Gender category: 10444 books
by Shira Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a...
by Ashley Mardell
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
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The ABCs of LGBT+ is a #1 Bestselling LGBT book and is essential reading for questioning teens, teachers or parents looking for advice, or anyone who wants to learn how to talk about gender identity...
Sex Scandal
The Drive to Abolish Male and Female
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Men and women used to cheer: vive la différence!
But now, contrary to all science and common sense, we’re supposed to believe that there is no difference. (And if you insist there is, you just might be accused of a hate crime!)
Our culture-and our laws-are endorsing a worldview rooted...
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey...
by S Van Spronsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Workplace Conflict and the Impact of Gender is a researched approach, examination and measurement to the female and male affective responses to situations of resolved and unresolved conflict in the workplace. The research results contribute to the growing body of literature that suggests that gender...
The Face of the Firm
Corporate Hegemonic Masculinity at Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Despite decades of greater gender awareness at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. "The Face of the Firm" highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment, and gender disparities...
by Elaine Unterhalter
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and...
Gender and Public Relations
Critical Perspectives on Voice, Image and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Although there is a small body of feminist scholarship that problematizes gender in public relations, gender is a relatively undefined area of thinking in the field and there have been few serious studies of the socially constructed roles defining women and men in public relations.
This book...
Gender Roles
A Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Offers a sociological perspective of gender that can be applied to our lives. Focusing on the most recent research and theory–both in the U.S. and globally–Gender Roles, 6e provides an in-depth, survey and analysis of modern gender roles and issues from a sociological perspective. The text integrates...
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema
Embodiments of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema explores the different mechanisms and strategies through which horror films attempt to reinforce or contest gender relations and issues of sexual identity in the continent. The book explores issues of machismo, marianismo, homosociality, bromance,...
The Achilles Effect
What Pop Culture Is Teaching Young Boys About Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A discussion of pop culture messages about masculinity, their impact on boys, and the benefits of introducing more gender balance to boys lives.
When most people think about gender stereotypes and children, they envision princesses, dolls, and pink clothing. Few consider the warriors, muscle-bound...
Before and After Gender
Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly...
by Marian Liebmann, Nancy Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Art therapy enables the client and therapist to explore issues that may ordinarily be difficult to articulate in words; one such issue is the complexity of gender, which can be a subject of therapy in a range of ways. Gender identity is at the heart of our self-understanding. The contributors to this...
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality
Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. This book describes the impact of individual contexts and politics on meanings attributed to the human body. The Politics of Gender...