Gender category: 10444 books
by Brian Attebery
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
From Frankenstein to futuristic feminist utopias, Decoding Gender in Science Fiction examines the ways science fiction writers have incorporated, explored, and revised conventional notions of sexual difference. Attebery traces a fascinating history of men's and women's writing that covertly or overtly investigates conceptions of gender, suggesting new perspectives on the genre.
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But...
Begging for Sex
Gender Equality from the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book is a manifesto for shy males who are uncomfortable in the sexually aggressive role. That role specifies that men must make the advances, while women get to remain passive. For shy males, gender equality has been a cruel joke since not only do these roles still exist, the male role has been...
by Donald G. Dutton
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Rethinking Domestic Violence is the third in a series of books by Donald Dutton critically reviewing research in the area of intimate partner violence (IPV). The research crosses disciplinary lines, including social and clinical psychology, sociology, psychiatry, affective neuropsychology, criminology,...
F-Bomb
Dispatches from the War on Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“However you define feminism, read this book . . . Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here” (Karen Walton, screenwriter of Orphan Black).
In a world where sexual harassment allegations regularly dominate news coverage and in...
Free Hearts and Free Homes
Gender and American Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.
From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the...
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware...
Violence against Queer People
Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2015
Violence against lesbians and gay men has increasingly captured media and scholarly attention. But these reports tend to focus on one segment of the LGBT community—white, middle class men—and largely ignore that part of the community that arguably suffers a larger share of the violence—racial...
Women's Football in the UK
Continuing with Gender Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and coaching...
Selling Women Short
Gender and Money on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.
Wall Street...
Living Up to the Ads
Gender Fictions of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives,...
Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances...