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481. Freeing the Female Body

     Inspirational Icons

     Edited by Fan Hong

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     This collection records the bravery of these forgotten inspirational figures whose determination challenged and overcame convention, custom and prejudice to free women from the ranks of the sexualized, controlled and oppressed....

     Published December 29th 2000 by Routledge
482. Heroines of Sport

     The Politics of Difference and Identity

     By Jennifer Hargreaves

     Heroines of Sport looks closely at different groups of women whose stories have been excluded from previous accounts of women's sports and female heroism. It focuses on five specific groups of women from different places in the world South African women; Muslim women from the Middle East;...

     Published December 13th 2000 by Routledge
483. Erotic Ambiguities

     The Female Nude in Art

     By Helen McDonald

     Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to...

     Published December 10th 2000 by Routledge
484. Feminism & Autobiography

     Texts, Theories, Methods

     By Tess Coslett, Celia Lury, Penny Summerfield

     Series: Transformations

     Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory. Whilst exemplifying the very...

     Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
485. Making European Masculinities

     Sport, Europe, Gender

     By J. A. Mangan

     Series: Sport in the Global Society

     As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has come to loom larger and larger in the lives of Europeans and others. It has become an inescapable reality linking public...

     Published September 30th 2000 by Routledge
486. Cottons and Casuals: The Gendered Organisation of Labour in Time and Space

     By Miriam Glucksmann

     Cottons and Casuals explores the connections between women's work in different spheres since the 1930s: paid employment, at home, and in the community. Women's own testimony and an array of other source materials are used to develop new ways of looking at their changing patterns of living and...

     Published August 31st 2000 by Routledge-Cavendish
487. Baudrillard's Challenge

     A Feminist Reading

     By Victoria Grace

     This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory. Drawing on the full range of...

     Published May 10th 2000 by Routledge
488. Wake Up Little Susie

     Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade, 2nd Edition

     By Rickie Solinger

     First published in 2000...

     Published February 27th 2000 by Routledge
489. Understanding Depression

     Feminist Social Constructionist Approaches

     By Janet Stoppard

     Series: Women and Psychology

     Women are particularly vulnerable to depression. Understanding Depression provides an in-depth critical examination of mainstream approaches to understanding and treating depression from a feminist perspective. Janet Stoppard argues that current approaches give only partial accounts of womens'...

     Published November 10th 1999 by Routledge
490. Over the Threshold

     Intimate Violence in Early America

     Edited by Christine Daniels, Michael V. Kennedy

     Over the Threshold is the first in-depth work to explore the topic of intimate violence in the American colonies and the early Republic. The essays examine domestic violence in both urban and frontier environments, between husbands and wives, parents and children, and masters and slaves. This...

     Published August 16th 1999 by Routledge