Book Series in Literature

Transformations

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Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

The Rhetorics of Comparison

By Carolyn Pedwell

Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and…

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May 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-49790-9 (Routledge)

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Working with Affect in Feminist Readings

Disturbing Differences

Edited by Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen

Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications…

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March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48139-7 (Routledge)

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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

Feminist Reflections

Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and…

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2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45214-4 (Routledge)

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Arab, Muslim, Woman

Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

By Lindsey Moore

Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-40416-7 (Routledge)

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Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology

By Maureen McNeil

Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology challenges the assumption that science is simply what scientists do, say, or write: it shows the multiple and…

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2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44537-5 (Routledge)

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Violent Femmes

Women as Spies in Popular Culture

By Rosie White

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37078-3 (Routledge)

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Sexing the Soldier

The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army

By Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter

Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39255-6 (Routledge)

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Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics

On the Threshold of the Living Subject

By Lorna Weir

Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living…

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2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39257-0 (Routledge)

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Judging the Image

Art, Value, Law

By Alison Young

Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30184-8 (Routledge)

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Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology

By Kirsten Campbell

This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out…

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2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-30088-9 (Routledge)

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