Gender category: 10444 books
Ecofeminist Natures
Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Examining the development of ecofeminism from the 1980s antimilitarist movement to an internationalist ecofeminism in the 1990s, Sturgeon explores the ecofeminist notions of gender, race, and nature. She moves from detailed historical investigations of important manifestations of US ecofeminism to a broad analysis of international environmental politics.
Sex and Class in Women's History
Essays from Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate the developments which have taken place – in the types of questions asked, the methodologies employed, and the scope and sophistication of the analytical...
Gaming Representation
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers...
Intolerable Cruelty
Marriage, Law, and Society in Early Twentieth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2012
At the outset of the Nanjing decade (1928–1937), a small group of Chinese legal elites worked to codify the terms that would bring the institutions of marriage and family into the modern world. Their deliberations produced the Republican Civil Code of 1929–1930, the first Chinese law code endowed...
Male Lust
Pleasure, Power, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire!
Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex...
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Transgender is not the same as being transsexual. A transsexual was born one gender and transitions to the other. A transgendered person can be a man who is married to a woman. This man may dress in women's clothing, expressing himself as a woman at times. Gender has its roots in the mind, if you...
National Manhood
Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1998
National Manhood explores the relationship between gender, race, and nation by tracing developing ideals of citizenship in the United States from the Revolutionary War through the 1850s. Through an extensive reading of literary and historical documents, Dana D. Nelson analyzes the social and political...
Transgender Communication Studies
Histories, Trends, and Trajectories
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Transgender Communication Studies: Histories, Trends, and Trajectories brings scholarship in transgender studies to the forefront of the communication discipline. Leland Spencer and Jamie Capuzza provide a broad foundation that documents the evolution of transgender communication studies and challenges...
Programmed Inequality
How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
How Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women.
In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds...
The Bully Society
School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Choice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013
In today’s schools, kids bullying kids is not an occasional occurrence but rather an everyday reality where children learn early that being sensitive, respectful, and kind earns them no respect. Jessie Klein makes the provocative argument...
Women of Color and Feminism
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Rojas explores...
Lesbian Step Families
An Ethnography of Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for...
by J Jerry Bigner
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT families
In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to...
Living "Difference"
Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Living “Difference”: Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discussing the advantages of female same-sex relationships, this book suggests that these partnerships are able to facilitate more egalitarian ideals...