Gender category: 10444 books
Literacy as Gendered Discourse
Engaging the Voices of Women in Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This volume continues IAP’s dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences. It is an edited and refereed collection and part of the larger body of scholarly publications associated with professional organizations...
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act
Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...
When Couples Become Parents
The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
When couples make the journey through their first year of parenthood they confront the challenges of their new responsibilities with varying degrees of support and a range of personal resources. When Couples Become Parents examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged...
Enslaved Daughters
Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven...
Education, Poverty and Gender
Schooling Muslim Girls in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book investigates the nature of identity formation among economically backward adolescent Muslim girls in northern India by focusing on the interstitial spaces of the ‘home’ and ‘school’. It examines issues of religion, patriarchy and education, to interrogate the relationship between...
Rethinking Agency
Developmentalism, Gender and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights.
Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book explores an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of gender and development studies, disaster and land tenure policy. It is well known that women generally have weaker claims to land. But how does that translate to increased vulnerability during disaster? Using case studies from Asia,...
by Karin Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Case studies of micro-enterprise, girls' education, and population programs suggest that our discourse limits our potential to conceive of development, communication, and gender outside of neoliberal ideologies. Advocacy for global social justice demands a different accountability through critical research.
Gendered Trajectories
Women, Work, and Social Change in Japan and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
Gendered Trajectories explores why industrial societies vary in the pace at which they reduce gender inequality and compares changes in women's employment opportunities in Japan and Taiwan over the last half-century. Japan has undergone much less improvement in women's economic status than Taiwan,...
Sexuality and Human Rights
A Global Overview
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Finally-a comparative overview of sexuality and human rights issues and law!
Human rights issues exist globally, particularly when they have to do with sexuality. Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview focuses on the controversial issues of human sexuality and the legal challenges that...
Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
Reconsidering the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...
Out and About
The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
Out and About: The LGBT Experience in the Legal Profession is a collaboration between the American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity ("SOGI") and the National LGBT Bar Association ("LGBT Bar"). Both SOGI and the LGBT went to great lengths to identify...
Finding Feminism
Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change.
In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed,...