Gender category: 10444 books
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws
Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men's Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
A candid re-examination of what it means to be a gay man
Gendered Outcasts and Sexual Outlaws: Sexual Oppression and Gender Hierarchies in Queer Men’s Lives explores the impact and effects of sexual oppression and power relationships within the gay male community. This controversial book...
The Gender of Sexuality
Exploring Sexual Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality—two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this book features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender....
The Gender Games
The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
*SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL TV SERIES*
*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017*
*AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET*
'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl 'funny, thoughtful and honest ......
by Allyson Jule
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a thorough grounding in theoretical and practical perspectives on gender and language in the workplace, media,...
Politics of Masculinities
Men in Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1997
The profound changes wrought by the feminist movement were by no means restricted to women. In the years since feminism has taken root, the role of men and masculinity has begun to undergo its own redefinition. Michael A. Messner provides a sociological framework to understand the responses of men...
Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature
Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ’gender protest’ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret...
by Emilia Barbosa, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Olga Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia,...
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam...
by S. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children across both the developed and developing world. While...
by Michael Beattie, Penny Lenihan, Robin Dundas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
For any student or practitioner needing to gain a sound understanding of the complex fields of gender variance, gender identity and gender dysphoria, this book provides the ideal starting point for the knowledge and skills that you need.
Emphasising the need for affirmative practice in gender...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing principle of institutions, history, and unequal interpersonal relations. This new title will develop students’ capacity to use gender analysis to question social life more broadly, by presenting a critical sociology...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education. Rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specific geographical contexts,...
Women, Work, and Globalization
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Women increasingly make up a significant percentage of the labor force throughout the world. This transformation is impacting everyone's lives. This book examines the resulting gender role, work, and family issues from a comparative worldwide perspective. Working allows women to earn an income, acquire...
Country Boys and Redneck Women
New Essays in Gender and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2016
Country music boasts a long tradition of rich, contradictory gender dynamics, creating a world where Kitty Wells could play the demure housewife and the honky-tonk angel simultaneously, Dolly Parton could move from traditionalist "girl singer" to outspoken trans rights advocate, and current...