In Heather McPherson's poetry the everyday is eroticised. The poems collected posthumously in i Do Not Cede are passionate odes to lesbian love, the body and the sensual.i Do Not Cede, a chapbook, offers a taste of poems to be included in Dirty Laundry: New and Selected Poems, a major collection of Heather's work, also edited by Emer Lyons and due 2024.Heather McPherson (1942-2017) was Aotearoa New Zealand'...

The pursuit of gender in the archaeological record is explored in this exciting new collection of essays by renowned archaeologists and gender theorists. These essays place gender in the context of the past, by approaching the data in light of the previous decades of gender research. Issues such as tool-making, hunting, and evolution take on new meaning as the contributors examine the impact of gender worldwide. They do so in terms of the theories, methods, and ways of teaching and learnin...

In Worlds of Gender ten prominent scholars consider the research on gender and archaeology that has been conducted around the world. The authors discuss the archaeological evidence for gender distinctions from Africa, East Asia, South Asia, Australia, Europe, Mesoamerica, North America, and South America. Although some regions of the world have only been studied sporadically, this volume brings together the totality of the evidence to make it possible to compare sexual roles and i...

Drawing on a major EU-funded research project, this book examines how religious/secular beliefs are formed at school and in the family across different European countries, offering insights into key policy issues concerning the place of religion in the school system and illuminating current debates around religion and multiculturalism.