Gender category: 10444 books
The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events
Roving Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts—the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution—the book...
Women and Immigration Law
New Variations on Classical Feminist Themes
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book examines immigration law from a gender perspective. It shows how immigration law situates gender conflicts outside the national order, projecting them onto non-western countries, exotic cultures, clandestine labour and criminal organizations. In doing so, immigration law sustains the illusion...
Gender Equality Results Case Studies
Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
This publication is part of the commitment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to document gender equality results in its operations. It presents case studies in ADB priority sectors: urban development, rural infrastructure, and education. The case studies provide an overview of gender issues, design...
Gender and Global Restructuring
Sightings, Sites and Resistances
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context.
Divided into Sightings, Sites and Resistances,...
Maldives
Gender Equality Diagnostic of Selected Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For the past decade, the Maldives has experienced economic growth, mostly driven by tourism. As an archipelago comprised of small islands, the land area is limited and the resource base narrow, with low potential for agriculture and other industries and high vulnerability to climate change. Its small...
Dangerous Curves
Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example...
Live and Die Like a Man
Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender...
Imagining Transgender
An Ethnography of a Category
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social...
Language and Woman's Place
Text and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years,...
The Fate of Gender
Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to women's masturbation classes in Shanghai, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific and...
by Emily Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of...
Gender and Rural Migration
Realities, Conflict and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Gender and Rural Migration: Realities, Conflict and Change explores the intersection of gender, migration, and rurality in 21st-century Western and non-Western contexts. In a world where heightened globalization is making borders increasingly porous, rural communities form part of the migration nexus....
Sexuality, Gender and Power
Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary,...
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning...