Sociology – Page 5 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This “Self” Which Is Not One

Women’s Life Writing in French

Edited By: Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth

£34.99

This collection examines women’s life-writing from across the Francophone world. Uniting postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and gender studies, it explores how female autobiographies from Africa, the Caribbean, and Europe write the self as a fragmented, plural construct.

New Fathers? Contemporary American Stories of Masculinity, Domesticity and Kinship

By: Helena Wahlström

£34.99

This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”

The Heroic Female

Redefining the Role of the Heroine in the Tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri

By: Stephanie Laggini Fiore

£34.99

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

This re-reading of Vittorio Alfieri’s tragedies challenges traditional analyses that marginalize the female character. It argues that Alfieri undermines traditional gender roles, portraying his heroines as determined, active, and intelligent women.

Lovely Violence

Chrétien de Troyes’ Critical Romances

By: Jørgen Bruhn

£34.99

In Lovely Violence, Jørgen Bruhn rereads Chrétien de Troyes’ chivalric novels through contemporary concerns of gender and violence. The medieval characters are both shockingly strange and reassuringly recognisable. The Middle Ages may not be so unmodern after all.

Fortune and Fatality

Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France

Edited By: Desmond Hosford, Charles Wrightington

£34.99

Tragedy, from Corneille to Racine, has grounded the French literary canon. This book challenges conventional interpretations, exploring the philosophical, theatrical, and performative aspects of the tragic in sixteenth and seventeenth-century France.

Representations of Illness in Literature and Film

By: Bennett Kravitz

£34.99

This book examines how syndromes, disorders, and diseases appear in modern literature and film. Rather than being portrayed as a handicap, limitation becomes the hero, allowing previous outcasts into the mainstream to affirm their moral worth, skill and intelligence.

The Female Voice in The Assembly of Ladies

Text and Context in Fifteenth-Century England

By: Simone Celine Marshall

£34.99

This book examines gender relations in The Assembly of Ladies, a rare fifteenth-century poem told from a woman’s point of view. It shows how social and literary conventions impact women in the production and consumption of literature.

Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love

By: Wissia Fiorucci

£34.99

This book explores Banti’s Italian feminism, focusing on her interpretation of “equality” versus “sexual difference.” Through an analysis of her novels and short stories, it argues that Banti embraced a feminism of difference to preserve woman's identity.

Transacting Sites of the Liminal Bodily Spaces

By: Catalina Florina Florescu

£34.99

This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.

The Right Sort of Woman

Victorian Travel Writers and the Fitness of an Empire

By: Precious McKenzie Stearns

£34.99

Nineteenth-century British women’s travel writing reveals how they found freedom abroad. Far from strict Victorian codes, they participated in men’s sports, improving their health and confidence. This shaped feminism and the revolutionary image of the New Woman.

Masquerade and Femininity

Essays on Russian and Polish Women Writers

Edited By: Urszula Chowaniec, Ursula Phillips, Marja Rytkönen

£34.99

These essays on Russian and Polish women writers explore femininity through the lens of masquerade. They scrutinize the gap between lived female experience and the culturally constructed masks women wear, combining East European literary and gender studies.

Mark Twain’s Geographical Imagination

Edited By: Joseph A. Alvarez

£34.99

This collection of essays marks a different approach to Mark Twain. It explores how geography—from the Mississippi River to Europe and beyond—influenced his work. These essays use Twain’s concepts of space to help us understand his greatest masterpieces.

Writing the Land

John Burroughs and his Legacy; Essays from the John Burroughs Nature Writing Conference

Edited By: Daniel G. Payne

£34.99

John Burroughs, America’s most beloved nature writer, explored his home landscape to examine the universal theme of our relation with nature. This collection of essays explores his legacy and what writing the land means from urban, suburban, and rural perspectives.

Cultural Migrations and Gendered Subjects

Colonial and Postcolonial Representations of the Female Body

Edited By: Silvia Castro-Borrego, Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz

£34.99

This collection explores women's identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

This collection explores women’s identities as migrant subjects. The essays examine the female body as a site of violence, fighting stereotypes and analyzing contemporary issues of race and gender through the lens of the colonial past.

Children’s Literature and Culture

Edited By: Harry Eiss

£34.99

This collection of scholarship offers an eclectic overview of youth culture. Essays explore unusual minds that question human existence, the evolution of board and video games, magic in fantasy fiction, and consumerism in popular teen book series.

Sexuality, Eroticism, and Gender in French and Francophone Literature

Edited By: Aaron Emmitte, Melanie Hackney

£34.99

Uncover the provocative history of sexuality, eroticism, and gender in French & Francophone literature. From Zola’s challenge to rape to the feminism of Djebar, this book reveals a literary tradition long engaged with redefining desire.

South Asia and its Others

Reading the “Exotic”

Edited By: Atreyee Phukan, V.G. Julie Rajan

£34.99

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use "exoticization" as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

These essays reveal how writers of South Asian descent use “exoticization” as a strategic tool. They critically examine casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence, uncovering the ambiguity that continues to mark marginalized identities today.

City Visions

The Work of Iain Sinclair

Edited By: Jenny Bavidge, Robert Bond

£34.99

$START$ This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain's most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

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This collection of fourteen pathbreaking essays treats the panoramic work of Iain Sinclair, one of Britain’s most significant contemporary writers. These multifaceted essays explore his poetry, prose, and filmmaking, and his complex vision of London.END$

Women Writing Trauma in Literature

Edited By: Laura Alexander

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This collection studies trauma and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines how literature helps to heal the wounded self, concentrating on how women explain the traumatic experiences of war, violence, or displacement and recover the voices buried by intense suffering.

A Narrative Biography of Horacio Quiroga, the Lone Anarchist

By: Wilson Alves-Bezerra

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This is the definitive biography in English of Horacio Quiroga, the Latin-American Poe. Based on twenty years of work and newly discovered documents, it humanizes the writer and spotlights the marginalized women in his life, revealing a complex, contradictory man.