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  • LOVE AND INTIMACY IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
    ANN BROOKS
    Love and Intimacy in Contemporary Society reflects on relationships in contemporary society and the role of love and intimacy in framing lives. The book draws on sociological perspectives, cultural sociology and gender theory perspectives. It looks at how love and intimacy is experienced differently and intersected by gender, ethnicity, race and sexuality. This book aims to enc...

    $1,160.00

  • GENEALOGIES OF EMOTIONS, INTIMACIES, AND DESIRE
    ANN BROOKS
    Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes where intimacy in the form of desire, sex, passion, and sex largely exist outs...

    $980.00

  • GENDERED WORK IN ASIAN CITIES
    ANN BROOKS
    Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality? Ann Brooks provides a unique insight into this question by assessing the impact of the new economy and the changing labour market on women in Asia. Theoretical debates around globalization, gender and social change are combined with empirical research on professional women in two cosmopolitan cities: Hong Kong and Singapore....

    $1,460.00

  • CONSULTING IN UNCERTAINTY
    ANN BROOKS / KATHY EDWARDS
    The traditional model of consulting places an emphasis on diagnosing a problem and finding a cure. But in today’s business world of globalized organizations, rapid knowledge proliferation, and the intertwining of economies, that approach is becoming less and less viable; problems are quickly redefined, new knowledge (and ownership of that knowledge) is constantly surfacing and ...

    $1,420.00

  • GENDER, EMOTIONS AND LABOUR MARKETS - ASIAN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES
    ANN BROOKS / THERESA DEVASAHAYAM
    Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about the issue of what defines emotions and emotional labour in public work contexts ...

    $540.00

  • SOCIAL THEORY IN CONTEMPORARY ASIA
    ANN BROOKS
    Philosophical debates around individualization and the implications for intimacy, reflexivity and identity have occupied a central part of social and cultural theorizing in the West in the last decade. In fact, late modernity has become conspicuously engaged with issues of intimacy, reflexivity and identity. The author analyses the relevance of these debates in the context of c...

    $1,320.00

  • POSTFEMINISMS
    ANN BROOKS
    Once seen as synonymous with "anti-feminism" postfeminism i now understood as the theoretical meeting ground between feminism and anti-foundationalist movements such as postmodernism, post-structuralism and post-colonialsm. In this clear exposition of some of the major debates, theorists and practitioners, Ann Brooks shows how feminism is being redefined for the twenty first ce...

    $1,420.00

  • 'A VERITABLE EDEN'. THE MANCHESTER BOTANIC GARDEN
    ANN BROOKS
    The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the ...

    $383.69

  • HOLY ABORTION? A THEOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF THE RELIGIOUS COALITION FOR REPRODUCTIVE CHOICE
    MICHAEL J. GORMAN / ANN LOAR BROOKS
    Four mainline Protestant denominations (the ECUSA, PCUSA, UCC, and UMC) are affiliated with RCRC. In this important new book, the authors carefully examine the literature and liturgical aids produced by RCRC, demonstrating how its theology radically contradicts the statements on abortion issued by its affiliated churches. ...

    $249.00

  • 'A VERITABLE EDEN'. THE MANCHESTER BOTANIC GARDEN
    ANN BROOKS
    The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the ...

    $383.69