Gender category: 10444 books
Gender Research in Natural Resource Management
Building Capacities in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach. It presents findings...
Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology
Volume 1: Gender Research in General and Experimental Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Donald R. McCreary and Joan C. Chrisler The Development of Gender Studies in Psychology Studies of sex differences are as old as the ?eld of psychology, and they have been conducted in every sub?eld of the discipline. There are probably many reasons for the popularity of these studies, but three reasons...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the...
Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs'
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too...
Mobile Subjects
Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book comprehensively reviews the characteristics of the body reflected in the skin due to differences in gender. It investigates the genetic and hormonal differences that can affect skin structure and function, and resulting in variations between women and men. The aging process and exogenous...
Language, Gender and Ideology
Constructions of Femininity for Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representations of gender identities are constructed the way they are. It works with a unique synthesis of second-wave feminist discourse and empirical linguistic...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This volume closely analyses women’s role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in their functions as nurses and paid domestic workers as well as unpaid carers. Bringing together case studies from across India and other parts of the...
Gender and the Media
Women's Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on women....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The successful return of horror to our television screens in the post-millennial years, and across a multi-media range of platforms, demonstrates that this previously moribund genre is once again vibrant, challenging and long-lasting. The traditional TV audience of the past would have watched very...
Gender, Change and Identity
Mature Women Students in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this volume centres on a case study which looks at the experiences of non-traditional adult women students in universities, from the perspective of the actors. The interaction of structure and agency and the significance of macro and micro levels in shaping the behaviour,...
Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective.
In her interdisciplinary...
by S. Budgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order – a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched.
by Laura Palazzani
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
This book is an introductory systematic framework in the complex and interdisciplinary sex/gender debate, focusing on philosophy of law.The volume analyses the different theories that have dealt with the gender category, highlighting the conceptual premises and the arguments of the most influential...