Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Sneakers
Fashion, Gender, and Subculture
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
This is the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts, popularly known as "sneakerheads†? or "sneakerholics†?, have created a distinctive identity for themselves, while sneaker manufacturers such as Reebok,...
Hyper Sexual, Hyper Masculine?
Gender, Race and Sexuality in the Identities of Contemporary Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
This book provides critical insights into the many, often overlooked, challenges and societal issues that face contemporary black men, focusing in particular on the ways in which governing societal expectations result in internal and external constraints on black male identity formation, sexuality...
Femme/Butch
New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
What are the meanings behind constructed lesbian identities?
This unique collection brings together writing, photography, artwork, and poetry about lesbian butch and femme gender. Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go distinguishes itself by celebrating a wide span of intellectual...
Gendered Militarism in Canada
Learning Conformity and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
“Despite Canada’s claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality.” —from the Introduction Little has been done to examine, critique, and challenge the ways ingrained societal ideas of militarism and gender influence lifelong learning...
Women and Disasters in South Asia
Survival, security and development
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
South Asia is one of the most vulnerable areas of an increasingly disaster-impacted world, with cyclones, earthquakes, floods and droughts causing several casualties and disrupting lives and livelihoods every year. Yet the impacts of disasters are not equally distributed across the peoples of the...
Gender Politics in the Expanding European Union
Mobilization, Inclusion, Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
In May 2004, after bringing their legislation into accordance with EU regulations, ten more countries joined the European Union. The contributors to this volume assess the impact of this historical development on gender relations in the new and old EU member states. Instead of focusing on either western...
Sexagon
Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
In contemporary France, particularly in the banlieues of Paris, the figure of the young, virile, hypermasculine Muslim looms large. So large, in fact, it often supersedes liberal secular society’s understanding of gender and sexuality altogether. Engaging the nexus of race, gender, nation, and sexuality,...
Spiritual Mestizaje
Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
Gloria Anzaldúa’s narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity. Yet Anzaldúa’s theory of spiritual mestizaje has not...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices,...
Decolonizing the Sodomite
Queer Tropes of Sexuality in Colonial Andean Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in important ceremonies and were recorded in fragments...
Nursing and Empire
Gendered Labor and Migration from India to the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Sujani Reddy examines the consequential lives of Indian nurses whose careers have unfolded in the contexts of empire, migration, familial relations, race, and gender. As Reddy shows, the nursing profession developed in India against a complex backdrop of British...
Women and Media in the Middle East
Power Through Self-expression
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2004
Are women benefiting from current changes in the Middle East media? With media all over the world still marginalizing women and trivializing gender inequalities, how does the situation in the Middle East compare? Proliferating satellite channels have increased women's visibility in the region but...
The Societal Evolution of Male Stereotypes
Gender Bashing of Men in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
"When a negative trait or practice is generally and entirely attributed to a people of a particular race, gender or origin, it is an unfair generalization that we call a ‘stereotype’. When it manifests unchallenged and unanswered, it can over time cause society to lose respect for a particular...
by E. Glapka
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Bridal magazines have become increasingly popular in Western society, proliferating the idea of a ‘princess bride’ on her ‘big day’. Yet little has been written on how the ever-expanding wedding media and the popular wedding culture constructs gender and affects the ways women live and experience...