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Fashion is under the spotlight like never before. Activists call for environmental accountability, and wide-ranging debates highlight exploitation ...

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy,...

The modern world is faced with a terrifying new ‘disease’, that of ‘obesity’. As people get fatter, we have come to see excess weight as unhealthy,...

The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity—hell and the eucharist. Drawing on the writings of Itali...

It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun ...

Happiness, sadness, compassion, resentment, despair: just some of the feelings and moods that characterize the lives of each one of us. They are p...

Happiness, sadness, compassion, resentment, despair: just some of the feelings and moods that characterize the lives of each one of us. They are p...

'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on t...

'Ukraine is not a brothel!' This was the first cry of rage uttered by Femen during Euro 2012. Bare-breasted and crowned with flowers, perched on t...

This new book integrates material drawn from a variety of sources - feminist theory, cultural and literary analysis, sociology and art history - in...

This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology. It offers a clear introduction to, and ba...

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual ...

This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual ...

Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology...

This extremely accessible textbook provides a wide-ranging analysis of the relations between philosophy and feminist thought. Examining not only fe...

In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting...

In this short and provocative book, cultural studies scholar Angela McRobbie develops a much-needed feminist account of neoliberalism. Highlighting...

This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the Marxist-femin...

An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the i...

An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the i...

Feminism Confronts Technology provides a lively and engaging exploration of the impact of technology on women's lives from word processors to food ...

Feminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once i...

Feminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once i...

This volume brings together exciting and provocative new feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from Plato to Rawls. The femini...