Gender category: 10444 books
by Drude Dahlerup
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Armenia, a country of ancient traditions, is shaped by events of the recent past. As it left behind the Soviet legacy of an official gender equality policy, there came about a resurgence of patriarchal views and customs. At the same time though, Armenia saw the growth of diverse women's civil society...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and security as numerous landmark anniversaries were celebrated in the field. Africa has, in many ways, been the global laboratory for the gender, peace and security...
Children with Gender Identity Disorder
A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades...
The Kaleidoscope of Gender
Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and...
Gender-based Violence and Public Health
International perspectives on budgets and policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to international...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
The use of social media and blogging websites has become more prevalent especially among young women; this trend suggests that gender has the potential to coincide with one’s actions and engagement online. Despite this notable trend, there is still a dearth of research on how women use the internet...
Families in Transition
Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written...
Agency and Gender in Gaza
Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain conflict situations. It explores the effects of the Israeli policy of closure against Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis in relation to gender relations...
Gender, Identity and Violence
Female Deselection in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The missing girls in India are not a new phenomenon. The British passed an Act to check female infanticide more than 100 years ago. Since 1960, India’s birth sex ratios have progressively declined from 994 to 910, implicating life-affecting gender violence. Backed by extensive field research, data...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Gender equality is a stated priority of the Government of Solomon Islands in achieving national development goals. This assessment examines the progress toward gender equality across social, economic, and political spheres in Solomon Islands, such as health, education, work, political participation,...
Tajikistan
Country Gender Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The resurgence of conservative patriarchal values in Tajikistan have led to the rise of early marriages and polygamy, compromising women’s and girls’ opportunities to realize their full potential to live quality lives, and have deterred women from fully participating in and benefitting from development....
by Naila Kabeer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The vast majority of the world’s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legislation. This book examines...
Veraendern Gender Studies die Gesellschaft?
Zum transformativen Potential eines interdisziplinaeren Diskurses
Language: German
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Gender Studies haben sich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten als kulturwissenschaftlicher, interdisziplinärer und gesellschaftskritischer Diskurs etabliert. Sie analysieren die soziale und kulturelle Konstruktion von Geschlecht, kritisieren etablierte (meist unsichtbare) Machtstrukturen, die Diskriminierung...