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		At Work in the Iron Cage The Prison as Gendered Organization When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the Big ...		$18.90 More Information
		Between XX and XY Intersexuality and the Myth of Two Sexes On October 10, 1970, the day she was born, she was named Dorothy Maree Alaniz a baby girl. Curiously, though, no one filled out a birth certificate that day. When the ...		$21.33 More Information
		Cold Counsel Women in Old Norse Literature and Mythology Cold Counsel The Women of Old Norse Literature and Myth is the only collection devoted to the place of women in Old Norse literature and culture. It draws upon the ...		$92.00 More Information
		Fashioning Teenagers A Cultural History of Seventeen Magazine Founded in 1944 by Helen Valentine, Seventeen magazine was the first modern “teen magazine.” An immediate success, it became iconic in establishing the tastes and ...		$16.83 More Information
		Fragmentation and Redemption Essays on Gender and the Human Body in M These seven essays by noted historian Caroline Walker Bynum exemplify her argument that historians must write in a comic mode, aware of history's artifice, risks, ...		$24.25 More Information
		Gender and Sexuality In 1968 Transformative Politics in the Cultural This unique volume brings together literary critics, historians, and anthropologists from around the world to offer new understandings of gender and sexuality as they were ...		$57.37 More Information
		Language and Sexuality Contesting Meaning in Theory and Practice Language and Sexuality explores the question of how linguistic practices and ideologies relate to sexuality and sexual identity, opening with a discussion of the emerging ...		$25.65 More Information
		Online Intersex Communities Once referred to as hermaphrodites, intersex persons are born with a sexual anatomy or physiology inconsistent with social expectations of what constitutes a normal male or ...		$85.45 More Information
		Sexual Sites Seminal Attitudes Sexualities Masculinities and Cultur In 13 papers from a July 1999 conference in Melbourne, social scientists from Australia, the US, and India broaden the academic discussion about sexuality in India and Nepal ...		$63.16 More Information
		Sexual Spectrum Why Were All Different This fascinating book examines the myriad influences that shape our understanding of human gender and sexuality. Drawing from scientific findings past and present and from a ...		$13.63 More Information