Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book explores an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of gender and development studies, disaster and land tenure policy. It is well known that women generally have weaker claims to land. But how does that translate to increased vulnerability during disaster? Using case studies from Asia,...
Exploring LGBT Spaces and Communities
Contrasting Identities, Belongings and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The phrase ‘LGBT community’ is often used by policy-makers, service providers, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people themselves, but what does it mean? What understandings and experiences does that term suggest, and ignore? Based on a UK-wide study funded by the Arts and Humanities...
Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State
Institutional Mechanisms for the Advancement of Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
"Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State" reflects the commitment of the United Nations to promote mechanisms that aim to achieve equality between women and men. It identifies institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women including national machineries as one of twelve critical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
This book provides a comparative analysis of the social, economic, industrial and migration dynamics that structure women’s paid work and unpaid care work experience in the Asia-Pacific region. Each country-focused chapter examines the formal and informal ways in which work and care are managed,...
Vulnerable Bodies
Gender, the UN and the Global Refugee Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Examining the response of the United Nations to forced displacement in three cases, this insightful work lays bare the breach between advances in global policy on gender equality and humanitarianism and the implementation of these policies. In this book Erin Baines uses the examples of Bosnia, Rwanda...
The Persistence of Global Masculinism
Discourse, Gender and Neo-Colonial Re-Articulations of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book examines whether we are witnessing the resilience, persistence and adaptation of masculinist discourses and practices at both domestic and international levels in the contemporary global context. Beginning with an innovative conceptualisation of masculinism, the book draws on interdisciplinary...
Gender and Mobility
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Our world is characterized by mobility. The number of refugees on the global scale has increased considerably. Meanwhile border control measures and legal avenues for mobility have been severely curbed, and the political climate has become all the more violent against racialized and gendered “Others”....
Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education
Constructing Women's Status
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering how those involved in policy-making efforts may make use of discourses that inadvertently...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from...
by Thomas Spijkerboer
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This is the first comprehensive socio-legal study of the interrelation between gender and the law of refugee status. In the past decade, the issue has received increasing attention in academic writing, the media and the courtroom. This book contains an interdisciplinary analysis. The empirical data,...
Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism
The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...
The Trouble with Nature
Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...
by Ragnhild Sollund
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
This volume of the Advances in Ecopolitics examines the impact of the recent global increase in migration from poor and conflict ridden states to more affluent peaceful regions of the world. Such migration is, in part, constituted by refugees and asylum seekers, while also constituted by labour migrants...
Women and Violence in India
Gender, Oppression and the Politics of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
India's endemic gender-based violence has received increased international scrutiny and provoked waves of domestic protest and activism. In recent years, related studies on India and South Asia have proliferated but their analyses often fail to identify why violence flourishes. Unwilling to simply...