Gender category: 10444 books
Inside and Out
Women, Prison, and Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A critical perspective on the treatment of incarcerated women—and their children
Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy challenges conventional thinking about the therapeutic issues facing female prisoners and their children. Therapists, counselors, scholars, and activists examine the...
Asking the Right Questions 2
Talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex and queer (LGBTTTIQ) people have specific life factors that relate to substance use and/or mental health problems. These factors include coming out, gender transition, societal oppression, loss of family support, isolation,...
"You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"
And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues
From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical,...
by Willy Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson’s Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
This new anthology brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the ASA. Each contributor is a contemporary sociologist writing in the clear, concise, and jargon-free style that has made Contexts the...
Lesbian Epiphanies
Women Coming Out in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Exploring identity development and gender orientation, Lesbian Epiphanies: Women Coming Out in Later Life contains firsthand information about the experiences and difficulties of women who discover and reveal their newfound lesbian sexuality in later life. Psychologists, social workers, counselors,...
Asexualities
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume,...
Sexual Subjects
Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age.
Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine...
Recognizing Transsexuals
Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which transpeople desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes...
Bad Girls at Samarcand
Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 2,000 women and girls in between 1929 and 1950. This extreme measure reflects how pseudoscience justified widespread gender, race, and class discrimination...
Remaking Black Power
How Black Women Transformed an Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideals and organizations. Complicating the assumption that sexism relegated black women to the margins of the movement, Farmer demonstrates how female activists fought...
Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium
Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of...
100 Questions and Answers About Gender Identity
The Transgender, Nonbinary, Gender-Fluid and Queer Spectrum
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about transgender people in everyday conversation. The questions come from interviews with transgender people who say these are issues they frequently get asked about or wish people knew more about. It has answers about...
Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals...