Gender category: 10444 books
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the...
Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The 1950s era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962. As the genre’s wildly speculative depictions of science and technology gave way to more reality-based representations, relations between male and female characters...
by Mona Narain, Karen Gevirtz
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Between 1660 and 1820, Great Britain experienced significant structural transformations in class, politics, economy, print, and writing that produced new and varied spaces and with them, new and reconfigured concepts of gender. In mapping the relationship between gender and space in British literature...
Media, Gender and Identity
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?
The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised...
by Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
When we talk about family values, like whether children need two parents, we are also talking about gender values, because a 'yes' answer to this question might imply that only women with husbands should have children. In the same way, when we talk about gender issues, such as whether men should be...
Transcribing Class and Gender
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched,...
Entering the Fray
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Through personal narratives and case studies, this fully updated second edition explores the childhood and adolescent experiences of transgendered persons. Addressing the differences between male-to-female (MTF) and female-to-male (FTM) individuals and identifying the specific challenges of transgender...
Virtual Gender
Technology, Consumption and Identity Matters
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the...
by Anna Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital...
Gender, Work, and Economy
Unpacking the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global economy, the book explores how economic...
by Elizabeth J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Issues related to gender and sexual diversity in schools can generate a lot of controversy, with many educators and youth advocates under-prepared to address these topics in their school communities. This text offers an easy-to-read introduction to the subject, providing readers with definitions and...
Shamans of the Foye Tree
Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche...
Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Beyond Mothers and Safety Nets
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability, much of which is gendered. Despite this, little attention has been paid to gender-sensitive policy and programme design and...