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Sexualities in World Politics
How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence...
Fashionable Queens
Body Power Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The essays collected in this book provide profound insights into the wide-ranging topic of the fashionable queen: the manifold implications and effects that the combination of body, power and gender can have are examined by using different approaches and a variety of theoretical frameworks. By addressing...
by Lisa J. M. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...
Two Spirits, One Heart
A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
“Marsha shares her journey from fear and uncertainty to acceptance, support, and unconditional love of Aiden as he reconciled his gender identity…I recommend their co-written memoir Two Spirits, One Heart.”—George Takei
In the first book...
Making Sense of Parenthood
Caring, Gender and Family Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Following on from Making Sense of Motherhood (2005) and Making Sense of Fatherhood (2010), Tina Miller's book focuses on transitions to first-time parenthood and the unfolding experiences of managing caring and paid work in modern family lives. Returning to her original participants, it collects later...
by Sarah Borden Sharkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition....
Endangered Daughters
Discrimination and Development in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.
It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary...
by Clare Bartholomaeus, Damien W. Riggs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of students, parents, and educators—transgender and cisgender—in the context of current debates about the inclusion of transgender people in schools. Drawing on critiques of cisgenderism and emphasising the importance of...
Rice Plus
Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the...
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
�I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.� So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy�s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women�s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe�s Flower Dance had not been fully...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women’s identity, authority and satisfaction.
Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about...
Transgender Cops
The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality Expectations in Police Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within...
Transforming Gendered Well-Being in Europe
The Impact of Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
European social movements improve the well-being of men and women but need further analysis through a gender-sensitive lens. Taking an international and cross-disciplinary perspective, this book examines the impact of European social movements on gendered political and material well-being. Insights...
by Alison Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Western digital game play has shifted in important ways over the last decade, with a plethora of personal devices affording a range of increasingly diverse play experiences. Despite the celebration of a more inclusive environment of digital game play, very little grounded research has been devoted...