Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Francesca M. Cancian, Stacey J. Oliker
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 1999
Are women naturally better caregivers than men? Can paid care in an institutuion be good care? Can voluntary community care replace government welfare? Is the caring family disappearing? What role should government play in supporting or regulating families? Is day care for children as good as home...
Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region
Domination, Resistance, Accommodation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Although socio-cultural issues in relation to women within the fields of sport and exercise have been extensively researched, this research has tended to concentrate on the Western world. Women, Sport and Exercise in the Asia-Pacific Region moves the conversation away entirely from Western contexts...
On the Edge of the River Sar
A Feminist Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
This book presents the first feminist translation of Rosalía de Castro’s seminal poetic anthology En las orillas del Sar [On the Edge of the River Sar] (1884).
Rosalía de Castro (1837*–*1885) was an artist of vast poetic vision. Her understanding of human nature and her deep sensitivity...
by Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genres of popular music, metal music in particular, have been male dominated spaces, which are difficult to navigate for women participating as fans, musicians,...
Gendering Post-1945 German History
Entanglements
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2019
Although “entanglement” has become a keyword in recent German history scholarship, entangled studies of the postwar era have largely limited their scope to politics and economics across the two Germanys while giving short shrift to social and cultural phenomena like gender. At the same time, historians...
Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
For decades, the field of gender, sex, and sexualities has been a focal point of increasing interest. This inquiry has been ignited by successive waves of dramatic social change, chief among them: the re-emergence of feminist movements in the U.S. and Europe in the late 1960s; the sustained (and increasingly...
by Ann Brooks, Theresa Devasahayam
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about...
Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities
A Clinician's Guide to Fostering Compassion, Connection, and Equality Using Contextual Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As more clinicians train in mindfulness and acceptance-based therapies, the demand for skills specifically for treating diverse clients grows. In this much-needed edited volume, you’ll find evidence-based strategies for treating gender and sexual minorities with acceptance and compassion for better...
If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay?
Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The debate on whether or not people are born homosexual (biological essentialist theory) or become homosexual during the course of their lives (social constructionist theory) continues as each side claims to prove the truth through research and clinical findings. This breakthrough book shows the fissures...
Talking Gender
Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Talking Gender assesses the state of women's studies in the 1990s. The contributors write from the perspective of their own academic disciplines and experiences, but they also address more general issues of women's lives and circumstances. The result is a broad picture of women's studies and feminist...
Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean
Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Muslim communities throughout the Indian Ocean have long questioned what it means to be a “good Muslim.” Much recent scholarship on Islam in the Indian Ocean considers debates among Muslims about authenticity, authority, and propriety. Despite the centrality of this topic within studies of Indian...
Changing Names and Gendering Identity
Social Organisation in Contemporary Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book investigates contemporary naming practices on marriage in Britain, drawing on survey data and detailed interview material in which women offer their own accounts of the reasons for which they have changed or retained their names. Exploring the ways in which names are used to create and understand...
Getting Played
African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section
2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of Social Problems C. Wright Mills Award
Much has been written about the challenges that face urban African American young...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2019
This book establishes gender issues as a major focus within developments shaping higher education in the Asia Pacific region. The discussion is framed as a response to various dedicated efforts, such as that of the United Nations, to foreground gender as a site for political discourse throughout the...