Bücher der Reihe Transformations

Presents a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book puts forward an argument that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural practices, potentially limit rather than enhance operational effectiveness.

A thorough reassessment of feminism's place in contemporary life. With contributions from some of the most important current feminist thinkers, it takes feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.

Using a variety of print advertisements, this exciting and provocative study explores how the consumer is created in terms of sex, race and class. Essential reading for all those interested in issues of consumption, citizenship and gender.

This fascinating title engages in current debates as diverse as globalisation, technoscience, embodiment and performativity, taking feminism in fresh directions, mapping new territory and suggesting alternative possibilities.

By a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis across contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the newspaper journalism of Naomi Wolf - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated by the frameworks in which it is presented.

Demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and 'multicultural' paradigms.

Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community, whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism.

Challenges the assumption that science what scientists say. This book shows the dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. It provides readers with an accessible introduction to its theories and methods.

The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television, this work examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. It is also useful for courses such as Film and Television Studies.

EuroAmerican cultures have considered that human status was conferred at the conclusion to childbirth. This book argues that the displacement of birth as the threshold of the living subject began in the 1950s with the novel concept of 'perinatal mortality' referring to death of either the foetus or the newborn just prior to, during or after birth.

Based on case studies from the US, UK and Australia, this book looks at the ways in which female killers are constructed in the media, in law and in feminist discourse almost invariably as victims rather than actors in the crimes they commit.

This book features essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines on the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory.

A fresh start from which to consider the far-reaching implications of this relationship. Draws on in-depth interviews with women who speak both as mothers and as daughters.

The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorizations of nation, race, gender and sexuality.