Gender Studies category: 10311 books
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care
Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Transgender and gender nonconforming (TNGC) clients have complex mental health concerns, and are more likely than ever to seek out treatment. This comprehensive resource outlines the latest research and recommendations to provide you with the requisite knowledge, skills, and awareness to treat TNGC...
The Gender of Suicide
Knowledge Production, Theory and Suicidology
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring suicide across a range of key expert bodies of knowledge. With attention to Durkheim's founding study of suicide, as well as...
Language, Gender and Ideology
Constructions of Femininity for Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This book explores multiple facets of femininity for marriage in India. Using language as an entry point, it looks at how and why media representations of gender identities are constructed the way they are. It works with a unique synthesis of second-wave feminist discourse and empirical linguistic...
by Sam Hillyard
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Many researchers in recent years have begun to reflect on their gender identity and how this impacts on the research process and discuss how this helps build rapport with participants and creates successful or unsuccessful pieces of qualitative research. However, how does this intersect with other...
Transgender Cops
The Intersection of Gender and Sexuality Expectations in Police Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Building on comparative research in the U.K. and the U.S.A., this is the first book focused specifically on transgender experiences within policing. It examines the issues faced by the transgender community within policing and explores how gender, and the non-conformity of it, is perceived within...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Historically, mental health clinical research has taken inadequate account of psychosocial disorders experienced by those who identify as sexual and gender minorities, however, researchers have recently begun developing and adapting evidence-based mental health treatment approaches for use with these...
by Liza Reisel, Kristinn Hegna, Christian Imdorf
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The gender segregated nature of vocational education (VET) has received little attention in the stratification literature, despite the well-known consequences of VET for differences in labour market outcomes, such as job placement, income and access to full-time employment. This book investigates...
Seeking Rights from the Left
Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2018
Seeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
The horror genre will always remain current because it reflects our anxieties, shining a light onto our worst fears whilst creating worlds defined by darkness. Horror as a genre has always engaged with era-specific societal mores and moral panics, often about isolation or abandonment, changing family...
Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion
Biblical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This book explores the Bible’s ongoing relevance in contemporary discussions around rape culture and gender violence. Each chapter considers the ways that biblical texts and themes engage with various forms of gender violence, including the subjective, physical violence of rape, the symbolic violence...
by Ben Barres
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science.
Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for gender equality in science. In this book, completed shortly...
Transgender Architectonics
The Shape of Change in Modernist Space
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Combining transgender studies with the ’neomodernist’ architectures of the internationally renowned firm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and with modernist writers (Samuel Beckett and Virginia Woolf) whose work anticipates that of transgender studies, this book challenges the implicit ’spatial...
Gender and Chinese History
Transformative Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Until the 1980s, a common narrative about women in China had been one of victimization: women had dutifully endured a patriarchal civilization for thousands of years, living cloistered, uneducated lives separate from the larger social and cultural world, until they were liberated by political upheavals...
by Shira Tarrant
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
When Sex Became Gender is a study of post-World War II feminist theory from the viewpoint of intellectual history. The key theme is that ideas about the social construction of gender have its origins in the feminist theorists of the postwar period, and that these early ideas about gender became a...