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Privilege: A Reader Michael S. Kimmel 9780813350035
RRP: €59.49Booksplease Price: €53.30Privilege is about more than being white, wealthy, and male, as Michael Kimmel, Abby Ferber, and a range of contributors make clear in this timely anthology. In an era when 'diversity' is too often... -
Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation Michael S. Kimmel 9780745603131
Booksplease Price: €24.63The concept and reality of revolution has gripped the imagination of many writers over the centuries. This is a comprehensive historical examination of these key ideas and theories. Kimmel looks at... -
Classical Sociological Theory by Michael S. Kimmel 9780195187854
RRP: €182.06Booksplease Price: €106.80In an accessible and thoughtful manner, this anthology--an update of Social and Political Theory: Classical Readings (1998)--introduces students to the key classic texts in social thought. In the... -
Women, Family, and Class: The Lillian Rubin Reader by Michael S. Kimmel
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29For more than 40 years, Lillian Rubin's work has stood as a model for the integration of the psychological and the sociological in studies of class, male-female relationships and friendships, women... -
Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation by Michael Kimmel 9780877227410
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMichael S. Kimmel teaches Sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook.Book InformationISBN... -
His Religion and Hers by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780759103863
Booksplease Price: €134.96Charlotte Perkins Gilman's His Religion and Hers is a brave critique of organized religion and the consequences that a male-constructed religion has on everyday life. She suggests that through the... -
His Religion and Hers by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780759103870
Booksplease Price: €52.07Charlotte Perkins Gilman's His Religion and Hers is a brave critique of organized religion and the consequences that a male-constructed religion has on everyday life. She suggests that through the... -
Jessie Bernard Reader by Jessie Bernard
RRP: €78.53Booksplease Price: €69.48Jessie Bernard was one of the foremost early feminist sociologists and public intellectuals in women's studies. In The Jessie Bernard Reader, Michael S. Kimmel and Yasemin Besen have compiled her... -
Women in College: Shaping New Feminine Identities by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107267
Booksplease Price: €53.62In Women in College, feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky interviewed women who entered Barnard College in the fall of 1979, finding that the demands of college life facilitated and occasionally... -
Human Work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780759109056
Booksplease Price: €53.26Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was... -
The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (College de France) 9780226473246
Booksplease Price: €28.76From a wealth of vivid autobiographical writings, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie reconstructs the extraordinary life of Thomas Platter and the lives of his sons. With masterful erudition, Le Roy Ladurie... -
Human Work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 9780759109049
Booksplease Price: €134.96Human Work represents the first ground breaking analysis on the equal importance of work in the lives of men and women. Noted feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman maintains the notion that it was... -
The Unemployed Man and His Family: The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107311
Booksplease Price: €134.60In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider?... -
Sexualities in Context: A Social Perspective by Rebecca F. Plante
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €62.76Written in an accessible and clear manner, Sexualities in Context presents focused overviews and explorations of some of the most timely issues in the social construction of sex. This brief text is... -
Fat and Blood: and How to Make Them by S. Weir Mitchell 9780759106758
Booksplease Price: €33.19This volume presents one of Mitchell's touchstone texts of neurasthenia-cultural critique as medical diagnosis. Fat and Blood was a best seller in its time and went through multiple printings and... -
Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations by Steven Schacht 9780814780770
Booksplease Price: €107.78Too often feminism has been defined as a "woman only" arena, or in competitive terms of male versus female privilege, rather than as a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life for... -
Bending Bodies: Volume 2 by Thomas Johansson 9781138720084
RRP: €42.83Booksplease Price: €39.14This title was first published in 2003. The contributing authors have sought to integrate a gender perspective into their respective fields without isolating it from other theoretical accounts. The... -
The Unemployed Man and His Family: The Effect of Unemployment Upon the Status of the Man in Fifty-Nine Families by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107328
Booksplease Price: €52.07In The Unemployed Man and His Family, noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider?... -
Feminism and Men: Reconstructing Gender Relations by Steven Schacht 9780814780848
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Too often feminism has been defined as a "woman only" arena, or in competitive terms of male versus female privilege, rather than as a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life for everyone... -
Wear and Tear: or Hints for the Overworked by S. Weir Mitchell 9780759106734
Booksplease Price: €33.19S. Weir Mitchell's work on the etiology and treatment of neurasthenia, commonly called "brain drain," provided the intersection of medical diagnoses of a serious ailment with cultural critiques of... -
Men and Power by Joseph A. Kuypers 9781573927697
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €28.95If there is any one concept that stirs the passions and actions of men as a gender, power is the most likely candidate. Seldom is powerlessness a preferred or admired quality in a man. Yet power can... -
Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107281
Booksplease Price: €53.62In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological... -
Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107298
Booksplease Price: €134.96In Dilemmas of Masculinity, noted sociologist Mirra Komarovsky turns her attention to the consequences of feminism among women on the lives of men. As she'd documented in Women in the Modern World,... -
Women in the Modern World: Their Education and Their Dilemmas by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107274
Booksplease Price: €134.96In Women in the Modern World, noted feminist and sociologist Mirra Komarovsky begins with a consideration of biology. Reflecting on these now-familiar arguments that the natural biological... -
Dilemmas of Masculinity: A Study of College Youth by Mirra Komarovsky 9780759107304
Booksplease Price: €53.26In Dilemmas of Masculinity, noted sociologist Mirra Komarovsky turns her attention to the consequences of feminism among women on the lives of men. As she'd documented in Women in the Modern World,... -
Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques by Nancy Rosebaugh 9780807845974
Booksplease Price: €54.57Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general... -
Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Clone by Martin P. Levine
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73A sociological examination into the emergence of male homosexuality with a traditional masculine ethos Before gay liberation, gay men were usually perceived as failed men-"inverts," men trapped in... -
Fraternity Gang Rape: Sex, Brotherhood, and Privilege on Campus by Peggy Reeves Sanday
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94This widely acclaimed and meticulously documented volume illustrates, in painstaking and disturbing detail, the nature of fraternity gang rape. Drawing on interviews with both victims and fraternity... -
Come Together: JOHN LENNON IN HIS TIME by Jon Wiener 9780252061318
Booksplease Price: €29.26An engaging look at one of music's most defiantly political figures, Come Together recreates two decades of rock and rebellion by tracing John Lennon's ever-evolving politics from the formation of... -
Inside the American Couple: New Thinking, New Challenges by Marilyn Yalom 9780520229570
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.01One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair. Despite many tendencies that threaten traditional marriage and even make committed cohabitation problematic, very few people live through... -
Inclusive Masculinity: The Changing Nature of Masculinities by Eric Anderson 9780415893909
RRP: €71.39Booksplease Price: €64.02Drawing on qualitative studies of teamsport athletes and fraternity members, this book describes the rapidly changing world of masculinities among men in both the United States and Great Britain. As... -
Fictions of Masculinity: Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities by Peter F. Murphy 9780814754986
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94We are just beginning to understand masculinity as a fiction or a localizable, historical, and therefore unstable construct. This book points the way to a much-needed interrogation of the many modes... -
Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach by Ann C. McGinley
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities and... -
Masculinities and the Law: A Multidimensional Approach by Ann C. McGinley 9780814764039
RRP: €80.92Booksplease Price: €66.07According to masculinities theory, masculinity is not a biological imperative but a social construction. Men engage in a constant struggle with other men to prove their masculinity. Masculinities and...