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  • Development with a Body

    Sexuality, Human Rights and Development

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Sonia Correa, Susie Jolly ...
    'We used to talk about development with a human face. We should be talking about development with a body'Arit Oku-Egbas, African Regional Sexuality Resource Centre, NigeriaSex and sexuality have always had a place at the heart of the development agenda - from concerns regarding population and environment, to practices in education and efforts for protecting reproductive health and rights. Yet this ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Feminisms in Development

    Contradictions, Contestations and Challenges

    Edited by Andrea Cornwall, Elizabeth Harrison, Ann Whitehead ...
    This collection of essays by leading feminist thinkers from North and South constitutes a major new attempt to reposition feminism within development studies.Feminism's emphasis on social transformation makes it fundamental to development studies. Yet the relationship between the two disciplines has frequently been a troubled one. At present, the way in which many development institutions function ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Feminisms, Empowerment and Development

    Changing Womens Lives

    Edited by Jenny Edwards, Andrea Cornwall ...
    Series series Feminisms and Development
    The economic and political empowerment of women continues to be a central focus for development agencies worldwide; access to medical care, education and employment, as well as women's reproductive rights remain key factors effecting women's autonomy. Feminisms, Empowerment and Development explores what women are doing to change their own personal circumstances whilst providing an in-depth ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Men and Development

    Politicizing Masculinities

    by Chris Dolan, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Margrethe Silberschmidt, Doctor Robert Morrell, Penny Morrell, Radhika Chopra, Marcos Nascimento, Christine Ricardo, Marianna Olinger, Marcio Segundo, Fang Gang, He Xiaopei, Susie Jolly, Patrick Welsh, Cheryl Overs, Raewyn Connell, Jeff Hearn, Gary Barker, Cath Sluggett, Jerry Okal, Andrea Cornwall, Jerker Edström, Alan Greig, akshay khanna ...
    A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development.Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice, and the failure to adequately engage with the effects of inequitable sex and gender orders on both ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

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    by Perdana Leadership Foundation, Universiti Teknologi MARA ...
    Series Book 7 - Perdana Discourse Series
    Sovereignty is a notion which has come to dominate our understanding of national and international affairs. Its history parallels the evolution of the modem state. However, today, when nations are very much dependent on each other, the idea of national sovereignty has acquired a different meaning. In recent years, questions have been raised as to the continuing significance of the state, the ... Read more

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  • Chocolate Nations

    Living and Dying for Cocoa in West Africa

    by Órla Ryan ...
    Series series African Arguments
    Chocolate - the very word conjures up a hint of the forbidden and a taste of the decadent. Yet the story behind the chocolate bar is rarely one of luxury.From the thousands of children who work on plantations to the smallholders who harvest the beans, Chocolate Nations reveals the hard economic realities of our favourite sweet. This vivid and gripping exploration of the reasons behind farmer ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Half the Sky

    by Nicholas D. Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn ...
    **#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A passionate call to arms against our era’s most pervasive human rights violation—the oppression of women and girls in the developing world. From the bestselling authors of Tightrope,two of our most fiercely moral voicesWith Pulitzer Prize winners Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn as our guides, we undertake an odyssey through Africa and Asia to meet the ... Read more

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  • Children in the Anthropocene

    Rethinking Sustainability and Child Friendliness in Cities

    by Karen Malone ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context. Children and their entangled relations with the human and more-than-human world are located centrally to the research on cities in Bolivia and Kazakhstan, which investigates the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The End of Imagination

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    Five books of essays in one volume from the Booker Prize–winner and "one of the most ambitious and divisive political essayists of her generation" ( The Washington Post).With a new introduction by Arundhati Roy, this new collection begins with her pathbreaking book The Cost of Living—published soon after she won the Booker Prize for her novel The God of Small Things—in which she forcefully ... Read more

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  • Overheating

    An Anthropology of Accelerated Change

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    The world is overheated. Too full and too fast; uneven and unequal. It is the age of the Anthropocene, of humanity’s indelible mark upon the planet. In short, it is globalisation - but not as we know it.In this groundbreaking book, Thomas Hylland Eriksen breathes new life into the discussion around global modernity, bringing an anthropologist’s approach to bear on the three interrelated crises of ... Read more

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  • God Is Red

    The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

    by Liao Yiwu ...
    Translated by Wen Huang ...
    "A journalistic chronicle of how Christians survived the repressive Mao era as well as a glimpse into why their numbers are rising." — The Christian Science MonitorA Books & Culture Best Book of the YearWhen journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in officially atheistic China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and ... Read more

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  • My Body Is Yours

    A Memoir

    by Michael V. Smith ...
    Lambda Literary Award finalistMichael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male-a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family; a sissy; an insecure teenager desperate to disappear; and an ... Read more

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