Gender category: 10444 books
Gender and International Migration in Europe
Employment, Welfare and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistence of racism, deny autonomy and choice...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) exert a great influence on global activities. ITC has affected the structure of governments, economies, cultures, and even human health. Another area in which ICT has had a tremendous impact is within the developing world and nations where women face repression...
Chasing Rainbows
Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst...
by Genny Beemyn, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey-one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.-on gender development and identity-making among transsexual...
Terrorism and Violent Conflict
Women's Agency, Leadership, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and genocide. We investigate how women...
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group...
by Natacha Guyot
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Feminist Bloggers is a collection of twenty feminist essays by eight authors, covering a broad range of topics from feminism as a political label, to rape culture, to various perspectives on education. This volume also includes several pieces about how marketing addresses women and how mass media...
Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self
(Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through...
Teaching Gender
Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis addresses the neoliberalization of the university, what this means in real terms, and strategic pedagogical responses to teaching within this context across disciplines and region.
Inspired by bell hooks’ "transgressive...
Race, Gender and Sport
The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious...
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered...
The Politics of State Intervention
Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran examines how three culturally and religiously interconnected neighboring states have sought to regulate the lives of their female populace in order to gauge how successful, or unsuccessful, these efforts have been...
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional...