Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Multicultural aspects of psychology have received some attention in the literature in the last decade. A number of texts currently address these significant concerns, for example, Counseling the Culturally Different (Sue & Sue, 2008); Handbook of Multicultural Counseling ( Poterotto et l., 2009);...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction.
On January 24, 2013, restrictions against women in ground combat units, to include U.S. Army Special Forces (SF), were rescinded by the Department of Defense. The military services...
Gender, Violence and Security
Discourse as Practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are central? What are the practical implications of basing policy on problematic discourses? In this highly original poststructural feminist critique,...
Gender Justice, Education and Equality
Creating Capabilities for Girls' and Women's Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book reframes gender and education issues from a feminist and capabilities perspective through a multi-generational study of women as teachers. It explores how different understandings of gender, equality and education generate a variety of approaches with which to pursue gender equality in education....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This handbook presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of gender in demography, addressing the many different influences of gender that arise from or influence demographic processes. It collects in one volume the key issues and perspectives in this area, whereby demography is broadly defined....
The Gender Trap
Parents and the Pitfalls of Raising Boys and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2012
From the selection of toys, clothes, and activities to styles of play and emotional expression, the family is ground zero for where children learn about gender. Despite recent awareness that girls are not too fragile to play sports and that boys can benefit from learning to cook, we still find ourselves...
We Still Demand!
Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Of particular interest to scholars and students of social history, political science, social movements, gender and transgender studies, women’s studies, and queer studies, this book will also appeal to activists and political analysts interested in critical sexual and gender theory and social change.
Transpeople
Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines...
by Sonya O. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the...
Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific
Rev. Simpson’s "Improper Liberties†?
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
In 1843 on the island of Tahiti the evangelical missionary Rev. Alexander Simpson was accused of sexually assaulting three of the female students under his care, and of taking 'improper liberties' with at least three more. The events did not come out in public for at least a decade, while Simpson's...
Beyond Trans
Does Gender Matter?
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2017
Goes beyond transgender to question the need for gender classification.
Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place. Whether on birth certificates or college admissions applications or on bathroom doors,...
Gender Bending Detective Fiction
A Critical Analysis of Selected Works
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted dramatically. Reflecting these changes, storylines that involve cross-dressing and transgender characters have frequently appeared in detective fiction—characters who subvert the conventions of the genre and challenge reader...
The Internet of Women
Accelerating Culture Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look...
Bewitching Women, Pious Men
Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
This impressive array of essays considers the contingent and shifting meanings of gender and the body in contemporary Southeast Asia. By analyzing femininity and masculinity as fluid processes rather than social or biological givens, the authors provide new ways of understanding how gender intersects...