To combat these harmful customs, UN human rights committee has stated that, given the moral grow out of many social, philosophical and regious traditions, the freedom from cultural values, traditio…
This Second Shadow Report, Talibanisation & Poor Governance: Undermining CEDAW in Pakistan, urges the CEDAW Committee to ask the Government of Pakistan to explain what steps it has taken as a State…
This edited collection seeks to unearth the hidden or unexamined implications of some of these crime control policies. Specifically, the chapters examine the policy implications for women and, when…
The Orgasm Project lahir dari rentannya kedaulatan tubuh perempuan karena mitos dan ketabuan. Berbasis cerita orgasme berbagai perempuan dari Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, dan Makassar, penu…
Membaca judulnya segera mengingatkan saya pada buku Jakarta Undercover (Moamar Emka). Pada saat itu pula saya berpikir bahwa buku ini akan membahas tema bisnis seks dan perempuan, suatu tema yang s…
Residing between culture and nature, lived bodies are not fixed objects nor biological givens. In-Between Bodies examines “the body” in light of recent work in sexual difference theory and cons…
The Care of the Self is the third and possibly final volume of Michel Foucault's widely acclaimed examination of " the experience of sexuality in Western society." Foucault takes us into the first …
The History of Sexuality (French: L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author …
Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how nineteenth century scientists invented 'sexuality'. This clear and fascinating intro…
Women with disabilities are women first, sharing the dreams and disappointments common to women in a male-dominated society. But because society persists in viewing disability as an emblem of passi…
there are a great many women unhappy because they acted upon the wisdom passed along to them by the people they most trusted.Talk to women under forty today, and you will hear that in spite of the …
The intensifying debate about intersectionality – in brief, the study of how groups exposed to different kinds of oppression relate to one another and frequently overlap – provides another dime…
This is an outstanding collection of essays which brings together for the first time the work of a group of writers well-known in the Marxist-feminist tradition. The essays range from Marx to Fouca…
When a government program brought garment factories to rural Sri Lanka, women workers found themselves caught between the pressures of a globalizing economy and societal expectations that villages …