Oxford University Press

Since the end of the Cold war, the international security agenda has become increasingly important. This Very Short Introduction considers traditional topics such as war and peace, military strategy and nuclear weapons, alongside other issues such as climate change, international migration, poverty, and international terrorism....

This book provides a broad ranging critique of the continued dominance of men in the political process....

This book examines how Gregory of Nazianzus, a fourth-century Greek writer famed as 'the Theologian' in the Christian tradition, expressed the mystery of Christ in terms of his own life. It studies Gregory's three genres of writing (orations, poems, and letters) and shows how Gregory developed an 'autobiographical...

Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present DayThis innovative book comprises nine essays from leading scholars which investigate the relationship between fiction, censorship and the legal construction of obscenity in Britain between 1850 and the present day. Each of the chapters focuses on a distinct historical period and each has...

Islam and Feminism in IndonesiaAn ethnography of Muslim and secular women activists in the world&'s largest Muslim country, Mobilizing Piety argues that political changes in Indonesia since the 1990s have produced new forms of agency for women activists who identfy as both Muslim and feminist....

Beauty, Myth, DevastationIn Helen of Troy Ruby Blondell investigates the origins of our persistent anxiety about female beauty, focusing on this key figure from ancient Greek culture in a way that both extends our understanding of that culture and provides a useful perspective on our own....