Gender category: 10444 books
Zapotec Women
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
by Paul Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
Heterosexuality is a largely ‘silent’ set of practices and identities – it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality continues to be socially normative.
Forging...
Where Women Run
Gender and Party in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are...
Visible Identities
Race, Gender, and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes...
East Asian Mothers in Britain
An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book examines...
Men and Development
Politicizing Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice,...
Gender and the Political
Deconstructing the Female Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.
by Helen Hester
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution?
These questions are addressed in this...
Fertile Ground
Exploring Reproduction in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics. Fertile Ground argues that the current political climate in Canada necessitates a broader understanding of the links between the politics of reproduction, the state, and gender relations. Three...
The Fear that Stalks
Gender-based Violence in Public Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book is an attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of gender- based violence in public spaces. It provides a framework that locates gender based violence within the politics and dynamics of public space, and helps us to understand the commonality between these diverse forms of...
American Muslim Women
Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a “model minority” against African Americans. However,...
Mediating Misogyny
Gender, Technology, and Harassment
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online...
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to...
Violence Against Women in Legally Plural settings
Experiences and Lessons from the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book addresses a growing area of concern for scholars and development practitioners: discriminatory gender norms in legally plural settings. Focusing specifically on indigenous women, this book analyses how they, often in alliance with supporters and allies, have sought to improve their access...