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The Measure of Injury
Race, Gender, and Tort Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Tort law is the body of law governing negligence, intentional misconduct, and other wrongful acts for which civil actions can be brought. The conventional wisdom is that the rules, concepts, and structures of tort law are neutral and unbiased, free of considerations of gender and race.
In The Measure...
Civil Society and Gender Justice
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This crossdisciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world....
No Man’s Land
The story of a man who became a woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
No Man's Land is the authentic story of one woman's struggle towards discovery; to find both herself and true acceptance; the story of two lives intimately entwined; a gender odyssey. Born a male in post war Germany, Paula spent her formative years in Ireland, constantly on a voyage of self-discovery,...
Home Sweat Home
Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting...
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western...
The Psychology of Gender
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This book provides the nature of gender and the development of gender roles. It focuses on women's and men's communication and interaction styles, and provides an overview of sex differences in health and theories as to their origins .
Sexagon
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and sexuality,...
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...
Judith Butler
Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.
This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work,...
Transcending the Boundaries of Law
Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground-breaking collection that will be central to future developments in feminist and related critical theories about law. In its pages three generations of feminist legal theorists engage with what have become key feminist themes, including equality, embodiment,...
by Nina L. Molinaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines...
Deco Body, Deco City
Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival,...
Decolonizing the Sodomite
Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments...