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341. Transforming the Disciplines

     A Women's Studies Primer

     By Renee P Prys, Mary Jane Cherry, Susan Popham, Elizabeth L Macnabb

     A jargon-free, non-technical, and easily accessible introduction to women's studies!All too many students enter academia with the hazy idea that the field of women's studies is restricted to housework, birth control, and Susan B. Anthony. Their first encounter with a women's studies textbook is...

     Published April 29th 2001 by Routledge
342. Make Love, Not War

     The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History

     By David Allyn

     Published April 4th 2001 by Routledge
343. Family Men

     Middle-Class Fatherhood in Industrializing America

     By Shawn Johansen

     Published April 2nd 2001 by Routledge
344. Across the Great Divide

     Cultures of Manhood in the American West

     By Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, Dee Garceau

     In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore....

     Published January 10th 2001 by Routledge
345. Freeing the Female Body

     Inspirational Icons

     Edited by Fan Hong

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed....

     Published December 29th 2000 by Routledge
346. Heroines of Sport

     The Politics of Difference and Identity

     By Jennifer Hargreaves

     Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world South African women; Muslim women from the Middle East;...

     Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
347. Erotic Ambiguities

     The Female Nude in Art

     By Helen McDonald

     Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to...

     Published December 10th 2000 by Routledge
348. Feminism & Autobiography

     Texts, Theories, Methods

     By Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield

     Series: Transformations

     Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very...

     Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
349. Making European Masculinities

     Sport, Europe, Gender

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public...

     Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
350. Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

     By Miriam Glucksmann

     Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own testimony and an array of other source materials are used to develop new ways of looking at their changing patterns of living and...

     Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge-Cavendish