By Roger Just

This e-book presents a complete account of the Athenians' perception of ladies in the course of the classical interval of the 5th and fourth centuries BC. notwithstanding not anything is still that represents the actual voice of the ladies themselves, there's a wealth of proof exhibiting how males sought to outline girls. by way of operating via various fabric, from the provisions of Athenian legislations via to the representations of tragedy and comedy, the writer builds up, within the demeanour of an anthropological ethnography, a coherent and built-in photograph of the Athenians' inspiration of `woman'.

By Lois McNay

The assumption of the fight for acceptance positive aspects prominently within the paintings of varied thinkers from Charles Taylor and Jurgen Habermas to Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser who're inquisitive about the centrality of problems with identification in sleek society. In differing methods, those thinkers use the belief of popularity to improve debts of the person that are against the asocial individualism of liberal concept and to the abstraction of a lot paintings at the topic. the belief of popularity expresses the proposal that individuality is an intersubjective phenomenon shaped via pragmatic interactions with others. by way of highlighting the intersubjective good points of individuality, the belief of popularity has either descriptive and normative content material and it has very important implications for a feminist account of gender id. during this magnificent and unique ebook, Lois McNay argues that the insights of the popularity theorists are undercut by means of their reliance on an insufficient account of energy. the belief of popularity will depend on an account of social family members as extrapolations of a primal dyad of interplay that overlooks the advanced ways that individuality is attached to summary social buildings in modern society. utilizing Bourdieu's relational sociology, McNay develops another account of person corporation that connects id to constitution. via focussing on problems with gender id and business enterprise, she opens up new pathways to maneuver past the oppositions among fabric and cultural feminisms.

By Kohn W. Luttinger J.M.

By Lisa M. Cuklanz

Depictions of rape on tv have developed dramatically, from hard-boiled tales approximately male detectives to extra insightful indicates concentrating on rape sufferers. Rape on best Time is the 1st e-book to envision these altering depictions of rape.Lisa M. Cuklanz finds that prime-time tv courses throughout the 1970s—usually detective shows—reflected conventional principles that "real" rape is perpetrated via brutal strangers upon passive sufferers. starting in 1980, depictions of rape started to contain assaults by means of recognized assailants, and sufferers started to handle their emotions. through 1990, scripts portrayed date and marital rape and paid larger recognition to the trial technique, reflecting criminal reformers' issues. whereas earlier reviews have tested one sequence or style, Cuklanz examines courses as assorted as Barney Miller, Dallas, The Cosby exhibit, and Quincy. She outlines the "basic plot" for rape episodes, then lines the old improvement of rape subject matters. In every one bankruptcy she contains shut analyses of episodes that upload intensity to findings derived from scripts and taped episodes. Rape on best Time offers vital perception into the social building of rape in mainstream mass media because the inception of rape legislation reform in 1974.

By Joy Dixon

In 1891, newspapers around the globe carried reviews of the loss of life of H. P. Blavatsky, the mysterious Russian girl who was once the religious founding father of the Theosophical Society. With the aid of the both mysterious Mahatmas who have been her academics, Blavatsky claimed to have introduced the "ancient knowledge of the East" to the rescue of a materialistic West. In England, Blavatsky's earliest fans have been generally males, yet a iteration later the Theosophical Society used to be ruled by means of ladies, and theosophy had develop into a vital a part of feminist political tradition. Divine female is the 1st full-length research of the connection among substitute or esoteric spirituality and the feminist flow in England. Historian pleasure Dixon examines the Theosophical Society's claims that girls and the East have been the repositories of non secular forces which English males had forfeited of their scramble for fabric and imperial strength. Theosophists produced arguments that grew to become key instruments in lots of feminist campaigns. many ladies of the Theosophical Society turned suffragists to advertise the spiritualizing of politics, trying to create a political position for ladies so as to "sacralize the general public sphere." Dixon additionally exhibits that theosophy presents a lot of the framework and the vocabulary for contemporary New Age move. a number of the assumptions approximately category, race, and gender which marked the emergence of esoteric religions on the finish of the 19th century proceed to form substitute spiritualities this day.