Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality. In this book, leading scholars develop sophisticated analytical frameworks and provide detailed empirical knowledge to further our understanding...
by Kimberly A. Yuracko
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, its primary target was the outright exclusion of women from particular jobs. Over time, the Act’s scope of protection has expanded to prevent not only discrimination based on sex but also discrimination based on expression of gender identity. Kimberly Yuracko...
Family Man
Fatherhood, Housework, and Gender Equity
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1997
The typical American family has changed dramatically since the days of "Ozzie and Harriet" and "Father Knows Best." Double-income families are now the rule, and fathers are much more involved in raising the children and cleaning house. Reactions to these changes have been diverse, ranging from grave...
by Mariz Tadros
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
On December 20, 2011, Egyptian women of all ages and backgrounds—urban and rural, working class and upper class—came out in force to Cairo’s Tahrir Square in one of the largest uprisings in the country’s history. The demonstrators gathered as citizens and likewise as women demanding social...
Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation
Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Since the 1970s, quotas for female political candidates in elections have proliferated worldwide. Beyond increasing the numbers of women in high-level elected bodies and, thereby, women’s political representation, advocates claim that quotas foster gender-equal participation in democracy and create...
The Fantasy of Individuality
On the Sociohistorical Construction of the Modern Subject
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
The Enlightenment promised humanity a bright future of emancipation which never actually
materialized. Instead, our social order is still based on gender inequality, which rests upon a
false conviction: that the individual can be conceived of as separate from community; that the more...
Queering Kansas City Jazz
Gender, Performance, and the History of a Scene
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The Jazz Age, a phenomenon that shaped American leisure culture in the early twentieth century, coincided with the growth of Kansas City, Missouri, from frontier town to metropolitan city. Though Kansas City’s music, culture, and stars are well covered, *Queering Kansas City Jazz *supplements the...
Gendered Drugs and Medicine
Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour, this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with race/ethnicity and class, influence the design,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Researchers recognize that theoretical frameworks and models of child development and family dynamics have historically overlooked the ways in which developmental processes are shaped by socio-cultural contexts. Ecological and acculturation frameworks are especially central to understanding the experiences...
Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations
From Private to Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012
In many facets of Western culture, including archaeology, there remains a legacy of perceiving gender divisions as natural, innate, and biological in origin. This belief follows that men are naturally pre-disposed to public, intellectual pursuits, while women are innately designed to care for the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
This book considers how the establishment and/or improvement of gender equality impacts on the social, economic, religious, cultural, environmental and political developments of human societies in Africa and its Diaspora.
An interdisciplinary team of contributors examine the role of gender...
by Colleen Arendt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Gender, Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine, or alternative, style of organizing and community building.
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Why She Buys
The New Strategy for Reaching the World's Most Powerful Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2009
If the consumer economy had a sex, it would be female.
If the business world had a sex, it would be male.
And therein lies the pickle.
Women are the engine of the global economy, driving 80 percent of consumer spending in the United States alone. They hold the purse strings, and when...
Welcome to Fairyland
Queer Miami before 1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Poised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed as an international tourist hub that embraces gender and sexual difference. As Julio Capo Jr. shows in this fascinating history, Miami's transnational connections reveal that the city has...