Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender Tool Kit
Transport
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and partner governments in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive programs and projects in transport sector operations. It aims to help users identify gender equality issues and to develop practical design elements...
Spectatorship
Shifting Theories of Gender, Sexuality, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Media platforms continually evolve, but the issues surrounding media representations of gender and sexuality have persisted across decades. Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism has published groundbreaking articles on gender and sexuality, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Providing a comprehensive overview of the study of gender in South Asia, this Handbook covers the central contributions that have defined this area and captures innovative and emerging paradigms that are shaping the future of the field. It offers a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary...
Gender in Contemporary Iran
Pushing the Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women’s lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims.
Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working...
Globalization, Gender Politics, and the Media
From the West to Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
From advertising to television and film, feminist media scholars have examined the changing nature of media representations form the 1990’s onwards in comparison to the 1950s in the UK and the US. Many debates focus on the current ambiguity surrounding media representations which are inserted within...
Feminism Counts
Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology...
by Chayanika Shah, Raj Merchant, Shals Mahajan and Smriti Nevatia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalised by these norms. This forces us to ask some important questions: How is gender really understood...
by Jemima Repo
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Jemima Repo argues in this book, "gender" has come to be the major sexual signifier of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first century. In fact, in this historical excavation...
Re-Presenting Feminist Methodologies
Interdisciplinary Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
This book tracks the trajectory of gender in the social sciences and humanities through an exploration of the challenges and contradictions that confront contemporary feminist analysis as well as future directions. Drawing on research in India, the essays in the volume engage with the subject in imaginative...
Gender, Health and Healthcare
Women’s and Men’s Experience of Health and Working in Healthcare Roles
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Health status and the experience of working in health care roles are both strongly shaped by gender and, although there have been attempts to incorporate ’gender awareness’ in both health and employment policies, the significance of gender in these areas continues to be marginalised within public...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s offers an in-depth analysis of the relationship between gender and contemporary consumer cultures in post-authoritarian Southern European societies.
The book sees a diverse group of international scholars from across the social...
Writing African Women
Gender, Popular Culture and Literature in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
How does our understanding of Africa shift when we begin from the perspective of women? What can the African perspective offer theories of culture and of gender difference?
This work, as unique and insightful today as when it was first published, brings together a wide variety of African academics...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume provides a detailed discussion of the role of women in diplomacy and a global narrative of their current and historical role within it.
The last century has seen the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) experience seismic shifts in their policies concerning the entry, role and agency...
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...