Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Three Decades of Engendering History
Selected Works of Antonia I. Castaneda
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For over three decades the work of Antonia I. Castañeda has shaped the fields of Western History and Chicana Studies. From her early articles on Chicana representation and political economy, to her most recent work mapping gendered violence and gendered resistance in the history of the U.S. Southwest,...
Varieties of Feminism
German Gender Politics in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
Varieties of Feminism investigates the development of German feminism by contrasting it with women's movements that arise in countries, like the United States, committed to liberalism. With both conservative Christian and social democratic principles framing the feminist discourses and movement goals,...
Laboring Women
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World...
Bhutan
Gender Equality Diagnostic of Selected Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Bhutan has experienced extraordinary change since the 1960s when it opened itself to the world and started the process of planned development. It has transformed itself from a subsistence economy into a middle-income country with rising human development indicators. Yet progress comes with new challenges....
The Gender of Memory
Rural Women and China’s Collective Past
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s....
Gender, Race, and Sudan's Exile Politics
Do We All Belong to This Country?
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Gender, Race, and Sudan’s Exile Politics examines the gendered and racialized discourses and practices of the Sudanese opposition in exile through the opposition movements of the 1990s and early 2000s, and discusses the history through which these discourses evolved.
This book interrogates the relationship...
Civil Society and Gender Justice
Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Civil society and civic engagement have increasingly become topics of discussion at the national and international level. The editors of this volume ask, does the concept of “civil society” include gender equality and gender justice? Or, to frame the question differently, is civil society a feminist...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Gender, Communication, and the Leadership Gap is the sixth volume in the Women and Leadership: Research, Theory, and Practice series. This crossdisciplinary series, from the International Leadership Association, enhances leadership knowledge and improves leadership development of women around the world....
No Man’s Land
The story of a man who became a woman
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
No Man's Land is the authentic story of one woman's struggle towards discovery; to find both herself and true acceptance; the story of two lives intimately entwined; a gender odyssey. Born a male in post war Germany, Paula spent her formative years in Ireland, constantly on a voyage of self-discovery,...
The Psychology of Gender
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
This book provides the nature of gender and the development of gender roles. It focuses on women's and men's communication and interaction styles, and provides an overview of sex differences in health and theories as to their origins .
Women in Revolutionary Egypt
Gender and the New Geographics of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The 25 January 2011 uprising and the unprecedented dissent and discord to which it gave rise shattered the notion of homogeneity that had characterized state representations of Egypt and Egyptians since 1952. It allowed for the eruption of identities along multiple lines, including class, ideology,...
Shōjo Across Media
Exploring "Girl" Practices in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2019
Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shōjo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime. The term refers to both a character type specifically, as well as commercial genres marketed to female audiences more generally. Through...
Judith Butler
Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2008
Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.
This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work,...
Transcending the Boundaries of Law
Generations of Feminism and Legal Theory
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2010
Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground-breaking collection that will be central to future developments in feminist and related critical theories about law. In its pages three generations of feminist legal theorists engage with what have become key feminist themes, including equality, embodiment,...