Bøger i Transformations serien

Challenges the assumption that science what scientists say. This book shows the dispersed makings of science and technology in everyday life and popular culture. It provides readers with an accessible introduction to its theories and methods.

Presents a critical look at how gender is understood within the contemporary British Army. Drawing on original research, this book puts forward an argument that dominant ideas about gender, evident in areas as diverse as policy documents and cultural practices, potentially limit rather than enhance operational effectiveness.

Demonstrates ways in which women appropriate textual and visual modes of representation, often in cross-fertilizing ways, in challenges to Orientalist/colonialist, nationalist, Islamist, and 'multicultural' paradigms.

By a close stylistic and rhetorical analysis across contemporary feminist writing - from the cultural theory of Judith Butler to the newspaper journalism of Naomi Wolf - Lynne Pearce demonstrates how feminist thought is created as well as communicated by the frameworks in which it is presented.