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• Anti-Discriminatory Practice (British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Practical Social Work) (Practical Social Work Series)

  Neil Thompson

  
  
   

• Anti-discriminatory Practice 3rd ed (British Association of Social Workers (BASW) Practical Social Work)

  Neil Thompson

  
  
   

• Misogynies: Reflections on Myths and Malice

  Joan Smith

  
  
   

• Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport

  Pat Griffin

  
  
   

• EU Anti-Discrimination Law (Oxford European Community Law Library Series)

  Evelyn Ellis

  
  
   

• Virtually Normal

  Andrew Sullivan

  
  In a dizzyingly short period of time, homosexuality has gone from being the love that dare not speak its name to the one that shouts it. Refreshingly, in this wide-ranging discussion of the moral and political status of homosexuals, Sullivan, the gay former whizz-bang New Republic editor, prefers the middle register. On the one hand, he shuns the liberal tendency to give gays victim status but, on the other, advocates the legalisation of gay marriage because he views it as the public recognition of a gay's basic human right to fully love another member of his/her group--a right that, Sullivan notes, even bigots generally grant those they hate.
  
   

• Circle of Empowerment: Twenty-Five Years of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (Mariam K. Chamberlain Series on Social ... Series on Social and Economic Justice)

  Hanna Schopp-Schilling

  
  
   

• Respect and Equality: Transsexual and Transgender Rights

  Stephen Whittle

  
  
   

• Men in the Nursery: Gender and Caring Work: Occupational Segregation in Childcare

  Claire Cameron, Peter Moss, Charlie Owen

  
  
   

• Sex and Business: Ethics of Sexuality in Business and the Workplace

  Shere. Hite

  
  In an era when men and women are having to redefine their roles and the way they relate to each other, nowhere are the politics of the sexes more confused than in the workplace. How do men, used to dominating women, deal with female bosses? How do women, used to deferring to men, become comfortable exercising authority? How do women break through the glass ceiling that still undoubtedly exists in most businesses? And, at a time when people work longer hours and have less chance than ever before to meet partners outside work, how do we deal with office affairs, relationships and partnerships between work colleagues?

  The central problem argues Shere Hite in Sex and Business, is that men and women only know the old ways of relating to each other. "For the most part, we are only taught (somehow) to meet and mate. These old lessons are inappropriate", she writes. She proposes that we should find a new way of relating--"the important challenge is to get a new kind of office interaction up and running." Hite became a feminist icon in 1970s with the publication of the first Hite Report which married quasi-scientific "quantified research" with anecdotal tales and feminist analysis. The secret of her success was that at the time her perceptions and methodology were new and cast new light on a contentious issue.

  This is less true of Sex and Business, which addresses issues that have been in the public domain for some years now. There are, however, brave innovations in the book from the journalistic style and format to the "consciousness raising exercises" that Hite calls "brain software commands": "Software to delete, 'Is she date material?' Software to install, 'I'm in a new situation. Here's my chance to try something new!'"

  Sex and Business is designed very carefully as a book to dip into, rather than to be read cover to cover. Its basically feminist stance provides an interesting counterpoint to male executive culture. Whether those same male executives will give it a chance is another matter. --Alex Benady

  
   

• Down from Equality: Black Chicagoans and the Public Schools, 1920-41 (Blacks in the New World)

  Michael W. Homel

  
  
   

• Sex and Gender in the Legal Process

  Susan Edwards

  
  
   

• Sex and Racism in America

  Calvin C. Hernton

  
  
   

• Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace

  Louise Mullany

  
  
   

• Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women

  Susan Faludi

  
  
   

• The New Politics of Gender Equality

  Squires J

  
  
   

• An Exclusive Education: Race, Class and Exclusion in British Schools

  Chris Searle

  
  
   

• In Her Place: A Documentary History of Prejudice Against Women

  
  
   

• Sexism and Science

  Evelyn Reed

  
  
   

• Human Rights and Development: Towards Mutual Reinforcement