Gender category: 10444 books
Gendered Media
Women, Men, and Identity Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Gendered Media addresses the broad topic of gender and media, where 'gender' is not simply a shorthand for 'woman' but also embraces masculinitiy/ies, queer, lesbian and gay identities. Karen Ross provides the necessary historical context against which to read recent sex- and gender-based media phenomena...
Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black...
Unearthing Gender
Folksongs of North India
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
Unearthing Gender is a compelling ethnographic analysis of folksongs sung primarily by lower-caste women in north India, in the fields, at weddings, during travels, and in other settings. Smita Tewari Jassal uses these songs to explore how ideas of caste, gender, sexuality, labor, and power may be...
Gender Bending Detective Fiction
A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...
You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields,...
Women in Public Relations
How Gender Influences Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The past 20 years have seen an influx of women into the practice of public relations, yet gender-based disparities in pay and advancement remain a troubling reality. As the field becomes feminized, moreover, female and male practitioners alike confront the prospect of dwindling salaries and prestige....
by Mukesh Eswaran
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Gender matters in economics—for even with today's technology, fertility choices, market opportunities, and improved social norms, economic outcomes for women remain markedly worse than for men. Drawing on insights from feminism, postmodernism, psychology, evolutionary biology, Marxism, and politics,...
The Internet of Women
Accelerating Culture Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look...
Clinical Aspects of Sexual Harassment and Gender Discrimination
Psychological Consequences and Treatment Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2004
This book addresses the psychological impact of sexual harassment and gender discrimination from both a clinical and theoretical perspective, whereas previous literature on the topic has emphasized legal and employment consequences. To start, Lenhart provides a comprehensive summary and integration...
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects...
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
The Gender of Caste
Representing Dalits in Print
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations...
Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India
Blessed with a Son
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasing the legal age at marriage, and promoting educational opportunities for girls, serious challenges remain, especially in rural areas. Gender Equality...
Women in Late Life
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and...