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Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communities
While many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality--sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some...
Troubled Masculinities
Reimagining Urban Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
In the contemporary urban environment, the once-dominant concept of a ‘masculine’ identity is being replaced by alternative ideas of what it means to be a man. Troubled Masculinities explores and theorizes the ways in which men who experience marginalization in urban settings reimagine and reconstruct...
Pleasure, Power and Technology
Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions...
The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain
Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...
Gender, Globalization, and Violence
Postcolonial Conflict Zones
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from new angles questions of violent conflict, forced migration, trafficking and deportation,...
Sufi Narratives of Intimacy
Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and...
Trans/Love
Radical Sex, Love & Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Morty Diamond's previous anthology about transgender experiences From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation, FTM and Beyond has sold more than 4,000 copies since publication.
Morty Diamond's previous anthology about transgender experiences From the Inside Out: Radical Gender Transformation,...
Men as Women, Women as Men
Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical...
When Sun Meets Moon
Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice...
First Year Out
A Transition Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
From laser hair removal and coming out to her parents, through to dating, voice training and gender reassignment surgery, this intimate and witty graphic novel follows the character of Lily as she transitions to living as her true, female self. Providing support and guidance on a range of issues such...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking...
Japanese Fashion Cultures
Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent...
Persistence
All Ways Butch and Femme
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme...
Love and War
How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called "battle of the sexes" is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinity. These...