Gender category: 10444 books
The Subject of Gender
Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
The Routledge Handbook of Sport, Gender and Sexuality brings together important new work from 68 leading international scholars that, collectively, demonstrates the intrinsic interconnectedness of sport, gender and sexuality. It introduces what is, in essence, a sophisticated sub-area of sport sociology,...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social...
Gender Equality and the Media
A Challenge for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This edited collection draws on and expands the findings from a pan-European research project undertaken during 2012-13 which was funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality and aimed to explore three key issues in relation to gender and media: women’s inclusion in decision-making positions...
by Karina Oborune
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: A-, Central European University Budapest, language: English, abstract: Abstract The research deals with the analysis of genocide in Rwanda in gender-specific terms. The paper identifies differences...
International Courts and the African Woman Judge
Unveiled Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman Judge examines questions on gender diversity, representative benches, and international courts by focusing on women judges from the continent of Africa.
Drawing...
Nepal Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
Gender Results Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women in Nepal have long experienced poverty, social exclusion, and marginalization because of their gender, especially among ethnic minorities and low-caste groups. Between 2002 and 2013, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Nepal developed and implemented the Gender Equality and Empowerment...
Identities on the Move
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy...
Transitions of the Heart
Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. Often “transitioning” socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the...
Gender, Health and Healing
The Public/Private Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health?
How is 'biology' best understood?
What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work?
Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible?
How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics...
Family Bonds
Genealogies of Race and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2007
Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged the "intersection" of gender and race difference; it is by now a truism that the ways we become boys and girls, men and women, cannot be disentangled from the ways we become white or Black men and women, Asian or Latino boys and girls....
Women in the Club
Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, Democrats and Republicans were locked in a fierce battle for the female vote. Democrats charged Republicans with waging a “war on women,” while Republicans countered that Democratic policies actually undermined women’s rights. The women of the...
Trans Kids
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
*Trans Kids *is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their...
by Laura Sjoberg
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men, throughout the history of warfare,...