Gender Studies category: 10311 books
In Idi Amin’s Shadow
Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the...
Transcribing Class and Gender
Masculinity and Femininity in Nineteenth-Century Courts and Offices
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
"Drawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched,...
Gender and Jim Crow
Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Glenda Gilmore recovers the rich nuances of southern political history by placing black women at its center. She explores the pivotal and interconnected roles played by gender and race in North Carolina politics from the period immediately preceding the disfranchisement of black men in 1900 to the...
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara
Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This book offers a social–scientific interpretation of the Hindu and Buddhist traditions of Tantra dating back 15 centuries. It is a self-reflexive study approached with an insider’s empathy and the perspective of an Indologist, anthropologist, mystic and practitioner of the cult.
The...
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures
Passionate Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers?
Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book...
by Anna Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This book asks how 21st century technologies such as the Internet, mobile phones and social media are transforming human memory and its relationship to gender. Each epoch brings with it new media technologies that have transformed human memory. Anna Reading examines the ways in which globalised digital...
Fixing Gender
Lesbian Mothers and the Oedipus Complex
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Fixing Gender uses psychoanalysis to explore the theoretical implications for the gendering of the human subject that arise from the situation of lesbians raising children from birth. In the face of the powerful evidence of the ways gender operates, and in the deep structural ways the logic of gender...
How to Understand Your Gender
A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
'For anyone who's ever wished they had a smart, kind, friend with whom they could calmly and safely discuss gender issues: this most excellent book is that kind of friend'. - Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw
Have you ever questioned your own gender identity? Do you know somebody who...
Gender Trouble Makers
Education and Empowerment in Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it...
Gender Equality and the Labor Market
Women, Work, and Migration in the People's Republic of China
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has made advances in narrowing gender gaps in its labor market. It has one of the highest female labor force participation rates in Asia and the Pacific at around 64% in 2013, and one of the narrowest earnings gender gaps. This study investigates how women are...
Nina Here Nor There
My Journey Beyond Gender
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for...
Equity in the Workplace
Gendering Workplace Policy Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2004
This edited collection assembles cutting-edge comparative policy research on contemporary policies relevant to gender and workplace issues. Contributors analyze contemporary gender-related employment policies ranging from parental leave and maternity programs, sexual harassment, and work/life balance...
by Simavi Sevi; Manuel Clare; Blackden Mark C.
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Promoting women's economic empowerment is increasingly seen as one of the most important driving forces behind economic growth and the fight against poverty. Women's economic participation as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is recognized as a measure of a country's dynamism and viability.This main...
Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
New Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application...