Gender category: 10444 books
by Dana M. Britton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing...
Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been...
by Deborah Tannen
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 1994
Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand spent nearly four years (in cloth and paper) on The New York Times Best Seller list and has sold over a million and a half copies. Clearly, Tannen's insights into how and why women and men so often misunderstand each other when they talk has touched a nerve....
The Social Psychology of Gender
How Power and Intimacy Shape Gender Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Gender relations are rife with contradictions and complexities. Exploring the full range of gender issues, this book offers a fresh perspective on everyday experiences of gender; the explicit and implicit attitudes that underlie beliefs about gender differences; and the consequences for our thoughts,...
by Ivan Coyote, Rae Spoon
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
"Being a girl was something that never really happened for me." -Rae SpoonIvan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts...
You and Your Gender Identity
A Guide to Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don’t seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your gender identity, but aren’t sure how to get started?
In this groundbreaking guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC—accomplished gender therapist and thought leader...
Fixing Gender
Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender...
Gender in a Transitional Era
Changes and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2014
Gender in a Transitional Era addresses a range of issues relevant in current gender and sexuality studies scholarship which span many disciplines. The contributors prioritize the critical thinking that continues to support the notion that we, as a society, still have a ways to go toward full gender...
Gender Trouble Makers
Education and Empowerment in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it...
Gender Equality and the Labor Market
Women, Work, and Migration in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market. It has one of the highest female labor force participation rates in Asia and the Pacific at around 64% in 2013, and one of the narrowest earnings gender gaps. This study investigates how women are...
by Simavi Sevi; Manuel Clare; Blackden Mark C.
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Promoting women's economic empowerment is increasingly seen as one of the most important driving forces behind economic growth and the fight against poverty. Women's economic participation as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is recognized as a measure of a country's dynamism and viability.This main...
Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects
Mongolia Country Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of three loans in Mongolia found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the implementation of a gender action...
Sexuality and Gender at Home
Experience, Politics, Transgression
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality...
W Stands for Women
How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2007
Taking seriously the “W Stands for Women” rhetoric of the 2004 Bush–Cheney campaign, the contributors to this collection investigate how “W” stands for women. They argue that George W. Bush has hijacked feminist language toward decidedly antifeminist ends; his use of feminist rhetoric is...