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Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
Gender in the Mirror
Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices,...
Intersexuality and the Law
Why Sex Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex...
Between a Man and a Woman?
Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Christian...
Scandinavian Homosexualities
Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Scandinavian Homosexualities offers non-Scandinavian readers a rare opportunity to explore the history, sociology, notions, experiences, and cultural politics of homosexuality in Scandinavian societies in English. This unique insight into some of the most advanced countries in regard to institutionalized...
Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Have women always been subordinated? If not, why and how did women’s subordination develop? Kinship to Kingship was the first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society. Using a Marxist-feminist approach, Christine Ward Gailey...
Trans-Status Subjects
Gender in the Globalization of South and Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2002
A Thai foodseller on the streets of Bangkok, a cyclo driver in a Vietnamese village, a Pahari migrant laborer in the Himalayas, a Parsi-Christian professional social worker shuttling back and forth between London and Calcutta—Trans-Status Subjects examines how these and other South and Southeast...
The Southeast Asian Woman Writes Back
Gender, Identity and Nation in the Literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This collection of essays examines how Southeast Asian women writers engage with the grand narratives of nationalism and the modern nation-state by exploring the representations of gender, identity and nation in the postcolonial literatures of Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and...
Making Womens Histories
Beyond National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women’s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women’s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography...
Women in God’s Army
Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they?
Women in God’s Army is the first study of its kind devoted to...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Nursing and Empire
Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy
Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...