Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender, Race, and the Politics of Role Modelling
The Influence of Male Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book provides an illuminating account of teachers’ own reflections on their experiences of teaching in urban schools. It was conceived as a direct response to policy-related and media-generated concerns about male teacher shortage and offers a critique of the call for more male role models...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, critical...
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire
Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes...
Understanding Gender Dysphoria
Navigating Transgender Issues in a Changing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
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Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq
A Feminist Reformulation of Just War Theory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2006
Gender, Justice, and the Wars in Iraq offers a feminist critique and reconstruction of just war theory. It points out gender biases in the just war tradition and suggests alternative jus ad bellum and jus in bello standards that emphasize women, political marginality, and empathy. Laura Sjoberg applies...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom.
Transnational Contexts of Culture, Gender, Class, and Colonialism in Play
Video Games in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
This book examines the local, regional and transnational contexts of video games through a focused analysis on gaming communities, the ways game design regulates gender and class relations, and the impacts of colonization on game design. The critical interest in games as a cultural artifact is covered...
Challenging Democracy
International Perspectives on Gender and Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
This collection establishes a highly topical, new, international field of study: that of gender, education and citizenship. It brings together for the first time important cutting-edge research on the contribution of the educational system to the formation of male and female citizens. It shows how...
Terrorist Assemblages
Homonationalism in Queer Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2007
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer subjects...
Gender and International Migration in Europe
Employment, Welfare and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Gender and International Migration in Europe is a unique work which introduces a gender dimension into theories of contemporary migrations. As the European Union seeks to extend equal opportunities, increasingly restrictionist immigration policies and the persistence of racism, deny autonomy and choice...
Chasing Rainbows
Exploring Gender Fluid Parenting Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Feminist parenting creates unique challenges. As women experience the unique powerlessness of motherhood, they also hold the uncomfortable power of acting as advocates for and as agents of socialization and social control over their children. Fathers may feel the desire for feminist parenting whilst...
by Genny Beemyn, , Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey-one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.-on gender development and identity-making among transsexual...
Terrorism and Violent Conflict
Women's Agency, Leadership, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
This book explores how gender intersects with political violence, and particularly terrorism. We ask how gender relations and understandings of femininity and masculinity influence political violence, which includes politics related to terrorism, state terrorism, and genocide. We investigate how women...
Gender in Georgia
Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation, and History in the South Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
As Georgia seeks to reinvent itself as a nation-state in the post-Soviet period, Georgian women are maneuvering, adjusting, resisting and transforming the new economic, social and political order. In Gender in Georgia, editors Maia Barkaia and Alisse Waterston bring together an international group...