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Paperback. With an introduction, notes and references, this title combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century, which together form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. It argues against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSK; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099734314
ISBN
9780099734314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.87

Paperback. A guide to the art, architecture and timeless human passion of Rome. It focuses on famous and forgotten monuments, and the artists and patrons who brought them into being. For Judith Testa, the ancient wordplay on "Roma" and "amor" holds the key to unravelling some fascinating cultural puzzles. Num Pages: 304 pages, 52 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 1QDAR; AC; AM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875805764
ISBN
9780875805764
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.25

Paperback. Editor(s): Rix, Robert W.; Moller, Lis; Lykke Grand, Karina; Sandberg, Anna Lena. Num Pages: 184 pages, illus. BIC Classification: DS; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 259 x 170 x 15. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9788771240863
ISBN
9788771240863
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 254 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
254
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226759463
ISBN
9780226759463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Paperback. Romanticism is a worldview that finds expression over a whole range of cultural fields - not only in literature and art but in philosophy, theology, political theory, and social movements. This book formulates a theory that defines romanticism as a cultural protest against modern bourgeois industrial civilization. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
328
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327943
ISBN
9780822327943
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.56

Hardback. Romantic Terrorism offers an innovative methodology in exploring the ways in which domestic violence offenders terrorise their victims. Its focus on the insidious use of tactics of coercive control by abusers opens up much-needed discussion on the damage caused to victims by emotional and psychological abuse. Num Pages: 118 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFE3; JHBK; JKV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2015th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137468482
ISBN
9781137468482
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.19

hardcover. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 789. Weight in Grams: 1497.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780804750622
ISBN
9780804750622
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.85

Paperback. Romantic Paris is a survey of Parisian art and culture during the first half of the nineteenth century, when the experiments of Romantic artists and writers directly challenged the norms of tradition and when dramatic changes in the habits and spaces of everyday life shaped the social foundations of an urban modernity. Num Pages: 488 pages, 165 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; ACV; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 5817 x 712. Weight in Grams: 1293.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761512
ISBN
9780804761512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.60

Paperback. Elfenbein takes on the absorbing subject of homosexuality in British Romantic writing, showing the centrality of disreputable desires to the works of Romantic male authors--from William Beckford to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to William Blake-as well as to the writings of lesser-known but equally significant female authors of the period. Series: Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies. Num Pages: 288 pages, 4 illus. BIC Classification: 1DB; 2AB; DSBF; JFSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780231107532
ISBN
9780231107532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.61

Paperback. Examines the history of the genre of romantic comedy, considering the social and cultural context for key developments in the genre cycles. Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: APFN; ASZB; JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415548632
ISBN
9780415548632
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.88

paperback. Culture Smart! Romania provides an indispensable tool for the foreign visitor, digging deep behind the cliches, explaining many of the behavioral quirks of the people, smoothing your path toward better understanding, and outlining the many attractions cul Series: Culture Smart!. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; JFCA; WTH; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 189 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Kuperard
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Second Edition, Second edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857338621
ISBN
9781857338621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Explains why we need to reconsider how we view their culture. This book gives us the comprehensive account of their culture, language and history. It is a story of the echoes of a rich past left in language and customs, and of how the changing fortunes of Europe throughout the centuries have been imprinted on Romani culture. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; JFSL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241954706
ISBN
9780241954706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. In a post-structuralist study of 13th-century French historical texts, the author investigates the reasons for the rise of French vernacular prose historiography at this particular time. Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBB; HBAH; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 467.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520089358
ISBN
9780520089358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.36

Hardback. Using personal accounts, Romance with Voluptuousness examines the ways in which black women with heritage in the English-speaking Caribbean participate in, perpetuate, and struggle with the voluptuous beauty standard of the black Caribbean while living in the hegemony of thinness cultivated in the United States. Series: Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Num Pages: 210 pages, 0 ilustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
210
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803290808
ISBN
9780803290808
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.45

Paperback. By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, this book questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis. Num Pages: 293 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHBK; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422. Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail Order" Marriages. 293 pages. By the year 2000 more than 350 Internet agencies were plying the email-order marriage trade. Attentive to the structural, cultural, and personal factors that prompt women and men to seek marriage partners abroad, this book questions the dichotomies so frequently drawn between structure and agency, and between global and local levels of analysis. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JFSL; JHBK; JHMP. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 20. Weight: 422.
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
293
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520238701
ISBN
9780520238701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. Editor(s): Smith, Evans Lansing. Num Pages: 320 pages, black and white illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 226 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
New World Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781608683246
ISBN
9781608683246
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JFSJ1; KNT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 136 x 37. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Plume
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780142181393
ISBN
9780142181393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.60

Paperback. Focusing upon Hollywood's portrayal of Asian races, this study describes how social taboos concerning Orientals helped to perpetuate social and racial inequality in the USA. The author's discussion covers early silent films, later classics such as "Shanghai Express" and the recurring geisha movies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 30 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBB; APFA; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780520084957
ISBN
9780520084957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 26.73

Paperback. This collection of essays features important Roman women who were active in politics, theatre, cultural life and religion from the 1st through the 4th centuries. The contributors draw on rare documents in an attempt to reconstruct the lives and accomplishments of these exceptional women. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226260945
ISBN
9780226260945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.66

Paperback. Series: Focus Classical Sources. Num Pages: 119 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; GBC; JFC; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 155 x 229 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585100095
ISBN
9781585100095
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.34

Paperback. A collection of essays that seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a picture of ancient sexuality. This title applies feminist critical tools to forms of public discourse, including literature, history, law, and political oratory. Editor(s): Hallett, Judith P.; Skinner, Marilyn B. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JFC; JFFK; VFVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691011783
ISBN
9780691011783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.06
€ 55.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBLA1; HBTB; JFSK2; JHBK5. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 758.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
492
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195388749
ISBN
9780195388749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Shire Publications Ltd
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747805670
ISBN
9780747805670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.29

Paperback. This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its origins, the mythologies of paganism, and myth in twentieth-century English literature. Translator(s): Doniger, Wendy. Num Pages: 344 pages, halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 1QDAR; HRA; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 215 x 19. Weight in Grams: 792.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226064550
ISBN
9780226064550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.92
€ 44.11

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