Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Ashley Mardell
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
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The ABCs of LGBT+ is a #1 Bestselling LGBT book and is essential reading for questioning teens, teachers or parents looking for advice, or anyone who wants to learn how to talk about gender identity...
Sex Scandal
The Drive to Abolish Male and Female
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Men and women used to cheer: vive la différence!
But now, contrary to all science and common sense, we’re supposed to believe that there is no difference. (And if you insist there is, you just might be accused of a hate crime!)
Our culture-and our laws-are endorsing a worldview rooted...
Gender Outlaw
On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
“I know I’m not a man . . . and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either. . . . . The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey...
Transgressive Tales
Queering the Grimms
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years, the brothers, especially Wilhelm, revised, edited, sanitized,...
by S Van Spronsen
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Workplace Conflict and the Impact of Gender is a researched approach, examination and measurement to the female and male affective responses to situations of resolved and unresolved conflict in the workplace. The research results contribute to the growing body of literature that suggests that gender...
The Face of the Firm
Corporate Hegemonic Masculinity at Work
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Despite decades of greater gender awareness at work in Western countries, gender inequality in the executive suites is alive and well. "The Face of the Firm" highlights new critical perspectives on the relationship between hegemonic masculine cultures, gender embodiment, and gender disparities...
Gender Roles
A Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Offers a sociological perspective of gender that can be applied to our lives. Focusing on the most recent research and theory–both in the U.S. and globally–Gender Roles, 6e provides an in-depth, survey and analysis of modern gender roles and issues from a sociological perspective. The text integrates...
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema
Embodiments of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Gender and Sexuality in Latin American Horror Cinema explores the different mechanisms and strategies through which horror films attempt to reinforce or contest gender relations and issues of sexual identity in the continent. The book explores issues of machismo, marianismo, homosociality, bromance,...
The Achilles Effect
What Pop Culture Is Teaching Young Boys About Masculinity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
A discussion of pop culture messages about masculinity, their impact on boys, and the benefits of introducing more gender balance to boys lives.
When most people think about gender stereotypes and children, they envision princesses, dolls, and pink clothing. Few consider the warriors, muscle-bound...
by Marian Liebmann, Nancy Slater
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2002
Art therapy enables the client and therapist to explore issues that may ordinarily be difficult to articulate in words; one such issue is the complexity of gender, which can be a subject of therapy in a range of ways. Gender identity is at the heart of our self-understanding. The contributors to this...
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality
Western, Islamic, and African Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Politics of Gender and the Culture of Sexuality outlines theories of gender within the intellectual paradigm of the triple heritage: Islam, Africanity, and the West. This book describes the impact of individual contexts and politics on meanings attributed to the human body. The Politics of Gender...
Sexuality, Women, and Tourism
Cross-border desires through contemporary travel
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book is the first to focus on why and how foreign Western women engage in cross-border sexual and intimate relations as tourists travelling, or temporarily dwelling, in a Central American country. As an in-depth ethnographic account, the book traces the experiences of heterosexual North American...
Embodying Gender and Age in Speculative Fiction
A Biopsychosocial Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Following scholarship on gender in science fiction, this book explores the limits of considering age as a social construction, positing that an acknowledgement of aged bodies necessarily changes the way we read both age and science fiction. The volume employs contemporary clinical psychology, the...
Gender in Science Fiction Films, 1964-1979
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015
The 1950s era of science fiction film effectively ended when space flight became a reality with the first manned orbit of Earth in 1962. As the genre’s wildly speculative depictions of science and technology gave way to more reality-based representations, relations between male and female characters...