POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Undoing Privilege
Unearned Advantage in a Divided World
Professor Bob Pease An essential book for all who are concerned about developing theories and practices for a socially just world. Privilege, as the other side of oppression, has been given insufficient attention in both critical theories and the practices of social change and as a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their privilege, as demonstrated in this new edition. Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western dominance, class elitism, and white and patriarchal privilege to the less-examined sites of heterosexual and able-bodied privilege. Bob Pease points out that while the vast majority of people may be oppressed on one level, many are also privileged on another. He also demonstrates how members of privileged groups can engage critically with their own dominant position, and explores the potential and limitations of them becoming allies against oppression and their own unearned privilege. Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.
December 2021 320 pages 216 x 138mm 2nd edition 9781913441135 Zed Books
Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars The Politics of Sex
Finn Mackay A contextualization of contemporary feminist fractures, toxic masculinity, and trans movements, through a specific focus on lesbian masculinity. Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars provides important theoretical background and context to the ‘gender wars’ or ‘TERF wars’ – the violent feminist fracture at the forefront of the LGBTQ international conversation. Using queer and female masculinities as a lens, Finn Mackay investigates the current generational shift that is refusing the previous assumed fixity of sex, gender and sexual identity. Uniquely, she approaches this debate through the context of female masculinity, butch and transmasculine lesbian masculinities. An increasingly important topic in political science and sociological academia, this book breaks new ground in the discussion of the politics of gender and identity. Finn Mackay is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the West of England, and founded the London Feminist Network in 2004.
October 2021 264 pages 234 x 156mm 9780755606634 I.B. Tauris
Uncontrollable Women
Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries
Nan Sloane Uses inspirational, individual stories of female political pioneers from the 1800's to explore the period in which women began to enter the public space to seek change. Uncontrollable Women is a history of radical, reformist and revolutionary women between the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789 and the passing of the Great Reform Act in 1832. Nan Sloane illuminates a time when the first demands were made for female suffrage, when women began to organise on their own account, and when working-class women and men began to assert their collective presence and voice. She shows how these women and many others played a part in developing political ideas and freedoms as we know them today, and the vital battles they fought which are still ongoing. Nan Sloane is an author, speaker and trainer with an interest in the role of women in the public space, particularly in politics and the Labour Party.
January 2022 304 pages 216 x 138mm 9781838606633 I.B. Tauris
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