Gender Studies category: 10311 books
The Arab State and Women's Rights
The Trap of Authoritarian Governance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Researchers studying gender politics in Arab societies have been puzzled by a phenomenon common in many Arab states – while women are granted suffrage rights, they are often discriminated against by the state in their private lives.
This book addresses this phenomenon, maintaining that the...
Women and Militant Wars
The politics of injury
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars.
In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Armenia, a country of ancient traditions, is shaped by events of the recent past. As it left behind the Soviet legacy of an official gender equality policy, there came about a resurgence of patriarchal views and customs. At the same time though, Armenia saw the growth of diverse women's civil society...
by Steve Garner
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2014
This book traces the creation of the ethnic groups in the nineteenth century and its ultimate impact on the colony's political constituencies in the run-up to independence. The construction of the nation in the postcolonial period is approached through an analysis of cricket, trade unions and women...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
The use of social media and blogging websites has become more prevalent especially among young women; this trend suggests that gender has the potential to coincide with one’s actions and engagement online. Despite this notable trend, there is still a dearth of research on how women use the internet...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Gender equality is a stated priority of the Government of Solomon Islands in achieving national development goals. This assessment examines the progress toward gender equality across social, economic, and political spheres in Solomon Islands, such as health, education, work, political participation,...
Tajikistan
Country Gender Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The resurgence of conservative patriarchal values in Tajikistan have led to the rise of early marriages and polygamy, compromising women’s and girls’ opportunities to realize their full potential to live quality lives, and have deterred women from fully participating in and benefitting from development....
Behind the Mask
Gender Hybridity in a Zapotec Community
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
The image of biologically male people dancing while dressed in the traditional, colorful attire of Zapotec, Juchiteca, females stands in sharp contrast to the prevailing view of Mexico as the land of charros, machismo, and unbridled ranchero masculinity. These indigenous people are called los muxes,...
Transnational Ruptures
Gender and Forced Migration
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A key development in international migration in recent years has been the increasing feminization of migrant populations. Research attention now focuses not only on the growing number of women on the move but also on their changing gender roles as more female migrants participate as principal wage...
Male Bodies, Women's Souls
Personal Narratives of Thailand's Transgendered Youth
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Get a detailed look at the Thai sex/gender system-through analysis of the personal stories from transgendered youth in Thailand
The Thai term sao braphet song (a second type of woman) describes males who reject the gender of masculinity for femininity. Male Bodies, Women’s Souls: Personal...
Framing Intersectionality
Debates on a Multi-Faceted Concept in Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Originally conceived by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 as a tool for the analysis of the ways in which different forms of social inequality, oppression and discrimination interact and overlap in multidimensional ways, the concept of 'intersectionality' has attracted much attention in international feminist...
by Lily Zheng, Alison Ash Fogarty Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
The transgender community is more visible now than ever before, but the diversity within this community has remained obscure in the workplace as organizations, corporations, and institutions struggle to keep up with the rate at which transgender communities are gaining visibility. For leaders seeking...
Gender Circuits
Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies,...
Through the Gender Lens
A Century of Social and Political Development in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2018
Sustainable development is now intricately linked not just to economic growth, but more importantly, to the quality of life of people in terms of their social status, political participation, cultural freedom, environmental justice and inclusive development. For previously colonized nations like Nigeria,...