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Shaping Natural History and Settler Society
This book explores the life and work of Mary Elizabeth Barber, a British-born settler scientist who lived in the Cape during the nineteenth century. It provides a lens into a range of subjects within the history of knowledge and science, gender and social history, postcolonial, critical heritage and archival studies. The book examines the international importance of the life and works of a marg…
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- 978-3-030-22639-8
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- XXIV, 360
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative : Producing the Reader
Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader. Written from the perspective of a psychoanalytic feminist, Sproles considers a wide array of examples from literature, popular cu…
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- 9780429884443
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Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship, and Activism
ABSTRACT African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to pr…
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- 9781315406749
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LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores p…
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- 978-3-031-13508-8
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- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
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- XVI, 251
LGBTQ+ Intimacies in Southern Europe
This Open Access book argues that Southern European countries offer valuable, though historically overlooked, knowledge regarding intimate citizenship. Guided by the fundamental sociological question of how change takes place and, concomitantly, how law and social policy adjust to and/or shape the practices and expectations of individuals in the sphere of intimacy, this edited volume explores p…
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- 978-3-031-13508-8
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- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
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- 978-3-031-13508-8
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
Originally published by Editions Autrement in 2008 as: L'invention de la culture h?et?erosexuelle.The rise of heterosexual culture and the resistance it met from feudal lords, church fathers, and the medical profession.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305938
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- 1 online resource (xi, 197 pages)
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Global gay :how gay culture is changing the world
Translation of French original, Global gay : comment la r?evolution gay change le monde; published: Paris : Flammarian, 2013.A panoramic view of gay rights, gay life, and the gay experience around the world.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262346108
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 262 pages)
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Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children
Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation? Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some commentators fear that any scientific efforts to unde…
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- 9780262305822
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- 1 online resource (195 pages).
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Queer science :the use and abuse of research into homosexuality
What makes people gay, lesbian, bisexual, or heterosexual? And who cares? These are the twin themes of Queer Science, a scientific and social analysis of research in the field of sexual orientation. Written by one of the leading scientists involved in this research, it looks at how scientific discoveries about homosexuality influence society's attitude toward gays and lesbians, beginning with t…
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- 058500336X
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- 1 online resource (x, 364 pages)
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The Changing Faces of Families Diverse Family Forms in Various Policy Contexts
With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and ""family-f…
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