Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects
Viet Nam Country Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of three loans in Viet Nam found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the implementation of gender action...
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men
Gender Identity in a Time of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2018
Debate over gender and especially the lives of men is currently at a fever pitch, particularly in the United States. New perspectives that capture the complexity of men and a rapidly changing gender landscape are therefore critical today. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary American Men challenges narrow...
Nonbinary Gender Identities
History, Culture, Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2017
Nonbinary gender identities are those that fall outside the traditional binary of “man” and “woman.” These include genderfluid, androgynous, genderqueer, and a multitude of other identity terms, some of which overlap. Although there have always been people who identify outside the gender binary,...
Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature
Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
This volume examines and theorizes the oft-ignored phenomenon of male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry, inviting MTF crossdressing episodes to take a fuller place alongside instances of female-to-male crossdressing and boy actors’ crossdressing, which have long...
Issues of Gender and Sexual Orientation in Humanitarian Emergencies
Risks and Risk Reduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Natural and manmade disasters do not affect everyone equally, especially when resources are not equally accessible. Girls and women in particular face heightened risks of violence and abuse and many countries bar female-headed households from receiving aid. Across the globe, a wider understanding...
Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe
Mobilizing against Equality
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
After decades of steady progress in terms of gender and sexual rights, several parts of Europe are facing new waves of resistance to a so-called ‘gender ideology’ or ‘gender theory’. Opposition to progressive gender equality is manifested in challenges to marriage equality, abortion, reproductive...
The Gender Politics of Domestic Violence
Feminists Engaging the State in Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
What are the factors that shape domestic violence policy change and how are variable gendered meanings produced in these policies? How and when can feminists influence policy making? What conditions and policy mechanisms lead to progressive change and which ones block it or lead to reversal?
The...
Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects
Sri Lanka Country Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of three loans in Sri Lanka found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the implementation of gender action...
by Jane Pilcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book argues for the importance of age as a source of diversity and difference amongst women. It compares three generations of women’s accounts of a range of gender issues, including the domestic division of labour, equality, abortion and sexuality. It also compares their understandings of and...
Men, Fathering and the Gender Trap
Sweden and Poland Compared
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
This book provides an account of fatherhood and changing parental roles in Sweden and Poland. It uses a comparative perspective to show what men understand a father’s role to be, and how they seek to live up to it. Fathering, the author argues, is a social phenomenon grounded in cultural patterns...
Gender, Violence and Popular Culture
Telling Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly,...
The Gender Vendors
Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor...
Into the Fire
Disaster and the Remaking of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In August 2003, one of the largest wildfires in Canadian history struck near Kelowna, British Columbia and the surrounding Okanagan Valley, causing unprecedented damage. As Shelley Pacholok observes in this innovative study, the turbulence and extreme conditions that followed in the wake of this...
Gender and Culture
Kibbutz Women Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Based on a study of the Israeli kibbutz movement, Gender and Culture discusses the differences in male and female orientations to marriage, the family, and work. Spiro describes the counterrevolution in the kibbutz movement as it evolved over a quarter century period. The kibbutz Spiro first studied,...