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The Law of the Father?: Patriarchy in the transition from feudalism to capitalism

By Mary Murray

Develops a new perspective on the class-patriarchy relationship. A coherent exploration into how Patriarchy constructed pre-capitalist and capitalist society, and its role in the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

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Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States

By Wendy Simonds, Barbara Katz Rothman, Bari Meltzer Norman

Updating Barbara Katz Rothman's now-classic In Labor , the first feminist sociological analysis of birth in the United States, Laboring On gives a comprehensive picture of the ever-changing American birth practices and often conflicting visions of birth practitioners. The authors deftly weave compelling accounts of birth work, by midwives, doulas, obstetricians, and nurses, into the larger sociohistorical context of health care practices and activism and offer provocative arguments about the current state of affairs and the future of birth in America.

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Transgender Migrations: The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger geopolitical contexts of immigration reform, the war on terror, the war on drugs, and the increased policing of national borders. The book centers trans-ing experiences, identities, and politics, and treats these identities as inextricably intertwined with other social identities, institutions, and discourses of sexuality, nationality, race and ethnicity, globalization, colonialism, and terrorism. The chapter authors explore not only the movement of bodies in, through, and across spaces and borders, but also chart the metamorphoses of these bodies in relation to migration and mobility.

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Gender Transitions Along Borders: The Northern Borderlands of Mexico and Morocco

By Marlene Solis

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The Law of the Father?: Patriarchy in the transition from feudalism to capitalism

By Mary Murray

Develops a new perspective on the class-patriarchy relationship. A coherent exploration into how Patriarchy constructed pre-capitalist and capitalist society, and its role in the transition from feudalism to capitalism.

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Gender-Responsive Governance in Sierra Leone: The Transitions and Logic of Inequality

By John Idriss Lahai

This book investigates gender equality and women's empowerment in Sierra Leone, focusing in particular on women's interactions with the state and its development partners.

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Just Transitions: Gender and Power in India's Climate Politics

This book turns critical feminist scrutiny on national climate policies in India and examines what transition might really mean for marginalized groups in the country.

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Maternal Transition: A North-South Politics of Pregnancy and Childbirth

By Candace Johnson

What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth? The answers to this question vary from one community to the next, and often from woman to the next, although the trends in the Global North and South are strikingly different. Employing three conceptual frames; medicalization, the public-private distinction, and intersectionality, Candace Johnson examines these differences through the narratives of women in Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Honduras.

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Motherhood, Absence and Transition: When Adult Children Leave Home

By Trish Green

The vast majority of academic texts on motherhood have focussed on women's experiences of the early years of mothering, while texts covering the topic of home-leaving have tended to privilege the young person's experience. Combining lively empirical material with an illuminating social-theoretical framework, Trish Green's book addresses the much neglected area of the mother's experience of separation from her child at the time of their home-leaving.