Gender category: 10444 books
by David E. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Geared toward high school students, undergraduate students, and general readers, this reference work provides a thorough and unbiased treatment of sex, gender, and transgenderism—social issues of particular importance in today's world.
• Offers answers to essential questions about transgender...
Seeing Straight
An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. After an accessible overview, the book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender identities as “normal,” as well as the problems...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Gendering Modernism
A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism.
Focusing primarily on the connections between North American...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly appear as soldiers, commanders, casualties, and civilians. Women, by contrast, are invisible as combatants, and, when seen, are typically pictured as victims. The field of war and conflict studies is changing:...
Educating the Gendered Citizen
sociological engagements with national and global agendas
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Globalisation and global human rights are the two major forces in the twenty-first century which are likely to shape the sort of learner citizen created by the educational system. Schools will be expected to prepare young men and women for national as well as global citizenship. Male and female citizens...
Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature
Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing...
Gender Issues, Sex Offenses, and Criminal Justice
Current Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Here is a powerful look at gender issues in the criminal justice system, particularly as gender is related to sex offenses and the system’s response to those offenses. Experts examine inmate sexual aggression, gender disparity in bail setting, racial patterns of rape, the female offender’s adjustment...
Gendering Postsocialism
Old Legacies and New Hierarchies
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Gendering Postsocialism explores changes in gendered norms and expectations in Eastern Europe and Eurasia after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The dismantlement of state socialism in these regions triggered monumental shifts in their economic landscape, the involvement of their welfare states in social...
by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan aims to provide focus for the FAO gender-related work in Asia and the Pacific and identify delivery mechanisms for the period 2017-2019. The Regional Gender Strategy and Action Plan encompasses work at both the regional and country level.
Homicide, Gender and Responsibility
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The crime of homicide has long animated academic debate, community concern and political attention. The discussion has often centered on the perceived (in)adequacy of legal responses to homicide, questions of culpability, and divergent representations of victims and offenders. Within this, notions...
Gender and the Judiciary in Africa
From Obscurity to Parity?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Between 2000 and 2015, women ascended to the top of judiciaries across Africa, most notably as chief justices of supreme courts in common law countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Malawi, Lesotho and Zambia, but also as presidents of constitutional courts in civil law countries such...
Black Intimacies
A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. She challenges the image of a monolithic black population, a legacy of the civil rights...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men.This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present and future of thinking about feminist...