Gender category: 10444 books
Issues of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Humanitarian Emergencies
Risks and Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Natural and manmade disasters do not affect everyone equally, especially when resources are not equally accessible. Girls and women in particular face heightened risks of violence and abuse and many countries bar female-headed households from receiving aid. Across the globe, a wider understanding...
The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence
Feminists Engaging the State in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What are the factors that shape domestic violence policy change and how are variable gendered meanings produced in these policies? How and when can feminists influence policy making? What conditions and policy mechanisms lead to progressive change and which ones block it or lead to reversal?
The...
The Gender Vendors
Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor...
by Drake Bear Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
How does your gender and sexual identity define you? Find out in this guide for identity fluidity in the 21st century. Here you will discover: 1) How gender and sexual identities are created and why; 2) How gender and sexual identities change throughout one lifetime or over multiple lifetimes; 3)...
Women, Gender and Disaster
Global Issues and Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives examines gender within the context of disaster risk management. It argues for gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy towards achieving disaster risk reduction and mitigating post-disaster gender disparity. Highlighting that gender inequalities...
by sj Miller
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This premiere book in the new Teachers College Press series School : Questions carefully walks readers through both theory and practice to equip them with the skills needed to bring gender identity justice into classrooms, schools, and ultimately society. The text looks into the root causes and ways...
Gender and Sexuality in the Migration Trajectories
Studies between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean Shores
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The concept of “gender” has recently become one of the symbols of what many consider “a clash of civilizations” between the West and Muslim countries. Recent events highlight how gender issues are emblematic of the basic traits of a country's culture, and thus constitute some of the elements...
Psychopathology in Women
Incorporating Gender Perspective into Descriptive Psychopathology
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Gender has a fundamental influence on the human brain, not only by virtue of biological and hormonal differences between the sexes but also because of the impact of gender-specific cultural, social, anthropological and environmental factors. Nevertheless, the relation of gender and psychopathology...
Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion. Each chapter considers the ways that religious texts, theologies, and traditions engage with contemporary cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, gender violence, and rape culture. Particularly,...
by Lynn Prince Cooke
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
Gender-Class Equality in Political Economies offers an in-depth analysis of gender-class equality across six countries to reveal why gender-class equality in paid and unpaid work remains elusive, and what more policy might do to achieve better social and economic outcomes. This book is the first to...
Guidance Note: Gender and Law
Temporary Special Measures to Promote Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Nearly all developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have adopted laws and policies to promote gender equality. However, there is often a reluctance to operationalize these, and/or a lack of knowledge of the appropriate mechanisms. This publication presents a case for...
The Sociology of Gender
An Introduction to Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Featuring extensive revisions and updates, the Second Edition of The Sociology of Gender: An Introduction to Theory and Research presents an introductory overview of gender theory and research, and continues to offer a unique and compelling approach to one of the most important topics in the field...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how...
by Nallari Raj ; Griffith Breda
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Mainstream economic analysis has traditionally overlooked gender. The individual?the basic category of analysis?was regarded as genderless. Neither gender discrimination nor segmentation and segregation within the labor market or within the household was present. Contributions from development theory...