Transformations

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1. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

   The Rhetorics of Comparison

   By Carolyn Pedwell

   Series: Transformations

   Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings

   Disturbing Differences

   Edited by Marianne Liljeström, Susanna Paasonen

   Series: Transformations

   Affect has become something of a buzzword in cultural and feminist theory during the past decade. References to affect, emotions and intensities abound, their implications in terms of research practices have often remained less manifest. Working with Affect in Feminist Readings: Disturbing...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

   Feminist Reflections

   Edited by Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill

   Series: Transformations

   Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women’s voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
4. Arab, Muslim, Woman

   Voice and Vision in Postcolonial Literature and Film

   By Lindsey Moore

   Series: Transformations

   Given a long history of representation by others, what themes and techniques do Arab Muslim women writers, filmmakers and visual artists foreground in their presentation of postcolonial experience? Lindsey Moore’s groundbreaking book demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual...

   Published May 8th 2008 by Routledge
5. Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology

   By Maureen McNeil

   Series: Transformations

   Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology challenges the assumption that science is simply what scientists do, say, or write: it shows the multiple and dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. This first major guide and review of the new field of...

   Published January 16th 2008 by Routledge
6. Violent Femmes

   Women as Spies in Popular Culture

   By Rosie White

   Series: Transformations

   The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations...

   Published October 24th 2007 by Routledge
7. Sexing the Soldier

   The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army

   By Rachel Woodward, Trish Winter

   Series: Transformations

   Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at: the history and structure of...

   Published July 4th 2007 by Routledge
8. Pregnancy, Risk and Biopolitics

   On the Threshold of the Living Subject

   By Lorna Weir

   Series: Transformations

   Traditionally, Euroamerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. However, in contemporary Euroamerican biomedicine, law and politics, the living subject is often claimed to pre-exist birth. In this fascinating book Lorna Weir argues that the...

   Published July 26th 2006 by Routledge
9. Judging the Image

   Art, Value, Law

   By Alison Young

   Series: Transformations

   Art, value, law - the links between these three terms mark a history of struggle in the cultural scene. Studies of contemporary culture have thus increasingly turned to the image as central to the production of legitimacy, aesthetics and order. Judging the Image extends the cultural turn in legal...

   Published October 20th 2004 by Routledge
10. Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology

    By Kirsten Campbell

    Series: Transformations

    This book outlines a compelling new agenda for feminist theories of identity and social relations. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis with feminist epistemology, the author sets out a groundbreaking psychoanalytic social theory. Campbell's work offers answers to the important contemporary question of...

    Published May 12th 2004 by Routledge