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Depression
By Bradley Lewis
We live in an era of depression. The World Health Organization estimates that depression affects 121 million people across the globe. It is the 4th leading cause of global disease burden, and, by the year 2020, it will be the 2nd leading cause. Plus, the experience of depression can be intensely...
July 2011 | 978-0-415-87721-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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Critical Readings in Bodybuilding
Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson
In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-87852-4 | Hardback (Routledge)
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The Criminology of Pleasure
By Mike McGuire, Simon Hallsworth
The Criminology of Pleasure offers a new way of thinking about crime and crime control, as it maintains that the very rationale of the criminal justice system lies in the channelling of desire and regulating of pleasure. Criminology has only confronted the importance of the desire/pleasure...
January 2011 | 978-0-415-54778-9 | Hardback (Routledge-Cavendish)
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Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics
By Ann J. Cahill
Objectification is a foundational concept in feminist theory, used to analyze such disparate social phenomena as sex work, representation of women's bodies, and sexual harassment. However, there has been an increasing trend among scholars of rejecting and re-evaluating the philosophical assumptions...
December 2010 | 978-0-415-88288-0 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sexuality, Gender and Power: Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir, Valerie Bryson, Kathleen B. Jones
Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary,...
November 2010 | 978-0-415-88087-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Human Sex Trafficking
Edited by Frances Bernat
Human sex trafficking is believed to the most common form of modern day slavery. The victims of domestic and international sex trafficking are estimated to be in the millions. Most of these victims are female and children. They are enslaved in the commercial sex industry for little or no...
September 2010 | 978-0-415-57678-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Gymnastics, a Transatlantic Movement: From Europe to America
Edited by Gertrud Pfister
This book explores, analyses, and explains divergent ideologies and practices of gymnastics in selected European nations. It reconstructs the ex- and import processes from Europe to America and determines the processes, interrelationships and transformations of these "transatlantic movements" in...
August 2010 | 978-0-415-58703-7 | Hardback (Routledge)
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Sport, Theory and Social Problems: A Critical Introduction
By Eric Anderson
What impact does sport have on the lives of ordinary people? How does sport help to perpetuate inequalities in society? What can social theory tell us about the role of sport in society? At their origin competitive sports were institutionalized in Western cultures for the privilege of white,...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-57126-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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The Politics of the Male Body in Global Sport: The Danish Involvement
By Hans Bonde
Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.P. Muller and Niels Bukh and the Danish Gymnastics revolution with its emphasis on male aesthetics and hygiene in the first half of the twentieth century. At the same time, Denmark has stood apart from Europe in the...
June 2010 | 978-0-415-57176-0 | Hardback (Routledge)