" This book breaks new ground and expands the discourse on masculinities. Connell is an
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In the past, research in the field of gender has mainly addressed issues about women, and
has for the most part been developed by women. Recently, the study of gender has rapidly …

Hard Looks is a fascinating examination of the new masculine imagery that has developed
in relation to popular consumption over the last decade. the author skilfully investigates the …

This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates
that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and …

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In this broad study of British rule in India during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
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Effeminism charts the flows of colonial desire in the works of British writers in India. Working
on the assumption that desire is intensely political, historically constituted, and materially …

Martin A. Danahay's lucidly argued and accessibly written volume offers a solid introduction
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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in
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