The emergence of AIDS in contemporary culture has not only produced a vast discourse on the disease but has provoked an anxious proliferation of sites of erotic danger. In Erotic Welfare , Linda Singer argues that we are currently living in an "age of epidemic", fueled by a "panic logic" in which contemporary discourse on sexuality and on a variety of social problems - teenage pregnancy, prostitution, and drug addiction, have come to replicate the discourse of contagion. Singer traces the effects of epidemic on the growth of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality, and explores the ways this development has affected women's efforts to secure reproductive freedom; the construction of femininity within the media; and efforts to displace the hegemony of the nuclear family in the cultural imaginary. Her work forms a trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and their pleasures have become dense sites of regulatory power. 210pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Edges of covers rubbed. Head and tail of spine rubbed.
Routledge, 1993, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0415902029

Inventory #25426

Price: £ 12.50 GBP ($ 15.16 approx. - € 14.29 approx.)

The Gay Games is an important piece of new social history, examining one of the largest sporting, cultural and human rights events in the world. Since their inception in 1980, the Gay Games have developed into a multi-million dollar mega-event, engaging people from all continents, while the international Gay Games movement has become one of the largest and most significant international institutions for gay and lesbian people. Drawing on detailed archival research, oral history and participant observation techniques, and informed by critical feminist theory and queer theory, this book offers the first comprehensive history of the Gay Games from 1980 through to the Chicago games of 2006. It explores the significance of the Games in the context of broader currents of gay and lesbian history, and addresses a wide range of key contemporary themes within sports studies, including the cultural politics of sport, the politics of difference and identity, and the rise of sporting mega-events. This book is important reading for any serious student of international sport or gender and sexuality studies.
Routledge, 2010, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 9780415472968

Inventory #27670

Price: £ 60.00 GBP ($ 72.78 approx. - € 68.58 approx.)

Proceedings of a Conference held at Oxford by the Medical Association for the Prevention of War July 1962. Collection of lectures that study the causes and prevention of war from a medical standpoint. With loose reprint from 'The Lancet' August 3 1963, pp244-246. 87pp. Slight dust-marking to boards and slight tearing of the laminate on spine.
H.K. Lewis & Co. Ltd., 1963, Cloth/Laminated Boards, Book Condition: Good, Jacket Condition: . . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN:

Inventory #5347

Price: £ 4.00 GBP ($ 4.85 approx. - € 4.57 approx.)

In this important book a leading feminist scholar surveys and critiques gender research in a range of disciplines, showing how distinctions between the sexes are maintained by ideology and social controls. 300pp. N.B. Previous owners inscription to ffep. Fading to cover.
Yale University Press, 1988, Paperback, Book Condition: Very Good, Jacket Condition: No d/j as Published. . . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

ISBN: 0300046944

Inventory #25262

Price: £ 10.00 GBP ($ 12.13 approx. - € 11.43 approx.)

Small closed tear to top edge of rear D/J otherwise new. 306pp.
Principia Press, 1984, Cloth, Book Condition: New, Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. . 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

ISBN: 0911188478

Inventory #22917

Price: £ 18.00 GBP ($ 21.83 approx. - € 20.57 approx.)