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Postfeminist War
By examining news and documentary media produced since September 11, 2001, Vavrus demonstrates that news narratives that include women use feminism selectively in gender equality narratives. She ultimately asserts that such reporting advances post-feminism, which, in tandem with banal militarism, subtly pushes military solutions for an array of problems women and girls face.
Mary Douglas
This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, and the pervasive influence of her catholic faith on her writings before providing an analysis of two of her most influential works; Purity and Danger (1966) and Natural Symbols (1970). The final section deals with Douglas' more controversial writings in the fields of economics, consumption, religion and risk analysis in contemporary societies. Throughout, Fardon highlights the centrality of Douglas' role in the history of anthropology and the discipline's struggle to achieve relevance to contemporary, western societies.
Postfeminist News
Winner of the 2003 Diamond Anniversary Book Award presented by the National Communication Association In the media-saturated decade of the 1990s, news reports shaped public sentiment about women in electoral politics and beyond. Mary Douglas Vavrus explores the process of representing political women in media, and argues that contemporary news accounts promote a postfeminist politics that encourages women's private, consumer lifestyles and middle-class aspirations, while it discourages public life and political activism. The author discusses the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings of 1991, the 1991–92 "Year of the Woman" in politics, the 1996 presidential campaign's use of "soccer moms," and Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for Senate in 2000. Vavrus assesses the logic that emerges in these narratives' recurrent themes about gender and explores their significance for women and for feminism, ultimately arguing that feminism has been supplanted by postfeminism in news accounts of political women.
Mary Douglas
This collection provides facsimiles of twelve groundbreaking works by Mary Douglas, one of the most influential scholars in British social anthropology. Covering her key writings during the second half of the twentieth century, the volumes here are available as a full set or individually, and include: * Vol. 1: The Lele of the Kasai(1963) c. 290 pp * 0-415-29104-6: * Vol. 2: Purity and Danger(1966) c. 190 pp * 0-415-29105-4: Vol. 3: Natural Symbols(1st ed. Pub. 1970) c. 185 pp * 0-415-29106-2 * Vol. 4: Rules andMeanings(1973) c.320 pp * 0-415-29107-0 * Vol. 5: Implicit Meanings(1975) c. 322 pp * 0-415-29108-9 * Vol. 6: The World of Goods(1979) c. 170 pp * 0-415-29109-7 * Vol. 7: Evans-Pritchard(1980) c. 150 pp * 0-415-29110-0 * Vol. 8: Essays in the Sociology ofPerception(1982) c. 348 pp * 0-415-29111-9 * Vol. 9: Food in the Social Order(1984) c. 290 pp * 0-415-29112-7 * Vol. 10: Constructive Drinking(1987) c. 290 pp * 0-415-29113-5 * Vol. 11: Risk and Acceptability(1985) c. 120 pp * 0-415-29114-3 * Vol. 12: Risk andBlame(1992) c. 320 pp * 0-415-29115-1
