Gender category: 10444 books
Race and Gender in the Classroom
Teachers, Privilege, and Enduring Social Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Race and Gender in the Classroom explores social inequalities in education in the current era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. In particular, this book illuminates the obstacles that mitigate the potential for teachers to serve as social justice advocates in the classroom by...
On the Edge of the River Sar
A Feminist Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalía de Castro’s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar [On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884).
Rosalía de Castro (1837*–*1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. How do early scientific discourses infiltrate other cultural domains...
Attending to Early Modern Women
Conflict and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...
Gender, Youth and Culture
Young Masculinities and Femininities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.
Women Leading Justice
Experiences and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The women’s movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace. However, gender discrimination and disparity continue to exist. Women continue to receive...
(Un)thinking Citizenship
Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of...
Women Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press
A Poststructuralist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
This book explores how the UK press constructs and represents women leaders drawn from three professional spheres: politics, business, and the mass media. Despite significant career progress made by women leaders in these professions, many British newspapers continue to portray these women in stereotyped...
Fixing Sex
Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
What happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male” and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are “too small”...
by Ann Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular...
Talking Gender
Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist...
Exploring Masculinities
Feminist Legal Theory Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
While masculinities theory has had much to say on relationships of subordination, few feminist legal scholars have examined the implications of masculinities theory for feminist legal theory. This volume investigates the ways in which emerging masculinities theory in law could inform feminist legal...
Toward a Humanist Justice
The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The late Susan Moller Okin was a leading political theorist whose scholarship integrated political philosophy and issues of gender, the family, and culture. Okin argued that liberalism, properly understood as a theory opposed to social hierarchies and supportive of individual freedom and equality,...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...