Social Science : Gender Studies

Women's magazines teem with its promises and horror stories; feminists ardently debate its status as harmful or heroic; surgeons and regulators compete to define which procedures can be offered and how. Through its representation, cosmetic surgery impacts on us all, not just those who go 'under the knife'. This book investigates the ways in which cosmetic surgery is shaping gender, and in the process, it questions contemporary cultural studies assumptions about how we read the media. more...

Price: $95.00

A companion volume to "Family Observational Coding Systems", this book moves from the triad to the dyad and provides a showcase for significant developments in the coding of intimate couple interactions. more...

Price: $89.95

This is the first study of how masculinity and femininity informed criminal behaviour and the treatment of men and women before the courts of early modern England. It shows that women were not treated leniently by the courts, and casts fresh light on the complexities of everyday life. more...

Price: $68.00

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. Here Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it. The Culture of Queers is a study of gay male culture from the early gay liberation movement to today's "post-queer" environment. Richard Dyer focuses on key aspects of queer cultural production, examining genres from vampire films, to film noir and heritage cinema, and offering queer readings of filmmakers such as Visconti, Fassbinder and Pasolini, and stars like Rock Hudson and Charles Hawtrey. more...

Price: $33.95

Examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the diversity of experiences of dying and bereavement. Drawing on a range of detailed case studies, this collection seeks to develop a more sensitive theoretical approach. more...

Price: $57.95