Gender category: 10444 books
Digital Dilemmas
Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies. This book offers a unique collection of chapters that brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds...
Growing Up Queer
Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today
Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in center, Mary Robertson focuses on the...
Strategies for Resisting Sexism in the Academy
Higher Education, Gender and Intersectionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
This book harnesses the expertise of women academics who have constructed innovative approaches to challenging existing sexual disadvantage in the academy. Countering the prevailing postfeminist discourse, the contributors to this volume argue that sexism needs to be named in order to be challenged...
Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts
A Re-examination of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities.
Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Gender studies in the professional realm has long been a heavily researched field, with many feminist texts studying topics including the wage gap and family life. However, female administration in higher education remains largely understudied, particularly on the influence of personal, professional,...
Gender and Equestrian Sport
Riding Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This volume brings together studies from various disciplines of the social sciences and humanities ( anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, history and literary theory) that shed light on the equestrian world as a historically gendered and highly dynamic field of contemporary sport and culture. ...
Gleichstellung messbar machen
Grundlagen und Anwendungen von Gender- und Gleichstellungsindikatoren
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Dieser Band schließt eine wichtige Lücke in den politischen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten um Gleichstellung, indem die zahlreichen Herausforderungen, die die Entwicklung und Bewertung von Indikatoren für Gleichstellung mit sich bringen, umfassend dargestellt und diskutiert werden. Auf dieser...
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara
Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book is a social–scientific interpretation of the 15 centuries-old Hindu and Buddhist traditions of tantra. It is a self-reflexive study, informed by an insider’s empathy and the apprehension of an Indologist-cum-anthropologist who is also a mystic and an initiated practitioner of the cult...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis for good practice when working with non-binary individuals.
The...
Gender and Sexual Identity
Transcending Feminist and Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Beyond developing a formulation of transgender theory that incorporates...
Sex Rules!
Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
“[Brodman] shares the results of years of research and world travel to show . . . just how wildly divergent ideas about sexuality and gender roles can be.” —Vice
This book is a humorous glimpse of a wide range of stereotype-busting sexual, relationship, and romantic mores around the world....
A Murder Over a Girl
Justice, Gender, Junior High
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate
On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon...
Men and Women in Interaction
Reconsidering the Differences
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 1996
For many years the dominant focus in gender relations has been the differences between men and women. Authors such as Deborah Tannen (You Just Don't Understand) and John Gray (Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus) have argued that there are deep-seated and enduring differences between male and...
Engendering Psychology
Women and Gender Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the lines of race, ethnicity,...