Gender category: 10444 books
Qur'an and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of...
Queering Anarchism
Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman
Against the austerity...
The Revolution Has Come
Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C. Spencer traces the Black Panther Party's organizational evolution in Oakland, California, where hundreds of young people came to political awareness and journeyed to adulthood as members. Challenging the belief that the Panthers were a projection of the leadership,...
Lean Out
The Struggle for Gender Equality in Tech and Start-up Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
“Disconcertingly thought-provoking.” —TechCrunch"Nineteen disruptive, disturbing and divergent voices ... an honest portrait of a network of gender-oppressed people leaning every which way." —Feministing"Everyone who hires or manages anyone in tech ought to read the remarkable book...
by Jill Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2012
Growing up transgender is difficult. In the 1960s no one talks about people who want to be a different gender. Jill tries to make sense of her self, her family, and the events swirling around her. Friends pull her to a degree of happiness and sanity, into peer helping and then psychology. As a man,...
Youth Gangs and Street Children
Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The rapidly expanding population of youth gangs and street children is one of the most disturbing issues in many cities around the world. These children are perceived to be in a constant state of destitution, violence and vagrancy, and therefore must be a serious threat to society, needing heavy-handed...
A Medieval Woman's Companion
Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous...
Combating Violence Against Women
A Reality in the Making
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Women are the worst victims of violence as they are subjected to both general and gender based crimes. Gender based crimes are characterized as “Crime against women”. Crimes against women, despite of legal and institutional measures are in constant rise and has become a major cause of concern....
Transgressive Tales
Queering the Grimms
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized,...
Tennessee Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The second volume of Tennessee Women: Their Lives and Times contains sixteen essays on Tennessee women in the forefront of the political, economic, and cultural history of the state and assesses the national and sometimes international scope of their influence. The essays examine women’s lives in...
Advancing Beyond the Ceiling:
The Gender Barrier Effect on Women’S Advancement in Fortune 500 (F500) Firms
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2017
For too long the subject of a glass ceiling on womens careers has dominated corporate sector debates and engaged practitioners attention. Scholars ascribe the many travails of females aspiring to top level roles to invisible barriers and hurdles that senior leaders failed to acknowledge, yet corporations...
Tainted Witness
Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
In 1991, Anita Hill's testimony during Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing brought the problem of sexual harassment to a public audience. Although widely believed by women, Hill was defamed by conservatives and Thomas was confirmed to the Supreme Court. The tainting of Hill and her testimony...
by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...
Classify and Label
The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups is a philosophical treatment of classification in the social sciences and everyday life, focusing on moral, social, and political implications. The use of labels is essential to how people navigate and understand the world. Classifications...