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Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling
The Influence of Male Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models...
Trans/Portraits
Voices from Transgender Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Although transgender people are increasingly represented in academic studies and popular culture, they rarely have the opportunity to add their own voices to the conversation. In this remarkable book, Jackson Shultz records the stories of more than thirty Americans who identify as transgender. They...
Transgender 101
A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and its unique experiences of discrimination. Chapters introduce transgenderism and its psychological,...
Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system
Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack...
by Alice E. Sanger
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries in relation to issues of gender. Through a series of case studies carefully chosen to highlight key roles and...
In Idi Amin’s Shadow
Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the...
Critically Sovereign
Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination,...
Understanding Gender Dysphoria
Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
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Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq
A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq offers a feminist critique and reconstruction of just war theory. It points out gender biases in the just war tradition and suggests alternative jus ad bellum and jus in bello standards that emphasize women, political marginality, and empathy. Laura Sjoberg applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom.
Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play
Video Games in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming communities, the ways game design regulates gender and class relations, and the impacts of colonization on game design. The critical interest in games as a cultural artifact is covered...
The Intersectional Approach
Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative...
Challenging Democracy
International Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the first time important cutting-edge research on the contribution of the educational system to the formation of male and female citizens. It shows how...
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara
Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book offers a social–scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. It is a self-reflexive study approached with an insider’s empathy and the perspective of an Indologist, anthropologist, mystic and practitioner of the cult.
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