Young Refugees and Forced Displacement (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Holmes, Mary

Riga, Liliana

Dakessian, Arek

Langer, Johannes

Reference

Routledge

Internet Dating (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Internet Dating deals primarily with the experiences of UK and Australian daters, examining their online accounts to see what kinds of narratives, norms, emotions and 'chemistry' shape their dating. Has the emergence and growth of internet dating changed the dating landscape for the better? Most commentators, popular and academic, ask whether online dating is more efficient for individuals than offline dating. We prefer a socio-political perspective. In particular, the book illustrates the extent to which internet dating can advance gender and sexual equality. Drawing on the voices of internet daters themselves, we show that internet dating reveals how social change often arises in the unassuming, everyday and familiar. We also pay attention to often ignored older daters and include consideration of daters in Africa, Scandinavia, South America, Asia and the Middle East. Throughout, we explore the pitfalls and pleasures of men and women daters navigating unconventional directions towards more equitable social relations.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beasley, Chris

Psychology & Counseling

Gender and Everyday Life (The New Sociology)

Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures; Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender.  Key sociological and feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan. This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender studies, sociology and feminist theory.

Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past; and how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures; Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender. Key sociological and feminist ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft; and from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler. Gender and Everyday Life illustrates gender with a range of familiar and contemporary examples: everything from nineteenth century fashions in China and Britain, to discussions of what Barbie can tell us about gender in America, to the lives of working women in Japan. This book will be of great use and interest to students to gender studies, sociology and feminist theory.

This volume presents and evaluates key social theories and a global range of empirical studies on internet dating, considering whether internet dating is driven by commercial or consumerist logic or by more technical or reflexive approaches to finding sexual or love partners. It pays particular attention to the possibilities of internet dating for different genders, sexualities, and cultures, seeking to understand internet dating in a way that does not just replicate the logic of heternormative narratives of romance, but considers the divergences from this narrative as non-heterosexual and heterosexual daters experience pleasure in unexpected places, find or fail to find what they are looking for, connect or fail to connect with those they contact or meet, or return to internet dating after a relationship ends or in search of more sexual contacts.

Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

This book explores heterosexualities in their complex and everyday expressions. It engages with theories about the intersection of sexuality with other markers of difference, and gender in particular. The outcome will productively upset equations of heterosexuality with heteronormativity and accounts that cast heterosexuality in "sex critical, sex as danger" terms. Queer/feminist ‘pro-sex’ perspectives have become prevalent in analyses of sexuality, but in these approaches queer becomes the site of subversive, transgressive, exciting and pleasurable sex, while heterosex, if mentioned at all, continues to be seen as objectionable or dowdy. It challenges heterosexuality’s comparative absence in gender/sexuality debates and the common constitution of heterosexuality as nasty, boring and normative. The authors develop an innovative analysis showing the limits of the sharply bifurcated perspectives of the "sex wars". This is not a revisionist account of heterosexuality as merely one option in a fluid smorgasbord, nor does it dismiss the weight of feminist/pro-feminist critiques of heterosexuality. This book establishes that if relations of domination do not constitute the analytical sum of heterosexuality, then identifying its range of potentialities is clearly important for understanding and helping to undo its "nastier" elements.

Brook, Heather

Looking After Your Dog

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Holmes, John

Pets & Animal Care

Arco Pub.

What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women′s and men′s lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sage Publications Ltd.

What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyze how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which they live. The book offers a comprehensive account of trends in sociological thinking, from a material and economic focus on gender inequalities to the debates about meaning initiated by the linguistic or cultural turn.

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Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Companions

Arts & Photography

Denys, Patti

Photography & Video

Smithmark Pub.

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Young Refugees and Forced Displacement (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Internet Dating (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Gender and Everyday Life (The New Sociology)

Gender and Everyday Life (The New Sociology)

Internet Dating (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Heterosexuality in Theory and Practice (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

Looking After Your Dog

What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

What is Gender?: Sociological Approaches

Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Companions