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An Introduction to Epistemology by Jack S. Crumley
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £33.98The second edition of Jack Crumley's An Introduction to Epistemology strikes a balance between the many issues that engage contemporary epistemologists and the contributions of the major historical... -
Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World by Uma Narayan
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us... -
Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: The Big Questions Naomi Zack (State University of New York at Albany) 9780631208754
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £43.36This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorising on social identity.About the AuthorNaomi Zack is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State... -
Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research by Nancy A. Naples
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over... -
American Feminist Thought at Century's End: A Reader by Linda S. Kauffman 9781557863478
RRP: £48.95Booksplease Price: £45.91In this outstanding collection of essays, contributed by some of America's leading feminist writers, the current terrain of American feminism is charted as never before. Covering a broad range of... -
Emotional Rescue: The Theory and Practice of a Feminist Father by Isaac D. Balbus
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.38Weaving personal narrative with a synthesis of feminist mothering theory and psychoanalytic theories of narcissism, Isaac D. Balbus describes his effort to share in the care of his daughter during... -
Dangerous Territories: Struggles for Difference and Equality in Education by Leslie G. Roman
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £36.66With the recent conservative retrenchment, educational institutions have witnessed a backlash against the gains made by feminist and antiracist activists. DangerousTerritories examines higher... -
A Companion to African Philosophy Kwasi Wiredu (University of South Florida) 9781405145671
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £37.06This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of... -
The Politics of Reproduction Mary O'Brien 9781032931470
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £83.34First published in 1981, The Politics of Reproduction is a critique of traditional political thought. It focuses centrally upon the nature and difference of male and female experience of biological... -
Women of Color and Philosophy: A Critical Reader by Naomi Zack 9780631218661
RRP: £40.95Booksplease Price: £38.81Philosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the... -
Sociology in the Twenty-First Century: Key Trends, Debates, and Challenges by Simon Susen
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £24.10This book examines key trends, debates, and challenges in twenty-first-century sociology. To this end, it focuses on significant issues surrounding the nature of sociology ('What is sociology?'),... -
Gender Violence, 2nd Edition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Laura L. O'Toole 9780814762103
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £10.36How gender and sexuality can be life threatening From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this... -
Science Wars by Andrew Ross 9780822318712
Booksplease Price: £34.61In the wake of the highly fractious Culture Wars, conservatives in science have launched a backlash against feminist, multiculturalist, and social critics in science studies. Paul Gross and Norman... -
Education in the Age of Biocapitalism: Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World by Clayton Pierce 9781137027818
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £33.97Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman... -
Education in the Age of Biocapitalism: Optimizing Educational Life for a Flat World by Clayton Pierce 9781137027825
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £32.91Biocapitalism, an economic model built on making new commodities from existing forms of life, has fundamentally changed how we understand the boundaries between nature/culture and human/nonhuman... -
Science and Homosexualities by Vernon A. Rosario
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual"... -
Science, Technology, and Democracy by Daniel Lee Kleinman 9780791447086
Booksplease Price: £25.65Activists, scientists, and scholars in the social sciences and humanities explore in productive dialogue what it means to democratize science and technology. The contributors consider what role lay... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335061
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £93.82The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others by George Steinmetz 9780822335184
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.70The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences provides a remarkable comparative assessment of the variations of positivism and alternative epistemologies in the contemporary human sciences. Often... -
Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings by Charles Lemert
RRP: £76.99Booksplease Price: £67.74Social Theory is more than a reader. Feminists, race theorists, decolonizing leaders, and others are thoughtfully introduced by Charles Lemert's substantial commentaries. Social Theory has always... -
Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays Julie K. Ward (Loyola University) 9780631222279
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £39.11Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.About the Author Julie K... -
Men Doing Feminism by Tom Digby 9780415916264
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51The relation between feminism and men is often presumed to be antagonistic, so that men are expected to resist feminism, and feminists are assumed to hate men. That pattern of opposition is... -
Just Methods: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Reader Alison M. Jaggar 9781612053035
RRP: £71.99Booksplease Price: £63.79The supplemented edition of this important reader includes a substantive new introduction by the author on the changing nature of feminist methodology. It takes into account the implications of a... -
Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway by Margret Grebowicz 9780231149297
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.63Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her... -
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty 9780822330103 [USED COPY]
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £25.73Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing... -
Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity by Chandra Talpade Mohanty 9780822330219
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Feminism without Borders addresses some of the most pressing and complex issues facing... -
Beyond the Cyborg: Adventures with Donna Haraway by Margret Grebowicz 9780231149280
RRP: £109.00Booksplease Price: £85.37Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her... -
Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy by Linda Martin Alcoff 9780742513839
Booksplease Price: £46.91Ask most people to imagine a philosopher and they probably think of someone like Socrates-absent-minded, perhaps, but with a sharp intellect and a thirst for the truth. A woman juggling car pools and... -
Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism by Patricia Hill Collins
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread... -
Objectivity and Subjectivity in Social Research by John G. Scott 9780857028419
Booksplease Price: £109.04Objectivity and subjectivity are key concepts in social research. This book, written by leading authors in the field, takes a completely new approach to objectivity and subjectivity, no longer... -
Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations by Swati Parashar 9780190644048
Booksplease Price: £46.61Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson published a book titled Gendered States in which she asked, what difference does gender make in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state... -
Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations by Swati Parashar 9780190644031
RRP: £122.50Booksplease Price: £98.32Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson published a book titled Gendered States in which she asked, what difference does gender make in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state... -
Why Truth Matters by Ophelia Benson 9780826476081
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £44.11Truth has always been a central preoccupation of philosophy in all its forms and traditions. However, in the late twentieth century truth became suddenly rather unfashionable. The precedence given to... -
Genes, Cells and Brains: Bioscience's Promethean Promises by Hilary Rose 9781844678815 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £2.85Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new... -
Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology by Hilary Rose
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.15Our fates lie in our genes and not in the stars, said James Watson, co-discoverer of the structure of DNA. But Watson could not have predicted the scale of the industry now dedicated to this new... -
Queering Elementary Education: Advancing the Dialogue about Sexualities and Schooling by William J. Letts 9780847693696
Booksplease Price: £44.31Queering Elementary Education is not about teaching kids to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or straight. ItOs not part of a sinister stratagem in the Ogay agenda.O Instead, these provocative and...