Gender category: 10444 books
Connecting Women
Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered...
Queer Bergman
Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
One of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers—indeed one of its most important and influential artists—Ingmar Bergman and his films have been examined from almost every possible perspective, including their remarkable portrayals of women and their searing dramatizations of gender dynamics....
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2001
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
"With the publication of the Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology, the field of feminist psychology has achieved a new depth; the volume is a sophisticated and cutting-edge compendium that not only describes the state of the field, but also pushes its boundaries in important ways."----Sex...
Wagadu
Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Traditionally, transnational feminists have examined the fields of gender, sexuality and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) studies by critically addressing issues of colonialism, white supremacy, globalization, capitalism, and heterosexism. Like most fields within higher education,...
Sight Unseen
Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals,...
Woman Enough
How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.
In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative...
by Ian Wellard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully...
Gender Mainstreaming Case Study
India—Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project sought to improve the urban environment, economy, and living conditions of the residents of Kochi, Kollam, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, and Thrissur. Improvements in access to safe water and sanitation facilities have reduced the workloads of women...
Making Sense of Fatherhood
Gender, Caring and Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
As family and work demands become more complex, who is left holding the baby? Tina Miller explores men's experiences of fatherhood and provides unique insights into paternal caring, changing masculinities and men's relations to paid work. She focuses on the narratives of a group of men as they first...
Women in the Workforce
An Unmet Potential in Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Despite economic growth, decreasing fertility rates, and rising education levels, women in Asia are on average 70% less likely than men to be in the labor force, with the country-to-country percentage varying anywhere from 3% to 80%. Results of a new simulation model suggest that closing the gender...
Women and Disasters in South Asia
Survival, security and development
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the...
Subaltern Movements in India
Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.
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by Marybeth Gasman, N. Drezner, E. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits. Contributors to the volume examine race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psycho-social development of the individuals.