Gender Studies category: 10311 books
East Asian Mothers in Britain
An Intersectional Exploration of Motherhood and Employment
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
How do Chinese, Japanese and Korean mothers in Britain make sense of their motherhood and employment? What are the intersecting factors that shape these women’s identities, experiences and stories? Contributing further to the continuing discourse and development of intersectionality, this book examines...
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.
Men and Development
Politicizing Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
A wide-ranging volume featuring contributions from some of today's leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of men, masculinities and development. Together, contributors challenge the neglect of the structural dimensions of patriarchal power relations in current development policy and practice,...
Gender and the Political
Deconstructing the Female Terrorist
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Analyzing women labeled as terrorists in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Gender and the Political examines Western cultural constructions of the female terrorist. The chapters argue that the development of the discourse on terrorism evolves in parallel with, and in response to, radical feminism in the US during this time.
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...
by Helen Hester
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
In an era of accelerating technology and increasing complexity, how should we reimagine the emancipatory potential of feminism? How should gender politics be reconfigured in a world being transformed by automation, globalization and the digital revolution?
These questions are addressed in this...
The Fear that Stalks
Gender-based Violence in Public Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book is an attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of gender- based violence in public spaces. It provides a framework that locates gender based violence within the politics and dynamics of public space, and helps us to understand the commonality between these diverse forms of...
American Muslim Women
Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
African American Muslims and South Asian Muslim immigrants are two of the largest ethnic Muslim groups in the U.S. Yet there are few sites in which African Americans and South Asian immigrants come together, and South Asians are often held up as a “model minority” against African Americans. However,...
Intersectionality
An Intellectual History
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
Intersectionality theory has emerged over the past thirty years as a way to think about the avenues by which inequalities (most often dealing with, but not limited to, race, gender, class and sexuality) are produced. Rather than seeing such categories as signaling distinct identities that can be adopted,...
Mediating Misogyny
Gender, Technology, and Harassment
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Mediating Misogyny is a collection of original academic essays that foregrounds the intersection of gender, technology, and media. Framed and informed by feminist theory, the book offers empirical research and nuanced theoretical analysis about the gender-based harassment women experience both online...
Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings
The Emotional Costs of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
Mari Ruti combines theoretical reflection, cultural critique, feminist politics, and personal experience to analyze the prevalence of bad feelings in contemporary everyday life. Proceeding from a playful engagement with Freud’s idea of penis envy, Ruti’s autotheoretical commentary fans out to...
Questioning the ‘Muslim Woman’
Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Indian Locality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the narratives of women living in a predominantly Muslim...
Gendered Compromises
Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2003
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held power. While other scholars have focused on the economic realignments and novel political pacts that...
by H. Lenskyj
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.