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Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a Female Bhakti Saint of India
By Karen Pechilis
This book explores devotional religion through three interpretive gestures: The devotional subjectivity inscribed in the classical poetry of the female saint Karaikkal Ammaiyar; the domestication of her persona in an authoritative medieval hagiography; and present-day tellings of her story in...
August 2011 | 978-0-415-61586-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice
By Chris Beasley, Heather Brook, Mary Holmes
This project seeks to improve the context of critical inquiry into human sexualities and social change. Contributing to broader debates about sexualities, and to knowledge concerning the nature and experience of heterosexualities, it envisages possibilities for theorizing and practicing...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-89009-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Autonomy and Identity: The Politics of Who We Are
By Ros Hague
There has been much academic scholarship on autonomy and on identity in both political theory and feminist theory, however there is arguably less theory that considers these topics together. This book examines issues raised by feminist theory and contemporary political theory around questions of...
June 2011 | 978-0-415-58468-5 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Women and Work in Postwar Japan
By Helen Macnaughtan
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of women working in the Japanese post-war economy. It shows how the role of women in the economy developed in the years of rapid economic growth when women workers were increasingly in demand to alleviate labour shortages; considers the role of women in...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-32806-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gender, Nation and State in Modern Japan
Edited by Vera Mackie, Ulrike Woehr, Andrea Germer
Bringing together international scholars from various disciplines, this study takes an interdisciplinary perspective on the formation of the modern Japanese nation-state. References to gender relations are deeply embedded in the historical concepts of nation and nationalism, and in the related...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-38138-3 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Reviewing UK Football Cultures: Continuing with Gender Analyses
Edited by Jayne Caudwell
This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and...
May 2011 | 978-0-415-56087-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Feminist International Relations: Conversations about the Past, Present and Future
Edited by J. Ann Tickner, Laura Sjoberg
In the past 20 years, substantial progress has been made concerning the question of how gender matters in global politics, global economics, and global culture. The progress has been noted both in the academic field of international relations and, increasingly, in the policy world. Celebrating...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-58460-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950
Edited by Raquel Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith
Sexual Diversity in Asia is the first book of its kind to place sex acts in Asia at the forefront of historical investigation. The chapters explore the history of sodomy and other so-called transgressive sexual practices such as anal sex, same-sex erotic encounters, pederasty, bestiality, incest,...
April 2011 | 978-0-415-60059-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Political Agency and Gender in India
By Manuela Ciotti
This book explores the distinctive forms of women’s political engagement in democratic politics in contemporary India. It focuses on women from historically marginalised strata of society whose spaces for political participation opened up as a result of the explosion of low-caste identity politics...
March 2011 | 978-0-415-48273-8 | Hardback (Routledge)