Gender category: 10444 books
by Catharine A. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
The miniscule motion of a butterfly’s wings can trigger a tornado half a world away, according to chaos theory. Catharine A. MacKinnon’s collected work on gender inequality—including new pieces—argues that the right seemingly minor interventions in the legal realm can have a butterfly effect that generates major social and cultural transformations.
Nobody Passes
Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity,...
Modern Girls on the Go
Gender, Mobility, and Labor in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
This spirited and engaging multidisciplinary volume pins its focus on the lived experiences and cultural depictions of women's mobility and labor in Japan. The theme of "modern girls" continues to offer a captivating window into the changes that women's roles have undergone during the course...
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies...
by Ann E. Burnette, Mary Frances Casper, Hao-Chieh Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...
Between Feminism and Islam
Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
There are two major women’s movements in Morocco: the Islamists who hold shari’a as the platform for building a culture of women’s rights, and the feminists who use the United Nations’ framework to amend shari’a law. Between Feminism and Islam shows how the interactions of these movements over...
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse...
In the Land of the Eastern Queendom
The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity on the Sino-Tibetan Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2013
The story underlying this ethnography began with the recent discovery and commercialization of the remnant of an ancient �queendom� on the Sichuan-Tibet border. Recorded in classical Chinese texts, this legendary matriarchal domain has attracted not only tourists but the vigilance of the Chinese...
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical...
by Eliza Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood’s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century...
Girls Transforming
Invisibility and Age-Shifting in Children's Fantasy Fiction Since the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
This book explores representations of girlhood and young womanhood in recent English language children’s fantasy by focusing on two fantastic body transformation types: invisibility and age-shifting. Drawing on recent feminist and queer theory, the study discusses the tropes of invisibility and...
Outlander's Sassenachs
Essays on Gender, Race, Orientation and the Other in the Novels and Television Series
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
A time travel epic featuring history and romance, Outlander—unlike most adventure series—is aimed at women audiences. The kilted male characters, the female narrator, the fantastic period costumes are atypical of male-gendered television. Both the show and the novels on which it is based address...
by R. Steinitz
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Through close examinations of diaries, diary publication, and diaries in fiction, this book explores how the diary's construction of time and space made it an invaluable and effective vehicle for the dominant discourses of the period; it also explains how the genre evolved into the feminine, emotive, private form we continue to privilege today.
Women and Romance
The Consolations of Gender in the English Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
According to Laurie Langbauer, the notion of romance is vague precisely because it represents the chaotic negative space outside the novel that determines its form. Addressing questions of form, Langbauer reads novels that explore the interplay between the novel and romance: works by Charlotte Lennox,...