Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender and Wildfire
Landscapes of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
In pursuit of lifestyle change, affordable property, and proximity to nature, people from all walks of life are moving to the wildland-urban interface. Tragic wildfires and a predicted increase in high fire danger weather with climate change have triggered concern for the safety of such amenity-led...
by Mary Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to obscure long-term structural inequalities...
by Beth Goldblatt
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
The right to social security, found in international law and in the constitutions of many nations, contributes to the alleviation of poverty globally. Social security and its articulation as a human right have received increased attention in recent years both in response to austerity cuts to welfare...
Culture, Health and Sexuality
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
The last twenty years have seen a growth in multi-disciplinary work in the area of sexuality, culture and health. What was once a set of specialist concerns has been steadily mainstreamed. Alongside this, a broader interest has developed in ‘social’ and 'cultural’ factors relating to sexuality...
Gender and the Genocide in Rwanda
Women as Rescuers and Perpetrators
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims...
Enabling Gender Equality
Future Generations of the Global World
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2015
To challenge gender discrimination and to secure the world's prosperity and peace, we urgently need pro-girls and pro-women policies in the contemporary, globally developing world. Such policies could mark an era of building greater gender equality across the world by sheltering domains of women's...
Women and Turkish Cinema
Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural...
Politics and Gender Identity in Turkey
Centralised Islam for Socio-Economic Control
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The creation of Turkish nationhood, citizenship, economic transformation, the forceful removal of minorities and national homogenisation, gender rights, the position of armed forces in politics, and the political and economic integration of Kurdish minority in Turkish polity have all received major...
by Silvia Valisa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Combining close textual readings with a broad theoretical perspective, Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel is a study of the ways in which gender shapes the principal characters and narratives of seven important Italian novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from...
Manliness and Its Discontents
The Black Middle Class and the Transformation of Masculinity, 1900-1930
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production....
Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia
Proceedings Report of the 2012 Subregional Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In March 2012, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held the Subregional Workshop on Gender and Urban Poverty in South Asia to share experiences and enhance lateral learning among ADB and its project partners on addressing gender and social inclusion issues in urban development projects in Bangladesh,...
by Deborah Rudacille
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
When Deborah Rudacille learned that a close friend had decided to transition from female to male, she felt compelled to understand why.
Coming at the controversial subject of transsexualism from several angles–historical, sociological, psychological, medical–Rudacille discovered that gender...
Gender Representation in Learning Materials
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
Representations of gender in learning materials convey an implicit message to students about attitudes towards culturally appropriate gender roles for women and men. This collection takes a linguistic approach to exploring theories about gender representation within the sphere of education and textbooks,...
Gender, Globalization, and Postsocialism
The Czech Republic After Communism
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
How are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped by post-socialist marketization and liberalization? Do new forms of economic and cultural globalization open spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics? The rapid social transformations experienced by the people of the Czech Republic...