Palgrave Macmillan

This book explores how around the world, women's increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures,...

Analyzes a wide variety of medieval and early-modern media, including manuscripts, prints, paintings, metalwork, textiles and funerary sculptureContextualizes medieval construction of gender identity...

This book reveals the cultural significance of the pregnant woman by examining major eighteenth-century debates concerning separate spheres, man-midwifery, performance, marriage, the body, education,...

This book analyzes the intersections of gender, sexuality and migration in the South African context. It takes the form of a series of empirically-informed reflections on the ways that these issues...

This book delves into migration management via an original case study of a guest worker programme involving the circular migration to Spain of female Moroccan agricultural workers destined for the...

With contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in...

Brings together sixteen essays exploring how citizenship is represented in performance across national and regional boundariesOffers a broad scope of discussion, from the performance of motherhood to...

Gendered Encounters Between Germany and Asia: Transnational Perspectives Since 1800Author: Joanne Miyang ChoPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 23, 2016Number of Pages: 299...

?This book offers an exploration of the postcolonial hybrid experience in anglophone Caribbean plays and performance from a feminist perspective. In a hitherto unattempted consideration of Caribbean...

Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan: Guardianship Over WomenAuthor: Afaf JabiriPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 20, 2016Number of Pages: 210 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research...

This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take - or resist -...

This book presents an institutional ethnography of budgeting processes of commissioning contracts within welfare, education, and health ministries as case studies. With the historical surge in the...

Productively locates sexuality in the nexus of gender and nationalismProvides fresh insights for students and scholars of sociology, political science, social policy, and communication, gender and...

This book explores a panorama of historical studies, focused on the historical tensions between genealogical knowledge and well-known Pacific Islander engagements with genomic research in a postwar...

This book addresses the gaps in undergraduate teaching of partial equilibrium analysis, providing a general equilibrium viewpoint to illustrate the assumptions underlying partial equilibrium welfare...

This book focuses on how Burmanization created and reinforced ethnic divides since the 1962 coup d'etat. when General Ne Win concentrated all authority in the Burmese speaking army. Background...

Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the AcademyAuthor: Hilda L. SmithPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 21, 2018Number of Pages: 320 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This book builds on conversations between the author educators and other experts in the field, including authors, illustrators and teachers, to explore the benefits of discussions around quality...

This book offers a critique of a certain contemporary discourse in popular science that consists of (1) identifying the origins and therefore essential nature of Homo Sapiens; and (2) identifying the...

This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown - or unknowable - genetic ancestries. It looks to law and...

Genetics and the Novel: Reimagining Life Through Fiction argues that literary fiction has reimagined life in the age of genetics. The new genetic paradigm has proposed to rewrite core assumptions...

This book explores the influence of geographical isolation and peripherality on the functioning of music industries and scenes which operate within and from such locales. As is explored, these sites...

This edited book ?explores new and enduring themes in the gendered experience of incarceration across the world. Capturing global debates and research on women?s treatment, their coping and...

Addresses an emerging issue of our society: how to support the mobility needs of the ageing populationOffers a novel intersection between cultural and health geographies and gerontologyProvides...

Positions Toni Morrison's novels within the timely framework of geocriticism and spatial studiesCovers a wide range of Morrison's oeuvre, including Love, A Mercy, and JazzHighlights not only the...

George Eliot for the Twenty-First Century reexamines Eliot two hundred years after her birth and offers an innovative critical reading that seeks to change perceptions of Eliot. Tracing Eliot's...

This book presents a historically and critically nuanced study of George Herbert's biblical poetics. Situating Herbert's work in the context of shifting ideas of biblical mystery, Gary Kuchar shows...

Presents a previously-unpublished primary source on the Spanish-American WarFrames the lecture in the context of George Kennan's life and U.S.-Cuban relationsOffers insight into American perceptions...

This book studies the philosophical work of George Santayana and the nature of his work's relationship with that of American philosopher William James. James is consistently dismissive of "the 'all...