Gender category: 10444 books
Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence
The Struggle for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and...
Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century
A Comparative Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2016
Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century brings together a collection of some of the finest Genocide Studies scholars in North America and Europe to examine gendered discourses, practices and experiences of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the 20th...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This two-volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in the United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, and our concepts of womanhood and manhood as well as affected debates about equality, political and military service, and childrearing roles and practices.
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Gender Statistics in the Southern Caucasus and Central and West Asia
A Situational Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This report provides a baseline of the capacity of Asian Development Bank developing member countries to generate, analyze, disseminate, and use sex-disaggregated data. It introduces a framework on gender statistics and guides in assessing statistical systems in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan,...
New Pathways in International Development
Gender and Civil Society in EU Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Gender considerations and civil society are both major issues in the current debate about the implementation of EU development policy. This volume provides a new perspective and focus on the increasingly important issues of gender equality, democracy and participation to explain how they impact on...
by Wanda Parham-Payne
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The Intersection of Race and Gender in National Politics is an exploratory analysis that not only looks at the role black women have played in the national political arena but also examines the sociohistorical forces that have facilitated and/or prevented the presence of black women in this arena—most...
Women and Media in the Middle East
Power Through Self-expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Are women benefiting from current changes in the Middle East media? With media all over the world still marginalizing women and trivializing gender inequalities, how does the situation in the Middle East compare? Proliferating satellite channels have increased women's visibility in the region but...
The Search for Lasting Peace
Critical Perspectives on Gender-Responsive Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Presenting the human security agenda as a policy response to the changing nature of violent conflicts and war, this collection traces its evolution in relation to conflicts in different contexts (Burma, India, Palestine, Canada, East Timor, Guatemala, Peru and African countries) and from the perspective...
The Societal Evolution of Male Stereotypes
Gender Bashing of Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"When a negative trait or practice is generally and entirely attributed to a people of a particular race, gender or origin, it is an unfair generalization that we call a ‘stereotype’. When it manifests unchallenged and unanswered, it can over time cause society to lose respect for a particular...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time
Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi
No Secret Under the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. By exploring tales of love...
Why Gender Matters, Second Edition
What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.
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by E. Glapka
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a ‘princess bride’ on her ‘big day’. Yet little has been written on how the ever-expanding wedding media and the popular wedding culture constructs gender and affects the ways women live and experience...
Gender-Technology Relations
Exploring Stability and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing.