A Picture (Adventure Books, Easy Reader, Kindergarten)

EVANS, Mary

Mc/graw-Hill

Gender and Social Theory

* What is the most significant aspect of current literature on gender?* How does this literature engage with social theory?* How does the recognition of gender shift the central arguments of social theory?We know that gender defines and shapes our lives. The question addressed by Gender and Social Theory is that of exactly how this process occurs, and what the social consequences, and the consequences for social theory, might be. The emergence of feminist theory has enriched our understanding of the impact of gender on our individual lives and the contemporary social sciences all recognise gender differentiation in the social world. The issue, however, which this book discusses is the more complex question of the extent to which social theory is significantly disrupted, disturbed or devalued by the fuller recognition of gender difference. We know that gender matters, but Mary Evans examines whether social theory is as blind to gender as is sometimes argued and considers the extent to which a greater awareness of gender truly shifts the concerns and conclusions of social theory. Written by an author with an international reputation, this is an invaluable text for students and an essential reference in the field.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Open University Press

"A brilliant inquiry into culture and society over some seven centuries, Mary Evans explores the origins and trajectories of modernity from the Reformation through the Enlightenment to the contemporary period. Her intellectual control of complex ideas and diverse forms of evidence is consistently impressive. Exploring various pessimistic, dystopian strands in European perspectives on modernity by Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber and Theodor Adorno, she defends a balanced view of both the negative and positive consequences of modernization. This is historical sociology at its best: judicious, theoretically informed, carefully crafted, grounded in empirical research, and above all intellectually clever. A Short History of Society will prove to be a valuable companion to the student who needs a concise scholarly and sociological overview of modernity." Bryan Turner, National University of Singapore A Short History of Society is a concise account of the emergence of modern western society. It looks at how successive generations have understood and explained the world in which they lived, and examines significant events since the Enlightenment that have led to the development of society as we know it today. The book spans the period 1500 to the present day and discusses the social world in terms of both its politics and its culture. This book is ideal for undergraduate students in the social sciences who are perplexed by the myriad of events and theories with which their courses are concerned, and who need a historical perspective on the changes that shaped the contemporary world.

A Short History of Society: The Making of the Modern World

History

A Short History of Society

Surveys the history of clothing throughout the world from the time of ancient Egyptians to 1950

Costume Throughout the Ages.

Lippincott, Williams, & Wilkins

1930. Covers the history of the development of dress throughout the ages including: The Historic Dress of the Ancients, the French, the English, and the Americans; and National Costume in Europe, Northern Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

J.B. Lippincott Company

Mary Evans offers an feminist reading of Anna's life and times, discussing the heroine in terms of the fantasies, hopes and fears she represents. This book should be of interest to general readers and students of literature, sociology and women's studies.

Reflecting on Anna Karenina (Heroines Series)

Routledge

It is generally accepted that Britain was held together during the second world war by a spirit of national democratic `consensus'. But whose interests did the consensus serve? And how did it unravel in the years immediately after victory? This well observed and powerfully argued book overturns many of our assumptions about the national spirit of 1939-45. It shows that the current return to right-wing politics in Britain was prefigured by ideologies of change during and immediately after the war.

The Battle for Britain: Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

MORGAN, David

Europe

Auto/biography is currently one of the most popular literary genres, widely supposed to illuminate the study of the individual and his or her personal circumstances. Missing Persons suggests that auto/biography is, in fact, based on fictions, both about the person and about what it is possible to know about any one individual.Organised into chapters which consider particular kinds of auto/biographical writing, such as work on the British Royal Family and auto/biographies of twentieth-century men, this book demonstrates the absences and evasions - indeed the `missing persons - of auto/biography. Mary Evans' book will provide invaluable reading for students of womens studies, sociology and cultural studies courses.

Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography

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A Picture (Adventure Books, Easy Reader, Kindergarten)

Gender and Social Theory

Gender and Social Theory

A Short History of Society: The Making of the Modern World

A Short History of Society

Costume Throughout the Ages.

Costume Throughout the Ages.

Reflecting on Anna Karenina (Heroines Series)

The Battle for Britain: Citizenship and Ideology in the Second World War

Missing Persons: The Impossibility of Auto/Biography