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"Although numerous general studies of medieval women and a number of biographies of medieval queens have appeared in recent years, there have been comparatively few studies that combine biographical and prosopographical methodologies in order to develop portraits of specific women as case studies of the different life experiences of medieval women." "The individual chapters can be read as separate histories of their specific subjects as well as case studies which together provide a coherent picture of the medieval English noblewoman."--From book cover.

New Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))

The New Middle Ages

Portraits of medieval women : family, marriage, and politics in England, 1225-1350 / Linda E. Mitchell.

"An essential comic-book journey from the creators of Queer: A Graphic History that will change the way you think about gender. Is masculinity 'toxic?' Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles - and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender? In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our shifting understandings of gender across time and space - from ideas about masculinity and femininity, to non-binary and trans genders, to intersecting experiences of gender, race, sexuality, class, disability, and more. Tackling current debates and tensions, which can divide communities and even cost lives, Barker and Scheele look to the past and the future to explore how we might all approach gender in more caring and celebratory ways."--From back cover.

176 pages : chiefly black and white illustrations ; 26 cm

Gender : a graphic guide / Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele.

"Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory."--Publisher's description.

Undoing gender / Judith Butler.

HIM + HIS is an anthology of visual and written contributions exploring the strengths and weaknesses of men and mental health. 500 pages of contributions have been made by over 100 individuals; those affected by the stigma of mental health and masculinity.
"HIM + HIS is an exploration of what identity means for the male. Him, signifying his physical being, and His, symbolising the mind, and the journey to acquiring individual power and possession over ones mental state. Self-published by Prosperitee Press, the book is 522 pages and features 120 contributors - it consists of many versions of voice, of both visual and written contributions; a collection of poems, letters, illustrations, photography, interviews, short stories and even the skeleton of a screenplay. All contributions have been welcome; whether you are man yourself, and have suffered from mental health issues and mental illness, or whether you are the family or friend, like myself, who have watched their loved ones eaten alive by their minds."--Provided by publisher.

504 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 21 cm

Him + his / Hélène Selam Kleih.

Elaborating the history, variety, pervasiveness, and function of the adornments and ornaments with which we beautify ourselves, this book takes in human prehistory, ancient civilizations, hunter-foragers, and present-day industrial societies to tell a captivating story of hair, skin, and make-up practices across times and cultures. From the decline of the hat, the function of jewelry and popularity of tattooing to the wealth of grave goods found in the Upper Paleolithic burials and body painting of the Nuba, we see that there is no one who does not adorn themselves, their possessions, or their environment. But what messages do these adornments send? Drawing on aesthetics, evolutionary history, archaeology, ethology, anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and gender studies, Stephen Davies brings together African, Australian and North and South American indigenous cultures and unites them around the theme of adornment. He shows us that adorning is one of the few social behaviors that is close to being genuinely universal, more typical and extensive than the high-minded activities we prefer to think of as marking our species religion, morality, and art.

viii, 264 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cm

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Portraits of medieval women : family, marriage, and politics in England, 1225-1350 / Linda E. Mitchell.

Gender : a graphic guide / Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele.

Undoing gender / Judith Butler.

Him + his / Hélène Selam Kleih.

Adornment : what self-decoration tells us about who we are / Stephen Davies.

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Gender Role

Works

Portraits of medieval women : family, marriage, and politics in England, 1225-1350 / Linda E. Mitchell.

Gender : a graphic guide / Meg-John Barker, Jules Scheele.

Undoing gender / Judith Butler.

Him + his / Hélène Selam Kleih.

Adornment : what self-decoration tells us about who we are / Stephen Davies.

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