Social Science : Gender Studies

Included in this issue: Who Needs [Sex] When You Can Have [Gender]? --Feminist Discourses at the UN Conference at Beijing by Sally Baden and Anne-Marie Goetz;To Whom Does Ameena Belong? --Towards a Feminist Analysis of Childhood and Nationhood in Contemporary India by Purnima Mankekar; Pat Cadigan's Synners: Refiguring Nature, Science, and Technology by Laura Cherniak; "I Teach Therefore I Am:" Lesbian Studies in the Liberal Academy by Sally Munt; American Eve (poem) by Paual Burnett; Reviews; Noticeboard. more...

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This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society. It explores the role of state institutions in the development of democratic civic life, showing how, under the increasingly authoritarian Putin regime and its policy of managed democracy, independent civic activism is both thriving yet simultaneously constrained. more...

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This accessible book is about the most exciting and important aspect of human development - language in the early years (0-8). It is a book for carers, parents, teachers and other professionals who work and play with young children and share in the emergence of their language. more...

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Winner of the 2004 Book Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and the 2003 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing. Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France. more...

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^Dislocating Masculinity offers a radical critique of much of the recent writing on and by men, raising important questions about embodiment, agency and the varieties of masculinity. more...

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