Gender category: 10444 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns:...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2006
"Transgender Rights packs a surprising amount of information into a small space. Offering spare, tightly executed essays, this slim volume nonetheless succeeds in creating a spectacular, well-researched compendium of the transgender movement." -Law Library Journal
Over the past three...
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology,...
Claytie and the Lady
Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
It was like a remake of The Cowboy and the Lady, except that this time they weren't friends. The 1990 Texas governor's race pitted Republican Clayton Williams, a politically conservative rancher and oil millionaire, against Democrat Ann Richards, an experienced progressive politician noted for her toughness...
Patriarchal Theory Reconsidered
Torture and Gender-Based Violence in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This study analyses male-female violence in comparison to state-citizen violence. The author argues that norms and values in Turkey are a reflection of processes that accommodate oppression, the intersection of which develops the argument that ‘women are to men, what the citizen is for the state,...
Woman Aware
Could Eliminating Religious Creeds Emancipate Women?
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
To be AWARE of the unconscious motivations impinging on our senses is the heart of this book. While the near universal belief that women are the inferior gender is refuted by contemporary empirical scientific evidence, this prejudice, while not restricted to Temple, Church or Mosque, has been conceived,...
Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913
The Cotton and Metal Industries in England
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into...
Mormon Feminism
Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing. No issue in Mormonism has made more headlines...
The Silent Sex
Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group...
Sex, Politics, and Putin
Political Legitimacy in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
Is Vladimir Putin macho, or is he a "fag"? Sex, Politics, and Putin investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike have wielded traditional concepts of masculinity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
This collection examines the human rights to social security and social protection from a women's rights perspective. The contributors stress the need to address women's poverty and exclusion within a human rights framework that takes account of gender. The chapters unpack the rights to social security...
Riding the Black Ram
Law, Literature, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate...
The Emotions of Justice
Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating...
The Fair Sex
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were...