Gender category: 10444 books
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
"Sex change" is a very broad term that refers to the process of a person or animal changing sex. This occurs naturally in some species of animals, but more often the term is used to mean sex reassignment surgery.
The term can refer to either male sexual characteristics being substituted...
What Does Your Wife Do?
Gender And The Transformation Of Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
In the past, a woman would routinely be asked what her husband did for a living. Increasingly, a man is likely to be asked what his wife does for a living. It's a small switch, but it signifies a revolution in gender roles and family life. Leonard Beeghley uses historical and international data to...
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Most therapy is set up in a heterosexist context. Explore the issues facing your gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients--and how to deal with them!
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients offers therapists treating lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients innovative, practical...
Speaking Up
Understanding Language and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
From slut-shaming to the allegedly shrill voices of female politicians, from vocal fry to online misogyny, the language women use (and the language used about them) is as controversial as it has ever been. Our language use and our gender have an enormous impact on the way we understand ourselves and...
LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
What unique challenges face LGBTQ individuals in relationships or who are separating or divorcing, especially now that same-sex couples may marry? What issues might complicate the ending of relationships when children, multiple partners, or multiple parents are present? How do gender, gender transition,...
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Although “entanglement” has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians...
by Ann Brooks, Theresa Devasahayam
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This edited volume challenges popular notions of sex, gender and biology and features international, trans-disciplinary research. The book begins with an exploration of supposedly ‘natural’ sexual differences, then looks at research in evolutionary biology and examines topics such as gender stereotypes...
Gender Dysphoria and Disorders of Sex Development
Progress in Care and Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This book provides a state of the art review on the care and treatment of and current scientific knowledge on gender dysphoria (GD) and disorders of sex development (DSD). The book elucidates the history, the present situation, and the newest developments and future perspectives in both research...
If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay?
Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The debate on whether or not people are born homosexual (biological essentialist theory) or become homosexual during the course of their lives (social constructionist theory) continues as each side claims to prove the truth through research and clinical findings. This breakthrough book shows the fissures...
Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean
Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a “good Muslim.” Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
The EU has slowly but surely developed a solid body of equality law that prohibits different facets of discrimination. While the Union had initially developed anti-discrimination norms that served only the commercial rationale of the common market, focusing on nationality (of a Member State) and gender...
Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section
2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young...
Sexual Deviance and Society
A sociological examination
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
In a society where sexualized media has become background noise, we are frequently discouraged from frank and open discussions about sex and offered few tools for understanding sexual behaviors and sexualities that are perceived as being out of the norm. This book encourages readers to establish...