Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Asian American Sexual Politics
The Construction of Race, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Asian American Sexual Politics explores the topics of beauty, self-esteem, and sexual attraction among Asian Americans. The book draws on sixty in-depth interviews to show how constructions of Asian American gender and sexuality tend to reinforce the social and political dominance for whites, particularly...
by Scott Coltrane, Michele Adams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
When we talk about family values, like whether children need two parents, we are also talking about gender values, because a 'yes' answer to this question might imply that only women with husbands should have children. In the same way, when we talk about gender issues, such as whether men should be...
by J Jerry Bigner
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT families
In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to...
Asexualities
Feminist and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
What is so radical about not having sex? To answer this question, this collection of essays explores the feminist and queer politics of asexuality. Asexuality is predominantly understood as an orientation describing people who do not experience sexual attraction. In this multidisciplinary volume,...
Entering the Fray
Gender, Politics, and Culture in the New South
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The study of the New South has in recent decades been greatly enriched by research into gender, reshaping our understanding of the struggle for woman suffrage, the conflicted nature of race and class in the South, the complex story of politics, and the role of family and motherhood in black and white...
by Elizabeth J. Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Issues related to gender and sexual diversity in schools can generate a lot of controversy, with many educators and youth advocates under-prepared to address these topics in their school communities. This text offers an easy-to-read introduction to the subject, providing readers with definitions and...
Shamans of the Foye Tree
Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Drawing on anthropologist Ana Mariella Bacigalupo's fifteen years of field research, Shamans of the Foye Tree: Gender, Power, and Healing among Chilean Mapuche is the first study to follow shamans' gender identities and performance in a variety of ritual, social, sexual, and political contexts.To Mapuche...
Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Beyond Mothers and Safety Nets
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Millions of pounds of international development funds are invested annually in social protection programmes to tackle poverty. Poverty is perpetuated by risk and vulnerability, much of which is gendered. Despite this, little attention has been paid to gender-sensitive policy and programme design and...
Gender and Work in Urban China
Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike previous...
Gender, Culture, and Physicality
Paradoxes and Taboos
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
Although a plethora of scholarship analyzes gender dynamics, this book seeks to explore the paradoxes and taboos associated with gendered meanings given to human bodies in action, or "physicality." Physicality provides a particularly clear playing space for developing concepts of gender...
by Mary Lynn Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
In the late nineteenth century, the first wave of female journalists began writing in the French daily press. Yet, while they undeniably opened doors for the next generations of educated women, sexist hiring practices, assumptions about women’s aptitudes as reporters, and more subtle gender biases...
Evolution's Rainbow
Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2013
In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science—and...
Technology, Commercialization and Gender
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
This book explores the gender dimension in technology commercialization through a collection of papers by internationally renowned scholars in the USA, Mexico and Europe. Technology, Commercialization and Gender looks at various gender imbalances in this key innovation area and demonstrates that the...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
This tool kit is to help staff and consultants of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) conceptualize and design gender-responsive public policy and projects in the micro, small, and medium-sized enterprise sector. It guides users in the design of project and program outputs, activities, inputs, indicators,...