Gender category: 10444 books
Our Changing Land
Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive...
Art, Education and Gender
The Shaping of Female Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Why do girls study art and why do girls become primary teachers? This book examines and reveals the powerful influence of the family, the school and the state in shaping female identity and constructing notions of gender appropriateness. It also discusses the status of art at school and the position of women artists in society.
Sex among the Rabble
An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex...
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards...
Women, Gender and Labour Migration
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2002
Approximately half of all migrants today are female. The contributors to this volume consider the ways in which attention to gender is moving debates away from old paradigms, such as the push/pull motivation which used to dominate the field of migration studies. The authors consider women's experience...
by Dolly Roquette
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This is the frank and forthright account of myself, a MtF transsexual, taking into consideration all the joys and sorrows; trials and tribulations along the precarious path to gender reassignment, or gender confirmation as it is now often known.I am documenting a path which has taken me from the heights...
Gender, Youth and Culture
Young Masculinities and Femininities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.
Culture, Health and Sexuality
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality...
Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda
Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims...
Bargaining for Women's Rights
Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Women and Turkish Cinema
Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural...
Spiritual Mestizaje
Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Gloria Anzaldúa’s narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldúa’s theory of spiritual mestizaje has not...