Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Calogero Giametta
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Today within neoliberal democracies, gender and sexuality provisions give people the opportunity of being granted social and legal protection. But how does the asylum system intervene within claimants’ understandings of themselves and in what ways does this affect their livelihoods in the country...
Gender Violence in Peace and War
States of Complicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this reign of terror against women not only occurs during exceptional moments of social collapse, but during peacetime too. As this powerful book...
Seeing Straight
An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. After an accessible overview, the book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender identities as “normal,” as well as the problems...
Gendering Modernism
A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Gendering Modernism offers a critical reappraisal of the modernist movement, asking how gender norms of the time shaped the rebellion of the self-avowed modernists and examining the impact of radical gender reformers on modernism.
Focusing primarily on the connections between North American...
Gender Hurts
A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is...
Gender and Development
The Indian Scenario
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Gender and Development the Indian Scenario, is a book basically intended for the Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate students of the Course-Gender and Development. It indeed gives an immense pleasure to share that this can be a text-book for Under-graduate, to orient them with the areas: Gender-role,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly appear as soldiers, commanders, casualties, and civilians. Women, by contrast, are invisible as combatants, and, when seen, are typically pictured as victims. The field of war and conflict studies is changing:...
by Deevia Bhana
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
This book is an ethnography of teachers and children in grades 1 and 2, and presents arguments about why we should take gender and childhood sexuality seriously in the early years of South African primary schooling. Taking issue with dominant discourses which assumes children’s lack of agency, the...
by Deborah Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture. Such texts offer striking parallels to contemporary gender theories (particularly...
by Seema Shekhawat, Veronica Fynn Bruey, Antal Berkes
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace...
Gender Integration in NATO Military Forces
Cross-national Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Numerous states have passed gender integration legislation permanently admitting women into their military forces. As a result, states have dramatically increased women’s numbers, and improved gender equality by removing a number of restrictions. Yet despite changes and initiatives on both domestic...
Black Intimacies
A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2004
In Black Intimacies: A Gender Perspective on Families and Relationships, Shirley A. Hill applies a gender lens to the multiple systems of oppression that have shaped the lives of African American women and men. She challenges the image of a monolithic black population, a legacy of the civil rights...
Gender Matters in Global Politics
A Feminist Introduction to International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Fully revised and updated, this second edition of Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying feminism & international relations, gender and global politics and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account...
Femicide, Gender and Violence
Discourses and Counterdiscourses in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
This book questions gendered readings of violence by analyzing how this paradigm has become normalized in Italy since the feminist term ‘femminicidio’, or ‘femicide’, entered the mainstream media during the 2013 general election. It also sheds light on discourses of contestation on the part...