Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures...
by Justina Dugbazah
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender...
Sport and Gender Identities
Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights into processes of identity formation in a wide range of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on contemporary debates concerning gender and identity from a range of disciplines...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This handbook brings together recent and emerging research in the broad areas of women and gender studies focusing on pre-revolutionary Russia, the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet Russian Federation. For the Soviet period in particular, individual chapters extend the geographic coverage of the book...
Re-negotiating Gender
Household Division of Labor when She Earns More than He Does
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
In Chinese societies where both “money” and “gender” confer power, can a woman’s economic success relative to her husband’s bring about a more equal division of household labor? Lui’s qualitative study of “status-reversed” Hong Kong families, wherein wives earn more than their husbands,...
by Irina Maric
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 12,00, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Institut für Anglistik), course: Applied Linguistics, language: English, abstract: he aim of this paper is to critically discuss the hypothesis that children learn gender...
Gender and Education in China
Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2007
Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by the...
Gender-based Violence and Public Health
International perspectives on budgets and policies
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Gender-based violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with gender-based violence, paying specific attention to international...
NATO, Gender and the Military
Women Organising from Within
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
This book examines NATO's engagement with gender issues through its military structures.
Drawing on newly declassified NATO documents, this volume provides the first comprehensive account of NATO’s long-established engagement with gender issues. These documents bring to the fore the stories...
Gender
In World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men? How are masculinities and femininities made? And what is the relationship between gender issues and globalizing concerns such as environmental change and economic restructuring?
Raewyn...
Psychology of Gender Through the Lens of Culture
Theories and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
This unique collection brings a rarely-seen indigenous and global perspective to the study of gender and psychology. Within these chapters, researchers who live and work in the countries and cultures they study examine gender-based norms, values, expression, and relations across diverse Western and...
The Sexual and Gender Politics of Sport Mega-Events
Roving Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the ‘roving colonialism’ of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts—the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution—the book...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
This book covers the gamut of topics related to gender and consumer culture. Changing gender roles have forced scholars and practitioners to re-examine some of the fundamental assumptions and theories in this area. Gender is a core component of identity and thus holds significant implications for...
What is Gender?
Sociological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2007
Is gender something done to us by society, or something we do? What is the relationship between gender and other inequalities?
What is Gender? explores these complex and important questions, helping readers to critically analyse how women's and men's lives are shaped by the society in which...