Considering issues of Empire in relation to literary texts of the 18th century, this text examines the history of feminism in a postcolonial context. It argues that control of women's sexuality in 18th-century England intensified as trade and colonization required a larger, capable population.

A woman's corpse lies hidden in a cave in the mountains of East Tennessee. Undiscovered for thirty years, her body has been transformed into a near-perfect mummy. Clueless, the local police enlist the help of Dr Bill Brockton, renowned anthropologist. But even he is baffled by the case - unfolding in an environment, where nothing is what it seems.

Grosz celebrates and re-situates the body in the space between feminism and philosophy, feminism and cultural analysis and feminism and critical thought. She investigates the work of Foucault, Deleuze, Butler and Lingis.

A gift book for women and men alike, reflecting changing attitudes to breasts, from classical statuary to the Victorian corset and Twiggy, from nipple rings to bra-burning.

A stunning new collection from the first woman to win the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry.

The Cyborg (short for cybernetic organism) is an entity that mixes the mechanic and the organic, for example people who have implanted pacemakers. The Cyborg Handbook is an initial look at cyborg society and at the range of cyborg technologies.

An apparently motiveless murder carried out on a train after its arrival in Paris is followed by a series of ruthless killings in the French capital. The only thing these crimes have in common is that all the victims travelled north that night in carriage IV of the 10:30 train from Marseille.

A look at one of the most common cultural artefacts, explaining the history, design and politices of how and why we sit the way we do.

Describing the discovery of the Tarim Mummies and revealing the attempts of scientists to determine their ethnic identity, this book examines the evidence connected with the mummies, including textiles and languages of the Tarim region.

This new Reader gives students an ideal overview of the historical developments and current controversies within this dynamic area of feminist theory.

A historical account of masturbation as a moral issue and cultural taboo.

In this study, the author moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does - as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality.

In this classic work Mary Douglas identifies the concern for pirity as a key theme at the heart of every society. She reveals its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes tp society, values, cosmology and knowledge.

Re-evaluates the relationship betwen parents and their children on a variety of subjects surrounding sex and emphasizes a common-sense, positive, ethics-based approach to teaching youngsters about sex.

By the end of World War I, a revolution in standards of personal hygiene had taken place. This book reveals how cleanliness came to symbolise a morally superior and civilised individual. It shows many interesting connections between our attitudes toward cleanliness and conceptions of the body, inhabited space, social class, gender, and race.

Scientific research and popular opinion have favoured the idea that sexual orientations are determined at birth, but Edward Stein argues that this may be wrong. This work offers an examination of contemporary thinking on this issue.