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Aggression in Pornography : Myths and Realities
Aggression in Pornography focusses on the issue of violence in mainstream pornography and examines what we know, what we think we know, and what are some surprising research findings and insights about the place of violence within pornography today. The authors first review the modern pornography industry, theoretical claims about pornography as violence, and the ways in which aggression has be…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429276125
- Collation
- xi, 140 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.771 AGG E
Intersectionality in feminist and queer movements: confronting privileges
Examining the ways in which feminist and queer activists confront privilege through the use of intersectionality, this edited collection presents empirical case studies from around the world to consider how intersectionality has been taken up (or indeed contested) by activists in order to expose and resist privilege. The volume sets out three key ways in which intersectionality operates within …
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- 17
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- 9780367257859
- Collation
- viii, 302 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.766 ELI i
Amnesty international and women's rights: feminist strategies, leadership com…
Amnesty International's (AI) focus on civil and political rights has marked their work with a gender bias from the outset. In the first comprehensive look at AI's work on women's rights, Miriam Ganzfried illustrates the development of their activities regarding women's rights issues over twenty years. Through interviews with staff members and activists and unprecedented access to archive materi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839460085
- Collation
- 320 p.
- Series Title
- Edition Politik, 128
- Call Number
- 305.42 MIR a
Claiming home : migration biographies and everyday lives of queer migrant wom…
Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are often rendered ›impossible subjects.‹ …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783837656916
- Collation
- 446 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300 BUC c
The red countess : select autobiographical and fictional writing of Hermynia …
Born into a distinguished aristocratic family of the old Habsburg Empire, Hermynia Zur Mühlen spent much of her childhood and early youth travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. Never comfortable with the traditional roles women were expected to play, she broke as a young adult both with her family and, after five years on his estate in the old Czarist Russia, with her …
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- -
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- 9781783745562
- Collation
- 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 833.912 MUH r
Robotic Knitting : Re-Crafting Human-Robot Collaboration Through Careful Cobo…
As a reaction to typically dead-end debates on future human and robot collaboration that tend to be either dismissive or overly welcoming towards »cobot« technologies, this book provides a technofeminist intervention. Pat Treusch not only shows how both the fields of technofeminism and robotics can engage in a practical exchange through knitting, but also contributes a tangible example of cob…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839452035
- Collation
- 166p.
- Series Title
- Science Studies
- Call Number
- 629.8924019 PAT r
Compliance and resistance within neoliberal academia : biographical stories, …
This open access book reflects on academic life under a neoliberal regime. Through collaborative autoethnographies, the authors share stories about the everyday experiences, dilemmas and conflicts of three academics: the struggle for promotion, teaching’s challenges, the race to publish, confronting bureaucracy and institutional politics, as well as the resulting emotional stress. These stori…
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- 8
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030663186
- Collation
- 134 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.43 GAI c
Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process
Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh examines the rebuilding of the city of Banda Aceh in Indonesia in the aftermath of the celebrated Helsinki-based peace mediation process, thirty years of armed conflict, and the tsunami. Offering a critical contribution to the study of post-conflict politics, the book includes 14 documentary videos reflecting individuals’ experiences on rebuilding the city and fol…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789523690172
- Collation
- xiii, 284p.: ill.
- Series Title
- Pro et Contra series
- Call Number
- 323.340 JAU s
Women’s activism and "second wave" feminism transnational histories
Women’s Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th century feminisms within a global framework of women’s activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781474250511
- Collation
- 344 p.; 22 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.42 WOM w
Turn on the light on science: a research-based guide to break down popular st…
"Scientists deserve public recognition. The ways that they are depicted, however, are severely limited in physical and personal traits, helping to establish and enhance stereotypes under the general title of ‘scientist’. These stereotypes range from the arrogant researcher who wants to rule the world, to the lab coat wearing ‘nerdy’ genius, but all generally fall to an extreme view of a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781911529057
- Collation
- xvi, 104p.: ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 530.092 TIN t
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