Gender category: 10444 books
Men in Relationships
A New Look from a Life Course Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Listed in Today's Books, Book Register as a "!!!Must Read" title.
For the first time, experts in the areas of psychology, masculinities, social psychology, personal relationships, communication, gender studies, and clinical psychology offer their collective views on the interpersonal...
He Runs, She Runs
Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
While there are far more women in public office today than in previous eras, women are still vastly underrepresented in this area relative to men. Conventional wisdom suggests that a key reason is because female candidates start out at a disadvantage with the public, compared to male candidates, and...
Gender, Work, and Family in a Chinese Economic Zone
Laboring in Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone. Engaging the question of whether waged work gives women power in their families, this ethnographic study finds that women do indeed use their new positions...
Lesbians in East Asia
Diversity, Identities, and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover the courageous, vibrant similarities and differences of lesbians in East Asia
How are same-sex relationships similar or different in the cultures of East Asia? Lesbians in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance is a unique examination of research and vital issues involving...
Acting Otherwise
The Institutionalization of Women's / Gender Studies in Taiwan's Universities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Acting Otherwise concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in universities.
by William Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
We gay folk, who inhabit bodies of the type we naturally desire, require a sex-positive spiritual practice that celebrates and utilizes our gay being instead of opposing it. We need a spiritual practice that teaches us how to use our senses instead of merely shutting them off or repressing them. We...
Desire for Development
Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections...
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law
Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental...
Women Embracing Islam
Gender and Conversion in the West
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Many Westerners view Islam as a religion that restricts and subordinates women in both private and public life. Yet a surprising number of women in Western Europe and America are converting to Islam. What attracts these women to a belief system that is markedly different from both Western Christianity...
by Lauren Swayne Barthold
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book draws on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer to inform a feminist perspective of social identities. Lauren Swayne Barthold moves beyond answers that either defend the objective nature of identities or dismiss their significance altogether. Building on the work of both hermeneutic and...
The Intermediate Sex
A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
“Anyone who realizes what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the...
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk
A Study in Social Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk expands on Carpenter’s idea of the Intermediate type; a person of mixed sexes such as a feminine body with a masculine mind or vice versa. Originally published in 1914, this text explores the role that intermediate types played amongst early civilisations...
American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism
More Than a Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Following the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims found themselves under unprecedented scrutiny. Muslim communities in the United States suffered from negative representations of their religion, but they also experienced increased interest in aspects of their faith and cultures. They seized...
by Miriam Glucksmann aka Ruth Cavendish
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
Women on the Line is a pioneering ethnographic classic of the world of work in a British motor components factory. Miriam Glucksmann (aka Ruth Cavendish), a well-known contributor to the study of gender, work and employment, is for the first time revealed as the author, along with the identity of...