Gender category: 10444 books
Gendered Politics and Law in Jordan
Guardianship over Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book analyzes how the state constructs and reproduces gender identities in the context and geopolitics of Jordan. Guardianship over women is examined as not only the basis of women’s legal and social subordination, but also a key factor in the construction and reproduction of a gender hierarchy...
The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book is essential reading for scholars of gender studies in both cultural studies and medicine, and for anyone seeking a fuller interpretation of the leading sexologist’s theories and accomplishments.
by Malin Grahn-Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities. In its own time, Stoicism was frequently...
Discourses of Ageing and Gender
The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages contained in public discourse...
Gender, Metal and the Media
Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively...
Exchanges in Exoticism
Cross-Cultural Marriage and the Making of the Mediterranean in Old French Romance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered...
Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangélica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the furthering of global gender justice.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.
by Susan Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse...
The Wrong of Injustice
Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single wrongness-making feature of various social injustices that are due to social kind membership? Why is sexist oppression...
by Christy Tidwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Discussions of the politics of science fiction literature often consider gender, sexuality, race, class, and, more recently, disability; age, however, is far less present within science fiction and science fiction criticism. Few representations of old age spring to mind within the genre, particularly within written works of science fiction.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The first book to examine the impact of neoliberalism on male identities and gender relations, filling a major gap in the scholarship on gender and identity.
The significance of its findings extend far beyond gender studies, and will appeal to fields ranging from anthropology and international...
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...