Gender category: 10444 books
Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists
The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese government’s assurances that the country’s food supply was safe. They took matters into their own hands, collecting their own scientific data that...
Novelist Tagore
Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing...
Claiming the Bicycle
Women, Rhetoric, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Although the impact of the bicycle craze of the late nineteenth century on women’s lives has been well documented, rarely have writers considered the role of women’s rhetorical agency in the transformation of bicycle culture and the bicycle itself. In Claiming the Bicycle, Sarah Hallenbeck argues...
Categories We Live By
The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them?...
Queer Company
The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men's Work Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Drawn from in-depth qualitative research, Queer Company provides the first extended, academic analysis of gay men's workplace friendships, offering theoretical and empirical insights into a subject that is timely and important. Although theoretically framed in poststructuralism and the sociology of...
Cosmopolitan Sexualities
Hope and the Humanist Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ...
Questioning Identity
Gender, Class, Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines...
by Craig D. Atwood, Claudia Bruns, Philippe C. Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the 18th...
Gender, 'Race' and Patriarchy
A Study of South Asian Women
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
The book offers one of the first detailed studies of South Asian women, it provides new empirical data on the issues apparent in South Asian women's lives by 'giving voice' to a group of women who would otherwise remain silent. It is based upon an ethnographic study of a small South Asian community...
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...
Dalit Women
Vanguard of an Alternative Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geographies are shaping the subjectivities of Dalits across India in ways that are neither fixed nor predictable. It brings together ethnographies from across...
by Lise Rolandsen Agustín
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Gender is being marginalized with the increased attention to "multiple discrimination" and civil society landscape at the transnational level is increasingly diversified. The book looks at the processes of (strategic) degendering in EU policy-making and on the interaction between EU institutions and European women's organizations.
Refugee Women
Beyond Gender versus Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate....
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania – from customary law...