Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Toni Schindler Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Show parents how to help their children break free of the artificial limitations placed upon them by society’s gender and cultural expectations!
This book presents both theoretical and practical ideas for integrating gender and culture into parenting. Unlike other books on the subject, this...
Literacy as Gendered Discourse
Engaging the Voices of Women in Global Societies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This volume continues IAP’s dedication to the diverse field of international adult learning in the tradition of those books related to the We Learn and AAHE conferences. It is an edited and refereed collection and part of the larger body of scholarly publications associated with professional organizations...
The Kaleidoscope of Gender
Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
The Kaleidoscope of Gender: Prisms, Patterns, and Possibilities provides an accessible, timely, and stimulating overview of the cutting-edge literature and theoretical frameworks in sociology and related fields in order to understand the social construction of gender. The kaleidoscope metaphor and...
Families in Transition
Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written...
Agency and Gender in Gaza
Masculinity, Femininity and Family during the Second Intifada
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain conflict situations. It explores the effects of the Israeli policy of closure against Gaza and the resulting humanitarian crisis in relation to gender relations...
Gender Training
A Transformative Tool for Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change. Chapter 1 traces the historical development and current contours of the field of gender training. In Chapter 2, the key critiques of gender training are substantively engaged with from the perspective...
by Naila Kabeer
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The vast majority of the world’s working women, particularly those from low-income households in developing countries, are located in the informal economy in activities that are casual, poorly paid, irregular and outside the remit of formal social security and protective legislation. This book examines...
by Mollie Painter-Morland
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2011
This text provides perspectives on the way in which gender plays a role in leadership dynamics and ethics within organizations. It seeks to offer new theoretical models for thinking about leadership and organizational influence. Most studies of women’s leadership draw on an ethics of care as characteristic...
Gender Responsive Budgeting in Fragile States
The Case of Timor-Leste
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
A growing number of governments have made commitments to achieving gender equality and women's rights, with many using gender responsive budgeting (GRB) to allocate resources for the delivery of economic policy and governance that benefit men and women equally. At a time when GRB is growing in...
Japanese Women in Science and Engineering
History and Policy Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) varies greatly from country to country, and the number of Japanese women in these fields remains relatively few. This prompts us to ask why the proportion of female scientists in Japan is still remarkably low and what measures...
India Migration Report 2015
Gender and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
India Migration Report 2015 explores migration and its crucial linkages with gender. This volume:
• studies important issues such as irregular migration, marriage migration and domestic labour migration, as well as the interconnections of migration, gender and caste;
• highlights...
Engaging Men in the Fight against Gender Violence
Case Studies from Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide. However, despite the increasing attention which is now paid to this violence by policy makers data seem to indicate that these efforts are not having as great an impact as may have been hoped. In all countries of the world,...
Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology
Volume 2: Gender Research in Social and Applied Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Donald R. McCreary and Joan C. Chrisler The Development of Gender Studies in Psychology Studies of sex differences are as old as the ?eld of psychology, and they have been conducted in every sub?eld of the discipline. There are probably many reasons for the popularity of these studies, but three reasons...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This handbook provides a comprehensive view of the field of the sociology of gender. It presents the most important theories about gender and methods used to study gender, as well as extensive coverage of the latest research on gender in the most important areas of social life, including gendered...