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  • In Other Words (RLE Feminist Theory)

    Writing as a Feminist

    Edited by Gail Chester, Sigrid Nielsen ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
    This is a book for all women writers, professional, amateur or aspiring, in which forty women talk about writing and the part it plays in their lives. Self-discovery, work, personal liberation, communication, hope for change – all these motives inspire these short and direct personal statements.The contributors come from very different backgrounds: some, like Sara Maitland, Rosemary Manning, Anna ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Telling Tales About Dementia

    Experiences of Caring

    by Lucy Whitman, Brian Baylis, Rosemary Clarke, Pat Brown, Marilyn Duncan, Gail Chester, Peggy Fray, Tim Dartington, Jenny Davies, Rachael Dixey0, Anna Young1, Daphne Zackon2, Jenny Thomas3, Jim Swift4, Helen Robinson5, June Smith6, Maria Smith7, Pat Hill8, Andra Houchen9, Louisa Houchen0, Barbara Pointon1, Shirley Nurock2, Roger Newman3, Ian McQueen4, Maria Jastrzebska5, Steve Jeffery6, Diana Lewin7, Sania Malik8, Geraldine McCarthy9, U Hla Htay0 ...
    How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need?In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. They speak from the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female

    by Melissa Benn ...
    We have reached a tricky crossroads in modern women's lives and our collective daughters are bearing the brunt of some intolerable pressures. Although feminism has made great strides forward since our mothers' and grandmothers' day, many of the key issues - equality of pay, equality in the home, representation at senior level in the private, public and political sectors - remain to be tackled. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Introducing Cultural Studies

    by Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn ...
    This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the ... Read more

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  • City Publics

    The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters

    by Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received.Concerned with the borders and boundaries, constraints and limits on accepting, acknowledging and celebrating ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Local Literacies

    Reading and Writing in One Community

    by David Barton, Mary Hamilton ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people’s everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail examining how they use local media, their participation in public life, the role of literacy in ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • The Face of Fashion

    Cultural Studies in Fashion

    by Jennifer Craik ...
    First Published in 2004. "The Face of Fashion" is a study of fashion and the body which aims to establish the relations between codes and systems of clothing and the conduct of everyday life. Jennifer Craik questions the trickle-down theory that fashion is dictated by elite designers and opinion leaders with evidence of a trickle-up effect from sub-cultures, mass consumer behaviour and everyday ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime

    by Mike Presdee ...
    Cultural Criminology and the Carnival of Crime attempts to make sense of the current increase in violence, cruelty, hate and humiliation, which has come to permeate daily life. The text argues that an overly organised economic world has provoked a widespread desire for extreme, oppositional forms of popular and personal pleasure. This desire has resulted in a cathartic 'second life' of illicit ... Read more

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  • Children and Young People’s Cultural Worlds

    Edited by Sarah Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily ...
    Series series Open University Childhood
    Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new ... Read more

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  • The Importance of Being Innocent

    Why We Worry About Children

    by Joanne Faulkner ...
    The Importance of Being Innocent addresses the current debate in Australia and internationally regarding the sexualisation of children, predation on them by pedophiles and the risks apparently posed to their 'innate innocence' by perceived problems and threats in contemporary society. Joanne Faulkner argues that, contrary to popular opinion, social issues have been sensationally expounded in moral ... Read more

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  • Sex Before the Sexual Revolution

    Intimate Life in England 1918–1963

    by Simon Szreter, Kate Fisher ...
    Series Book 16 - Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories
    What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book provides the first rounded, first-hand account of sexuality in marriage in the early and mid-twentieth century. These award-winning authors look beyond conventions of silence among the respectable ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD