Gender category: 10444 books
The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance...
by Qutub Jehan Kidwai
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
The basic objective of this book is to explore the possibilities of reform in Muslim Personal Law and Hindu Personal Law from women rights perspective. It is a long, complex discourse. But the key factor in the whole discourse is gender . The issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC ) is being hugely politicized...
Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting
Imperatives for Equitable Public Expenditure
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by participatory governance activists....
Funny Girls
Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and...
Food and Gender in Fiji
Ethnoarchaeological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Food and Gender in Fiji is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Writing from the perspective of an archaeologist, Jones answers questions raised by her archaeological research using original ethnographic data and material...
Doing Women's Studies
Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific...
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
Confucianism or Gender Equality?
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Many people in Europe are stigmatised because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and cannot fully enjoy their universal human rights. Some of them are victims of violence, others have fled to Europe from countries where they risk being persecuted. Organisations representing lesbian, gay,...
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
Women and Identity in Guyana
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across...
by Ellen Annandale
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2008
Shortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2009
Traditional distinctions between the experiences of women and men are breaking down and being reconfigured in new, more complex ways. The long-established life expectancy gap between men and women appears to be closing...
Women and Nature?
Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.
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Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture
Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016
This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field. This book is a forerunner in queenship and re-invents the reputations of the women and some of the men. The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has,...