Gender category: 10444 books
Gender, Class and Food
Families, Bodies and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon auto/biographical food narratives and emphasises the power of everyday foodways in maintaining and reinforcing social divisions along the lines of gender and class.
Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire
“The Scope in Ev’ry Page”
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment...
Written in Her Own Voice
Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women’s advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors’ lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks....
by P. Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.
Unsettled Subjects
Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment...
Wagadu Volume 4
Intersecting Gender and Disability Perspectives in Rethinking Postcolonial Identities
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
This volume of Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Womens and Gender Studies launches its second printed edition. Wagaduthe Soninke name of the Ghana Empirecontrolled the present-day Mali, Mauritania and Senegal and was famous for its prosperity and power from approximately 300-1076 CE. It constituted...
Liberating Sexuality
Justice between the Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
For two thousand years, Christianity has been wrong about sex. To this day Christians grapple with defining gender, sexism, heterosexism, and what constitutes healthy sex. Miguel A. De La Torre-noted ethicist and scholar on the intersection of religion with race, class, gender, and sexuality-shines...
by P. McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond to these issues.
Women in STEM Disciplines
The Yfactor 2016 Global Report on Gender in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This book presents the findings of a survey that analyzes a unique set of data in science and technolog and provides a clear and simple synthesis of heterogeneous databases on the gender gap in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) setting, helping readers understand key trends...
by Thomas Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Deciding to transition gender is likely to be the biggest decision you will ever make in your life. It will change your life irrevocably – and based on research, it will most likely change it for the better. Nevertheless, it is not an easy choice to make. When the author began to become outwardly...
Just Between Us
An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
A photograph of two men, cowboy-hatted and -booted and discreetly holding hands, is the departure point in a groundbreaking study on masculinity and homosexuality in Mexico. Just Between Us, an ethnography of intimacy and affection between men, explores the concept of masculine identity and homoeroticism,...
At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women...
Sexual Justice / Cultural Justice
Critical Perspectives in Political Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This key volume explores the relationship between cultural justice and sexual justice in multicultural societies in a new light. The authors challenge the framing of ‘feminism and multiculturalism’ as one of inevitable conflict, as well as the portrayal of liberal sexual equality and cultural...