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• Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema

  Steven Paul Davies

  
  
   

• The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (Yale Nota Bene)

  A Vickery

  
  Winner of the Longman History Today Prize in 1998, Amanda Vickery's The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England is an outstanding study of a crucial period in modern women's history. Roy Porter has described this book as "the most important thing in English feminist history in the last ten years". A reader familiar with the feminist analysis of women's lives in the late 18th to mid-19th century will find some of the commonplaces of that analysis called into question: the rise of "separate spheres" of male and female experience, for example, or the social construction of motherhood in the 18th century. At once scholarly and readable, The Gentleman's Daughter takes its readers on a vivid and well-illustrated tour of "genteel" Georgian society, bringing that world to life through what Vickery identifies as the "terms set out in their own letters by genteel women". Those terms structure the seven sections of the book: "Gentility", "Love and Duty", "Fortitude and Resignation" (which includes a notable discussion of the experience of pregnancy), "Prudent Economy", "Elegance", "Civility and Vulgarity" and "Propriety". "Our battles were not necessarily theirs", Vickery reminds us, striking her convincing balance between a feminist interest in the restriction and rebellion of women's lives and their own ways of finding meaning and pleasure in the gender distinctions of Georgian culture. --Vicky Lebeau
  
   

• Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice

  Sandra Walklate

  
  
   

• In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development

  Gilligan

  
  
   

• Michel Foucault (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

  Sara Mills

  
  
   

• Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

  Judith Butler

  
  
   

• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body

  S Bordo

  
  
   

• Routledge Critical Thinkers : Judith Butler (Routledge Critical Thinkers)

  Sara Salih

  
  
   

• Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

  Jessica Valenti

  
  
   

• Introducing Gender & Women's Studies

  Diane Richardson, Victoria Robinson

  
  
   

• Speculum of the Other Woman

  Luce Irigaray

  
  
   

• The Price of Salt

  P Highsmith

  
  
   

• Undoing Gender

  Judith Butler

  
  
   

• Modern Social Theory: From Parsons to Habermas

  Ian Craib

  
  
   

• Language and Gender (Intertext)

  Angela Goddard, Lindsey Mean

  
  
   

• Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

  J Malcolm

  
  
   

• The Ann Oakley Reader: Gender, Women and Social Science

  Ann Oakley

  
  
   

• Feminist Thought: A More Comprehensive Introduction (Dimensions in Philosophy)

  Rosemarie Putnam Tong

  
  
   

• Reading the "L Word" (Reading Contemporary Television)

  Kim Akass, Janet McCabe

  
  
   

• Feminist Research in Theory and Practice (Feminist Controversies)

  Gayle Letherby