Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Adolescent Literacies and the Gendered Self
(Re)constructing Identities through Multimodal Literacy Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Today’s youth live in the interface of the local and the global. Research is documenting how a world youth culture is developing, how global migration is impacting youth, how global capitalism is changing their economic and vocational futures, and how computer-mediated communication with the world...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
During the nineteenth century, the American temperance movement underwent a visible, gendered shift in its leadership as it evolved from a male-led movement to one dominated by the women. However, this transition of leadership masked the complexity and diversity of the temperance movement. Through...
Teaching Gender
Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Teaching Gender: Feminist Pedagogy and Responsibility in Times of Political Crisis addresses the neoliberalization of the university, what this means in real terms, and strategic pedagogical responses to teaching within this context across disciplines and region.
Inspired by bell hooks’ "transgressive...
by Patricia Ebrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, Patricia Buckley. In the essays she has selected for this fascinating volume, Professor Ebrey explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems as practices and ideas intimately connected to history...
Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies
Beauties at Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and commodification of women – that wield gendered...
The Politics of State Intervention
Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
The Politics of State Intervention: Gender Politics in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran examines how three culturally and religiously interconnected neighboring states have sought to regulate the lives of their female populace in order to gauge how successful, or unsuccessful, these efforts have been...
A View from the Bottom
Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural...
Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race and the Politics of Memory
Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
In Women and the Historical Enterprise in America, Julie Des Jardins explores American women's participation in the practice of history from the late nineteenth century through the end of World War II, a period in which history became professionalized as an increasingly masculine field of scientific...
Contesting Intersex
The Dubious Diagnosis
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2015
Watch Georgiann Davis in National Geographic's Gender Revolution documentary with Katie Couric
A personal, compelling perspective on how medical diagnoses can profoundly hurt, or help, the lived experiences of entire communities
Winner, 2017 Sex and Gender Distinguished Book Award, presented...
Courtesans and Tantric Consorts
Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory,...
Breadwinners and Citizens
Gender in the Making of the French Social Model
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2008
Laura Levine Frader’s synthesis of labor history and gender history brings to the fore failures in realizing the French social model of equality for all citizens. Challenging previous scholarship, she argues that the male breadwinner ideal was stronger in France in the interwar years than scholars...
Hemingway and Women
Female Critics and the Female Voice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Female scholars reevaluate gender and the female presence in the life and work of one of America’s foremost writers.
Ernest Hemingway has often been criticized as a misogynist because of his portrayal of women. But some of the most exciting Hemingway scholarship of recent years has come from...
Emancipation and Illusion
Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 1997
In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understanding of rationality and the lifeworld, emancipation, history, and gender. Throughout the book she focuses attention on the various ways in which an idea...
Gendering the Nation-State
Canadian and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Gendering the Nation-State explores the gendered dimensions of a fundamental organizational unit in social and political science -- the nation-state. Yasmeen Abu-Laban has drawn together work by both high-profile and emerging scholars to rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on...