Gender category: 10444 books
Gender for the Warfare State
Literature of Women in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally...
by Gabriele Griffin
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
This new dictionary provides clear and accessible definitions of a range of terms from within the fast-developing field of gender studies. It covers terms which have emerged out of gender studies, such as cyber feminism, double burden, and male gaze, and gender-focused definitions of more general...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book...
Gender and the Open Method of Coordination
Perspectives on Law, Governance and Equality in the EU
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Containing contributions by some of the best known researchers in the field, this volume considers the intersection between the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), a relatively new mode of policy-making, and gender equality, a long-standing area of EU policy. It draws on a range of disciplinary perspectives...
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora
Contesting History and Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilisation considers gender and sexuality in modern Russia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Chapters look individually at gender and sexuality through history, art, folklore, philosophy or literature,but are also arranged into sections according to...
Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who...
by Eva-Maria Krapfenbauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 1,0, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Gender- und Diversitätmanagement), language: English, abstract: The following Bachelor's thesis deals with the (re-)production of gender-related and ethnic stereotypes...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
Weimar through the Lens of Gender
Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
"This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly."
---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College
Until...
Gender and Education in China
Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the...
Gender Quotas in South America's Big Three
National and Subnational Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Since the return of democracy to Latin America, policies intended to promote the inclusion of women and other underrepresented groups have been increasingly adopted throughout the region. Gender quotas have been one of the most popular and effective mechanisms employed in elections and other contexts...
Doing Gender Diversity
Readings in Theory and Real-World Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
This cutting-edge reader demonstrates the multiple ways in which the universe of gender is socially, culturally, and historically constructed. The selections focus on gender itself - how gender operates socioculturally, exists, functions, and is presented in micro and macro interactions. In order...
Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance
Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable...