Gender category: 10444 books
Women of Empire
Nineteenth-Century Army Officers' Wives in India and the U.S. West
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: “You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook.” Although their roles were circumscribed, the wives of army officers stationed in British India and the U.S. West commanded...
Gender, Migration, and the Work of Care
A Multi-Scalar Approach to the Pacific Rim
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
This book explores how around the world, women’s increased presence in the labor force has reorganized the division of labor in households, affecting different regions depending on their cultures, economies, and politics; as well as the nature and size of their welfare states and the gendering of...
Europeanization, Care and Gender
Global Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconciliation of care and work.
Gender and Power
Towards Equality and Democratic Governance
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Despite explicit commitments to gender equality, women experience complex modes of disadvantage and discrimination in all nations of the world. Offering sophisticated insights into the persistence of gendered differences in opportunities, roles, power, and rights in societies across the globe, this...
Sexuality and the Law
Feminist Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
‘Rediscovering’ the peculiarity of feminist perspectives, rather than examining the broader range of gender-oriented analyses, in the area of legal regulation and sexuality, this edited collection avoids the ‘reductionist' and 'essentialist' shortcomings of ‘feminism unmodified’.
With...
by Bernstein, Colleen Kattau, Katherine Ndinda
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2009
Women's Activism for Gender Equality in Africa This volume on Womens Activism for Gender Equality in Africa is a special collaboration between the Journal of International Womens Studies (JIWS) and Wagadu, two open-access journals that address gender issues within a transnational and cross-cultural...
The Gender Imperative
Human Security vs State Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states....
Framing Intersectionality
Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination interact and overlap in multidimensional ways, the concept of 'intersectionality' has attracted much attention in international feminist...
Bodily Subjects
Essays on Gender and Health, 1800-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
From the nineteenth-century British Poor Laws, to an early twentieth-century Aboriginal reserve in Queensland Australia, to AIDS activists on the streets of Toronto in the 1990s, Bodily Subjects explores the historical entanglement between gender and health to expose how ideas of health - a concept whose...
Transgression in Anglo-American Cinema
Gender, Sex, and the Deviant Body
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Sexuality within mainstream Hollywood cinema features primarily in comedy or rom-com genres, where lightness of tone permits audience engagement with what would otherwise be difficult affective terrain. Focusing on marginal productions in Anglo-American contexts, this collection explores the gendered...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from...
Gendering Drugs
Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take – or resist – them, and how feminist technoscience studies can contribute a theoretical lens with which to observe...
Gender, Colonialism and Education
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; and the construction of national identities.
by Thomas Spijkerboer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is the first comprehensive socio-legal study of the interrelation between gender and the law of refugee status. In the past decade, the issue has received increasing attention in academic writing, the media and the courtroom. This book contains an interdisciplinary analysis. The empirical data,...