Gender Studies category: 10311 books
LGBT-Parent Families
Innovations in Research and Implications for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
LGBT-Parent Families is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive examination of this underserved area. Reflecting the nature of this issue, the volume is notably interdisciplinary, with contributions from scholars in psychology, sociology, human development, family studies, gender studies, sexuality...
Where Women Run
Gender and Party in the American States
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Why don’t more women run for office? Why are certain states more likely to have female candidates and representatives? Would strengthening political parties narrow the national gender gap? Where Women Run addresses these important questions through a rare and incisive look at how candidates are...
Visible Identities
Race, Gender, and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2005
In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. Visible Identities fills this gap. Drawing on both philosophical sources as well as theories and empirical studies in the social sciences, Martín Alcoff makes...
Fertile Ground
Exploring Reproduction in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Ideas of choice and rights traditionally dominate discussions concerning reproduction and gender politics. Fertile Ground argues that the current political climate in Canada necessitates a broader understanding of the links between the politics of reproduction, the state, and gender relations. Three...
Gay and Lesbian Asia
Culture, Identity, Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?
Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines....
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Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
This far-reaching and contemporary new Encyclopedia examines and explores the lives and experiences of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) individuals, focusing on the contexts and forces that shape their lives.
The work focuses on LGBTQ issues and identity primarily through...
Real Queer?
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
“How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtaining this proof? How is the system that assesses this predicated upon homonormative frameworks...
Sex Trafficking in South Asia
Telling Maya's Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
This book is a critical feminist analysis of sex trafficking. Arguing that trafficking in girls and women is a product of the social construction of gender and other dimensions of power and status within a particular culture and at a particular historical moment, this book offers the necessary locally...
The Third Sex
Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition.
Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces...
Queer Theory
The French Response
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology imported from the United States....
Queer Bergman
Sexuality, Gender, and the European Art Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
One of the twentieth century’s most important filmmakers—indeed one of its most important and influential artists—Ingmar Bergman and his films have been examined from almost every possible perspective, including their remarkable portrayals of women and their searing dramatizations of gender dynamics....
Violent Femmes
Women as Spies in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The female spy has long exerted a strong grip on the popular imagination. With reference to popular fiction, film and television Violent Femmes examines the figure of the female spy as a nexus of contradictory ideas about femininity, power, sexuality and national identity. Fictional representations...
Getting It On Online
Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Learn how gay men use Internet technologies to connect with others sharing their erotic desires and to forge affirming communities online!
Getting It On Online: Cyberspace, Gay Male Sexuality, and Embodied Identity examines the online embodied experiences of gay men. At once scholarly and sensual,...
Sight Unseen
Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Sight Unseen reveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind. Through ten case studies and dozens of interviews, Ellyn Kaschak taps directly into the phenomenology of race, gender, and sexual orientation among blind individuals,...