Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Judith E. Owen Blakemore, Sheri A. Berenbaum, Lynn S. Liben
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This text offers a unique developmental focus on gender. Gender development is examined from infancy through adolescence, integrating biological, socialization, and cognitive perspectives. The book’s current empirical focus is complemented by a lively and readable style that includes anecdotes about...
by Pascall, Gillian
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western welfare states of the post-war era were built on assumptions about gender difference: they treated men as breadwinners and women as carers. Now governments...
Countering Gender Violence
Initiatives Towards Collective Action in Rajasthan
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
Using rural Rajasthan as a case study, the author of this volume explores some crucial issues relating to the lives of the women in this region, and concludes that understanding violence and responses to violence are strongly influenced by cultural contexts and norms.
The book: provides a theoretical...
by Godfried Asante, Claudia Bucciferro, Brad Crownover
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
The Research on Women and Education SIG of the American Educational Research Association presents the third book in its series, Gender and Early Learning Environments. Finding after the publication of Gender and Schooling in the Early Years, the second book in the series, that there was and is a paucity...
Gender and Physical Education
Contemporary Issues and Future Directions
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2002
Gender and Physical Education offers a critical and comprehensive commentary on issues relating to gender in PE and teacher education. The book challenges our understandings of gender, equity and identity in PE, establishing a conceptual and historical foundation for the issue, as well as presenting...
The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer
Gender Training and Gender Expertise
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise. Its chapters critically reflect on the politics of feminist knowledge transfer, understood as an inherently political, dynamic and contested process, the overall aim of which is to transform...
Gender and Social Hierarchies
Perspectives from social psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship between gender and social status. It comprises a collection of innovative approaches which seek to understand the pervasiveness of status asymmetry between...
Measuring Gender Equality
Streamlined Analysis with ADePT Software
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Gender equality is a core development objective in its own right and also smart development policy and business practice. No society can develop sustainably without giving men and women equal power to shape their own lives and contribute to their families, communities, and countries. And yet, critical...
At the center
Feminism, social science and knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
At the Center reflects on how the study of gender has changed and how studying gender has affected our research methods and our knowledge of the world around us. In honor of Bell Hooks' prophetic work, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, the volume considers how advances in gender research represent...
Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance
Lessons from the Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Ever since the uprisings that swept the Arab world, the role of Arab women in political transformations received unprecedented media attention. The copious commentary, however, has yet to result in any serious study of the gender dynamics of political upheaval. Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Misconceptions regarding gender identity and issues of inequality that women around the world face have become a predominant concern for not only the citizens impacted, but global political leaders, administrators, and human rights activists. Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South...
Feminist Advocacy and Gender Equity in the Anglophone Caribbean
Envisioning a Politics of Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book uses the Anglophone Caribbean as its site of critique to explore two important questions within development studies. First, to what extent has the United Nations' call to implement gender-mainstreaming projects resulted in the realization of gender equity for women within developing societies?...
Education, Gender and Development
A Capabilities Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This compelling book takes a novel approach to the complexities of girls’ and women’s education in the global South. To unravel the critical issues and processes behind educational advancement and to identify the factors that support the construction of educational well-being and agency from gender...