Gendering Counterinsurgency: Performativity, Embodiment and Experience in the Afghan 'Theatre of War'
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This book analyses the various ways in which counterinsurgency in Afghanistan is gendered. The book...
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
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In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize...
Replacing Misandry: A Revolutionary History of Men
Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young
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In the first three volumes of this series, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young challenge theories...
The Sexual Politics of Asylum
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Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of...
The Ugly Wife is a Treasure at Home: True Stories of Love and Marriage in Communist China
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The ugly wife is a treasure at home" is not just an idle expression in China. For centuries, Chinese...
There are Two Sexes: Essays in Feminology
Catherine Porter, Antoinette Fouque and Sylvina Boissonnas
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Antoinette Fouque cofounded the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes (MLF) in France in 1968 and...
Tigers of a Different Stripe: Performing Gender in Dominican Music
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Tigers of a Different Stripe takes readers inside the unique world of merengue tipico, a traditional...
Women and Borders: Refugees, Migrants and Communities
Seema Shekhawat and Debidatta Aurobinda
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Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and...
Why the Pain, What's the Gain?: The Quest for Extreme Fitness
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Running, jumping, lifting, pushing, stretching - our bodies are naturally built to move and work,...
Carceral Fantasies: Cinema and Prison in Early Twentieth-Century America
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A groundbreaking contribution to the study of nontheatrical film exhibition, Carceral Fantasies...