Gender category: 10444 books
Gender and the American Presidency
Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders....
Gender, Sexuality and Migration in South Africa
Governing Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book analyzes the intersections of gender, sexuality and migration in the South African context. It takes the form of a series of empirically-informed reflections on the ways that these issues have come together, and analyses the place that South Africa holds in increasingly global, and globally...
Women and War in the Middle East
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational...
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
The Politics of Black Women in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political...
Anglo-Indian Women in Transition
Pride, Prejudice and Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of India. It notably highlights the marginalisation...
Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman
The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood
This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses...
The Politics of Women's Interests
New Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gender stereotypes and expectations are created.
Informed by the latest research and trends, these expert authors examine the way in which domestic...
The Arab State and Women's Rights
The Trap of Authoritarian Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states – while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives.
This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the...
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
States of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Critiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory...
Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book...
Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?
The Evolution of Sex and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers—based in evolution, genetics, and biology—increasingly difficult. Still, significant differences between the sexes are apparent everyday to both men and women. Whether it’s a boyfriend’s...
by Steve Garner
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book traces the creation of the ethnic groups in the nineteenth century and its ultimate impact on the colony's political constituencies in the run-up to independence. The construction of the nation in the postcolonial period is approached through an analysis of cricket, trade unions and women...
by Laura Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization,...