Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Mats Alvesson, Yvonne Due Billing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
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`An unusually comprehensive and sophisticated analysis of how organizations and the men and women who work within them are affected by gendered processes and relations. Alvesson and Billing's contribution is unique in its sensitivity...
by Jill Steans
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
The third edition of Jill Steans’ popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Its nine chapters have been fully revised and expanded to cover key issues, developments and debates in the field including:
the...
Women and Gender Equity in Development Theory and Practice
Institutions, Resources, and Mobilization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2006
Seeking to catalyze innovative thinking and practice within the field of women and gender in development, editors Jane S. Jaquette and Gale Summerfield have brought together scholars, policymakers, and development workers to reflect on where the field is today and where it is headed. The contributors...
by Nancy Levit, Robert R.M. Verchick, Martha Minow
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Feminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the law, and it affects issues ranging from child custody to sexual harassment. Since its initial publication in 2006, Feminist Legal Theory: A Primer has received rave reviews. Now, in the completely updated second edition of this outstanding...
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Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
What is gender dysphoria? How does it affect people? What do terms like intersex, cisgender and transsexualism mean? This book, the first of its kind, presents an easy-to-read, jargon-free guide to help anyone understand the terminology, the concept and the day-to-day reality of gender dysphoria and...
by Gul Ozyegin
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
A must-read for anyone interested in Muslim cultures, this volume not only explores Muslim identities through the lens of sexuality and gender - their historical and contemporary transformations and local and global articulations - but also interrogates our understanding of what constitutes a ’Muslim’...
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Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Traditionally, transnational feminists have examined the fields of gender, sexuality and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) studies by critically addressing issues of colonialism, white supremacy, globalization, capitalism, and heterosexism. Like most fields within higher education,...
Gender Balance and Gender Bias in Education
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book presents a compelling range of international research on the issues of gender balance and gender bias in education. The chapters draw on cutting edge work from the US, Latin America, the UK, Ireland and Africa, presenting readers with new insights into how educators and students often negotiate...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Over the last decade, Timor-Leste has made substantial progress in state building and strengthening the economy, governance, and infrastructure. Gender equality has been a fundamental principle in these efforts and remains key to achieving sustainable development into the future. This assessment examines...
Gender Unchained
Notes from the equity frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Equity remains elusive in contemporary global society. Gendered inequities abound and persist but are typically overlooked in our responses to difficult problems such as climate change, poverty, or economic crisis. Despite this blind spot, gender matters more than ever for achieving social and economic...
Subaltern Movements in India
Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies.
Based...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy
Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...
Gender, Sex, and Sexuality among Contemporary Youth
Generation Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Researchers, practitioners, and parents have increasingly become concerned about issues related to sex, gender, and sexuality among children and adolescents. With access to the Internet, young people around the globe can readily obtain virtually any and all information they seek concerning sex and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Gender, Politics, and Society in Ukraine is the first collection to examine how political, social, and economic transitions in post-Communist Ukraine are transforming gender roles and relations within the country. Leading Western and Ukrainian scholars and practitioners address a wide range of effects...