Davis, Kathy 1949-

Handbook of gender and women's studies ( Book )
23 editions published between 2006 and 2010 in English and held by 843 libraries worldwide
Reviews the developments within gender and women's studies, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the 'cultural turn', and globalization. This book offers critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family, education, religion, violence and war, and feminist global politics

Transatlantic conversations : feminism as travelling theory by Mary Evans( file )
17 editions published between 2011 and 2016 in English and Undetermined and held by 753 libraries worldwide
The second wave of feminism which challenged and changed many assumptions about the world in which we live was a product of various western cultures, with no single country possessing a monopoly on the writing of the texts that became the canonical statements of the 'new' feminism. Though many of the contributions to feminist scholarship that went on to become internationally significant hailed from Europe and the United States, these works were often formed within the context of local debates and framed within traditions of feminism and other political engagements specific to these nations

The making of Our bodies, ourselves : how feminism travels across borders by Kathy Davis( Book )
13 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 639 libraries worldwide
Davis offers a kind of biography of the famous women's health reference book, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS) and its adaptations in different countries

Reshaping the female body : the dilemma of cosmetic surgery by Kathy Davis( Book )
17 editions published between 1994 and 2013 in English and Dutch and held by 627 libraries worldwide
In an analysis from a feminist standpoint, Davis argues that cosmetic surgery is a dilemma: both symptom and solution, oppression and liberation, all in one

The Gender of power by Kathy Davis( Book )
12 editions published between 1991 and 2006 in English and held by 435 libraries worldwide

Embodied practices : feminist perspectives on the body ( Book )
13 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 352 libraries worldwide

Negotiating at the margins : the gendered discourses of power and resistance ( Book )
6 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 330 libraries worldwide

Dancing tango : passionate encounters in a globalizing world by Kathy Davis( file )
10 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and held by 328 libraries worldwide
"Argentinean tango is a global phenomenon. Since its origin among immigrants from the slums of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, it has crossed and re-crossed many borders. Yet, never before has tango been danced by so many people and in so many different places as today. Argentinean tango is more than a specific music and style of dancing. It is also a cultural imaginary which embodies intense passion, hyper-heterosexuality, and dangerous exoticism. In the wake of its latest revival, tango has become both a cultural symbol of Argentinean national identity and a transnational cultural space in which a modest, yet growing number of dancers from different parts of the globe meet on the dance floor. Through interviews and ethnographical research in Amsterdam and Buenos Aires, Kathy Davis shows why a dance from another era and another place appeals to men and women from different parts of the world and what happens to them as they become caught up in the tango salon culture. She shows how they negotiate the ambivalences, contradictions, and hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and global relations of power between North and South in which Argentinean tango is - and has always been - embroiled. Davis also explores her uneasiness about her own passion for a dance which - when seen through the lens of contemporary critical feminist and postcolonial theories - seems, at best, odd, and, at worst, disreputable and even a bit shameful. She uses the disjuncture between the incorrect pleasures and complicated politics of dancing tango as a resource for exploring the workings of passion as experience, as performance, and as cultural discourse. She concludes that dancing tango should be viewed less as a love/hate embrace with colonial overtones than a passionate encounter across many different borders between dancers who share a desire for difference and a taste of the 'elsewhere.'Dancing Tango is a vivid, intriguing account of an important global cultural phenomenon"--

Dubious equalities and embodied differences : cultural studies on cosmetic surgery by Kathy Davis( Book )
11 editions published between 2003 and 2007 in English and Spanish and held by 316 libraries worldwide
Kathy Davis explores cosmetic surgery as a cultural phenomenon of late modernity. She critically engages with the notion of cosmetic surgery as a neutral technology and shows how it is implicated in the surgical erasure of embodied difference

Power under the microscope by Kathy Davis( Book )
12 editions published in 1988 in English and held by 109 libraries worldwide