Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Simone de Beauvoir's The Second SexThis collection of six new essays by scholars from the disciplines of French, English literature, history, cultural criticism, feminist theory and philosophy makes a valuable contribution to the task of re reading and reassessing this enormously influential text.

particularly gendered and sexualized desire

Countering tendencies to think of New Zealand film as beginning in the 1970s

this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolution’s religious politics within five small towns

The origins of these problems are remote: the ruinous Spanish Empire made a weak state

Point Blank offers comprehensive notes to enable a range of potential restagings of the plays

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An edited collection of essays and chapters relating to interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary methods of teaching

reproducing the voices and stories of the people and questioning much of the accepted wisdom of Irish historiography

foreign affairs and wars

Analyses the dual impact of the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union

with wealthy areas located just steps away from the searing poverty of its huge slums

and examines how the afterlives of empire are shaping contemporary societies as evident in media discourse