Gender category: 10444 books
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open...
Ladies on the Lot
Women, Car Sales, and the Pursuit of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2000
In this unique and lively ethnography of women who sell cars, sociologist Helene M. Lawson and the “ladies on the lot” take readers behind the scenes of one of the last bastions of a predominantly male workplace: the car dealership. Linking the women's own stories within the broader framework...
Revolution within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history...
Women and Militant Wars
The politics of injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars.
In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians...
by Anne M. Prouty Lyness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!
Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists from several...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust
Between Destruction and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland.
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust starts by...
The state as master
Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650–1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation...
Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology
The Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the world relates to crime and its control was minimized or ignored. It is clear, however, that these concepts are of critical...
Women's Rights in the USA
Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged...
Young Masculinities
Understanding Boys in Contemporary Society
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2001
How do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations, their fears? How do they feel about their own masculinity? About style, 'race', homophobia? About football?This book examines aspects of 'young masculinities' that have become central to contemporary social thought,...
Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts
Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys,...
Sporting Gender
Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This book will appeal to those interested in Chinese history, gender studies, cinema studies, and sports history.
by Cheryl B. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
2017 Reader's Favorite Bronze Medal Award Winner. When you have a baby girl you envision many things for her life but becoming a boy is not one of them. This book will benefit anyone who would like to learn more about gender dysphoria and is an absolute must-read for a parent, relative or friend of...
Gendering Modern German History
Rewriting Historiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Writing on the history of German women has - like women's history elsewhere - undergone remarkable expansion and change since it began in the late 1960s. Today Women's history still continues to flourish alongside gender history but the focus of research has increasingly shifted from women to gender....