Books on the study of cultures, societies, genders, ethnicities and other defined groups.
Official reports and general works.
Includes Feminist studies, education, employment rights, media psychology and youth movements.
Study of animals as individuals, a species, and their social organization. Human behavior shown in the mirror of other species. Cyclical time, molecular memory, human philosophies interpreted through animal organization. ISBN0586080236
VG softback
$8 A/B
Paladin 1976 reprint, 283pp. [#2802 sociology, anthropology, religion ]
Revised by Theodore Betserman.
Originally published in 1902 and immediately recognised as a vital contribution to the literature of anthropology and primitive psychology.
An exhaustive survey of primitive marriage rites and customs focusing on the state of "taboo" arising from evil agents and influences.
Taboos affect primitive thought and action at every level of personal and social life and come into force at any time of private or communal crisis - at birth and puberty, in sickness and death, in famine and war - and particularly affect two basic spheres of activity, eating and sexual intercourse.
It is in the ceremonies and rituals surrounding marriage that the taboos are broken.
Crawley strongly rejects the "communistic" theory of primitive marriage and advances convincing evidence of its being generally regarded as a personal relationship - a joining together of two people previously regarded as mutually taboo.
His suggestions as to the psychological motivations of primitive marriage customs have been widely accepted by modern theorists, and the reissue of his famous book, in one volume for the first time, will be welcomed by students of sociology.
A fascinating and lucid account of a system of social behaviour on which many of our own, reputedly "civilised" beliefs and customs are modelled.
anthropology, sociology, marriage, sexuality, gender, ethnography
VG hardback in VG dust jacket.
$20 C/C
Spring Books 1965 first thus reissue of 1927 revised edition, xx 340pp.
[#4876 ]
Maori and Pakeha, lesbian and heterosexual, older and younger, working inside or outside universities, the two dozen contributors to Feminist Voices present here their feminist analyses of Aotearoa/New Zealand.
They discuss subjects as diverse as rugby, spirituality, the politics of work, science, medicine, education, speaking on the marae, racism, Maori theatre, lesbian studies, women and the State, feminist politics, and what is presented to us as history.
The result is diverse, lively, and challenging reading for students of women's studies and feminist studies, or simply those seeking to understand further the position of women in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 1990s.
ISBN9780195582390
VG+ softback with bookplate to inside front cover
$25 B/C
Oxford University Press 1992, 358pp.[#2798 ]
Victorian sexual mores within and outside the family structure.
Includes birth-control, prostitution, the working class, and a study of the sexual autobiography of the Victorian gent known only as "Walter".
ISBN000635212X
sociology, Britain,
G+ paperback with some foxing, sun faded spine
$5 A/B
Collins/ Fontana 1979 first thus, 288pp + photos.
[PB1568 ]
A Study of Phenomenological and Marxist Approaches to Education.
ISBN 0710089449
Marxist Sociology of Education.
VG- softback with minor underlining/ highlighting.
$8 C/B
Routledge 1979, 224pp.
[#5401 ]
Underground fetish magazine from New Zealand, mainly stories reviews, adverts and personals.
Black and white photographs, glossy paper, folded and stapled magazine format.
Issue one (not included here) was published in 1996 and these next four issues are undated but probably followed within the same year.
gender, sexuality, sociology, nz culture, fringe
Unread, they have been stored in original plastic wrappers but these have been opened to check condition.
$120 C/B
Spencer Publishing Ltd. Auckland (1996) First Edition, 34pp per issue.
[#4652 ]
A discussion of the work of feminist thinkers from the last three hundred years, which features contributions from contemporary writers such as Ann Oakley and Alix Kates Shulman on the feminist intellectual tradition pioneered by the likes of Aphra Benn, Christabel Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf.
ISBN 9780704338890
gender studies, sociology, politics, theory
VG softback
$15 C/B
Women's Press Ltd 1992, 402 pp.
[#4784 ]
The famous ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment.
Edited by W G Archer.
Modern issue of the 1883 edition which was supressed until 1962.
hindu, veda, sex
G+ hardback in G+ dust jacket chipped to corners.
Book has mild foxing to prelims and closed edges.
$10 C/C
George Allen Unwin 1963 fourth impression, cloth 8vo, 296pp.
[#4854 ]
A sociological and literary study of the significance of the hero.
sociology, alienation, anomie, heroism, existentialism, existential psychology, Camus, Sartre, factor X, the will to power
VG- hardback in G+ dust jacket strongly sun faded and with tape staining and short tear.
$55 C/B
Victor Gollancz 1955 first edition, 157pp.
[#5090 ]
Wilson expounds his theory that deviant sexual behavior is an effort to transcend normal consciousness into a higher reality.
Wilson uses the examples of sexual deviance and pornography from the Marquis de Sade (a complete chapter), Yukio Mishima, Lord Byron, James Joyce, T.E. Lawrence, Henry Miller, and others to support his theory.
ISBN 0246129743
Charlotte Bach, transvestism, deviance, gender, sexuality, trans sexual
VG- hardback with no jacket, boards handling soiled.
$20 C/C
Grafton 1988 first edition, 272pp.
[#5091 ]