Gender category: 10444 books
Men, Women and Relationships - A Post-Jungian Approach
Gender Electrics and Magic Beans
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book offers Jungian perspectives on social constructions of gender difference and explores how these feed into adult ways of relating within male-female relationships. Phil Goss places this discussion within an archetypal context drawing on the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk to consider the...
Acts of Passion
Sexuality, Gender, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines...
Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation
Varieties of Gender Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction between regulation distance and content, labor segmentation and norms helps us understand various aspects of gender gaps.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Diversity in the workforce can be attributed to both a popular, cultural shift and legislative intervention. Despite these forces, discrimination endures in all aspects of Western society from education to employment. Unequal pay and opportunities for promotion are symptoms of a systematic discrimination...
Indian Immigrant Women and Work
The American experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of desperation,...
by Alicia Izharuddin
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
This book presents a historical overview of the Indonesian film industry, the relationship between censorship and representation, and the rise of Islamic popular culture. It considers scholarship on gender in Indonesian cinema through the lens of power relations. With key themes such as nationalism,...
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Gender and Sex in an African Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
As religions grow and evolve, they adapt to their current circumstances, with new ideologies often deviating dramatically from their roots. The variety of religious institutions in modern society necessitates a focus on diversity and inclusiveness in the interactions between organizations of different...
by Michela Marzano
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Le discriminazioni e la violenza contro le donne e le persone omosessuali e transessuali sono oggi, almeno a parole, unanimemente condannate in Italia. Una frattura profonda divide invece il Paese quando si discute dei mezzi per combattere questi mali. Al centro del durissimo dibattito c’è la cosiddetta...
Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe
Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Transcending both academic disciplines and traditional categories of analysis, this collection illustrates the ways genders and sexualities could be constructed, subverted and transformed. Focusing on areas such as literature, hagiography, history, and art history, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the...
Gender Equality, Citizenship and Human Rights
Controversies and Challenges in China and the Nordic Countries
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
This comparative volume examines the ways in which current controversies and political, legal, and social struggles for gender equality raise conceptual questions and challenge our thinking on political theories of equality, citizenship and human rights.
Bringing together scholars and activists...
Gender, Work, and Harness Racing
Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
While gender equality has progressed in many sports since the second wave of the feminist movement in terms of women’s inclusion, participation, and success, harness horse racing has been recalcitrant to change. Gender, Work, and Harness Racing: Fast Horses and Strong Women in Southwestern Pennsylvania...
Sex, Love and Feminism in the Asia Pacific
A Cross-Cultural Study of Young People's Attitudes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
‘Sex, love and feminism’ are three aspects of the rapidly changing gender relations that shape young people’s lives in the Asia Pacific region. Much has been written about rapidly changing countries in Asia, most recently China and India. With the global spread of capitalist production and neo-liberal...
Feminism Counts
Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology...