Gender category: 10444 books
Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights
Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris challenges the view that torture only takes place within...
Sexploitation
Sexual Profiling and the Illusion of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Michèle Alexandre’s innovative study examines how sexual profiling represses, oppresses, and hinders various aspects of life for both genders, and explores the ways in which the law and the community can help eradicate the practice of sexual profiling. Alexandre defines "sexploitation"...
Women Before the Bar
Gender, Law, and Society in Connecticut, 1639-1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women's participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic...
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by Toby Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
In this companion volume to his critically acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award-winning title Gay Spirituality, Toby Johnson further explicates his visionary stance that gay people's nature as outsiders gives them a uniquely powerful perspective on the nature of God and religion. By living outside gender...
Women Sport Fans
Identification, Participation, Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on women’s sport...
Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television
An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television. With such characters as the Doctor (an enigmatic time-traveling alien), Kerr Avon (a problematic rebel leader), Dave Lister (a slovenly last surviving human) and Captain Jack Harkness (a complex omnisexual...
Gender Equality Results Case Study
Bangladesh—Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Women owners of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a great potential to contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction through employment creation and income generation. In Bangladesh, women-owned SMEs have different characteristics when compared with men-owned SMEs and tend to face...
I Still Believe Anita Hill
Three Generations Discuss the Legacies of Speaking Truth to Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A searing collection of essays looks back at the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings that ignited a national debate about workplace sexual harassment.
In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country’s attention when she testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee describing...
Sex and the Office
A History of Gender, Power, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
In this engaging book—the first to historicize our understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace—Julie Berebitsky explores how Americans’ attitudes toward sexuality and gender in the office have changed from the 1860s, when women first took jobs as clerks in the U.S. Treasury office, to the...
Rwanda
History and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Imagine a nation with the highest proportion of women legislators in the world. Imagine a country where a democratically elected president is committed to gender equality and poverty reduction, where urban and rural schools are being wired to the Internet, and where the government is committed to...
Sensational Flesh
Race, Power, and Masochism
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Sensational Flesh uses masochism as a lens to examine how...
Interpreting Tyler Perry
Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns. Perry built a multimedia empire based largely on his popularity among African American viewers and has become a prominent...
by mark mullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Politicians and the media like to tell anyone who will listen that the workplace purposely discriminates against women workers. We are told that female workers earn 79 cents to every dollar that a man earns for doing the exact same work. But is this true? Do companies intentionally pay women less...
by Deborah L. Rhode
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of positions in both the public and private sectors. The United States ranks 78th...