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Feminism and the Power of Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 362

Feminism and the Power of Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-04-17
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The power of love has become a renewed matter of feminist and non-feminist attention in the 21st century’s theory debates. What is this power? Is it a form of domination? Or is it a liberating force in our contemporary societies? Within Feminism and the Power of Love lies the central argument that, although love is a crucial site of gendered power asymmetries, it is also a vital source of human empowerment that we cannot live without. Instead of emphasizing "either-or", this enlightening title puts the dualities and contradictions of love center stage. Indeed, by offering various theoretical perspectives on what makes love such a central value and motivator for people, this title will incr...

The Reproductive Body at Work
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 219

The Reproductive Body at Work

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-11
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The transnational industry surrounding assisted reproductive technology and regenerative medicine is based on the unacknowledged labour of gamete providers, surrogates and research subjects, and benefits from low labour costs in ‘enabling’ sectors such as logistics and transport. This finding calls for a comprehensive analysis of how the contemporary intersection of neoliberal capitalism and the life sciences - in short, the bioeconomy - capitalises on the body and its (re)productive capacities. The Reproductive Body at Work uptakes this challenge as it explores the relations between value production, labour and the body in one particular realm of the global bioeconomy: the South African...

Borderlands in European Gender Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 449

Borderlands in European Gender Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-10-23
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Challenging persistent geopolitical asymmetries in feminist knowledge production, this collection depicts collisions between concepts and lived experiences, between academic feminism and political activism, between the West as generalizable and the East as the concrete Other. Borderlands in European Gender Studies narrows the gap between cultural analysis and social theory, addressing feminist theory’s epistemological foundations and its capacity to confront the legacies of colonialism and socialism. The contributions demonstrate the enduring worth of feminist concepts for critical analysis, conceptualize resistance to multiple forms of oppression, and identify the implications of the decoupling of cultural and social feminist critique for the analysis of gender relations in a postsocialist space. This book will be of import to activists and researchers in women’s and gender studies, comparative gender politics and policy, political science, sociology, contemporary history, and European studies. It is suitable for use as a supplemental text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in a range of fields.

Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-06-27
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Raising to the challenge of how to grasp such forms of inequalities that are mediated affectively, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships focuses on subtle inequalities that are shaped in everyday affective encounters. It also seeks to bridge a gap between affect theory and empirical social research by providing ideas and inspiration of how to work with affect in research practice. Presenting cutting-edge empirical studies on affect and intimate relationships, the collection - introduces alternative and novel ways of conceptualizing the workings of affect in intimate relationships - provides tools for tackling the subtle ways in which affectivity connects with power relations in intimate relations - develops innovative methodologies that provide better access to affect as an embodied experience A fascinating contribution to the interdisciplinary field of affect studies, Affective Inequalities in Intimate Relationships will appeal to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates interested in fields such as gender studies, queer studies and cultural studies.

Disonancias y resonancias conceptuales:
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 266

Disonancias y resonancias conceptuales:

La creciente complejidad de la investigación sociológica, resultado de la especialización temática y del uso de sofisticadas técnicas de investigación, obliga a revisar los fundamentos de una teoría social que se antoja menos equipada conceptualmente para cumplir su tarea. La explicación de lo social ya no parece caber en la jaula de hierro de los paradigmas teóricos dominantes. Al mismo tiempo, las transformaciones mismas de las sociedades humanas plantean cuestionamientos esenciales a la teoría social. ¿Cómo debe posicionarse la sociología ante un mundo enfrentado al cambio en las formas de comunicación, al cambio climático, al reemplazo de las economías de escala por econo...

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 457

Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion

The Research Handbook on the Sociology of Emotion investigates the role of emotions in key institutions understood as the frames and fabrics of society. It takes a critical look at society-framing institutions such as the state, the military, the market, and international organizations.

Love
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Love

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-12
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This unique, timely book of original essays sets the stage for a new materialist feminist debate on the analysis, ethics and politics of love. The contributors raise questions about social power and domination, situating their research in a materialist feminist perspective that investigates love historically, in order to understand changing ideologies, representations and practices. The essays range from studies of particular representations and examples of love - feminist translation, mass media images and internet love blogs - to feminist theories of love and marriage, to ethical and political theories describing, critiquing or advocating the use of love in groups as a radical force. They break new ground in bringing together questions of gendered interests in love, temporal dimensions of loving practices and the politics of love in radical transformations of society.

Sociological Abstracts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 764

Sociological Abstracts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: Unknown

CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.

Las emociones en la vida social: miradas sociológicas
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 462

Las emociones en la vida social: miradas sociológicas

Acaso cabe imaginar un ser humano carente de sentimientos, emociones, afectos o estados de ánimo, en su relación con el mundo y con otros seres humanos? ¿Acaso el carácter, el curso o el destino de una relación social pueden entenderse al margen de lo sentido por los actores? Este libro pone de relieve el papel que juegan las emociones en la vida social, mostrando así la necesidad de incorporar el estudio de la dimensión afectiva en toda investigación sociológica. Relaciones de género, violencia, droga, traumas, reencuentro familiar, migración, discursos políticos, trabajo, e interacción socio-digital, son algunos de los fenómenos analizados en esta magnífica obra

Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics

This book revolves around epistolary narratives of women political theorists and activists, following traces of Hannah Arendt’s philosophical approaches to love and agonistic politics. Arend’s interlocutors are four revolutionary women in the long durée of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe and the USA: the romantic socialist Désirée Véret-Gay, the Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, the anarchist Emma Goldman and the labour activist Rose Pesotta. The book’s central argument is that Arendt’s philosophical thought can throw light on dangerous liaisons between love, gender and agonistic politics, further making connections with feminist ruminations around love as an existential f...