Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
The** *SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender ***is an innovative exploration of the intersection of gender and psychology—topics that resonate across disciplines and inform our everyday lives. This encyclopedia looks at issues of gender, identity, and psychological processes at the individual...
Gender and the Military
Women in the Armed Forces of Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This is the first comparative, cross-national study of the participation of women in the armed forces of NATO countries. Along side an analysis of this key topic stands a critique of existing theoretical models and the proposal of a revised analytical framework.
Unlike previous works this new...
The Borderlands of Education
Latinas in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This innovative work critically studies the contemporary problems of one segment of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The lack of a diverse U.S.-based pool of talent entering the field of engineering education has been termed a crisis by academic and political leaders. Engineering...
Handbook of Gender Research in Psychology
Volume 1: Gender Research in General and Experimental 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...
Who Is Worthy of Protection?
Gender-Based Asylum and U.S. Immigration Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
A surprisingly understudied topic in international relations is gender-based asylum. Gender-based asylum offers protection from deportation for migrants who have suffered gender violence and persecution in their home countries. Countries are increasingly acknowledging that even though international...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
This volume closely analyses women’s role and experiences in migration (internal and international) and its interlinkages with the care economy in their functions as nurses and paid domestic workers as well as unpaid carers. Bringing together case studies from across India and other parts of the...
Geschlechterdifferenzierte Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung und Gender Impact Assessment
Ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Großbritannien
Language: German
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Veranstaltung: Rechts- und sozialwissenschaftliche Grundlagen des Begriffs Gender und der Strategie Gender Mainstreaming , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alle Länder der Europäischen...
by Catherine Mayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
‘Buy it for yourself, your husband or partner. Most importantly, buy it for your children’ Sunday Express Essential reading from Catherine Mayer, recently named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in Global Policy on Gender Equality. Not a single country anywhere in the world has achieved...
Gender Tool Kit: Energy
Going Beyond the Meter
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This tool kit assists staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in conceptualizing and designing gender-responsive projects in the energy sector. It guides users in key questions to be asked and data to be collected during project preparation. It also offers a menu of entry points...
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...
Gender and Jim Crow, Second Edition
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era. Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black...
You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields,...
Living Up to the Ads
Gender Fictions of the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2000
In Living Up to the Ads Simone Weil Davis examines commodity culture’s impact on popular notions of gender and identity during the 1920s. Arguing that the newly ascendant advertising industry introduced three new metaphors for personhood—the ad man, the female consumer, and the often female advertising...
by Dana M. Britton
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
The Gender of Crime introduces students to how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this dynamic and provocative book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing...