Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Restoried Selves
Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian / Pacific American Activists presents the first-person accounts of 20 activists-life stories that work against common stereotypes, shattering misconceptions and dispelling misinformation. These autobiographies challenge familial and cultural expectations...
by R. Howard Bloch
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
Until now the advent of Western romantic love has been seen as a liberation from—or antidote to—ten centuries of misogyny. In this major contribution to gender studies, R. Howard Bloch demonstrates how similar the ubiquitous antifeminism of medieval times and the romantic idealization of woman...
Queer Chivalry
Medievalism and the Myth of White Masculinity in Southern Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
For the U.S. South, the myth of chivalric masculinity dominates the cultural and historical landscape. Visions of white southern men as archetypes of honor and gentility run throughout regional narratives with little regard for the actions and, at times, the atrocities committed by such men. In Queer...
Locating Gender in Modernism
The Outsider Female
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
This book visits modernism within a comparative, gendered, and third-world framework, questioning current scholarly categorisations of modernism and reframing our conception of what constitutes modernist aesthetics. It describes the construction of modernist studies and argues that despite a range...
by Sheila Gilhooly
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2012
When was the last time you encountered someone whose gender you couldn't identify?The experience is disconcerting, maybe frightening.That is gender shock.These are stories from the life of a woman who is often mistaken for a man. Sheila Gilhooly writes of encounters in change rooms and washrooms,...
Queering Anarchism
Addressing and Undressing Power and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A much-needed collection that thinks through power, desire, and human liberation. These pieces are sure to raise the level of debate about sexuality, gender, and the ways that they tie in with struggles against our ruling institutions.”?Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman
Against the austerity...
A Medieval Woman's Companion
Women's Lives in the European Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
What have a deaf nun, the mother of the first baby born to Europeans in North America, and a condemned heretic to do with one another? They are among the virtuous virgins, marvelous maidens, and fierce feminists of the Middle Ages who trail-blazed paths for women today. Without those first courageous...
by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2011
The Women, Gender and Development Reader II is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration,...
Classify and Label
The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Classify and Label: The Unintended Marginalization of Social Groups is a philosophical treatment of classification in the social sciences and everyday life, focusing on moral, social, and political implications. The use of labels is essential to how people navigate and understand the world. Classifications...
Regulating the Lives of Women
Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the U.S. welfare state. The first two editions successfully exposed how myths and stereotypes built into...
Remapping Gender, Place and Mobility
Global Confluences and Local Particularities in Nordic Peripheries
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Enhancing our understanding of how people and places are affected by globalization at the level of everyday interactions within ’Nordic Peripheries’, this book sheds light on local particularities as well as global confluences, by illuminating how gender, mobility and belonging contribute to ruptures...
by Jing Song
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population.
Much of her research is...
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Development
Critical Engagements in Feminist Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
With original and engaging contributions, this Handbook confirms feminist scholarship in development studies as a vibrant research field. It reveals the diverse ways that feminist theory and practice inform and shape gender analysis and development policies, bridging generations of feminists from different institutions, disciplines and regions.
Gender Inequalities in Southern Europe
Woman, Work and Welfare in the 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Presenting studies of the situation on gender inequalities and associated pattern of work and welfare in all southern European countries, this work focuses on the interaction of the three major societal institutions - the State, the family and the labour market.