Gender Studies category: 10311 books
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Occupational segregation is an important issue and can be detrimental to women. There is a strong need for more women in science, engineering, and information technology, which are traditionally male dominated fields. Female representation in the computer gaming industry is a potential way to increase...
Challenging Lesbian Norms
Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
What constitutes lesbian identity?
The term homonormativity describes current prevailing idealized assumptions about lesbian identity. This concept, however, marginalizes subgroups within the greater lesbian population. Challenging Lesbian Norms: Intersex, Transgender, Intersectional, and Queer...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
The feminist thinkers in this collection are the designated "fifty-one key feminist thinkers," historical and contemporary, and also the authors of the entries. Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population....
When The Opposite Sex Isn't
Sexual Orientation In Male-to-Female Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
When there is uncertainty about the gender identity or social gender role of an individual, determining exactly who the opposite sex is can be a complicated question for both the transgender person and for those who seek to relate to her. Written in both an enlightened and a reader friendly style...
Feminist Studies
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Methodology and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion...
The Wayward Woman
Progressivism, Prostitution, and Performance in the United States, 1888–1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The Wayward Woman takes a fresh look at the Progressive Era, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant studies of female delinquency, prostitution literature, and Progressive womanhood, this work understands “female waywardness”...
Women in Culture
An Intersectional Anthology for Gender and Women's Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
The thoroughly revised Women in Culture 2/e explores the intersections of gender, race, sexuality, gender identity, and spirituality from the perspectives of diverse global locations. Its strong humanities content, including illustrations and creative writing, uniquely embraces the creative aspects...
Killing Women
The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The essays in Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence find important connections in the ways that women are portrayed in relation to violence, whether they are murder victims or killers. The book’s extensive cultural contexts acknowledge and engage with contemporary theories and...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Navigating Heartbreak, Survival, and the Media Matrix
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
A Thinking Girl's Guide to Sexual Identity : Navigating Heartbreak, Survivial, and the Media Matrix is the student edition of Vol.1 Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree,. Vol. 1 introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70...
Women of Color and Feminism
Seal Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Rojas explores...
Women's Issues for a New Generation
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
How do you "hook" a Millennial student into caring about women's issues when feminism has been declared dead for decades? Written in an engaging style that promotes critical thinking, Women's Issues for a New Generation is intended for freshman- and sophomore-level undergraduates who have...
Odd Couples
Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation. Based on author Anna Muraco's...
Sexual Subjects
Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age.
Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine...