Gender category: 10444 books
Age Matters
Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power...
Gender Mainstreaming Case Study
Sri Lanka—North East Coastal Community Development Project and Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Two projects in Sri Lanka employed participatory approaches, bringing key stakeholders together and facilitating women's involvement---the North East Coastal Community Development Project which was aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natural resource management in poor coastal communities,...
Arresting Dress
Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
In 1863, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in “a dress not belonging to his or her sex.” Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for policing multiple gender transgressions, facilitating...
by United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
This publication is the result of theoretical reflections and empirical studies carried out by the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (UN-INSTRAW). It explores what other issues, beyond remittances alone, constitute strategic topics for deeper analysis....
Gender before Birth
Sex Selection in a Transnational Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2018
In the mid-1990s, the international community pronounced prenatal sex selection via abortion an �act of violence against women� and �unethical.� At the same time, new developments in reproductive technology in the United States led to a method of sex selection before conception; its US inventor...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
While gender research in tourism has become increasingly important within Western academic circles, little has been written from an Asian perspective. This book is the first to address this knowledge gap and to fully explore Asian gendered identities and tourism. The chapters reflect upon the role...
Women and Sport
Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration focuses on women winning access to the playing field as well as the front office in sport. Readers will gain an understanding of how women have been involved in sport and physical activity, how they have struggled for widespread recognition...
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions...
Mainstreaming Gender into Climate Mitigation Activities
Guidelines for Policy Makers and Proposal Developers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs, better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design climate funding mechanisms to help capture these benefits, but policy makers and other stakeholders...
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal. One reason for this need to create the journal was a common feeling of being alienated as writers in male-dominated publishing circles. The women who met in the Popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Contributions by Dorian L. Alexander, Janine Coleman, Gabriel Gianola, Mel Gibson, Michael Goodrum, Tim Hanley, Vanessa Hemovich, Christina Knopf, Christopher McGunnigle, Samira Nadkarni, Ryan North, Lisa Perdigao, Tara Prescott, Philip Smith, and Maite Ucaregui
The explosive popularity of...
The Politics of the Body
Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize
The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and...
Feminism at the Movies
Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary...
Fan Girls and the Media
Creating Characters, Consuming Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In the broad spectrum of popular culture, one can be a fan of just about anything: comic books, television shows, fantasy novels, movie franchises, musical artists, and so on. Because fans are fluid and ever-changing, however, defining them poses a challenge. As a result, too few scholars have yet...