challenging of binary thought prevalent in studies around ... Read more

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  • Feminist Geographies

    Explorations in Diversity and Difference

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    In recent years, the study of human geography has been reshaped by the work of feminist geographers, and as a result a considerable number of universities now include feminist geography and gender issues in their courses. This text provides an introduction to contemporary debates in feminist geography. These explorations in diversity and difference make up feminist geography in the 1990s. Feminist ... Read more

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  • Social Geographies

    Space and Society

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    Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and increasingly now sexuality and disability, into separate chapters. This has the effect, firstly, of making social relations rather than space (the raison d'etre of human geography) the focus of undergraduate books; secondly of ignoring the way that ... Read more

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  • The Aftermath of Feminism

    Gender, Culture and Social Change

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    Series series Culture, Representation and Identity series
    In this trenchant inquiry into the state of feminism, Angela McRobbie breaks open the politics of sexual equality and ′affirmative feminism′ and sets down a new theory of gender power. Challenging the most basic assumptions of the ′end′ of feminism, this book argues that invidious forms of gender re-stabilisation are being re-established. Consumer and popular culture encroach on the terrain of so ... Read more

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  • Decolonising the University

    Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu ...
    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this ... Read more

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  • Theory Revision Notes for A Level Sociology

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    These revision notes have been designed to cover the theory aspect of the AQA's sociology A-Level syllabus, the new 2015 Specification onward. The content should also be suitable for other exam boards.Contents:Topic 0 - Sociological theories – an overviewTopic 1 – Positivism and InterpretivismTopic 2 – Is sociology a science?Topic 3 – FunctionalismTopic 4 – MarxismTopic 5 – FeminismTopic 6 – ... Read more

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