Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Living the Body
Embodiment, Womanhood and Identity in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
This book explores the development of a sociology of embodiment in the context of women’s lives in contemporary, urban India. Through a critical analysis of gender and class, the author unravels the complexities that are intrinsic to the multi-layered and fluid construction of woman’s identity...
Sexualities in World Politics
How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international prominence...
Endangered Daughters
Discrimination and Development in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
This unique and groundbreaking book seeks to re-focus gender debate onto the issue of daughter discrimination - a phenomenon still hidden and unacknowledged across the world.
It asks the controversial question of why millions of girls do not appear to be surviving to adulthood in contemporary...
by Caroline Heldman, Meredith Conroy, Alissa R. Ackerman
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
While there is some indication that overt sexism toward women in politics is declining, whether this is true for women who run for the highest office in American politics remains relatively unknown. Hillary Clinton's historic run as the 2016 Democratic nominee, however, allows scholars and journalists...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the latest research in the field of gender and violence. Each of the 23 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate including rape, stalking,...
The gender dimension of non-medical use of prescription drugs in Europe and the Mediterranean region
The gender dimension of non-medical use of prescription drugs in Europe and the Mediterranean region
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
In recent years, the non-medical use of prescription drugs (NMUPD) has caused increasing public concern around the globe. Women constitute a special risk category for NMUPD and understanding gender as it relates to this phenomenon is now a critical requirement for effective policy and practice. Intended...
Yoga, Bhoga and Ardhanariswara
Individuality, Wellbeing and Gender in Tantra
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book is a social–scientific interpretation of the 15 centuries-old Hindu and Buddhist traditions of tantra. It is a self-reflexive study, informed by an insider’s empathy and the apprehension of an Indologist-cum-anthropologist who is also a mystic and an initiated practitioner of the cult...
Masculinity and Gender in Greek Cinema
1949-1967
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Between the end of the Civil War (1949) and the colonels' military coup (1967) Greece underwent tremendous political, economic, and social transformations which influenced gender identities and relations. During the same period, Greece also witnessed an unparalleled bloom in cinema productions. Based...
by Britt Fender
Language: German
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: German
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Note: 1,0, Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit bieten einen Überblick über die derzeitige poltische...
No Tea, No Shade
New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...
by V. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Signifying "others" or signs of life? This book critically examines the ways in which crossing sex and gender is imagined in key cultural texts from contemporary Latin America. Unlike previous studies, Crossing Sex and Gender in Latin America does not hold that sexually diverse figures are...
Assuming a Body
Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
We believe we know our bodies intimately-that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering...
But Some of Us Are Brave
Black Women's Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's...
Understanding Inequality
The Intersection of Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
As the age of globalization and New Media unite disparate groups of people in new ways, the continual transformation and interconnections between ethnicity, class, and gender become increasingly complex. This reader, comprised of a diverse array of sources ranging from the New York Times to the journals...