Gender TroubleArguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and examines 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social 'performance' rather than the expression of a prior reality.

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which seriously affects our immune response

yearning for the solace she had known growing up among nature

Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks

and of a remarkable relationship blossoming against the backdrop of rural life

Billy played the banjo in the folk clubs of Glasgow

antiwar protestors

she is all too aware of the dangers that await a woman who dares step out of place

a grotesque monster who threatens to block every entrance

bringing it to vivid and urgent life and offering us all a much-needed way out

He cares only for his own lost family

Policeman Aaron Falk returns to the town of his youth for the funeral of his childhood best friend