Gender category: 10444 books
Islam and Women's Income
Dowry and Law in Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
This book examines the interrelationship between law, culture, patriarchy and religion in the context of contemporary Bangladesh. It explores the role of Islam in society and politics generally, and its influence on gender equality in particular. The work focuses on the situation of married women....
Pink and Blue
Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
“An insightful analysis of the origins, transformations and consequences of gender distinctions in children’s dress over the last 125 years.” —Daniel Thomas Cook, author of The Commodification of Childhood
Jo B. Paoletti’s journey through the history of children’s clothing began...
Vulnerable Bodies
Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies. In this book Erin Baines uses the examples of Bosnia, Rwanda...
Revealing and Concealing Gender
Issues of Visibility in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.
Gender and Justice in Family Law Disputes
Women, Mediation, and Religious Arbitration
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Recently, new methods of dispute resolution in matters of family law—such as arbitration, mediation, and conciliation—have created new forms of legal culture that affect minority communities throughout the world. There are now multiple ways of obtaining restitution through nontraditional alternative...
by J. Belliappa
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
How do we learn what it means to be a man? And how do we learn to question what it means to be a man? This collection comprises a set of original interdisciplinary chapters on the linguistic and cultural representations of queer masculinities in a range of new and older media: television, film, online...
Cartographies of Empowerment
The Mahila Samakhya Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women’s education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership...
The Persistence of Global Masculinism
Discourse, Gender and Neo-Colonial Re-Articulations of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and international levels in the contemporary global context. Beginning with an innovative conceptualisation of masculinism, the book draws on interdisciplinary...
Gender, Military Effectiveness, and Organizational Change
The Swedish Model
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Through extensive analysis of the Swedish Armed Forces this study explores the possibilities and pitfalls of implementing of a gender perspective in military organizations and operations. It established a number of important lessons for similar attempts in other countries and discusses the continued process of implementation in the Swedish military
Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education
Constructing Women's Status
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that inadvertently...
Gender, Authenticity and Leadership
Thinking with Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2015
This book examines the conceptual underpinnings of authentic leadership to discover why so little attention has been paid to gender. The author explores the failure to interrogate the complexities surrounding the concept of authenticity, especially as it relates to the diversity of lived experience.
Transnational Ruptures
Gender and Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage...
by Mary Hallward-Driemeier, Tazeen Hasan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
The importance of property rights in providing the incentive to invest, work hard, and innovate has been recognized for centuries. Yet, many women in Africa do not have the same property rights or formal legal capacity enjoyed by men. Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa...