Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Fallgirls (Open Access)
Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand participant-observations of the courts-martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. This book examines the trials themselves, including interactions with soldiers...
Attending to Early Modern Women
Conflict and Concord
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
This volume considers women's roles in the conflicts and negotiations of the early modern world. Essays explore the ways that gender shapes women's agency in times of war, religious strife, and economic change. How were conflict and concord gendered in histories, literature, music, and political,...
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
"Sex change" is a very broad term that refers to the process of a person or animal changing sex. This occurs naturally in some species of animals, but more often the term is used to mean sex reassignment surgery.
The term can refer to either male sexual characteristics being substituted...
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients
Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Most therapy is set up in a heterosexist context. Explore the issues facing your gay, lesbian, and bisexual clients--and how to deal with them!
The Therapist's Notebook for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Clients offers therapists treating lesbian, gay, and bisexual clients innovative, practical...
LGBTQ Divorce and Relationship Dissolution
Psychological and Legal Perspectives and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2018
What unique challenges face LGBTQ individuals in relationships or who are separating or divorcing, especially now that same-sex couples may marry? What issues might complicate the ending of relationships when children, multiple partners, or multiple parents are present? How do gender, gender transition,...
Nordic Girlhoods
New Perspectives and Outlooks
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This edited collection is an interdisciplinary and dialogical endeavor focused on the field of Nordic Girlhood Studies. It investigates young femininity as well as the key themes and concepts of Girlhood Studies, including girl power, feminisms, femininity, gender equality, postfeminism and sexualities...
Rethinking Misogyny
Men's Perceptions of Female Power in Dating Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In this path-breaking book Anna Arrowsmith analyses gendered dating behaviour and shows how men’s behaviour is both defined and illustrated by societal norms that require a particular masculine performance, including those desired by potential female performers. Using the case-study of pick-up artistry...
Human Exhibitions
Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
From the 1870s to the second decade of the twentieth century, more than fifty exhibitions of so-called exotic people took place in Denmark. Here large numbers of people of Asian and African origin were exhibited for the entertainment and ’education’ of a mass audience. Several of these exhibitions...
by Hill Gates
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is...
by Berit Brandth
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
All work is gendered and all work is embodied. Yet, in common with so many features of social life, these connections have remained largely unnoticed in most areas of social enquiry. All three topics - gender, bodies and work - have their own history and theoretical concerns and have recently showed...
Critical Perspectives on Masculinities and Relationalities
In Relation to What?
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
This volume explores which relations produce or maintain masculinities and certain gendered systems of power and the consequences of these gender constructions that further gender research. To understand the meanings of masculinity/masculinities and relationalities as critical concepts in gender studies...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2008
This collection brings fresh perspectives to the current policy and programming initiatives concerning women teachers in South Asia. It discusses issues related to the lives and experiences of women teachers in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal and Bangladesh, providing a common framework...
Gender Regulation, Violence and Social Hierarchies in School
'Sluts', 'Gays' and 'Scrubs'
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
This book investigates the reasons why the traditional psychological understanding of bullying fails those affected, and deconstructs how bullying is shaped by prominent discourse. By drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory Victoria Rawlings highlights the social and cultural inequalities too...
We Are Dancing for You
Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
�I am here. You will never be alone. We are dancing for you.� So begins Cutcha Risling Baldy�s deeply personal account of the revitalization of the women�s coming-of-age ceremony for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. At the end of the twentieth century, the tribe�s Flower Dance had not been fully...