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CONTENTS SOCIOLOGY
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Sociology of Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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Sociology of Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Sociology of Sport and Leisure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Sociology of Culture, Arts and the Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Political Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Environmental Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
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Sociology of the Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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Korean Communities across the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Sociology of Inequality and Social Divisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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Gender and Sexuality Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Key to Symbols
Media Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Phenomenology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Economic Sociology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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Sociology of Ageing and Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
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GENDER & SEXUALITY STUDIES Feminism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Black Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Gender and Sexuality in Latin America . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Gender, Politics and Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Masculinities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Gender, Activism and Social Justice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Gender, Sexuality and Race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Women Making History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 LGBTQIA+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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SOCIOLOGY 2ND EDITION
Queer Theory Now
From Foundations to Futures Hannah McCann, University of Melbourne, Australia & Whitney Monaghan, Monash University, Australia What is the past, present and future of queer theory? How does it relate to real-world issues such as the current antiLGBTQ+ backlash and the global rise of right-wing politics? This textbook provides an introduction to queer theory, including key terms, concepts, debates, and applications across a range of academic disciplines and to contemporary life more generally. The authors engage with a wide range of developments in queer theory thinking, including discussions of identity politics, transgender theory, intersectionality, postcolonial theory, Indigenous studies, disability studies, affect theory, and more. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 312 Pages HB 9781350415300 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781350415317 • £26.99 / $36.95 ePDF 9781350415287 • £24.29 / $33.25 ePub 9781350415294 • £24.29 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic
This new edition: - Makes difficult theory easy to understand, with clear ‘Key Terms’ boxes and ‘Queer Theory in Practice’ to show how theory applies to real life - Provides an historically-informed approach to understanding queer theory, including how activism has shaped theory - Helps you to engage further with theory through discussion questions, further readings and film recommendations - Is thoroughly updated to engage with the latest scholarship in this fast-moving field, and includes new coverage of issues
Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts A Reader
Caitlin Killian In today’s post-Roe world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Using a reproductive justice framework, Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts walks students through the social landscape around reproduction through the life course. Chapters by cutting-edge reproductive scholars, practitioners, and advocates address the social control of fertility and pregnancy, the promises and perils of assisted reproductive technologies, experiences of pregnancy, miscarriage, abortion, and birth, and how individuals make sense of and respond to UK June 2025 • US June 2025 560 Pages • 7 bw illus, 5 tables HB 9798881801533 • £110.00 / $150.00 PB 9798881801540 • £34.99 / $55.00 ePDF 9798881801557 • £31.49 / $49.50 ePub 9798881854737 • £31.49 / $49.50 Bloomsbury Academic
the cultural, social, and political forces that condition their reproductive lives. The book takes an intersectional approach and considers how gender, sexuality, fatness, disability, class, race, and immigration status impact both an individual’s health and the healthcare they receive. The inclusion of timely topics such as increased legal limitations on abortion, transpeople and reproduction, and new developments in assisted reproduction and family formation, speaks to the current generation of students. An essential text for undergraduate and graduate courses on families, gender, public health, reproduction, and sexuality.
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Queer in a Wee Place
Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland Edited by Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde, UK Building on interdisciplinary sexualities scholarship, activism, creative practices, as well as legislative and cultural critique, this open access book examines the past, present and future imaginings of queerness in Scotland, as a ‘wee place’. With cases covering law, policies, cultural institutions, education, and everyday life, this collection offers an in-depth analysis of Scottish queer experience, showing how ‘wee places’ reflect and inflect global dynamics – revealing tensions between national pride, visibility and exclusion. Scotland’s national claims about being world-leading in the advancement of LGBTQ+ rights often re-invoke a global UK April 2026 • US April 2026 344 Pages HB 9781350513037 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781350513020 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9781350513051 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350513044 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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hierarchy of places to be queer. The under-resourcing of and backlash against equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives, and colliding legislation such as hate crime laws and the UK Supreme Court ruling, expose a more complicated truth. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com Open access was funded by UKRI.
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Technofeminist Resistance
Aesthetics and Strategies of Dissent from the Streets to the Screens Christina Grammatikopoulou, University of Macedonia, Greece Technofeminist Resistance unveils how feminist resistance is evolving in the digital age, transforming from street protests to viral online movements. It focuses on how feminist ‘artivists’ are reshaping technology to challenge gender inequalities, and how feminist groups, especially in Greece and the Global South, are creatively using technology not just as a tool, but as a weapon against the systemic oppressions of the technocolonial world. Moreover, it provides an insight into how technofeminist movements are intertwined globally through shared aesthetics and strategies. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages PB 9781350520868 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350520844 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350520820 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350520837 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
The book illuminates the complex relationship between gender and technology, bringing to light the innovative ways in which feminist principles are being integrated into technological advancements, in the context of activist and artistic practices. With its focus on both local and global views, the book aims to be an essential guide into the ways in which technology, gender, and society are being co-mediated and co-produced.
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DanceSport’s Economy of Desire A Queer-Feminist Perspective
Val Meneau, University of Vienna, Austria DanceSport’s Economy of Desire examines how the DanceSport dispositive shapes its actors’ opportunities, desires, and choices to reproduce the heteronormative gender binary, focusing on the DanceSport dispositive, a network of power that spans over and influences objects (such as clothes or competition halls), discourses (such as federations’ competition regulations, syllabus books, judging criteria), and practices (dancing or choreographing). Meneau argues that the DanceSport dispositive constrains what Latin dance can look like, despite resistance and countermovements, by excluding or invisibilising queerness and objectifying and sexualising female dancers. This shows in all elements that affect or constitute dancers’ performances on the (competition) dance floor; that includes registration, clothing, UK April 2026 • US April 2026 216 Pages PB 9781350531673 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350531680 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350531703 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350531697 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
coupling, partnering, moving, judging. This book helps readers understand how the heteronormative gender binary works, how it plays out in all the elements that influence or make up dance, and how it manages to remain hegemonic. It demonstrates how the DanceSport dispositive affects and influences all its actors, all the time – how we think, decide, move, perceive others, or incorporate knowledge that shapes our bodies according to norms and productive power.
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Talking Bodies IV
Rage and Care Against the Machine Edited by Elisabeth Lechner, University of Vienna, Austria & Holly F. Royle, University of Chester, UK Talking Bodies IV: Rage and Care Against the Machine is a bold intervention against global antifeminism. In their contributions, scholars, artists and activists from around the world - with their specific embodied perspectives - expose systems of oppression they come up against with despair, fear, exhaustion and rage. Instead of fixing what’s trying to break them, they call out violent norms in order to make them assailable and ultimately overcome them. Emerging from a global community that first came together at Talking Bodies, an international, interdisciplinary project with a biennial conference, this new volume continues the ethos of this community, striving to improve equality and equity for different bodies, by exploring how we move through and negotiate with the world around us. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 242 Pages PB 9781350551510 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350551473 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350551497 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350551480 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Progressive Laws in Patriarchal Societies Lessons from Pakistan Sara Malkani Over the last two decades, Pakistan has seen major legislative changes in the area of gender-based violence. This book explores the impact and ongoing influence of these changes. A frequent refrain in political and social commentary in Pakistan is that these laws, while transformative on paper, have not translated to actual change in the lives of women and girls because of poor implementation. Through analysis of court cases, data on criminal proceedings, and interviews with activists and survivors, this book demonstrates how the impact of progressive laws is influenced by entrenched social norms and structural flaws in state institutions, especially the criminal justice system. Sara Malkani sheds light on limitations of the formal justice system while showing how law reform can create openings for activists to pursue gender justice. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 184 Pages PB 9781666917161 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666917147 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765192948 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9798765192955 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Studying Involuntary Celibacy Understanding Incels
Edited by Christian A. I. Schlaerth, Aaron M. Puhrmann & Laura L. Finley While public attention has often centered on the most visible and violent expressions of incel ideology, this volume offers a deeper analysis, moving beyond reductive narratives to explore the complex social, psychological, and communicative dimensions of inceldom. Drawing on expertise from sociology, psychology, communication studies, and conflict resolution, contributors explore the historical development of incel ideology, the formation of incel identity, gendered aspects inceldom, the relationship between involuntary celibacy and violence, and the emergence of femcels and queer incel communities. The volume concludes by exploring avenues for disengagement from incel ideology, while offering concrete proposals for future research into the evolving dynamics of online radicalization and gendered alienation. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 248 Pages • 12 bw figures, 21 tables PB 9798216448372 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966503 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216269113 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978767560 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Thinking Cis
Cisgender, Heterosexual Men, and Queer Women's Roles in Anti-Trans Violence alithia zamantakis The fear many women have for their physical safety when out in public is often heightened for trans women of color. Scholars have long examined what it means to be transgender in a cisgender society, how transgender people experience everyday life and violence, and how transgender people make sense of and cope with that violence. However, to understand what causes anti-trans violence, it is necessary to turn to those most likely to perpetrate it: cisgender people. Through extensive interviews and focus groups with cisgender-heterosexual men and cisgender-lesbian, bisexual, and queer women, Thinking Cis examines how cisgender people make sense of gender, attractions to transgender women, and the murders of Black trans women. It also analyzes how the social construction of cisness shapes how we think about race, gender, sexuality and who we consider worthy of living. alithia zamantakis pushes readers to rethink prominent UK November 2025 • US November 2025 224 Pages • 26 b/w photos; 18 tables HB 9781538177624 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9798216389804 • £21.99 / $27.95 ePDF 9798216292760 • £19.79 / $25.15 ePub 9781538177631 • £19.79 / $25.15 Rowman & Littlefield
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understandings of anti-trans violence and in doing so, argues that it is not simply transphobia that gives rise to murders of trans women but a fear and hatred for what it means to love and desire transgender women.
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Sociology of Religion
Contemporary Developments Kevin J. Christiano, Peter Kivisto & William H. Swatos, Jr. Sociology of Religion, Fourth Edition introduces students to the nature and function of religious institutions and practices while asking sociological questions about the changing role of religion in today’s “post-traditional” world. Broken into three parts, the book opens with the basics of religious history and a review of key theories for its study. Part II, “Religion and Social Differentiation,” examines the intersections of ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality with spirituality today, and Part III, “Religion, Culture, and Change,” explores religious inspirations for, or impediments to, social change. Throughout the text, boxes illuminate key concepts and suggestions for further reading allow for ongoing exploration of key themes and topics. New to the Fourth Edition: · Chapter 9, “Politicized Religion and Conflict,” presents a comparative look at religious extremism and its global risks
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Fair and Foul
Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport D. Stanley Eitzen & Cheryl Cooky Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker side—the influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, and more. Broken into two parts, Part I, “Sport is Fair, Sport is Foul,” discusses issues of social class, race, gender, and health as well as the opportunities and demands of youth sports. Part II, “Sports as a Microcosm of Society,” examines issues stemming from the media, college athletics, professional sports franchises, and whether it’s possible to bring about change for a better and brighter future. New to the Seventh Edition: · New Chapter 3, “Sports Includes, Sports Excludes,” discusses Title IX and how barriers to sport continue to persist despite UK April 2025 • US April 2025 228 Pages • 10 b/w photos HB 9781538197790 • £73.00 / $95.00 PB 9781538175668 • £30.00 / $38.00 ePDF 9798881861988 • £27.00 / $34.20 ePub 9781538175675 • £27.00 / $34.20 Rowman & Littlefield
an expansion of opportunities. · New content on athlete activism tied to social and racial justice reflects the current state of politics in the U.S, especially anti-trans bills, which exclude trans athletes from participating in sports. · Expansion of Chapter 4, “Sport is Healthy, Sport is Destructive,” includes new discussion of mental health issues faced by athletes to reflect current issues and conversations in sports as well as a key concern for this generation of athletes. · New coverage of the role of social media and streaming platforms in sports coverage reflects changes in the media production and consumption of sports
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The Current State of College Football Losing My Religion Joshua Coleman Examining changes in American football fan culture in the technological age uncovers similar patterns in American religion and politics. The Current State of College Football explores changes in football fan culture over the past thirty to forty years, specifically regarding who is viewed as a worthy leader, whether a coach or player. With focus on the Deep South, these changes parallel the move from a religious, story-telling culture to a technological one. The latter provides immediate statistical updates and constant visual access from a phone, a reality that cuts off any slowly developing character arc within football fandom. As a result, the former ability to perceive presence in leaders by the average fan is no longer exercised. As stories UK February 2026 • US February 2026 176 Pages HB 9780761873402 • £40.00 / $55.00 ePDF 9780761880271 • £36.00 / $49.50 ePub 9780761879138 • £36.00 / $49.50 Hamilton Books
give way to statistics, any potential “prophets” of the game are either ignored or lauded for things having nothing to do with presence, the perception of which was homed in a specific religious context and was once a common religious perception. This cultural change is mirrored in the current political realm, the inability to recognize and choose leaders largely the result of losing this ability to enter the narrative arc and discern authentic characters. Those who we now view as unique are often the most predictable parts of the system itself while feigning to be above it. Because our muscles of perception now lie dormant, we more easily fall prey to them.
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Why the Magic Matters
Discovering Disney as a Laboratory for Learning Edited by Alexis Franzese & Jill Peterfeso As education, entertainment, or "edutainment" (as Walt called it), Disney offers its consumers and guests a wealth of opportunities for learning. In Why the Magic Matters, top Disney scholars and teachers unpack what, why, and how Disney maintains its overwhelming cultural significance in the global entertainment industry. Broken into four parts, "Magic and Strategy," "Authenticity and Simulation," "Nostalgia and Innovation," and "Leisure and Labor," the book offers a framework that juxtaposes ideas found in Disney products, properties, and experiences. From art, film, and television history to Indigenous, disability, and religious studies, each chapter contextualizes Disney within a greater cultural landscape. Students, teachers, and fans will gain insights on what Disney can teach us about pop culture and fresh perspectives on why the magic really does matter. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 304 Pages • 2 bw photos, 6 line art HB 9798881802653 • £70.00 / $105.00 PB 9798881802660 • £27.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765155349 • £25.19 / $35.95 ePub 9798881802677 • £25.19 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Paranormal Britain
Belief in the Uncanny in England, Scotland, and Wales Tom Clark, University of Sheffield, UK, Christopher D. Bader, Chapman University, USA & Joseph O. Baker, East Tennessee State University, USA Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British citizens regarding their beliefs and experiences with UFOs, ghosts, psychics and other paranormal phenomena, this open access book details the prevalence and patterns of paranormalism in the U.K. In addition to presenting original findings based on novel data, the authors also engaged in extensive ethnographic fieldwork with different paranormal subcultures. Among other adventures, readers get to ride along as they spend the night with the UK April 2026 • US April 2026 248 Pages • 45 bw illus HB 9781350561656 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350561649 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350561670 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350561663 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
‘most violent poltergeist in history,’ participate in the high ritual of a UFO cult, search for Nessie and werewolves, visit crop circles, learn to read Tarot, talk with alien abductees, and go on shamanic vision quests. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Chapman University.
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Competitive Junior Golf in America A Physical Cultural Study
Ryan King-White, Matthew Hawzen & Marty Clark This book offers a critical, interdisciplinary exploration of junior golf in twenty-first century America, positioning it as a rich site for examining broader questions about identity, access, culture, and power within youth sport. Drawing from sport sociology, cultural studies, and sport management, the authors interrogate how structures of race, class, gender, and institutional governance shape participation in junior golf, while also attending to the lived experiences, aspirations, and pressures that define young athletes’ journeys. Beyond this primary focus, the book offers insight into how sport operates as a cultural and material force that reflects—and reproduces—deeply embedded social values. In capturing the contradictions of a sport steeped in tradition yet shaped by contemporary pressures, this book bridges empirical research and critical theory, inviting readers to rethink how we structure, value, and understand youth sport in an increasingly stratified Social Justice and Equity in Contemporary Sport
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The Image of Africa in Italian Music From Objecthood to a New Subjectivity Luca Bussotti The Image of Africa in Italian Music proposes an innovative, fresh, provocative study, delving inside the common mentality of Italians, through their popular music and the way it has represented Africa and Africans. Italian music has largely followed national history, representing Africa as a mere object, from an inferior and inferiorized land of conquest to a slow process of decolonization of this image, which began around the 1980s and culminated with the irruption of second-generation AfroItalian rappers into the Italian music scene. Through a careful analysis of the lyrics that is never detached from the historical context and sociological implications, the author shows how it was only with second-generation Afro-Italian rappers that provincial Italy had to come to terms with its present and its past. This musical movement gave rise to cultural, social and political debates that went far beyond the mere fact of music, involving other types of art, as well as proposing changes The Frankfurt School in New Times such a new citizenship law - that are still struggling to take hold. Far beyond the image of ‘Italians as good people’, these UK October 2025 • US October 2025 224 Pages PB 9781666971743 • £25.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666971729 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216201557 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9781978761216 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
rappers challenge us on a complex and slippery terrain: the construction of a new Italianness, overcoming clichés and stereotypes that one part of the country stubbornly continues to defend.
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Adorno and the Question of Theology Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations Rachel R. Rosner Adorno and the Question of Theology: Religion and Reason Beyond Foundations begins with a pressing question: can we move beyond the religious–secular divide and live together ethically in a shared political world? This book argues that Theodor W. Adorno—one of the twentieth century’s most influential yet often misunderstood thinkers—shows that we can. Adorno mobilizes theological language together with secular categories of thought to develop a way of thinking beyond the foundations of these traditions. At the center of this approach is the concept of constellation: a mode of thought that brings concepts into relation without subsuming them under a fixed system. Such thinking resists the rigid opposition of “religious” and “secular” by showing how meaning can emerge without appeal to ultimate grounds. The Frankfurt School in New Times Positioning itself against influential “inverse theology” and “negative theology” interpretations, this study shows how Adorno’s
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theological language functions as a model for thinking critically beyond the given. Through close readings of Dialectic of Enlightenment, Negative Dialectics, and Aesthetic Theory, it demonstrates how Adorno reconfigures both reason and theology to confront the fragmentation of modern life. In doing so, the book challenges current paradigms in social theory, moves past long-standing impasses in Adorno scholarship, and provides new orientation for contemporary critical theory, political thought, and philosophy of religion.
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The Sociology of School
Studies of Social Interaction in Education Ingrid Bosseldal & Anders Persson This book examines schools as dynamic social arenas where everyday interactions are shaped by broader institutional conditions. Drawing on sociological theory - particularly Erving Goffman’s interactionism and dramaturgical perspective - Ingrid Bosseldal and Anders Persson analyze how teachers and students perform and negotiate roles within the classroom while also considering the school as a politically governed institution with overlapping dimensions of organization, institution, and seminar. By connecting micro-level interactions with wider structural frameworks, the authors offer analytical tools for understanding schools not only as sites of learning but also as arenas where social order is enacted, contested, and reshaped. This book will be of value to sociologists, educators, and policymakers seeking deeper insight into the complex UK June 2026 • US June 2026 160 Pages PB 9781666977325 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666977301 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216264637 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978762503 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
social processes that underlie everyday school life.
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Contemporary World Issues
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Taking American Citizenship Seriously
Unaccompanied Children in America
David R. Upham
Robert G. Hasson III, Providence College, USA
In this ambitious volume, professor David R. Upham offers a comprehensive account of the original understanding of the Fourteenth Amendment, shedding new light on its often-overlooked Privileges or Immunities Clause. Drawing on a close textual reading as well as a wide range of primary sources— some newly discovered—Upham argues that the framers intended the amendment as a transformative measure designed to strengthen constitutional protections for enduring rights connected to both human personhood and American citizenship. Upham contends that the amendment secures for all individuals the basic rights to life, liberty, and property through guarantees of due process and equal protection, while also reaffirming the birthright principle that grants citizenship to nearly all born on U.S. soil. Moreover, it safeguards longstanding privileges and immunities of citizenship, including the rights to travel, engage in commerce, speak freely, bear arms, and enjoy protection from racial discrimination and other forms of civic exclusion. By recovering the Amendment’s original meaning, this book reshapes our understanding of constitutional rights and citizenship, with far-reaching implications for contemporary legal and political debates.
How many unaccompanied children enter US territory every year? What challenges, dangers, and risk factors are they most likely to face on their migration journeys? What immigration policies and laws determine how their cases are treated in America? Are most unaccompanied children fleeing political violence? What agencies and programs in the USA are responsible for housing these children, processing their cases, and determining their legal status? This all-in-one resource provides insights into every facet of the debates surrounding unaccompanied immigrant children and their experiences on both sides of the US border.
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Youth Activism in America
W. E. B. Du Bois
Edited by Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College, USA & Shamira Gelbman,
Robert A. Wortham
Wabash College, USA
W. E. B. Du Bois: Pioneer American Sociologist highlights the contributions of W. E. B. Du Bois on the field of sociology. Robert A. Wortham shines a light on Du Bois’s role in shaping the scientific scope of the sociological perspective through his pioneering contributions in the areas of demography, urban and rural sociology, Southern Black Belt studies, and religion and society. This book provides a journey through the extensive sociological investigations of one of the key figures in the development of sociology in the United States and globally.
An Encyclopedia of Ideals in Action
Pioneer American Sociologist
Explore the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth in this illuminating encyclopedia. In addition to exploring and explaining the beliefs, actions, and lives of key individuals, groups, and movements, Youth Activism in America also considers the impact of young activists on dialogue and debates surrounding such important and controversial issues as climate change, voting rights, gun policy, women's rights, education, LGBTQ+ rights, human rights, and US foreign policy. This in-depth coverage is further supplemented with introductory essays that survey different facets of youth activism in the USA.
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Unlearn Power
Strengthening Communities in the Age of Environmental Crisis Lemir Teron Unlearn Power: Strengthening Communities in the Age of Environmental Crisis examines how environmental inequality undermines ecosystems and the livelihoods of inhabitants while weighing approaches to resistance and advancing community security. Prefaced on the figurative and literal question "what's under the hood?", the text explores a range of contemporary disparities and threats - endemic across environments and societies - rooted in socioeconomic inequality and systemic racism. Building on the author's work in urban forestry, environmental planning, and energy policy, Unlearn Power applies a range of analysis approaches, frameworks, and case studies to make its case for the democratization of environmental decisionEnvironmental Justice and Power: Studies in Knowledge, Health, Sustainability, and Inequality UK May 2026 • US June 2026 216 Pages • 5 b/w PB 9798216447856 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666978445 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216265832 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978761827 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
making through the centering of marginalized communities and elevating labor as focal points. As serious questions persist related to how the potential of energy and environmental transitions can be reached, without rooting restorative justice and life cycle analysis in environmental governance, the objectives of pro-climate and environmental movements will be deficient. The book ultimately calls for the rethinking of power - including both energy systems and political structures - to advance ecological and human well-being.
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Gratifying Transitions
Maintaining Wellbeing in the Face of Climate Change Søren Harnow Klausen Concerns for future human wellbeing play a central role in climate change debate and policy making but have received scarce attention in climate change ethics. Gratifying Transitions: Maintaining Wellbeing in the Face of Climate Change remedies this by considering whether and how we can live a good and satisfying life under constraints caused by climate change. Drawing on behavioral psychology and theories of self-cultivation, the author argues that green transition requires that we work actively with wellbeing, as moral beliefs, knowledge about climate change, or new understandings of the relationship between humans and nature are unlikely to bring about the necessary changes in behavior. Contrary to a widespread view, the author further argues that subjective wellbeing rather than basic needs satisfaction is the most appropriate notion of wellbeing for addressing climate change issues. The book contains both detailed philosophical Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and Policy
arguments and concrete guidelines for how to foster a transition to more sustainable, but still sufficiently rewarding, ways of living, individually as well as collectively.
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal Edited by Mohamed Mliless, Independent Researcher, Morocco, Diego Luis Forte, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina & Mohammed Moubtassime Interdisciplinary Approaches to Environmental Identity and Portrayal explores the complex relationship between humans and environment through diverse disciplinary perspectives. It examines how we construct environmental identities and represent our surroundings across multiple domains. The book begins with food production narratives and animal welfare implications before exploring the military's unexpected role in climate change mitigation. Linguistic analyses reveal how language frames landscapes as sentient entities, while technological chapters investigate digital innovation in conservation. Legal examinations cover hazardous waste regulations, sustainable development, and water rights, with Morocco serving as a case study. Historical analyses of forest management in India provide context alongside studies of hunted animal UK January 2026 • US January 2026 352 Pages • 32 b/w illus PB 9798216376781 • £21.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666980219 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765165126 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9798765159880 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
portrayals on social media. Psychological dimensions explore how nature shapes identity and social structures, while critical chapters address environmental crises in relation to postcolonialism and gender inequality in the Global South. Feminist perspectives on conservation and literary representations of environmental issues are examined, concluding with nature's therapeutic potential through ecotherapy practices. This resource offers insights for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand our environmental relationships.
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Mexican Gray Wolves, Courts, and the Border Wall Lobo Returns from Limbo Edward A. Fitzgerald This book provides an in-depth analysis of the reintroduction and recovery of the Mexican wolf in the American Southwest, with a particular focus on the role of the Federal judiciary. Edward A. Fitzgerald contends that federal courts have played a critical role in facilitating the species’ return, primarily through their interpretation of statutory law - most notably, the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The courts rejected challenges from the livestock industry, reaffirmed Federal authority over the recovery process, and struck down certain Federal regulations that hindered effective wolf management. However, Fitzgerald argues that the judiciary also made significant missteps. Federal courts upheld revised Mexican wolf management regulations and recovery plans that failed to meet the ESA’s requirement to rely on the “best available science.” Additionally, the courts issued inconsistent rulings UK June 2026 • US June 2026 218 Pages PB 9781666912845 • £28.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666912821 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216267065 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978765757 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
concerning the construction of border barriers. While they blocked the Trump administration’s unauthorized transfer of funds for wall construction, they repeatedly and erroneously upheld the Secretary of Homeland Security’s waiver authority. This authority permitted border wall construction to proceed in violation of Federal, state, and local laws - actions Fitzgerald claims exceeded statutory limits and violated the nondelegation doctrine. Providing a comprehensive and detailed examination of the legal challenges surrounding the Endangered Species Act and the recovery of the Mexican gray wolf, this book will be of interest to legal scholars, policymakers, and conservation advocates.
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Concrete Mirage
Governance, Equity, and Sustainable Cities in the United States Southwest Erin Heinz Daily headlines of wildfires, drought, and record-breaking heat waves have brought climate change into our cities. The urgent challenge is to build cities that can adapt and thrive in the tumult of climate change. This is especially critical for growing cities in the Southwestern United States where rising temperatures and water scarcity threaten sustainability. Concrete Mirage is a timely discussion for those who have ever wondered, “what does it mean to be a sustainable desert city?” Erin Heinz critically examines sustainability as a goal, certification, and a consoling narrative shaping the future of desert cities. Drawing on interviews with sustainability experts from Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada, Concrete Mirage reveals how economic primacy touted by third party governance and city decision-making falls short in fostering long-term viability. By confronting the mirage of sustainable development, it delivers a stark message: desert cities must adopt Environment and Society
strategies of collective austerity if they hope to survive.
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One by Walking
Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies Edited by Camilla Brudin Borg, Hanna E. Åberg, Roger Norum, Suzanne Österlund- Pötzsch & John Martin More than just a way to get from place to place, walking is a powerful method of sensing, reflecting, and engaging–with ourselves, with others, and with the environments we move through. Whether as a meditative act, a research tool, or a response to global crises, walking opens new routes to understanding and more mindful ways of living. This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary collection brings together voices from the social sciences, humanities, and the arts to explore walking as both method and metaphor. From mobility and sustainability to embodied experience and ecological connection, these essays uncover the rich, often overlooked dimensions of walking–how it links us to landscapes, histories, and communities, and how it helps shape our place in the world. Born out of the international research network One by Walking: Transdisciplinary Mobilities and Methodologies offers fresh, thought-provoking insights into walking as a creative, intellectual, Environment and Society
and political practice. For scholars, educators, artists, and walkers of all kinds, this book is an invitation to step into deeper
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ways of thinking–one footfall at a time.
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Korean Immigrants in Latin America Home Away from Home Edited by Kyeyoung Park Korean Immigrants in Latin America: Home Away from Home is a multidisciplinary volume exploring the evolution of transnational Korean communities, tracing migration experiences, processes of cultural adjustment, and the formation of new identities across varied Latin American settings. Bringing together scholars from diverse countries and academic fields, the book uses historical, ethnographic, and qualitative methods to analyze how Korean immigrants have navigated identity, integration, and community-building in Argentina, Mexico, Paraguay, and Brazil. Topics include migration history, intra-ethnic diversity, economic and cultural development, acculturation, and globalization. Addressing key questions about why Koreans migrated, how they integrated and prospered, and how they've negotiated identity, culture, and relationships with local societies and states, this collection Korean Communities across the World
offers richly textured insights into Korean diaspora experiences and transnational community dynamics.
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The Return Journeys of Koryo Saram Tracing Roots and Routes Jinhye Lee This book offers a critical examination of the migration and settlement of Koreans in the former Soviet region, situating the Koryo Saram within the broader context of the Korean diaspora. Tracing their complex history from Imperial Russia through the Soviet era and into the present, Jinhye Lee investigates how policies of assimilation, socio-political transformations, and shifting geopolitical landscapes have shaped their identities and mobility. Lee brings the Koryo Saram from the margins to the center of diaspora studies by foregrounding the diversity of their experiences and examining their integration within host societies. Through in-depth analysis, the book offers insights into the challenges and possibilities of coexistence in increasingly pluralistic settings, while contributing a valuable case study of migration and integration that proposes a broader framework for understanding diasporic identity and promoting Korean Communities across the World
diversity in contemporary societies.
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The Globalizing Legal Sector in Korea
Legal Education, Legal Profession, and Jury System Edited by Joong-Hwan Oh & Jeong-Chul Kim A deep look at how global influences reshaped South Korea’s legal system—blending foreign models with local traditions and sparking new inequalities. Examining how globalization has reshaped South Korea’s legal institutions while deepening old hierarchies, the contributors show that reforms in legal education, the legal profession, and the jury system were not simple adoptions of foreign models but complex hybridizations that combined global ideals with entrenched local practices. By analyzing the “Americanization” of law schools, restructuring of the legal profession, and experiments with citizen participation in trials, the book exposes the tensions inherent in legal reform within a rapidly globalizing society. South Korea’s experience illustrates how efforts to modernize often collide with cultural norms, state agendas, and structural inequalities, producing uneven and occasionally Korean Communities across the World UK June 2026 • US June 2026 258 Pages • 4 bw figures, 46 tables PB 9798216277736 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798216277699 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216277712 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798216277705 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
conflicting outcomes. This volume offers fresh insights for scholars of law and society, comparative legal studies, and East Asian politics, as well as for policymakers navigating the challenges of global reform.
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Reclaiming Humanity
Revolutionary Pathways to Beloved Community Beth Roy Both theoretical and narrative, the book draws on the author’s long experience as a mediator and counselor to examine the ways in which members of society are dehumanized by institutional oppression and contribute to that system. At the place where personal identity and institutional oppression meet there lie reasons beyond morality for all people, especially those with apparent privilege, to resist inequities based in race, gender, class or generation. Reclaiming Humanity explores the psychological and political ways modern individuals become dehumanized, even as we are recruited into systems that dehumanize others. Through stories of personal exploration and learning, the book delves into dynamics by which we consent to systems that deprive us of well-being. Reclaiming Humanity then moves beyond understanding how UK April 2026 • US April 2026 216 Pages HB 9798216374770 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9798216374787 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9798216374800 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216374794 • £19.79 / $26.95 Association for Conflict Resolution
profoundly we’ve lost the art of community connection to open up creative visions of a truly humane social order. Through these narratives and explorations, the work discusses practical directions for mediators, activists, and other seekers after justice.
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Custodians of Salvation
Last Rites and Cremation in Banaras Sarita K. Kashyap This book critically examines the paradoxical status of Doms, as both essential facilitators of salvation and as a community positioned outside the varna hierarchy. Through an ethnographic study of daily interactions among various service castes at the cremation ghats of Banaras, the book explores the structural and spatial dynamics of this highly spiritualised domain. Furthermore, the study interrogates the evolving intersections between tradition and modernity within the death industry. It examines how different specialist castes collaborate in contemporary funeral practices and how technological advancements, particularly the introduction of electric crematoria, challenge deeply ingrained religious beliefs surrounding last rites. The analysis highlights the ongoing tension between modern cremation technologies and traditional funeral practices, revealing the socio-religious resistance to mechanised cremation and its implications for the livelihoods of those UK March 2026 • US March 2026 272 Pages HB 9789361319105 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9789361315299 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9789361313219 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic India
engaged in the death economy. Additionally, the book addresses the unprecedented disruptions brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to a state of normlessness at cremation sites. It provides an in-depth examination of the pathological conditions during the crisis, the adaptive strategies employed by communities to navigate the 'new normal' in death rites, and the broader socio-economic consequences for the Dom, mourners, and other stakeholders. Lastly, it critically evaluates the role of the state in managing the crisis and its impact on funeral practices in Banaras.
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Homelessness in America A Reference Handbook
Michele Wakin, Bridgewater State University, USA A one-stop resource for understanding the crisis of homelessness in the United States, this book covers risk factors for homelessness, societal attitudes about the homeless, and public and private resources designed to prevent homelessness and help those in need. There are a number of questions to be answered when addressing the subject of homelessness in the United States. What are the primary causes of homelessness? What are the economic and socioeconomic factors that have an impact on homeless people? What demographic trends can be identified in homeless populations? Is the United States addressing the needs and concerns of homeless people adequately? Where are the areas with the highest homeless populations? What Contemporary World Issues UK December 2025 • US December 2025 400 Pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781440874857 • £55.00 / $68.00 PB 9798216396796 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440874864 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216098805 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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can be done to help homeless people who live with mental illness and/or addiction problems? Homelessness in America: A Reference Handbook answers all of these questions and more. It thoroughly examines the history of homelessness in the United States, shining a light on the key issues, events, policies, and attitudes that contribute to homelessness and shape the experience of being homeless.
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On Bigotry
Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It Nicholas Ensley Mitchell We like to believe that bigotry is a product of ignorance and that if we educate people enough, they will become immune to bigotry. But what if bigotry isn’t a lack of education, but rather a moral code that people live by? What if bigotry is a common code of hate to which no community is immune? On Bigotry is a field guide for understanding how bigots think and teach others to think, how bigotry disguises itself, how bigotry teaches people to act politically, and, most importantly, what individuals and communities can do about it. This is an essential read for anyone interested in challenging the spread of bigotry in society, regardless of who engages in it and why. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 248 Pages HB 9781538189764 • £30.00 / $30.00 ePDF 9798765154977 • £27.00 / $27.00 ePub 9781538189771 • £27.00 / $27.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland Challenges of Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation Curtis C. Holland Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland examines how the politics of threat and resentment, undergirded by persistent poverty and class and gender inequalities across Catholic and Protestant communities, shape dynamics of political conflict, while simultaneously giving way to critical subjectivities at the community level through which more transformative visions of “peace” may emerge.
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Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South Conversations with a Damn Yankee John F. Cataldi Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee finds that LexingtonRockbridge, VA, community sentiments toward Southern symbols such as the Confederate Battle Flag and Robert E. Lee are not necessarily reducible to a racial divide. John F. Cataldi uses data to demonstrate that most black and white respondents navigate a social balance between the extremes of conservation and progress as a way to productively coexist and unify as a community rather than maintain an insular posture or cause division based solely on symbolic ideology. These findings challenge conventional sociological and media-provided paradigms and broaden the discussion of what tolerance and situational context mean for a large spectrum of community members who live in the milieu of Confederate symbols every day. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 232 Pages • 1 b/w illustration;15 b/w photos; 4 tables HB 9781666923698 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781666923711 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978777682 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781666923704 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
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Bound by BDSM
Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life Alicia M. Walker & Arielle Kuperberg Why are BDSM practitioners so happy? It turns out, BDSM isn’t just about whips and chains. With engaging stories and a warm, conversational tone, Bound by BDSM: Unexpected Lessons for Building a Happier Life reveals how BDSM practitioners use clear boundaries, enthusiastic consent, open dialogue, and a strong community to create fulfilling relationships and build richer, more intentional lives. Drawing on research from the largest scientific study of BDSM ever conducted, Alicia Walker and Arielle Kuperberg demonstrate that the BDSM community’s approach to trust and vulnerability offers a valuable model for building intimacy and fostering authentic connections. BDSM also allows UK August 2025 • US August 2025 176 Pages HB 9798881803025 • £25.00 / $32.00 ePDF 9798765158036 • £22.50 / $28.80 ePub 9798881803032 • £22.50 / $28.80 Bloomsbury Academic
practitioners to exercise their creativity and break the mold - whether it comes to trying out new practices in the bedroom or bending ideas about gender. Whether you’re vanilla, kinky, or just here for the life advice, this book —packed with humor and insight—is a refreshingly open-minded guide to building stronger relationships, deeper intimacy, and a more intentional approach to connection.
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Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality Edited by Majka Ryan, Martin J. Power & Eoin Devereux Media discourses play a powerful role in shaping public understanding of inequality—yet they often obscure, distort, or individualize its causes. Critical Explorations of Media and Inequality examines how mainstream media systems reproduce and legitimize unequal social structures by marginalizing, sensationalizing, or blaming those most affected. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, this edited collection explores the persistent gaps, tensions, and ideological forces at work in media representations of class, poverty, homelessness, welfare, and immigration across diverse global contexts. Organized around the themes of changing media work practices, authoritative voices, representations, and implications, the chapters interrogate how neoliberalism and shifting journalistic norms continue to shape—and limit—the public conversation on Discourse, Power and Society UK January 2026 • US January 2026 248 Pages • 5 b/w figures, 2 tables PB 9781666968200 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666968187 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216253334 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978768420 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
inequality. Through rich empirical analysis and interdisciplinary insight, this volume offers a timely intervention into the politics of media framing and the structural silences that sustain social injustice.
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The Sociology of the Stranger
Dramaturgical, Phenomenological, and Ethnomethodological Perspectives Kwang-ki Kim The Sociology of the Stranger examines estrangement as a pervasive human experience, arguing that the figure of the stranger has been insufficiently theorized as a central social type. By drawing on phenomenology, ethnomethodology, dramaturgical analysis, Kwang-ki Kim reinterprets the stranger as a key to understanding contemporary dynamics such as globalization, dislocation, and social adaptation. Rather than being marginal, the stranger is shown to be constitutive of both social life and sociological inquiry, offering a model for authenticity, reconciliation, and homecoming. Highlighting how sociologists themselves often occupy the stranger’s position, this book is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences, revealing how the figure of the stranger illuminates dynamics of dislocation, adaptation, and the search for home in an age of transformation. UK January 2026 • US January 2026 290 Pages PB 9798216379942 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798216379904 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216379935 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798216379928 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Labor Precarity, Social Exploitation, and Trade Union Engagement Critical Approaches to Work from Spain and Portugal Edited by Nuria Sánchez Madrid & Pablo López Álvarez Labor Precarity, Social Exploitation, and Trade Union Engagement: Critical Approaches to Work from Spain and Portugal collection provides some normative interpretations of the labor crisis’ effects on both Spain and Portugal, focusing on how digital platforms and gig economy have altered patterns of labor relations and trade union membership in Spain and Portugal. While for a time, labor appeared to have lost its centrality within critical theory and social philosophy, recent years have disproved this. The evolution of advanced neoliberal societies has shown the extent to which labor is crucial for understanding a wide array of concepts such as domination and exploitation, modes of subjectivity, health and diseases, UK November 2025 • US November 2025 272 Pages PB 9798216365532 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798216365525 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216351924 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798216351917 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
gender relations, and the organization of democracy. Labor is a privileged space for understanding the profoundly active and constructive nature of neoliberalism. In contrast with characterizations emphasizing its laissez-faire policies of deregulation, labor is one area in which the interventionist activism of neoliberalism has been most intense, provoking changes in work processes, legislation, production models, and individualization. Moreover, many of today’s social conflicts unfold in relation to work and its conditions: new forms of trade unionism, associationism and activism renew the language and practices of resistance in a situation demonstrating a new relationship between business corporations, trade unions and the State.
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Shaping Doctoral Experiences Nurturing the Relational
Edited by Damien Lyons, Jane Southcott, Monash University, Australia & Kanwarjeet Singh This book argues that meaningful relational connections are central to effective doctoral journeys. In the neoliberal era, doctoral supervision is too often framed through performance metrics and rigid production timelines. This edited collection demands an urgent reimagining of doctoral relationships—one that reclaims supervision as a dynamic space for scholarly growth, creative inquiry, and research integrity. Centering relationality, this book adopts a perspective of resistance: asserting agency, amplifying voices, and highlighting the vitality of human connection in cultivating a holistic and growth-oriented doctoral journey. Bringing together insights from scholars across the globe, the book explores diverse approaches to supervision and the relational practices that shape doctoral education in profound ways. It fosters a generous and critical dialogue, inviting readers to engage with new pedagogies, ideas, and practices that can nourish the relational UK February 2026 • US February 2026 328 Pages • 21 bw figures, 2 tables PB 9781666974201 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974188 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216261421 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978763173 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
fabric of supervision and, in doing so, transform the contemporary doctoral experience.
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Sociologists Making Change
Public Engagement for Social Justice Edited by Dale Wimberley & Jon Shefner This book explores how sociologists participate in political action by drawing on their scholarly understandings of the problems they confront and the social contexts in which these struggles are embedded.
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The Happy Stepcouple
How Couples with Stepchildren Can Strengthen Their Relationships Rachelle Katz Navigate the challenges of a blended family with children to fortify your marriage for lasting happiness and understanding. The Happy Stepcouple is a comprehensive and practical book designed to help couples with children from prior relationships thrive despite the complexities of stepfamily life. Utilizing the most current research in attachment theory, psychology, communication, and marriage and family therapy, Rachelle Katz offers a grounded approach to overcoming common stepfamily problems. She shows stepcouples how to establish realistic stepfamily expectations as well as identify and modify UK April 2025 • US April 2025 240 Pages • 3 tables HB 9781538130643 • £26.00 / $35.00 PB 9798881806286 • £16.99 / $22.00 ePDF 9798765155172 • £15.29 / $19.80 ePub 9781538130650 • £15.209 / $19.80 Rowman & Littlefield
harmful communication patterns—essential elements needed to strengthen the family bond. Drawing on the insights and strategies developed from Katz’s 30-plus years as a marriage and family therapist specializing in treating stepfamilies, The Happy Stepcouple also includes personal accounts from stepcouples who describe the problems they have faced and how they handled them. It gives couples everything they need to navigate stepfamily dynamics with confidence and kindness, allowing families to build a happy, fulfilling life together.
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Marriage and Divorce in America Issues, Trends, and Controversies
Edited by Jaimee L. Hartenstein, University of Central Missouri, USA This wide-ranging resource will help readers understand the history and current state of marriage and divorce in the United States, including their many cultural, economic, political, legal, and religious facets. Coverage includes information and insights on broad trends in relationships that are changing the landscape of American society, such as childcare, delayed marriages, blended families, and prevalence of marriage and divorce among various socioeconomic groups. In addition, the encyclopedia features in-depth entries covering high-interest issues that are shaping the character of UK February 2026 • US February 2026 528 Pages HB 9781440868368 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9798216452188 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781440868375 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9798216171973 • £26.09 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
marriage, divorce, relationships, and family life in the 21st century, including economic/legal topics (child support, prenups, divisions of assets in divorce, the wedding industry, no-fault divorce, legal representation in divorce, and economic independence as a factor in separations/divorce); other divorce factors (infidelity, parenthood, illness, domestic abuse, and child abuse); and a host of other legal/cultural issues, factors, and phenomena, both current and historical.
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The Social Brain
Sociological Foundations Sal Restivo The Social Brain: Sociological Foundations introduces the concept of the social brain, including a detailed conceptual model of the social brain networked in the world. The idea that our brains are social has its roots in nineteenth-century social thought and primate research initiated in the 1950s. It was introduced into the neuroscience literature in 1990 as a challenge to the traditional view of the isolated bio-medical brain, a view that still dominates the scientific, media, and public imaginations. Sal Restivo’s foundational thesis is that humans arrive on the evolutionary stage always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes. He argues the “I” is a grammatical illusion reflecting the myth of individualism. The unique feature of this book is the amount of space devoted to constructing the sociological scaffolding needed to understand what the author means by the social self, the social mind, and the social brain. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 206 Pages • 1 b/w illustrations; HB 9781666927054 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781666927078 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978759077 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781666927061 • £26.09 / $35.95 Lexington Books
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The approach leads to new ways of thinking about socialization, consciousness, and creativity as networked phenomena. The result is a novel way of integrating the social self, the biological self, and the neurological self and erasing the classical boundaries between brain, mind, and body.
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The 53
Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster Jason S. Ulsperger On August 9, 1965, 53 men died in the impoverished hills of rural Arkansas. Their final breaths came in a government facility deep underground while their loved ones were at home expecting their return. The incident at Launch Complex 3734 remains the deadliest accident to occur in a U.S. nuclear facility. The 53: Rituals, Grief, and a Titan II Missile Disaster analyzes the event. It looks at causes but more importantly at how the mishap has affected daughters and sons for nearly six decades. It gives new sociological insight on technological disasters and the sorrow following them. The book also details how surviving family members managed themselves and each other while benefiting from the support of friends and strangers. It describes how institutions blame the powerless, and how powerful organizations generate distrust and secondary trauma. With an analysis of the event and post-disaster life, their children share stories on what went wrong and how they keep moving forward.
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Feminist Intersectional Therapy Fourth Wave Clinical Applications
Edited by Joanne Jodry & Kathleen McCleskey Feminist intersectional therapy can be an essential tool for clinicians struggling through new territories of suffering under today’s oppressive cultural, social, and political norms and systems. Feminist Intersectional Therapy: Fourth Wave Clinical Applications is a foundational text that provides an advanced understanding of feminist and intersectional theories, and how they can be applied within the mental health disciplines. Editors Joanne Jodry and Kathleen McCleskey collaborate with other educators and clinical practitioners from a range of identities, professions, and theoretical orientations. Going beyond a single rigid framework, the author collective builds on feminist theory’s foundational roots, infused with intersectional theory, to conceptualize multiple, flexible clinical applications with original models and creative techniques. UK April 2025 • US April 2025 402 Pages • 3 b/w illustrations; 1 table HB 9781538179772 • £85.00 / $110.00 PB 9781538179789 • £35.00 / $45.00 ePDF 9798881862008 • £31.50 / $40.50 ePub 9781538179796 • £31.50 / $40.50 Rowman & Littlefield
This book addresses fundamental topics across all clinical mental health disciplines, from ethics and human development to various clinical modalities—individual, relational, family, group therapy, and clinical supervision. Specialty areas that are covered include spiritual issues, crisis intervention and trauma, substance use, career counseling, and sexual topics. It also discusses specific individuals with diverse identities—children, adolescents, and older adults; disabled individuals; BIPOC individuals; individuals with nondominant gender and affectional identities; and those from other oppressed and privileged identity groups.
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Nonbinary Life An Autotheory Marquis Bey Nonbinary Life is an invitation to imagine the possibilities of life outside of gender. To write, to think, to imagine, to agitate, and to love without regard for gender is to lead a non-binary life. In this genredefying work of autotheory, Marquis Bey proposes a radical refusal: to relinquish gender as a framework we carry - for ourselves and for others - and to embrace modes of being that exist outside of its grasp. Spanning questions of pronouns, masculinity, love, family, language, and even the Redwood National Forest, Nonbinary Life Transgender Theory
blends memoir and theory to provide a philosophical meditation on what it means to live beyond the binary
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Gender and Memory in Hungary
From the Siege of Budapest to Present Day Lisa Pope Fischer Gender and Memory in Hungary: From the Siege of Budapest to Present Day examines the life stories of elderly Hungarian women through a person-centered approach from an anthropological perspective. Each woman crafts her narrative against the backdrop of significant historical events: World War II, the post-war period, the 1956 revolution, the Kádár era, and the shifts of post-communism leading into Goulash populism. These narratives not only mirror large historical signposts but also shed light on cultural patterns and unofficial microhistories that form a Chorus of Experiences—an intricate tapestry of diverse lived experiences, identity, and memory. The author uses anthropology to explore the nuances of personal stories, revealing insights about our shared human condition. By adopting this view, the text draws interesting parallels between Goulash populism and neo-revitalization movements, highlighting that while our history shapes the present, today's societal UK February 2026 • US February 2026 336 Pages PB 9798216437444 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974270 • £80.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216255437 • £72.00 / $117.00 ePub 9781978771055 • £72.00 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Women's Impact on Environmental Governance
Reclaiming the Commons through Knowledge, Care, and Culture Edited by Sarah A. Ebel & Katherine L. Reedy Women’s Impact on Environmental Governance: Reclaiming the Commons through Knowledge, Care, and Culture assembles geographically diverse analyses of case studies from around the world to demonstrate how women interact with global drivers of change to create new governance structures, subvert existing governance structures, or adapt their informal structures to reclaim their commons. Drawing upon case studies from Bangladesh, Peru, the United States, Tanzania and Kenya, and Chile, the book’s authors address the question: How do women reclaim their culture and resources from the impacts of global change by enacting processes of formal and informal governance? The authors argue that women are essential actors in processes of both environmental and economic governance. Yet, their labor often goes unrecognized as power dynamics between and across genders shape access, control, and care of a resource or property and both state-level Environment and Society
policymaking and international development frequently reinforce women’s marginalization. However, women’s work
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underpins economic, environmental, and community sustainability and they persist to overcome, subvert, or circumnavigate forms of enclosure in the commons. As both an ode to women’s work and a call to policymakers and development agencies to recognize women's labor, this book illustrates how women draw upon knowledge, care, and culture to improve social, economic, and ecological well-being.
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Black Girlhood as Visual Oppositional Knowledge Narratives of Power and Resistance Lateasha Nicol Meyers In Black Girlhood as Visual Oppositional Knowledge: Narratives of Power and Resistance, Lateasha Meyers invites readers into an exploration of visual experiences, cultural narratives, and creative expressions of black girlhood. This work weaves together photographs, storytelling, and critical analysis to illuminate the rich tapestry of visuals. Through a blend of examining black girlhood, Black feminist theory, and photographs the book examines how societal visual perceptions and representations shapes the lives of Black girls. Furthermore, the author brings together these ideas to create Black girlhood as Oppositional Knowledge or BGVOK. A process and a product which is outlined throughout the narrative of the book. This book is an essential read for anyone who is interested in understanding the intersections of race, age, gender, and visual culture. UK June 2026 • US June 2026 160 Pages • 3 b/w illustrations PB 9798216463986 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666962321 • £90.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216251972 • £81.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978766464 • £81.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Visual Culture and Gender in Mexico Eli Bartra Visual Culture and Gender in Mexico opens by setting out a conceptual, political, historical, and personal framework that serves to anchor the Mexican visual culture it goes on to address. To this end, it also provides a brief overview of feminist thinking from the late nineteenth century to the present day, which has nourished these visual artists and the author herself. The notion of uprootedness runs through the entire work, as does the idea of nomadism and nomadic-critical subjects. The author addresses loosely defined traditional, modern and contemporary art, including photography and film, as components of the visuality of this corner of the Global South. The book goes beyond recognised figures such as Frida Kahlo, who have dominated Mexico’s visual culture almost exclusively, though it does not dismiss them. It thus offers a visual mosaic that presents the work of photographers, filmmakers and a few artists whose creativity has no qualms about crossing boundaries; one comes from China, another UK May 2026 • US May 2026 272 Pages • 44 b/w PB 9798216446286 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666982015 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216266150 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978759855 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
looks out over the Mediterranean, another is based in Guanajuato, another lives in Querétaro, and there is even a European who walks the desert in northern Mexico, unearthing wounds.
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Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature Ink and Identity
Edited by Diana Obeid & Sonia Lamrani Gender and Identity in Arab Women's Literature: Ink and Identity follows the journey of Arab women from being silenced in male-authored texts to finding their voices in fiction, memoir, and theater. Whether writing from the streets, prisons, or within the broader socio-political world, Arab women have carved out spaces for themselves in areas once thought off-limits. The contributors analyze how these women challenge stereotypes, take back control of their stories, and push back against restrictive gender roles. Through the work of scholars like Foucault and Butler, the book looks at the dynamics of power, identity, and body politics in their writings. It offers a new understanding of how women’s voices continue to challenge and transform the narratives around them. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the powerful, ongoing role women play in shaping their own stories in the Middle East. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World UK February 2026 • US February 2026 224 Pages PB 9798216375029 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974249 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216255413 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978771031 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Exploring Death, Diaspora, and Gender in the Coptic Community Going Home
Mariam Youssef Exploring Death, Diaspora, and Gender in the Coptic Community: Going Home explores the dynamics of death and gender in diasporic Coptic communities. Theologically and socially, the Coptic community is obsessed with death—incorporating numerous musings on the afterlife into music, teaching, ritual, and art. This accompanies a fixation on martyrdom that pervades Coptic culture. Additionally, all of these aspects of Coptic life are deeply gendered in ways that communicate a theology of gender that bleeds into the world of the living. The author explores Coptic death rituals, paradigms of martyrdom, and representations of contemporary sainthood, providing an analysis of their impacts on Coptic women and queer Copts. Ultimately, these death practices reinforce theologies of gender and the body that promote problematic gender hierarchies. Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World UK September 2026 • US May 2026 176 Pages • 1 b/w PB 9798216460848 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781793650863 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216254737 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978771161 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Islamic Feminism
Hermeneutics and Activism Mulki Al-Sharmani, University of Helsinki, Finland Shortlisted for the 2025 Muslim World Book Award. Mulki Al-Sharmani undertakes a close textual analysis of the hermeneutics of selected Islamic feminism scholars as they engage with the Qur’an, Hadith, and different textual genres in Islamic interpretive tradition. She focuses on the relevant works of nine prominent scholars located in North America, Egypt, Morocco, and South Africa. Bringing their works into conversation with one another, Islamic Feminism critically examines the epistemological and methodological contributions and challenges of these scholars. Al-Sharmani shows how these scholars’ engagements with UK June 2026 • US June 2026 264 Pages HB 9781783606344 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781783606337 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781783606351 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781783606368 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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the question of gender also yields new insights into the interplay between Islamic theology, ethics, and law. Drawing on extensive multi-sited ethnographic research, Al-Sharmani examines the societal significance and limits of the studied scholarship and how it informs and is informed by multidimensional Muslim gender activism in both global and local contexts. Towards the latter aim, Al-Sharmani focuses on two case studies: the global movement Musawah, and Egyptian Islamic feminism in the aftermath of the 2011 Revolution.
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Gender and Policy Analysis An Interdisciplinary Approach
Edited by Elena V. Shabliy, Dimitry Kurochkin & Kimarie Engerman Gender and Policy Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Approach presents a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of how gender policy is shaped, implemented, and challenged in a rapidly evolving global landscape. The volume draws together leading scholars from sociology, political science, economics, law, and other fields to analyze the persistent barriers and emerging opportunities for gender equity. It addresses the challenges of integrating gender perspectives into policy-making, emphasizing the importance of intersectionality, representation, legal frameworks, and economic empowerment. Through focused case studies—from women’s labor force participation gender balance in civil aviation, to the gender pay gap in sports and barriers for women in STEM and renewable energy—the book illuminates the nuanced realities faced by women and marginalized groups across diverse societies. It also examines recent legal developments, such as the 2025 U.S. UK June 2026 • US April 2026 208 Pages • 2 b/w PB 9798216440000 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666978353 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216255444 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978771062 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
executive order defining gender in binary terms, revealing the contentious debates at the heart of contemporary gender policy. Aimed at academics, policymakers, and advocates, this volume offers practical insights and innovative approaches for designing and implementing inclusive, forward-thinking gender policies aligned with global Sustainable Development Goals. In doing so, it fosters a comprehensive understanding of gender equity as both an ethical imperative and a catalyst for sustainable societal advancement.
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Beyond the Hegemonic
A Global Exploration of Theory and Praxis of Men and Masculinities Edited by Rajni Singh & Debapriya Ganguly Beyond the Hegemonic: A Global Exploration of Theory and Praxis of Men and Masculinities critically examines the conceptualization of hegemonic masculinity, arguing against its reduction to a monolithic and inherently negative construct. Instead, it proposes a more nuanced understanding of hegemony as crucial for the development of effective strategies for gender justice. The volume investigates the complex interplay between globalization, postcolonialism, neoliberalism, and emergent technologies in shaping masculinities across local, regional, and global scales. It analyzes the dynamic relationship between hegemonic masculinity and a range of non-hegemonic masculinities, including complicit, subordinate, marginalized, and protest masculinities. Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities UK February 2026 • US February 2026 420 Pages • 2 b/w PB 9798216390930 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666981261 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216251897 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978766341 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Through a diverse range of case studies, encompassing topics such as the influence of Boys' Love media, the fragility of patriarchal masculinity as revealed in marginalized women's narratives, the cultural implications of the "geriaction" subgenre, the negotiation of metrosexuality within Indian contexts, and the intersection of violence and masculinity, the book explores the multifaceted ways in which feminism, globalization, and shifting gender roles have shaped contemporary masculinities, ultimately offering considered projections regarding their future trajectories.
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Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania Gender, Learning and Unlearning
Paula Mählck, Stockholm University, Sweden This open access book, Domestic Work in Postcolonial Tanzania, examines the dynamics of learning domestic and care work within affluent expatriate households, characterized by significant economic privilege and, at times, diplomatic immunity. Paula Mählck employs contemporary narratives from privileged female expatriate employers and Tanzanian domestic workers, colonial documents, analysis of the built space of expatriate households, as well as literary works and analytic autoethnography to investigate the continuities and changes in contemporary employment relations as compared to those during the British colonial era from the 1920s to the 1960s. This book provides valuable insights into the complexities of domestic work taking place in expatriate households in UK May 2026 • US May 2026 204 Pages HB 9781350277038 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781350277076 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781350277052 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350277045 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
postcolonial Tanzania. It offers a thought-provoking examination of learning, learning to cope, and unlearning within the context of privilege and power. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Stockholm University.
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Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area Taking It
Kristen Myers & Patricia Wallace For decades, feminists have been educating young people about healthy sexual interactions, promoting the benefits of affirmative consent. College students know that “Yes means yes!” Yet rates of sexual assault on college campuses remain stable. What’s going on? Despite concerted affirmative consent campaigns, coercive sexual intimacy and sexual assault persist, with some students (mostly men) still forcing sex on their partners—“taking it” from them. Facing ubiquitous sexual pressure, young people often relent to unwanted sex and “just take it.” Outsiders pass judgement on victim/survivors, demanding, “It’s just sex! Shut up and take it!” Survivors—despite their trauma—resist, “taking back” bodily empowerment. In Exploiting, Enduring, and Resisting Ambiguous Sexual Consent in the Grey Area: Taking It, Kristen Myers and Patricia UK February 2026 • US January 2026 280 Pages • 7 b/w PB 9798216390497 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666948264 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216252795 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978770454 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Wallace conduct an intersectional analysis of data provided by a diverse group of college students to explore these four meanings of “taking it.” They contextualize their analysis, examining the impact of sexual education in the U.S. as well as laws and policies aimed at reducing sexual assault. Using both sociological and social psychological lenses, they seek to illuminate the grey area surrounding sexual consent. The authors’ goal is to help spur changes in culture, practices, rules, and infrastructure to ultimately reduce sexual violence and increase sexual autonomy for all people.
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Fatness and Femininity
Negotiating Narratives of Girlhood Online Jennifer Almjeld Fatness and Femininity: Negotiating Narratives of Girlhood Online traces popular narratives of femininity, fatness, and body positivity available to girls on popular social media spaces Instagram and TikTok. Using rhetorical analysis of keyword searches, Jen Almjeld argues that social media positions successful femininity as fit, fashionable, agreeable, sexually alluring, and always striving and defines fatness as failure, specifically as unhealthy, lazy, irresponsible, unattractive, and humorous. With two decades of experience researching and working with girls, Almjeld argues that despite the promise of body positivity to resist such narratives, the movement has been co-opted and watered down and is now little more than another way to teach girls that their bodies are not good enough. While our culture has much to say about proper ways to be and do girl, there are few scripts available for acceptable ways to be fat, particularly in a body gendered feminine. This text UK June 2026 • US June 2026 200 Pages • 7 b/w illustrations PB 9798216460596 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666974720 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216254928 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978770836 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
encourages more open, critical conversation of fatness via a “fat girl gaze” to better understand ways girls and women in particular write and are written by identity narratives around them. This book challenges the socially constructed and consumerist notions of fatness that lead to fatphobia.
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Women and Sexuality Global Lives in Focus
Kelly Campbell, California State University & M. L. Parker, Florida State University This important volume offers readers an in-depth understanding of women's sexuality around the world, bringing to light a history that is often suppressed. What is reproductive health like for women in other countries of the world? How are marriage and love viewed in other cultures? This volume examines aspects of women and sexuality across the globe. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a different world region, including North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and East Asia, South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. The topics covered in each chapter include sexual attitudes and practices, the influence of religion on sexuality, sexual violence, reproductive health, love and marriage, and the media and sexuality. Women and Society around the World UK February 2026 • US February 2026 304 Pages • 27 bw illus HB 9781440873041 • £70.00 / $68.00 PB 9798216453512 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440873058 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216182948 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Specific country and cultural examples are interwoven such that readers come away with an understanding of the beliefs, practices, traditions, and customs that are common in each world region. Readers will be able to make cross-cultural comparisons, learning how the sexuality of women varies and yet is also the same from culture to culture. This volume is written in clear, jargon-free language, making it appropriate and useful for students and general readers.
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Sandra Day O'Connor
How an Arizona Cowgirl Became the First Woman Supreme Court Justice Nancy Hendricks, Independent Scholar, USA A fresh look at the legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor from hardscrabble childhood in the Arizona desert, to facing adversity as a female in politics, to her work as the first woman Justice on the US Supreme Court. By being the first woman on the Supreme Court, O’Connor set the stage for future gender equity in America’s legal system, becoming one of the most significant people in US history. This accessible analysis of O'Connor's life, examines how her early beginnings in the remote desert of the American Southwest, where her family’s ranch was 32 miles from the nearest school, shaped her world view and in turn, decisions at the US Supreme Court that affect us today. At first, she aspired to be a cattle rancher, but instead, went on to enroll at California’s Stanford University at the age 16. This biography follows her Women Making History
determination as she overcame prejudice and made history by being appointed to the US Supreme Court in 1981; and it
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places O’Connor in the context of her times by examining how her decisions on the Supreme Court helped to move the country forward and continue to impact us today.
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Same-Sex Marriage Exploring the Issues
Scott A. Merriman, Troy University, USA This book outlines the history of same-sex marriage, explaining how politics and religion have intersected to decide and control who can legally marry. Marriage equality became law in the United States in 2015 with the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges. Marriage is, strictly speaking, a secular ceremony, requiring only civil sanction. However, many couples also seek the blessing of a religious body upon their union, and not all religious bodies support marriage equality. Some oppose it outright and some support it outright, while others are divided. Religion in Politics and Society Today UK September 2025 • US September 2025 208 Pages HB 9781440875236 • £34.00 / $45.00 PB 9798216374626 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440875243 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216141464 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
This work examines the issue of same-sex marriage in the U.S. and internationally. It surveys the attitudes of major religions towards same-sex marriage and also looks at leading and sometimes polarizing personalities, like politician Pete Buttigieg and Kentucky clerk Kim Davis, who exemplify both the religious and political sides of the issue. The book's A–Z organization makes it easy for readers to locate important court cases, individuals, religious bodies, and social movements at the center of the same-sex marriage debate.
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