Gender category: 10444 books
This One Looks Like a Boy
My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it’s never too late to find your true identity.
Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body.
In this...
The Transgender Child
A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance...
Sport and Gender Identities
Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights into processes of identity formation in a wide range of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on contemporary debates concerning gender and identity from a range of disciplines...
The Capacity to Care
Gender and Ethical Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.
In this book, the...
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
The Second Wave
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Get a feminist perspective on important changes in psychoanalysis!
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave examines recent changes in psychoanalysis that have opened the door for new perspectives on same-sex desire. Authors from a variety of disciplines and theoretical orientations...
Queering Femininity
Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Queering Femininity focuses on femininity as a style of gender presentation and asks how (and whether) it can be refigured as a creative and queer style of the body. Drawing on a range of feminist texts and interviews with self-identifying queer femmes from the LGBTQ community, Hannah McCann argues...
Rethinking New Womanhood
Practices of Gender, Class, Culture and Religion in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New Womanhood effectively introduces a ‘new’ wave of gender research from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the world. The volume conceptualises ‘new womanhood’ as a complex, heterogeneous and intersectional...
by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and homemakers.
Through...
by Jude Howell, Diane Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received...
Gender, Power and Political Speech
Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women...
by Calogero Giametta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of being granted social and legal protection. But how does the asylum system intervene within claimants’ understandings of themselves and in what ways does this affect their livelihoods in the country...
Global Perspectives on Gender and Work
Readings and Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2000
Central to all our lives, work affects our status in the state, the family, and the economy. This comprehensive reader examines the myriad ways in which work—whether it is well-paid, unpaid, or underpaid—profoundly influences our roles in both the public and private spheres. Jacqueline Goodman...
Gender Violence in Peace and War
States of Complicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book...
by Cara Anzilotti
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This compelling study of the American public's response to the fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.
• Provides a solid introduction to women's/gender...