Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender Equality and Inequality in Rural India
Blessed with a Son
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As India strives to improve overall social and economic conditions and gender relations through policies such as the abolishment of dowry, increasing the legal age at marriage, and promoting educational opportunities for girls, serious challenges remain, especially in rural areas. Gender Equality...
Financing for Gender Equality
Realising Women’s Rights through Gender Responsive Budgeting
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
This collection of essays addresses the glaring gap between policy commitments and actual investments in gender equality, ranging across sectors and focusing on development aid, peace-building and climate funds. Casting a spotlight on the application of gender-responsive budgeting in public budgetary...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Over the last two decades, Bangladesh has made progress in women's participation in the labor force, gender parity in primary education, and women's political representation. Areas of concern include the high prevalence of violence against women, obstacles to women's access to resources and assets,...
Age Matters
Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power...
Women and Sport
Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Women and Sport: Continuing a Journey of Liberation and Celebration focuses on women winning access to the playing field as well as the front office in sport. Readers will gain an understanding of how women have been involved in sport and physical activity, how they have struggled for widespread recognition...
Dear Brothers and Sisters
Gender and Its Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Author Elder George, in his work “Dear Brothers and Sisters: Gender and Its Responsibility,” explains the universal principle of gender and describes how the imbalance of gender, specifically the suppression of the masculine influence, in Western society has adversely...
Dangerous Curves
Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example...
The Politics of the Body
Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize
The body is a site of impassioned, fraught and complex debate in the West today. In one political moment, left-wingers, academics and feminists have defended powerful men accused of sex crimes, positioned topless pictures in the tabloids as empowering, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections between gender, sexuality, and the creation, consumption, and interpretation of popular culture in the Américas.
The chapters seek to enrich our understanding of...
Fan Girls and the Media
Creating Characters, Consuming Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
In the broad spectrum of popular culture, one can be a fan of just about anything: comic books, television shows, fantasy novels, movie franchises, musical artists, and so on. Because fans are fluid and ever-changing, however, defining them poses a challenge. As a result, too few scholars have yet...
Imagining Transgender
An Ethnography of a Category
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social...
LGBT Studies and Queer Theory
New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Find out how the tension between LGBT studies and queer theory exists in the classroom, politics, communities, and relationships
LGBT Studies and Queer Theory: New Conflicts, Collaborations, and Contested Terrain examines the similarities and differences between LGBT studies and queer theory...
The Gender of Sexuality
Exploring Sexual Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
The Gender of Sexuality serves as a fun and informative guide on how to approach the topics of gender and sexuality—two areas fraught with stereotypes and misinformation. The second edition of this book features significant new material on the changing status of gender, same sex marriage, and transgender....
Women in the Hong Kong Police Force
Organizational Culture, Gender and Colonial Policing
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book examines the development of women in the Hong Kong Police Force (HKP) over the past 68 years, beginning from the early colonial years when calls to include women in law enforcement first emerged, to the recruitment of the first female sub-inspector in 1949, and through to the current situation...