Gender category: 10444 books
High Contrast
Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1997
In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on screen—most often with little apparent regard for the political...
Gender Violence in Failed and Democratic States
Besieging Perverse Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2016
This book presents original research of violence against women in both achieved and failed states (i.e. Austria, the United States, and Nicaragua) from both a political and psychological perspective. Ileana Rodriguez presents various cases studies that showcase the hard data provided by articles...
by Renate Enderlin
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Essay aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Universität Wien (Gender Studies), Veranstaltung: Science and Technology, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wonach sucht die (Gender-)Hirnforschung? Nach Gleichheit oder Differenz? Was konstruiert sie während ihrer Suche? Ein Geschlecht?...
by fabio corbisiero, rosa parisi
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Da qualche tempo divampa la discussione sulla “teoria gender”, che costituirebbe il “programma” di chi si batte per i diritti civili e contro le discriminazioni. Gli studi di genere (gender studies) sono spesso confusi con una ideologia fantomatica che vorrebbe negare la differenza tra maschi...
Lean Out
The Truth About Women, Power, and the Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Girl gangs reigning terror at Facebook, narcissistic overlords at Google . . . this is the backdrop of Lean Out, which takes readers on the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to find success in her fifteen-year career at the world’s top tech giants. Orr delivers an ambitious attempt...
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical,...
Amplify
Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
In this highly original text – a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist – graphic storytelling offers a unique way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance in a more emotionally resonant way.
Issues of performativity, gender roles,...
Whipping Girl
A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
In the updated second edition of Whipping Girl, Julia Serano, a transsexual woman whose supremely intelligent writing reflects her background as a lesbian transgender activist and professional biologist, shares her powerful experiences and observations-both pre- and post-transition-to reveal the ways...
Unbound
Transgender Men and the Remaking of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An intimate portrait of a new generation of transmasculine individuals as they undergo gender transitions
Award-winning sociologist Arlene Stein takes us into the lives of four strangers who find themselves together in a sun-drenched surgeon’s office, having traveled to Florida from across...
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance...
Inferior
How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less...
No Tea, No Shade
New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...
Free Women, Free Men
Sex, Gender, Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men.
Ever since the release of her seminal first...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...