Sociology – Page 28 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

A Queer Eye for Capitalism

The Commodification of Sexuality in American Television

By: Yarma Velázquez Vargas

£34.99

This study examines the reality show Queer Eye, revealing how its representations of queer culture reinforce binaries and serve commercial interests. The show transforms “queer” into a commodity, redefines masculinity through wealth, and depicts queerness as asexual.

Continuity and Change

Gestalt Therapy Now

Edited By: Dan Bloom, Philip Brownell

£49.99

This book highlights contemporary gestalt therapy through the lens of the tenth biennial conference of a unique organization, the AAGT. It includes papers and presentations from the most compelling thinkers and practitioners in the world of gestalt therapy.

Philosophy of Sport

International Perspectives

Edited By: Alun Hardman, Carwyn Jones

£39.99

Leading moral and philosophical academics examine the global significance of sport. Articles provide a diverse set of ideas, from the ethics of performance enhancing substances and fair play, to nationalism and how sport can contribute to human well-being.

Daily Life

By: Frederic Will

Edited By: Frederic Will

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The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.

Monuments and Site-Specific Sculpture in Urban and Rural Space

Edited By: Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler

£61.99

This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.

Feminist Themes in Sevim Burak and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds

From "Boxes" to "Cages"

By: Sultan Komut Bakınç

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Sevim Burak used unconventional writing for realistic worlds; Ursula K. Le Guin used traditional writing for unusual ones. This study shows how both authors explored similar feminist themes and aimed to destroy phallogocentric language in different ways.

Cricket and Globalization

Edited By: Stephen Wagg

£39.99

Cricket's globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game's economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and "Indianized" by new business elites.

Cricket’s globalization has followed a unique path. Unlike other sports, non-Western countries have taken control of the game’s economics and politics. Spurred by Twenty20, the game has been transformed and “Indianized” by new business elites.

The Globetrotting Shopaholic

Consumer Spaces, Products, and their Cultural Places

Edited By: Annessa Ann Babic, Tanfer Emin Tunc

£34.99

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada's West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

This book examines the cultural, political, and social reasons why we consume. Exploring global consumer spaces—from Canada’s West Edmonton Mall to Japanese theme parks—it reveals how consumer goods and spaces define who we are as human beings.

Men in Color

Racialized Masculinities in U.S. Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Josep M. Armengol

£34.99

This collection analyzes ethnic masculinities—including African American, Asian American, Chicano, and white—in U.S. literature and cinema. It explores the intersection of gender and race, highlighting both the differences and recurring stereotypes among them.

The East and the Idea of Europe

Edited By: Pekka Korhonen, Katalin Miklóssy

£34.99

How is the line between East and West drawn? This book examines the linguistic tools used to build and dismantle geopolitical boundaries, shaping identities and power struggles across the Eurasian space.

Mythologizing the Vietnam War

Visual Culture and Mediated Memory

Edited By: Jennifer Good, Brigitte Lardinois, Paul Lowe

£39.99

As the Vietnam War evolves from memory into history, it has been changed into a set of mythologies. This collection of critical essays explores the cultural legacies of the war, reassessing the role of visual media in its coverage, memorialisation, and memory.

Social Exclusion and Labour Market Challenges in the Western Balkans

Edited By: Will Bartlett, Vassilis Monastiriotis, Panagiotis Koutroumpis

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This volume examines the challenges of social exclusion and inequality facing Western Balkan countries on their path to the EU. It explores how state failures to protect women, young people, and Roma minorities have driven high rates of outward migration.

Male Bodies and Sexual Difference

A Proposal for a Feminist Corporeo-ethics

By: Ovidiu Anemtoaicei

£61.99

Anemtoaicei addresses themes concerning male bodies, men and masculinities from an explicitly feminist philosophical position, drawing from various fields, including phenomenology, gender theory, sociology of the body and continental philosophy, among others.

The Making of Association Football

Two Decades Which Created the Modern Game

By: Graham Curry

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Modern football was ‘made’ between 1857 and 1877. Using original Football Association minutes, this book tells a tale of disagreement, conspiracy, and the rise of Charles Alcock—creator of the FA Cup and international football—as the game split from rugby forever.

Fatherhood in Contemporary Discourse

Focus on Fathers

Edited By: Anna Pilińska

£61.99

This text offers various perspectives on contemporary fatherhood: from analyses of literature and popular culture to issues tackled by psychology and social sciences. It provides detailed insight into current research on both real-life and fictional realizations of fatherhood.

Heimat Goes Mobile

Hybrid Forms of Home in Literature and Film

Edited By: Gabriele Eichmanns, Yvonne Franke

£44.99

The German concept of Heimat—a feeling of home and belonging—is evolving in a globalized world. This collection of essays explores new, hybrid forms of Heimat in film, literature, and culture, showing how the notion now transcends boundaries of nation and race.

Mapping the History of Folklore Studies

Centres, Borderlands and Shared Spaces

Edited By: Dace Bula, Sandis Laime

£64.99

The articles here provide rich insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration, they reveal the limitations inherent in current scholarship.

The Importance of Female Inclusion in Clinical Trials

Towards a More Inclusive Future

By: Rinki Minakshi

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The COVID-19 vaccine saved lives, but also gave rise to health issues in females, who were deliberately marginalized in clinical trials. This book argues for an end to ‘bikini medicine,’ demanding treatment that considers factors like the menstrual cycle in vaccination timing.

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Vulnerable Populations after the Cameras Have Gone

A Worldwide Study

Edited By: Adenrele Awotona

£54.99

This volume focuses on the status of the elderly and disabled after disasters globally and the challenges of post-earthquake rebuilding in Haiti. This edited book consists of selected papers exploring experiences in Nigeria, Iran, Libya, and Haiti.

Expressions of Indigenous and Local Knowledge in Africa and its Diaspora

Edited By: Akinloye Ojo, Mobolanle Sotunsa, Karim Traore

£47.99

This book articulates the representation of knowledge and values lodged in the diverse knowledge systems in Africa and its diaspora, and highlights the prejudicial assessments which ensure such epistemological systems are denigrated or ignored, even on the African continent.