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The inaugural volume of Selections from Quaderni Storici looks at sexual mores and gender in European social history from the Renaissance to the twelfth century.
Places Trollope's work in the wider context of nineteenth century culture - an area of growing interest in literary studies - and combines three aspects, the Victorian novel, media history and gender issues. By applying feminist criticism the book challenges the traditional view of Trollope as a conservative.
A collection of essays that applies thinking in literature and urban studies to an examination of visual culture of 19th century France - painting, caricature, illustrated magazines, posters - resulting in a subtle map of the gendered topography of Parisian modernity, the stomping ground of the flaneur.
Where does love come in the culture and history of black people? This book traces the ethic of love in the context of black lives. Bell Hooks looks at love as portrayed in literature, media and entertainment in the past and the present and considers many different domestic situations.
This work makes clear the biases arising from using statistical measures of the formal sector without examining the linkages between the productive and reproductive spheres, and the systematic gender biases present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household.
This work makes clear the biases arising from using statistical measures of the formal sector without examining the linkages between the productive and reproductive spheres, and the systematic gender biases present at all levels - in institutions, markets and the household.
Offers an examination of the developments and elements which impact on women's equal participation in the workplace. This book is a guide to policy and action for the international community, policy-makers, researchers, lobbyists and scholars interested in gender issues.