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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horror as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing family...
by Colleen Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Gender, Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine, or alternative, style of organizing and community building.
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Women Researching in Africa
The Impact of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each...
by Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
This is the first introductory textbook intended for transgender/trans studies at the undergraduate level. The book can also be used for related courses in LGBTQ, queer, and gender/feminist studies.
It encompasses and connects global contexts, intersecting identities, historic and contemporary...
Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence
Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with "1968" and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender.
The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence,...
Me, Myself, They
Life Beyond the Binary
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Me, Myself, They: Life Beyond the Binary chronicles Joshua M. Ferguson’s extraordinary story of transformation to become the celebrated non-binary filmmaker, writer, and advocate for trans rights they are today. Beginning with their birth and early childhood years of gender creativity, Ferguson...
by Cordelia Fine
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2010
“[Fine’s] sharp tongue is tempered with humor. . . . Read this book and see how complex and fascinating the whole issue is.”—The New York Times
It’s the twenty-first century, and although we tried to rear unisex children—boys who play with dolls and girls who like trucks—we failed....
Moving Beyond Words: Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
Essays on Age, Rage, Sex, Power, Money, Muscles: Breaking the Boundaries of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Steinem’s career-spanning collection of essays—each one a book in itself—re-imagine everything from the masculinization of wealth to Freudian thought and aging
With cool humor and rich intellect, Gloria Steinem strips bare our social constructions of gender and race, explaining just how...
by V. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are...
Women of Ice and Fire
Gender, Game of Thrones and Multiple Media Engagements
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
George R.R. Martin's acclaimed seven-book fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire is unique for its strong and multi-faceted female protagonists, from teen queen Daenerys, scheming Queen Cersei, child avenger Arya, knight Brienne, Red Witch Melisandre, and many more. The Game of Thrones universe challenges,...
Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
We believe we know our bodies intimately-that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering...
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It...
Transpeople
Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines...
Discriminating Sex
White Leisure and the Making of the American "Oriental"
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Freewheeling sexuality and gender experimentation defined the social and moral landscape of 1890s San Francisco. Middle class whites crafting titillating narratives on topics such as high divorce rates, mannish women, and extramarital sex centered Chinese and Japanese immigrants in particular. Amy...