Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Reassessing Gender and Achievement
Questioning Contemporary Key Debates
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Challenging current theories about gender and achievement, this book assesses the issues at stake and analyses the policy drives and changing perceptions of gender on which the 'gender and achievement' debates are based.
This new topical book guides the reader through the different theories...
Queer Company
The Role and Meaning of Friendship in Gay Men's Work Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Drawn from in-depth qualitative research, Queer Company provides the first extended, academic analysis of gay men's workplace friendships, offering theoretical and empirical insights into a subject that is timely and important. Although theoretically framed in poststructuralism and the sociology of...
by Judith Bourne, Caroline Derry
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Gender and the Law provides an ideal introduction to gender and feminist theory for students. Beginning with an overview of traditional notions of gender, the book establishes the key feminist and queer legal theories. It provides a basic structure and overview upon which students can build their...
Gender, Power, and Violence
Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
What do the Catholic Church, college sports, Hollywood, prisons, the military, fraternities and politics have in common? All have extraordinarily high rates of sexual and intimate partner violence, and child sexual abuse.
Sexual and intimate partner violence is part of the landscape that women...
Buddhism beyond Gender
Liberation from Attachment to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
A bold and provocative work from the late preeminent feminist scholar, which challenges men and women alike to free themselves from attachment to gender.
At the heart of Buddhism is the notion of egolessness—“forgetting the self”—as the path to awakening. In fact, attachment to views...
Sexuality, Gender and Schooling
Shifting Agendas in Social Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
The sexuality of young people arouses controversy and remains a source of concern for parents, teachers, policy-makers and politicians. But what young people really think about sexuality and gender and how these issues impact upon their lives is often marginalized or overlooked.
Based upon...
by Bahati M. Kuumba
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2001
Do men and women experience participation in social movements differently? Are gender roles reproduced or undermined during a struggle for liberation? In this brief text examining gender roles in social movements, M. Bahati Kuumba shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and...
Gender in the Twenty-First Century
The Stalled Revolution and the Road to Equality
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
How far have we really progressed toward gender equality in the United States? The answer is, “not far enough.” This engaging and accessible work, aimed at students studying gender and social inequality, provides new insight into the uneven and stalled nature of the gender revolution...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Much writing on gender and sport is focused upon the negative impact of girls’ exclusion from the arena, suggesting by inference that current practice in sport and physical education offers an uncomplicatedly positive sport experience for boys, and that gender, in and of itself, offers a simple...
Firms, Boards and Gender Quotas
Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2012
During the last decade gender equality in business life has become a hot topic. One impetus is the recent reform in Norway, prescribing gender quotas to the boards of directors of public companies. Shortly after the Norwegian reform was enacted, several other European countries have adopted similar...
Beyond Feminism and Islamism
Gender and Equality in North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Are women in North Africa and the Middle East 'feminist'? Or is being a Muslim incompatible with feminism? Is there such a thing as 'Islamic feminism'? Through interviews with Moroccan activists and jurists - both male and female - and by situating these interviews within their socio-political and...
The Gender Imperative
Human Security vs State Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security excluded from the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states....
Gendering Drugs
Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take – or resist – them, and how feminist technoscience studies can contribute a theoretical lens with which to observe...
The Gender Line
Men, Women, and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1998
Despite tremendous advances in civil rights, we live in a world where the sexes remain sharply segregated from birth to death: in names, clothing, social groupings, and possessions; in occupations, civic association, and domestic roles. Gender separatism, so pervasive as to be almost invisible, permeates...