Gender category: 10444 books
When The Opposite Sex Isn't
Sexual Orientation In Male-to-Female Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person and for those who seek to relate to her. Written in both an enlightened and a reader friendly style...
Masculindians
Conversations about Indigenous Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
What does it mean to be an Indigenous man today? Between October 2010 and May 2013, Sam McKegney conducted interviews with leading Indigenous artists, critics, activists, and elders on the subject of Indigenous manhood. In offices, kitchens, and coffee shops, and once in a car driving down the 401,...
Women and the White House
Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2012
The president of the United States traditionally serves as a symbol of power, virtue, ability, dominance, popularity, and patriarchy. In recent years, however, the high-profile candidacies of Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Michelle Bachmann have provoked new interest in gendered popular culture...
The Eros of Everyday Life
Essays on Ecology, Gender and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
A brilliant collection of thought-provoking essays on gender, nature, passion, and society from an acclaimed feminist, philosopher, and poet
In The Eros of Everyday Life, one of America’s most provocative writers and thinkers offers insightful and compelling views on a wide range of social,...
Trans
A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted...
Women in Culture
An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women's Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects...
Killing Women
The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....
Sexuality, Women, and Tourism
Cross-border desires through contemporary travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American...
Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations
Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender and geographical displacement. At its centre are Brazilian travesti migrants, assigned as male at birth but later seeking to convey the aesthetic attributes of women by repeatedly performing a minutely-studied type of femininity....
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
Balancing on the Mechitza
Transgender in Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction
While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist...
Asian American Sexual Politics
The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the social and political dominance for whites, particularly...