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Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

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by: Sandra Walklate

April 01, 2004

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Women in the Eighteenth Century: Constructions of Femininity (World & Word)

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from: Routledge

April 26, 1990
"In a period of major political and economic change, definitions of `women' and `femininity' played a crucial part in a wider redefinition of social categoris and social roles, and the anthology's five sections represent significant areas within this debate about women's nature and status." (8) Jones' fascinating anthology sheds new light on my own research of 18th century play production and should be embraced by everyone even vaguely interested in 18th century literature. When describing Wollstonecraft's writing as "feminist radicalism" (9) she supports the cotroversial view that "Feminism" existed as a movement in the 18th century centuries before it gained its formal name. Jones intelligently shows how 18th century culture seriously valued ... Read More:

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Introducing Gender & Women's Studies

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by: Diane Richardson, Victoria Robinson

November 30, 2007
"In a period of major political and economic change, definitions of `women' and `femininity' played a crucial part in a wider redefinition of social categoris and social roles, and the anthology's five sections represent significant areas within this debate about women's nature and status." (8) Jones' fascinating anthology sheds new light on my own research of 18th century play production and should be embraced by everyone even vaguely interested in 18th century literature. When describing Wollstonecraft's writing as "feminist radicalism" (9) she supports the cotroversial view that "Feminism" existed as a movement in the 18th century centuries before it gained its formal name. Jones intelligently shows how 18th century culture seriously valued ... Read More:

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50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies (SAGE Key Concepts series)

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by: Jane Pilcher, Imelda Whelehan

March 18, 2004
"In a period of major political and economic change, definitions of `women' and `femininity' played a crucial part in a wider redefinition of social categoris and social roles, and the anthology's five sections represent significant areas within this debate about women's nature and status." (8) Jones' fascinating anthology sheds new light on my own research of 18th century play production and should be embraced by everyone even vaguely interested in 18th century literature. When describing Wollstonecraft's writing as "feminist radicalism" (9) she supports the cotroversial view that "Feminism" existed as a movement in the 18th century centuries before it gained its formal name. Jones intelligently shows how 18th century culture seriously valued ... Read More:

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

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by: Judith Butler

September 20, 1993
This book clarifies much of Foucault was saying in History of Sexuality. Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women. Butler, more than Foucault, is not willing to settle the debate on sexuality merely as the obtaining and disseminating of pleasures and how those bodies perform them. Rather, she takes bodies as always already gender indeterminate and destablilizes their performatives further to show how bodies are marked by gender as well as race, class, sexulaity, etc. and how these categories are also destabilized within the perfomative. I highly recommend this book to feminist and queer theorists and well as ... Read More:

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A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Bronte to Lessing

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by: Elaine Showalter

January 01, 1982
This book clarifies much of Foucault was saying in History of Sexuality. Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women. Butler, more than Foucault, is not willing to settle the debate on sexuality merely as the obtaining and disseminating of pleasures and how those bodies perform them. Rather, she takes bodies as always already gender indeterminate and destablilizes their performatives further to show how bodies are marked by gender as well as race, class, sexulaity, etc. and how these categories are also destabilized within the perfomative. I highly recommend this book to feminist and queer theorists and well as ... Read More:

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Sex, Gender, and the Body: The Student Edition of What is a Woman?: The Student Edition of What Is a Woman?

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by: Toril Moi

January 13, 2005
This book clarifies much of Foucault was saying in History of Sexuality. Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women. Butler, more than Foucault, is not willing to settle the debate on sexuality merely as the obtaining and disseminating of pleasures and how those bodies perform them. Rather, she takes bodies as always already gender indeterminate and destablilizes their performatives further to show how bodies are marked by gender as well as race, class, sexulaity, etc. and how these categories are also destabilized within the perfomative. I highly recommend this book to feminist and queer theorists and well as ... Read More:

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In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

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by: Carol Gilligan

July 01, 1990
This book is truly amazing. For any woman who feels she has lost clarity and fierceness and the ability to tell the truth about how she feels and what is going on in the world of feelings and relationships, the social world which she inhabits, read Gilligan's work (any of it). The book made me remember what it was to learn to be nice and quiet and feminine in order to become a 'woman' when as a girl it had been much more OK to be more forthright, and more myself. Interesting both in terms of looking at the psychology of the world of teenage girls and their lived experience, in terms of engaging with social and psychological research through an engaged methodology of relationship which disturbs the usual authoritarian role of researchers, and in terms ... Read More:

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Doing the Dirty Work?: The Global Politics of Domestic Labour

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by: Bridget Anderson

February 01, 2000
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion

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A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

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by: Nikki Sullivan

2003-09
This book mixes the facts with selected quotations from the research which make it informative and pleasurable to read. This is a style that all too often, fails to reach the right balance. Not the case on this occasion