Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Emily Snyder
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Drawing on the insights of Indigenous feminist legal theory, Emily Snyder examines representations of Cree law and gender in books, videos, graphic novels, educational websites, online lectures, and a video game. Although these resources promote the revitalization of Cree law and the principle of...
The Gender Games
The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
*SOON TO BE AN ORIGINAL TV SERIES*
*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017*
*AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET*
'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl 'funny, thoughtful and honest ......
Sexuality, Gender and Power
Intersectional and Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Bringing together essays by a distinguished international group of leading and emerging scholars of sexuality and gender, this stimulating and accessible collection explores a range of theoretical and "real world" perspectives current in the field. Treating these approaches as complementary,...
by Allyson Jule
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
In this revised and updated 2nd edition of her pioneering textbook, Allyson Jule offers fresh insights into the study of language and gender for those new to the subject. Students will gain a thorough grounding in theoretical and practical perspectives on gender and language in the workplace, media,...
Gender Protest and Same-Sex Desire in Antebellum American Literature
Margaret Fuller, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Expanding our understanding of the possibilities and challenges inherent in the expression of same-sex desire before the Civil War, David Greven identifies a pattern of what he calls ’gender protest’ and sexual possibility recurring in antebellum works. He suggests that major authors such as Margaret...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Sex, gender and sexuality have played an important role in shaping the culture of surfing and are central themes in the study of sport and movement cultures. Rooted in a rich precolonial history, surfing has undergone a modern transformation shaped by visual culture, commodification, sportization,...
Parenting Beyond Pink & Blue
How to Raise Your Kids Free of Gender Stereotypes
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A guide that helps parents focus on their children's unique strengths and inclinations rather than on gendered stereotypes to more effectively bring out the best in their individual children, for parents of infants to middle schoolers.
Reliance on Gendered Stereotypes Negatively Impacts Kids
Studies...
by Emilia Barbosa, Patricia Bolaños-Fabres, Olga Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature. The contributors analyze the relationship between the historical and social contexts of various Hispanic countries—including Argentina, Colombia,...
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam...
by S. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Challenging Global Gender Violence provides a qualitative and comparative analysis of women's experiences of violence, healing, and action across cultures. Gender violence is the most pervasive human rights violation affecting women and children across both the developed and developing world. While...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The Social Life of Gender provides a comprehensive approach to gender as an organizing principle of institutions, history, and unequal interpersonal relations. This new title will develop students’ capacity to use gender analysis to question social life more broadly, by presenting a critical sociology...
Gender and Justice
Why Women in the Judiciary Really Matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Intended for use in courses on law and society, as well as courses in women’s and gender studies, women and politics, and women and the law, this book explores different questions in different North American and European geographical jurisdictions and courts, demonstrating the value of a gender...
The Intersectional Approach
Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Intersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made by scholars in the field of women's studies that now broadly extends across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Taking stock of this transformative...
by Dr Colin Brock
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Education and Gender draws on international research from the USA, the UK, India, Mexico, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to provide a comprehensive global overview of the relationship between gender and education. Rooting constructions of gender and sexuality in specific geographical contexts,...