Natasha Walter * A controversial and much needed look at our highly sexualised culture, available now in paperback - 'A must-read' Viv Groskop, Guardian | Michel Foucault; Robert Hurley Offers an account of the emergence of Christianity from the Ancient World. Foucault describes the stranger byways of Greek medicine (with its advice on the healthiest season for sex and... |
John Coldstream Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the film's release, John Coldstream's study of 'Victim' (1961) addresses the film's importance in the campaign to decriminalise homosexuality, the contribution of its... | |
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| Alison Plowden The Tudor era belongs to its women. No other period of English History has produced so many notable and interesting women, and into other period have they so powerfully influenced... |
Heidi Stephenson; Natasha Langridge Women playwrights speak about their art and the theatre in this collection of interviews about a key decade of British drama | Castledine, Annie; An anthology of plays written by women: "Purgatory in Ingolstadt" and "Pioneers in Ingolstadt", "Avant-garde", "Close Encounter" and "I Wasn't Aware of the Explosive" by Marieluise Fleisser; "Tokens of Affection"... |
Michel Foucault; Robert Hurley Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. Foucault describes how we are in the process of... | Geraldine Brooks When her poised and sophisticated yuppie assistant at the Cairo bureau of the "Wall Street Journal" suddenly 'adopted the uniform of a Muslim fundamentalist', the author sets out to discover... |
Melanie Phillips The story of the fight to gain the vote for women is an explosive story of social and sexual revolutionary upheaval, and one which has not yet ended. This history... | Steven Beller Antisemitism has been a chillingly persistent presence throughout the last millennium, culminating in the dark apogee of the Holocaust. Steven Beller examines and untangles the history of the phenomenon: from... |
Jacqueline Ann Christodoulou This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of... | Jarrod Hayes; Margaret R. Higonnet;... These innovative essays take a comparative approach to queer studies while simultaneously queering the field of comparative literature, strengthening the interdisciplinary of both. The book focuses not only on comparative... |