Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
The Legacy of Patrice Lumumba
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2010
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculinity and femininity were generated in this struggle? Were masculinist biases re-inscribed in later depictions...
by Batya Weinbaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
This brief introduction to the journal explains why the women writers and critics felt a need to begin an interdisciplinary journal. One reason for this need to create the journal was a common feeling of being alienated as writers in male-dominated publishing circles. The women who met in the Popular...
Feminism at the Movies
Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Cinema examines the way that contemporary film reflects today’s changing gender roles. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the central issues in feminist film criticism with analyses of over twenty popular contemporary...
Pleasure, Power and Technology
Some Tales of Gender, Engineering, and the Cooperative Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
How are the pleasures of making things work turned into processes of domination? Are there links between gender and military institutions? Does eroticism have something to do with engineering? In this book, first published in 1989, Sally Hacker explores the answers to these and other provocative questions...
The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain
Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Traditional analyses of nineteenth-century politics have assigned women a peripheral role. By adopting a broader interpretation of political participation, the author identifies how middle-class women were able to contribute to political affairs in the nineteenth century. Examining the contribution...
Therapeutic Nations
Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Self-determination is on the agenda of Indigenous peoples all over the world. This analysis by an Indigenous feminist scholar challenges the United Nations–based human rights agendas and colonial theory that until now have shaped Indigenous models of self-determination. Gender inequality and gender...
Sufi Narratives of Intimacy
Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Thirteenth-century Sufi poet, mystic, and legal scholar Muhyi al-Din ibn al-'Arabi gave deep and sustained attention to gender as integral to questions of human existence and moral personhood. Reading his works through a critical feminist lens, Sa'diyya Shaikh opens fertile spaces in which new and...
Men as Women, Women as Men
Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical...
When Sun Meets Moon
Gender, Eros, and Ecstasy in Urdu Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The two Muslim poets featured in Scott Kugle's comparative study lived separate lives during the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries in the Deccan region of southern India. Here, they meet in the realm of literary imagination, illuminating the complexity of gender, sexuality, and religious practice...
First Year Out
A Transition Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
From laser hair removal and coming out to her parents, through to dating, voice training and gender reassignment surgery, this intimate and witty graphic novel follows the character of Lily as she transitions to living as her true, female self. Providing support and guidance on a range of issues such...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2005
Peacekeeping has become a major international undertaking throughout the world, from Africa to the Americas, from Europe to Southeast Asia. Yet until now, there has been no systematic analysis of the key role of gender in post-cold war conflicts and of post-conflict peacekeeping efforts. This groundbreaking...
Persistence
All Ways Butch and Femme
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
Lambda Literary Award finalistAmerican Library Association Stonewall Honor BookIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme...
Love and War
How Militarism Shapes Sexuality and Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Ideas of masculinity and femininity become sharply defined in war-reliant societies, resulting in a presumed enmity between men and women. This so-called "battle of the sexes" is intensified by the use of misogyny to encourage men and boys to conform to the demands of masculinity. These...
Living "Difference"
Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Living “Difference”: Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discussing the advantages of female same-sex relationships, this book suggests that these partnerships are able to facilitate more egalitarian ideals...