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  • Reproduction, Globalization, and the State

    New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives

    by Rayna Rapp, Susan L. Erikson ...
    Reproduction, Globalization, and the State conceptualizes and puts into practice a global anthropology of reproduction and reproductive health. Leading anthropologists offer new perspectives on how transnational migration and global flows of communications, commodities, and biotechnologies affect the reproductive lives of women and men in diverse societies throughout the world. Based on research ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Mapping Feminist Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century

    by A. Lynn Bolles, Matthew R. Dudgeon, Meena Rani Khandelwal, Catherine Kingfisher, Elise A. Kramer, Lynn Kwiatkowski0, Louise Lamphere1, Frances Mascia-Lees2, Rayna Rapp3, Margot Weiss4, Elizabeth F. S. Roberts5, Kimberly Theidon6 ...
    Feminist anthropology emerged in the 1970s as a much-needed corrective to the discipline’s androcentric biases. Far from being a marginalized subfield, it has been at the forefront of developments that have revolutionized not only anthropology, but also a host of other disciplines. This landmark collection of essays provides a contemporary overview of feminist anthropology’s historical and ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Disability Worlds

    by Faye Ginsburg, Rayna Rapp ...
    In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition and rights. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader (Third Edition)

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  • The Ursula Franklin Reader

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  • Staying Alive

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  • Glamour

    Women, History, Feminism

    by Professor Carol Dyhouse ...
    How do we understand glamour? Has it empowered women or turned them into objects? Once associated with modernity and the cutting edge, is it entirely bound up with nostalgia and tradition?This unique and fascinating book tells the story of glamour. It explores the changing meanings of the word, its relationship to femininity and fashion, and its place in twentieth century social history. Using a ... Read more

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    Why We Need a Citizen's Income

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    This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship ... Read more

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