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A Beautiful Game
$130.00FIFA, the world governing body of association football, declared ‘The Future is Feminine’ in a 1995 press release. Since then, football has been claimed as the fastest growing participation sport…
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Appearance and Power
$42.95Appearance has repeatedly been shown to have a potent and immediate effect on others in a wide range of circumstances. In particular, the consequences of women’s appearance are severe and…
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Art
$130.00The last few decades have witnessed an explosion in ideas and theories on art. Art itself has never been more popular, but much recent thinking remains inaccessible and difficult to…
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Beauty and Power
$46.95This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and…
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Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum
$39.95What goes on behind closed doors at museums? How are decisions about exhibitions made and who, or what, really makes them? Why are certain objects and styles of display chosen…
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Clothing as Material Culture
$135.00This book puts the material back into clothing. In recent years social scientists have become increasingly interested in theories of fashion, but have rarely directly addressed the material qualities of…
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Confronting the Present
$120.00Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with…
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Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia
$42.95Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2000.Relationships between dress and the body have existed in European and Anatolian folk cultures well into the twentieth century. Traditional cultures have long…
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Gender and Migration in Southern Europe
$39.95The important role women play in the process of migration to the Western bloc – and in particular to Southern Europe where they often find jobs in the domestic service,…
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Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe
$71.00Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe explores the key transformations of sexual identities and sexuality in Europe from the French Revolution to the present day. Crucially, its focus…
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Hunters and Gatherers, Volume 1
$39.95All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers – peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of…