Professor Linda Mckie: 2 books
Understanding Families
A Global Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011
"I don't know how often I've wished for an introductory text on family life which encompassed critical contemporary sociological thinking alongside the basic information students need, and have only found fossilised thinking on a stodgy subject. But now all that has changed. McKie and Callan...
Feminist Futures
Reimagining Women, Culture and Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
The first edition received widespread praise, including from eminent scholars such as Gita Sen and Amina Mama (see quotes below)
The only book on the subject to cover the Global South as a whole and to bring together such a wide variety of disciplines and approaches.
Offers a critical feminist perspective on development.
Bridges the gap between development scholarship and feminist activism.