Gender category: 10444 books
by Vicki Harman
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
This book presents an engaging sociological investigation into how gender is negotiated and performed in ballroom and Latin dancing that draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as the author’s own experience as a dancer. It explores the key factors underpinning the popularity of this leisure...
Bauhaus Bodies
Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism’s Legendary Art School
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019
A century after the Bauhaus's founding in 1919, this book reassesses it as more than a highly influential art, architecture, and design school. In myriad ways, emerging ideas about the body in relation to health, movement, gender, and sexuality were at the heart of art and life at the school. Bauhaus...
Illdisciplined Gender
Engaging Questions of Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes,...
Women and the Politics of Gender in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste
Between Heaven and Earth
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
This book presents a wide-ranging overview of the position of women in Timor-Leste, 15 years after the country secured its independence. It considers the role of women in Timor-Leste’s history, explores their role in the present day economy and politics, and discusses their contribution to culture...
Gender
Eine neue Ideologie zerstört die Familie
Language: German
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Sie wissen nicht, was "gender" ist? Hier erfahren Sie das Wichtigste in Kürze: - Die Ziele der Gender-Ideologie - Der politische Missbrauch der Sprache - Die globale Durchsetzung durch UN und EU - Die Sexualisierung der Kinder - Das Erwachen des Widerstandes
Why She Buys
The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.
If the business world had a sex, it would be male.
And therein lies the pickle.
Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. They hold the purse strings, and when...
Queer Embodiment
Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
This publication examines the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan---Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services National Community-Driven Development Program, which promotes women's participation and empowerment in the Philippines. The challenges and constraints observed in the program serve...
Making Their Place
Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2010
The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that value women primarily as mothers and wives rather...
by Jacinta Bunnell, Julie Novak
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Truly fun for all ages, this unique coloring book subversively and playfully examines the female gender stereotypes that pervade daily life. A diverse group of pictures reinforce positive gender roles throughout the book and show that girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, and healers. Some of the...
We Still Demand!
Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Of particular interest to scholars and students of social history, political science, social movements, gender and transgender studies, women’s studies, and queer studies, this book will also appeal to activists and political analysts interested in critical sexual and gender theory and social change.
Welcome to Fairyland
Queer Miami before 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has...
by Lynn Breedlove
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
"Breedlove has talent coming out of her ears.”—Dodie Bellamy, San Francisco Chronicle
"Uninhibited humor lends tender insight and perspective to a gender politics debate that often takes place in a fiercely contentious atmosphere.”—Billy Tania, The San Francisco Bay Times
"...Offers...
by Gina M. Martino
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2018
Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America. Far from serving as passive helpmates in a private, domestic sphere, women assumed wartime...