Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Routledge History of Queer America presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history. Featuring nearly thirty chapters on essential subjects and themes from colonial times through the present, this collection...
The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health
A Practitioner's Guide to Service
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Get the comprehensive resource for LGBT public health issues!
Public health services for sexual minorities have suffered from practitioners’ lack of knowledge about sexual or gender orientation, specific health concerns, and inherent system homophobia and heterosexism. The Handbook of Lesbian,...
Frank Merriwell and the Fiction of All-American Boyhood
The Progressive Era Creation of the Schoolboy Sports Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Gilbert Patten, writing as Burt L. Standish, made a career of generating serialized twenty-thousand-word stories featuring his fictional creation Frank Merriwell, a student athlete at Yale University who inspired others to emulate his example of manly boyhood. Patten and his publisher, Street and...
Reconsidering Women's History
Twenty years of the Women's History Network
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Deriving from the 20th Anniversary Women’s History Network Conference entitled ’20 Years of the Women’s History Network: Looking Back – Looking Forward’, this volume reflects on the state of women’s and gender history as well as showcasing the diversity of the current field. The range...
The Garden of Delights
Reform and Renaissance for Women in the Twelfth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In The Garden of Delights, Fiona J. Griffiths offers the first major study of the Hortus deliciarum, a magnificently illuminated manuscript of theology, biblical history, and canon law written both by and explicitly for women at the end of the twelfth century. In so doing she provides a brilliantly...
Visualizing Difference
Performative Audiencing in the Intersectional Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
In the wealth of literature on intersectionality as a concept, theory, political option and methodology, little has been written on how it might be taught. Proceeding from theory to practice, Visualizing Difference fills in this lacuna and offers an original approach to a visual pedagogy that recognizes...
The Company They Kept
Migrants and the Politics of Gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In the late nineteenth century, migrants from Jamaica, Colombia, Barbados, and beyond poured into Caribbean Central America, building railroads, digging canals, selling meals, and farming homesteads. On the rain-forested shores of Costa Rica, U.S. entrepreneurs and others established vast banana plantations....
by Christien Garcia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In this book, Sedgwick examines texts from Europe and America such as Wilde, Nietzsche and Proust and considers the historical moment when sexual orientation came to be as important a signifier of personhood as gender had been for centuries. In doing this, Sedgwick provides a history of sexuality...
Therapeutic Worlds
Popular Psychology and the Sociocultural Organisation of Intimate Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises everyday experiences of intimacy, its argument is grounded in qualitative research in Trinidad in the Anglophone Caribbean.
Against the backdrop of Trinidad’s...
Gender and Consumption
Domestic Cultures and the Commercialisation of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Drawing upon anthropological, sociological and historical perspectives, this volume provides a unique insight into women’s domestic consumption. The contributors argue that domestic consumption represents an important lens through which to examine the everyday production and reproduction of socio-economic...
Plastic Bodies
Sex Hormones and Menstrual Suppression in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity....
Next Wave Cultures
Feminism, Subcultures, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Whereas once young women’s feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging scholars provide an interdisciplinary examination of young women’s multilayered lives. This collection demonstrates...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Gender and diversity are crucial areas that require more attention in multiple academic settings. As more women progress into leadership positions in academia, it becomes necessary to develop solutions geared specifically toward success for females in such environments. Navigating Micro-Aggressions...
Filled with the Spirit
Sexuality, Gender, and Radical Inclusivity in a Black Pentecostal Church Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
In 2001, a collection of open and affirming churches with predominantly African American membership and a Pentecostal style of worship formed a radically new coalition. The group, known now as the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries or TFAM, has at its core the idea of “radical inclusivity”: the...