Gender category: 10444 books
by Emma Staniland
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
This book explores six texts from across Spanish America in which the coming-of-age story ('Bildungsroman') offers a critique of gendered selfhood as experienced in the region’s socio-cultural contexts. Looking at a range of novels from the late twentieth century, Staniland explores thematic concerns...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The contents of Number 6 (Apr. 2014) include scholarly articles and student research, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This year's subject is SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY. Topics include "Pro-Gay and Anti-Gay Speech in Schools," "Transgender...
Restoried Selves
Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists-life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations...
Advertising Menswear
Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, this...
by Anne Summers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This provocative examination by a media-savvy writer who remains at the forefront of the political debate surrounding gender equality explores why equality between men and women has failed to be achieved in Australia. In 2012, Anne Summers gave two landmark speeches about women in Australia, attracting...
Are Men Obsolete?
The Munk Debate on Gender
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the relative decline...
Fever
How Rock 'n' Roll Transformed Gender in America
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In Fever, music critic Tim Riley argues that while political and athletic role models have let us down, rock and roll has provided enduring role models for men and women. From Elvis Presley to Tina Turner to Bruce Springsteen to Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love, Riley makes a persuasive case that rock...
Feminine Endings
Music, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2002
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.” The...
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.
Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald...
Before I Had the Words
On Being a Transgender Young Adult
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
At the beginning of his physical transition from female to male, then-seventeen-year-old Skylar Kergil posted his first video on YouTube. In the months and years that followed, he recorded weekly update videos about the physical and emotional changes he experienced. Skylar’s openness and positivity...
Backwards and in Heels
The Past, Present And Future Of Women Working In Film
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
• Malone has over 1 million views on YouTube • TedTalk #GirlsinFilm has been seen over 25,000 times • Gender Inequality in Film by the numbers: o In the top 500 movies of all time: 70% of all speaking roles go to men // 2 to 1 ratio of nudity // teenage females depicting nudity has risen by...
But Some of Us Are Brave
Black Women's Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's...
Feminist Legal History
Essays on Women and Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2011
Attuned to the social contexts within which laws are created, feminist lawyers, historians, and activists have long recognized the discontinuities and contradictions that lie at the heart of efforts to transform the law in ways that fully serve women’s interests. At its core, the nascent field of...
Dance Hall Days
Intimacy and Leisure Among Working-Class Immigrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
The rise of commercialized leisure coincided with the arrival of millions of immigrants to America's cities. Conflict was inevitable as older generations attempted to preserve their traditions, values, and ethnic identities, while the young sought out the cheap amusements and sexual freedom which...