Gender category: 10444 books
Feminist Advocacy, Family Law and Violence against Women
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Around the world, discriminatory legislation prevents women from accessing their human rights. It can affect almost every aspect of a woman's life, including the right to choose a partner, inherit property, hold a job, and obtain child custody. Often referred to as family law, these laws have contributed...
Rethinking Misogyny
Men's Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men’s behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a particular masculine performance, including those desired by potential female performers. Using the case-study of pick-up artistry...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This is the final volume in the five volume series on Women and Migration in Asia.
The articles in this volume bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular, they consider: a) how, given specific rules of...
Gender, Sex and Gossip in Ambridge
Women in The Archers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
The intrepid team of researchers who brought you Custard, Culverts and Cake: Academics on Life in The Archers return with a hard-hitting exposé on the lives of the women of Ambridge. In this new book, the Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and real-life Academic...
Practiced Citizenship
Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear...
Human Exhibitions
Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions...
Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue...
Contracting Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean – and presented as – the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar...
by Hill Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...
New Lamps for Old?
Gender Paradoxes of Political Decentralisation in Kerala
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Based on a large number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions since the mid-1990s in Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate on the impact of the large-scale induction of women into the institutions of local...
by Gail Hershatter
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
If we place women at the center of our account of China’s last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender...
Reality Gendervision
Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and Deadliest Warrior, the contributors think through questions...
by Paul Baker
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers.
This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and...
Living the Body
Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary, urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multi-layered and fluid construction of woman’s identity...