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In this new book, Alessandra Tanesini demonstrates that feminist thought has a lot to offer to the study of Wittgenstein's philosophical work, and ...

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosop...

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosop...

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, ...

This book provides a comprehensive view of women's political participation in Latin America. Focusing on the latter half of the twentieth century, ...

Since the early 1980s sex and sexuality have become prominent themes of public debate in China, after three decades during which discourses on sexu...

This is the first major study of the roles of women in prime time soap operas. In a comparative analysis of British and North American television s...

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With ...

Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With ...

This innovative textbook provides students with a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the roles and achievements of women in contemporary polit...

This innovative textbook provides students with a lively and wide-ranging introduction to the roles and achievements of women in contemporary polit...

This is an engaging account of the lives of high-born women in the Middle Ages, by one of the foremost historians in Europe. Focusing on France in ...

In this volume, one of the greatest medieval historians of our time continues his rich and illuminating enquiry into the lives of twelfth-century w...

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women...

Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age explores the emergence of transnational, UN-oriented, feminist advocacy for women...

This book looks at the roots of modern psychiatry, its theoretical approach to women, and what shifting trends in diagnosis tell us about its socia...

What happens when one of Germany’s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Ke...

What happens when one of Germany’s most important writers, himself a Muslim, immerses himself in the world of Christian art? In this book, Navid Ke...

Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction co...

This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of Amer...

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The ...

This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The ...

This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on “work,” viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social an...

Much of our life involves working, preparing for work, searching for work, or thinking and worrying about work. Whether paid or unpaid, free or coe...