Gender category: 10444 books
Regulating the Lives of Women
Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into...
Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility
Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within ’Nordic Peripheries’, this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ruptures...
by Jing Song
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population.
Much of her research is...
Women and British Party Politics
Descriptive, Substantive and Symbolic Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2008
Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women’s participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively. It explores what this means for ideas about, and the practice of, descriptive, substantive...
by Buvinic Mayra; Morrison Andrew R.; Sjoblom Mirja; Ofosu-Amaah A. Waafas
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Upon signing the Millennium Declaration in 2000, the international community committed itself to eight development goals with timebound targets and measurable indicators. The third of these eight goals was to "promote gender equality and empower women". The third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) in...
Unlocking the Clubhouse
Women in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
Understanding and overcoming the gender gap in computer science education.
The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online...
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development
Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.
Bodies in Resistance
Gender and Sexual Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions...
Gender Inequalities in Southern Europe
Woman, Work and Welfare in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Presenting studies of the situation on gender inequalities and associated pattern of work and welfare in all southern European countries, this work focuses on the interaction of the three major societal institutions - the State, the family and the labour market.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Occupational segregation is an important issue and can be detrimental to women. There is a strong need for more women in science, engineering, and information technology, which are traditionally male dominated fields. Female representation in the computer gaming industry is a potential way to increase...
Gender, Nutrition, and the Human Right to Adequate Food
Toward an Inclusive Framework
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition as evolving concept and identifies two structural "disconnects" fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights...
Challenging Lesbian Norms
Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What constitutes lesbian identity?
The term homonormativity describes current prevailing idealized assumptions about lesbian identity. This concept, however, marginalizes subgroups within the greater lesbian population. Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer...
Women in the Hong Kong Police Force
Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation...
Manly States
Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2001
Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship between masculinity and power. She explores how...