YOUNG MEN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

“(A) very well written, timely and scholarly collection on young men in changing times, in the context of a global perspective, written by notable scholars in the field… has a very lively and contemporary feel, which connects both to key theoretical debates around youth and also to everyday experience mediated through difference, e.g., class and ethnicity, or in terms of gender relations…”  •  Victoria Robinson, University of Sheffield

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YOUTH GANGS AND STREET CHILDREN

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

“Richly illustrated by quotes and life histories, this is an excellent ethnography of the ways in which young people develop resilience through continual reworking of webs of care, nurturance and interaction amongst themselves and with their families… The text is well written, comprehensive and based on a rich source of empirical material that is well analyzed and interpreted.”  •  Tatek Abebe, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim

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PATRONS OF WOMEN

Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal

Assuming that women’s empowerment would accelerate the pace of social change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali government to undertake a “Gender Activities Project” within an ongoing long-term water-engineering scheme. The author shows how a project intended to benefit women fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. The book makes an important contribution to the growing critique of “development” projects and of women’s development projects in particular.

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MAPPING DIFFERENCE

The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine

“…(A)n impressive and multifaceted assessment of the monumental changes that have occurred for women in Ukraine since independence from the Soviet Union. The articles are all of considerable interest and topical, and mesh well together as a unified whole into a comprehensive and fine collection.”  •  Michael M. Naydan, The Pennsylvania State University

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THE MASCULINE WOMAN IN WEIMAR GERMANY

“The author makes an important contribution to the scholarship in that she has worked through the printed material systematically to give an authoritative account of a female sub-culture under the republic. As far as I am aware, she is the first to do so in the English language. The book therefore fills an important gap in Weimar cultural/gender studies.”  • Anthony McElligott, University of Limerick

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FATNESS AND THE MATERNAL BODY

Women's Experiences of Corporeality and the Shaping of Social Policy

Obesity is a rising global health problem. On the one hand a clearly defined medical condition, it is at the same time a corporeal state embedded in the social and cultural perception of fatness, body shape and size. Focusing specifically on the maternal body, this volume challenges the spontaneous connection being made in scientific and popular understanding between fatness and ill health.

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ECOFEMINISM AND RHETORIC

Critical Perspectives on Sex, Technology, and Discourse

“(O)ne of the very few books to have been published in the last 10 years on the declared topic of ecofeminism…the volume is a necessary and timely rethinking of ecofeminism; it includes some strikingly original essays that challenge and extend current ecofeminist thinking in exciting ways; and its general insistence on action and intervention (including rhetoric) as a way of collecting and evaluating ecofeminist thought is intelligent, effective and important.”  •  Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, York University

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ISLAM AND NEW KINSHIP

Reproductive Technology and the Shariah in Lebanon

“Social scientists interested in any of these areas of study will benefit from familiarizing themselves with Clarke’s work… Students of kinship will benefit from this text because it provides a case study of how a culturally relative approach to kinship enriches our understanding of the meanings and markers of the important relationships within a culture/religious tradition.”  •  Contemporary Sociology

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CIVIL SOCIETY AND GENDER JUSTICE

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

“On the whole, this much needed book offers both a necessary corrective to and further development of theoretical thinking about and empirical analysis of civil society. It should be required reading among historians, political scientists and sociologists alike.”  •  Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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CULTURES OF ABORTION IN WEIMAR GERMANY

“…The author offers a shift of paradigm in the history of abortion in Weimar Germany by writing a history of everyday life from the point of view of lower-class women as well as revealing the professional interests of physicians. Even committed sex reformers like the Munich gynaecologist Adams Lehmann appear ambivalent since she sterilised her abortion patients on eugenic grounds without consent.”  •  Historische Zeitschrift

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SUBSTITUTE PARENTS

Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies

From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), infant mortality can be high, and human females have a long post-reproductive lifespan.

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RECONCEIVING THE SECOND SEX

Men, Masculinity, and Reproduction

“Overall, there is a well-balanced mix of ethnography and theory that engages the reader throughout the volume…[The book] is successful in challenging assumptions and stereotypes surrounding men’s involvement in reproduction and demonstrating that the topic of men and reproduction has been neglected by social scientific study thus far… represents an important initial text on a subject deserving of further attention in the social sciences.”   •  The Journal of Biosocial Science

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A BELLE EPOQUE?

Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914

“…this volume makes a welcome contribution to the history of women, gender, and feminism…The essays, while brief, suggest interesting lines for further inquiry based on their creative use of printed sources…, as well as visual materials.”  •  H-France Review

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Girlhood Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal

Volume 4, Number 1

Theme: Texts about Girls, for Girls and by Girls

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines.

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Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques

Volume 37, Number 2

Special Issue: Gender, History and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland: Medieval to Modern

Historical Reflections/Reflections Historiques has established a well-deserved reputation for publishing high quality articles of wide-ranging interest for over thirty years. The journal, which publishes articles in both English and French, is committed to exploring history in an interdisciplinary framework and with a comparative focus. Historical approaches to art, literature, and the social sciences; the history of mentalities and intellectual movements; the terrain where religion and history meet: these are the subjects to which Historical Reflections/Reflexions Historiques is devoted.

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