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  • The Sexual Politics of Ballroom Dancing

    by Vicki Harman ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an engaging sociological investigation into how gender is negotiated and performed in ballroom and Latin dancing that draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as the author’s own experience as a dancer. It explores the key factors underpinning the popularity of this leisure activity and highlights what this reveals more broadly about the nature of gender roles at the ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries

    Edited by Ravinder Barn, Vicki Harman ...
    Series series Ethnic and Racial Studies
    This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. The growth of the mixed race population reflects an increasingly racially and culturally heterogeneous society, shaped by powerful forces of globalisation and migration. Mixed family formations are becoming increasingly ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Vicki Harman, Benedetta Cappellini, Charlotte Faircloth ...
    Series series Sociological Futures
    This cross-disciplinary volume brings together diverse perspectives on children’s food occasions inside and outside of the home across different geographical locations. By unpacking mundane food occasions - from school dinners to domestic meals and from breakfast to snacks - Feeding Children Inside and Outside the Home shows the role of food in the everyday lives of children and adults around them ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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    by Mike Savage ...
    Series series Pelican Books
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  • Mask Off

    Masculinity Redefined

    by JJ Bola ...
    Series series Outspoken by Pluto
    What is masculinity? Dominating the world around us, with deadly gun violence, male suicide rates and incels on Reddit, masculinity is perceived to be 'toxic', 'fragile' and 'in crisis'.In Mask Off, JJ Bola exposes masculinity as a performance that men are socially conditioned into. Using examples of non-Western cultural traditions, music and sport, he shines light on historical narratives around ... Read more

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  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    by John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

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  • Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas

    Edited by Nicholas Ray ...
    A cast of leading writers and practitioners tackle the ethical questions that architects are increasingly facing in their work, from practical considerations in construction to the wider social context of buildings, their appearance, use and place in the narrative of the environment. This book gives an account of these ethical questions from the perspectives of historical architectural practice, ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Work of Professional Football

    A Labour of Love?

    by Martin Roderick ...
    A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived.A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundation ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • British Fashion Design

    Rag Trade or Image Industry?

    by Angela McRobbie ...
    British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile training with practice, and their precarious position between the twin supports of the ... Read more

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  • Ballroom

    Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance

    by Jonathan S. Marion ...
    Series series Dress, Body, Culture
    Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena: of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender and more.Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures, dress and the body. Presenting the author's experiences at an international range of dance events in Europe, the US and UK, as well as featuring the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD