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  1. Gender in Transnationalism

    Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

    By Ruba Salih

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site whereby broader feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging can be grasped. Salih...

    Published June 11th 2003 by Routledge

  2. Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men

    By Paul Baker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

    Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a...

    Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge

  3. Gender, Agency and Change

    Anthropological Perspectives

    By Victoria Goddard

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be...

    Published July 5th 2000 by Routledge

  4. Food and Gender

    By Carole M. Counihan, Steven L. Kaplan

    This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This...

    Published November 25th 1998 by Routledge

  5. Food and Gender

    By Counihan

    This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This...

    Published November 25th 1998 by Routledge

  6. Simians, Cyborgs, and Women

    The Reinvention of Nature

    By Donna J. Haraway

    Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary...

    Published December 11th 1990 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Law's Cut on the Body of Human Rights: Female Circumcision, Torture and Sacred Flesh
    By Juliet Rogers
    To Be Published August 1st 2013
  2. Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women
    Edited by Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson
    To Be Published August 12th 2013
  3. Older GLBT Family and Community Life
    Edited by Christine Fruhauf, Dan Mahoney
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  4. Black and Postcolonial Feminisms in New Times: Researching Educational Inequalities
    Edited by Heidi Mirza, Cynthia Joseph
    To Be Published August 15th 2013
  5. Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
    Edited by Christina Hughes, Rachel Cohen
    To Be Published August 15th 2013

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