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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 25 books in this booklist
£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911346203 | ISBN 10: 1911346202
This is both the story of the 50-year battle for equal rights and deeply personal accounts from high profile politicians, comedians, actors and others in the public arena. Â The book features contributions from David Hockney, Stephen Fry, Julian Clar ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780857301178 | ISBN 10: 0857301179
We’re living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), disabled, or from other religions or classes ... more
View book details£42.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780415711869 | ISBN 10: 041571186x
Queer Inclusion in Teacher Education explores the challenges and promises of building queer inclusive pedagogy and curriculum into teacher education. Weaving together theory, research findings, and practical "how-to" strategies and material ... more
View book details£15.00 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781849351843 | ISBN 10: 1849351848
Does gay marriage support the right-wing goal of linking access to basic human rights like health care and economic security to an inherently conservative tradition? Will the ability of queers to fight in wars of imperialism help liberate and ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086894 | ISBN 10: 1844086895
An astonishing new work that radically changes how we think about, talk about and understand the vagina - and consequently how we think about women and sexuality - from Naomi Wolf, one of our most respected cultural critics and author of the modern c ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781904590293 | ISBN 10: 1904590292
Black Roses is a poetic sequence written in the voice of Sophie Lancaster. Twenty-year-old Sophie was attacked in a Lancashire park in 2007 and died several days later. The ferocity of the assault caused distress and outrage when reported by ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781904590279 | ISBN 10: 1904590276
Twenty-year-old Sophie Lancaster was kicked to death by a pack of 'feral' youths at her local park in Bacup, Lancashire. Her boyfriend, Rob Maltby, was also set upon and received life-threatening injuries. Their only 'crime' was to dress dif ... more
View book details£35.00 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781847062987 | ISBN 10: 1847062989
That people should be treated as equals is one of the core principles that underpin our society. Philosophers and social theorists have long debated what equality is, and this book probes what this means for both those at the centre and on the margin ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781931859790 | ISBN 10: 1931859795
Sexuality and Socialism is a remarkably accessible analysis of many of the most challenging questions for those concerned with full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Inside are essays on the roots of LGBT op ... more
View book details£24.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780749450687 | ISBN 10: 0749450681
Diversity issues and the need to understand and, if necessary, change underlying attitudes have become increasingly important for organizations in the aftermath of domestic and global events. This timely new edition of The Diversity Training Handboo ... more
View book details£31.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415422642 | ISBN 10: 0415422647
Everyone working in health and social care is at one point or another confronted by violent behaviour and its consequences. Addressing Violence, Abuse and Oppression provides a broad overview of violence in relation to a range of groups and areas tha ... more
View book details£69.99 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781402061097 | ISBN 10: 1402061099
There is much ambivalence in women’s experience of the academy as teachers and students. Allthough today many more women follow academic careers than in the past, they do not find the welcome that they had hoped for and expected. Additionally, women ... more
View book details£24.00 hardback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781422101025 | ISBN 10: 1422101029
With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway? By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global comp ... more
View book details£39.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415952248 | ISBN 10: 0415952247
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781580051842 | ISBN 10: 1580051847
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity, categorization, and community, contributors challenge societal mores and countercultural norms. N ... more
View book details£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781858563800 | ISBN 10: 1858563801
This remarkable book is the first to focus on disability arts. Drawn from over 50 of the author’s speeches, it eschews the historical charity based, patrician assumptions about disabled people and the barriers and prejudices that have kept them invis ... more
View book details£30.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415367493 | ISBN 10: 0415367492
How, if it all, do museums shape the ways in which society understands difference? In recent decades there has been growing international interest amongst practitioners, academics and policy makers in the role that museums might play in confronti ... more
View book details£8.42 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781412068253 | ISBN 10: 1412068258
Oftentimes cultural prohibitions thrive unchecked by the general populace eventually entering the world of "known understanding". "It is this way because it has always been this way", becomes the reflexive response to change for the dominant culture. ... more
View book details£29.95 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780813535708 | ISBN 10: 0813535700
(N.B. this book deals with domestic violence in the USA) This groundbreaking anthology reorients the field of domestic violence research by bringing long overdue attention to the structural forms of oppression in communities marginalised by race ... more
View book details£27.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780335216741 | ISBN 10: 0335216749
This fascinating book uses case studies to explore a number of high-profile and contemporary 'social problems' that exist in British society, including: racism and institutional racism, ethnic & religious community segregation, islamophobia and the i ... more
View book details£34.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780415936828 | ISBN 10: 0415936829
More than twenty years after the groundbreaking anthology This Bridge Called My Back challenged feminists to envision new forms of communities, Anzaldua and Keating have brought together an ambitious new collection of over 80 original contributions o ... more
View book details£26.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781842772256 | ISBN 10: 1842772252
This book, published in Europe and USA for the first time, looks specifically at addressing oppression in people. By narrowing the focus, Anne Bishop again raises a number of questions concerning where oppression comes from. Has it always been with u ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (1997) - ISBN 13: 9780253211187 | ISBN 10: 0253211182
When feminism meets queer theory, no introductions seem necessary. The two share common political interests—a concern for women’s and gay and lesbian rights—and many of the same academic and intellectual roots. And yet, they can also seem like strang ... more
View book details£32.99 paperback (1991) - ISBN 13: 9780803982109 | ISBN 10: 0803982100
Feminist Groupwork explores the purposes, practice and effectiveness of groupwork with women, drawing upon the authors' own involvement in setting up and running community-based women's groups. The book offers clear accounts of the structure ... more
View book details£18.99 paperback (1983) - ISBN 13: 9780861043798 | ISBN 10: 0861043790
In this classic study, bell hooks examines how black women, from the 17th century to the present day, were and are oppressed by both white men and black men and by white women. Illustrating her analysis with moving personal accounts, Ain't I a Woman ... more
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