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  • Woman, Body, Desire in Post-Colonial India

    Narratives of Gender and Sexuality

    by Jyoti Puri ...
    First published in 1999.Jyoti Puri draws on post-colonial and feminist theory to focus on how women in current-day India conceptualize their gender and sexuality. She provides a groundbreaking ethnographic study based on fifty-four middle- and upper-class Indian women, ranging from the ages of fifteen to thirty-eight. She argues that these women's narratives are shaped by not only the nation-state ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Sexual States

    Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India

    by Jyoti Puri ...
    Series series Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
    In Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition to outlawing homosexual behavior is often used to prosecute a range of activities and groups ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • ARMED FORCES AT THE ALTAR OF JUSTICE

    Towards an Independent and Impartial Military Justice System: Rethinking the Summary Court-Martial

    by Dr. Jyoti Puri ...
    Towards an Independent and Impartial Military Justice System: Rethinking the Summary Court-Martial Military discipline is indispensable to operational effectiveness, but in a constitutional democracy it must coexist with justice, fairness, and the Rule of Law. Can a system designed to enforce discipline also guarantee due process and protect the rights of those who serve?This book critically ... Read more

    $2.48 CAD

  • Handbook of Anticolonial, Decolonial and Postcolonial Sociologies

    Edited by Jyoti Puri, Vrushali Patil ...
    This crucial Handbook explores the ways in which sociology confronts the enduring legacies of colonialism and empire. Presenting the first comprehensive sociological overview of anticolonial, decolonial and postcolonial approaches, Jyoti Puri and Vrushali Patil reject Eurocentric frameworks and foreground the contributions of scholars from the Global South.Written in an accessible and engaging ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

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    A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics

    by Naisargi N. Dave, Naisargi N. Davé ...
    In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and queer activist groups across the country, Dave studies the everyday practices that constitute queer ... Read more

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  • Feminism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Sally J. Scholz ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Feminism is arguably the most significant social movement of the last century and it is far from over. But what appears as a single, unified movement on behalf of women's liberation is really a fascinating coalition of social and political causes, goals, and ideals. By highlighting the themes that form the enduring nexuses between the three waves, taking powerful examples from feminist campaigns, ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Justice

    by Amartya Kumar Sen ...
    Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea of justice plays a real role in how - and how well - people live. And in this book the distinguished scholar Amartya Sen offers a powerful critique of the theory of social justice that, in its grip on social and political thinking, has long left ... Read more

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  • The Languages of Sexuality

    by Jeffrey Weeks ...
    Words, Freud once wrote, are magic. Nowhere have words been more magical than in the writing of sexuality. Through words and concepts we learn what is good or bad, pleasurable or painful, significant and insignificant. The terms we use about sexuality do not simply describe something out there. They help shape what sexuality is.The Languages of Sexuality offers concise and incisive essays on key ... Read more

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    by Mary Mellor ...
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  • A Dictionary of Gender Studies

    by Gabriele Griffin ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
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    "Queer" Activism and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy

    by Kevin Kumashiro ...
    Few books have addressed research for teachers to turn to as a resource for classroom practice but here Kumashiro draws on interviews with gay activists as a starting point for discussion of models of reading and challenging oppression. ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

    Edited by Lisa Disch, Mary Hawkesworth ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also ... Read more

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