Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Wrangling Women
Humor and Gender in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
The small Methow Valley community of Winthrop, Washington, has reinvented itself as a western-theme town. Winthrop women function as trail guides, wranglers, horse trainers, packers, and ranchers and work in an environment where gender stereotypes must be carefully preserved for the sake of the tourist-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Recent books have drawn attention to an unfinished gender revolution and the reversal of gender progress. However, this literature primarily focuses on gender inequality in the family and its effect on women’s career and family choices. While an important topic, these works are critiqued for...
Globalization, Gender, and Media
Formations of the Sexual and Violence in Understanding Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
Globalization, Gender, and Media tackles the emergence of “sexy violence” imagery and the coalescence of the sexual and violent meanings in contemporary global mainstream news, television, film, and social media. Tuija Parikka analyzes how such imagery advances particular interpretations of globalization,...
Changing Sex
Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 1995
Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing...
Sexing War/Policing Gender
Motherhood, myth and women’s political violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Historically, there has been reluctance, from mainstream IR scholars as well as feminists, to seriously engage with women’s agency in warfare. Instead, scholarship has tended to focus on women’s activism for peace or to ignore women’s agency altogether.
This book rectifies this omission...
Gender, Agency and Change
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be reflected...
ALT 36: Queer Theory in Film & Fiction
African Literature Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Debates on the future of the African continent and the role of gender identities in these visions are increasingly present in literary criticism forums as African writers become bolder in exploring the challenges they face and celebrating gender diversity in the writing of short stories, novels, poetry,...
Gender Research in Natural Resource Management
Building Capacities in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
The aim of this book is to highlight the role that gender research can play in understanding natural resource management and rural development issues in the Middle East and North Africa region and how hands-on training and mentoring can be used as a capacity enhancement approach. It presents findings...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This book explores the dynamic interplay between cross-national and cross-cultural patterns of female migration, integration and social change, by focusing on the specific case of Belgium. It provides insight into the dynamic interplay between gender and migration, and especially contributes to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Feminist Approaches to Media Theory and Research tackles the breadth and depth of feminist perspectives in the field of media studies through essays and research that reflect on the present and future of feminist research and theory at the intersections of women, gender, media, activism, and academia....
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book examines water security as a prime example of how the economic, socio-cultural and political-normative systems that regulate access to water reflect the evolving and gendered power relations between different societal groups. Access to water is characterized by inequalities: it depends not...
Mobile Subjects
Transnational Imaginaries of Gender Reassignment
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
The first famous transgender person in the United States, Christine Jorgensen, traveled to Denmark for gender reassignment surgery in 1952. Jorgensen became famous during the ascent of postwar dreams about the possibilities for technology to transform humanity and the world. In Mobile Subjects Aren...
Gender Pedagogy
Teaching, Learning and Tracing Gender in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
When addressed in its full reactive potential, gender has a tendency to unfix the reassuring certainties of education and academia. Gender pedagogy unfolds as an account of teaching gender learning that is rooted in Derrida's concept of the 'trace', reflecting the unfixing properties of gender and even shaking up academic knowledge production.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Causal explanations are essential for theory building. In focusing on causal mechanisms rather than descriptive effects, the goal of this volume is to increase our theoretical understanding of the way gender operates in interaction. Theoretical analyses of gender's effects in interaction, in turn,...