Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Natacha Guyot
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Feminist Bloggers is a collection of twenty feminist essays by eight authors, covering a broad range of topics from feminism as a political label, to rape culture, to various perspectives on education. This volume also includes several pieces about how marketing addresses women and how mass media...
The Subject of Gender
Daughters and Mothers in Urban China
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2007
Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive socio-economic change, and the transformation of gender practices, expectations, and relationships. Among these is the mother-daughter relationship, one that has profound influence on women's gendered subjectivity but...
by Claire Duncanson
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN's attempts to mainstream gender into peace operations via Security...
Race, Gender and Sport
The Politics of Ethnic 'Other' Girls and Women
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The experiences of ethnic ‘Other’ females have – until recently – been widely overlooked in the study of sport. There continues to be a need to produce critical scholarship about ethnic 'Other' girls and women in sport and physical culture, in order to represent their complex, multifarious...
by Joan Wallach Scott
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social...
Disruptive Acts
The New Woman in Fin-de-Siecle France
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
In fin-de-siècle France, politics were in an uproar, and gender roles blurred as never before. Into this maelstrom stepped the "new women," a group of primarily urban, middle-class French women who became the objects of intense public scrutiny. Some remained single, some entered nontraditional...
Gender Equality and the Media
A Challenge for Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This edited collection draws on and expands the findings from a pan-European research project undertaken during 2012-13 which was funded by the European Institute for Gender Equality and aimed to explore three key issues in relation to gender and media: women’s inclusion in decision-making positions...
Nepal Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women Project
Gender Results Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women in Nepal have long experienced poverty, social exclusion, and marginalization because of their gender, especially among ethnic minorities and low-caste groups. Between 2002 and 2013, the Asian Development Bank and the Government of Nepal developed and implemented the Gender Equality and Empowerment...
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards...
Home Sweat Home
Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting...
Women, Labor Segmentation and Regulation
Varieties of Gender Gaps
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
This book re-shapes thinking on ‘gender gaps’—differences between men and women in their incomes, their employment and their conditions of work. It shows how the interaction between regulation distance and content, labor segmentation and norms helps us understand various aspects of gender gaps.
It...
Transitions of the Heart
Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Transitions of the Heart is the first collection to ever invite mothers of transgender and gender variant children of all ages to tell their own stories about their child’s gender transition. Often “transitioning” socially and emotionally alongside their child but rarely given a voice in the...
Family Bonds
Genealogies of Race and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2007
Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged the "intersection" of gender and race difference; it is by now a truism that the ways we become boys and girls, men and women, cannot be disentangled from the ways we become white or Black men and women, Asian or Latino boys and girls....
Scandinavian Homosexualities
Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Scandinavian Homosexualities offers non-Scandinavian readers a rare opportunity to explore the history, sociology, notions, experiences, and cultural politics of homosexuality in Scandinavian societies in English. This unique insight into some of the most advanced countries in regard to institutionalized...