Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Nina L. Molinaro
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Alicia Giménez Bartlett’s popular crime series, written in Spanish and organized around the exploits of Police Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzon, is arguably the most successful detective series published in Spain during the previous three decades. Nina L. Molinaro examines...
Deco Body, Deco City
Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival,...
Through the Eyes of Rebel Women
The Young Lords, 1969-1976
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976 i***THROUGH THE EYES OF REBEL WOMEN: The Young Lords, 1969-1976*** is the first account of women members — a "story within a story" told from the inside out. The Young Lords Organization emerged in the late sixties to fight poverty,...
Queer Iberia
Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 1999
Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the sexual diversity that proliferated during the period...
by Carol Dyhouse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006
This compelling and stimulating book explores the gendered social history of students in modern Britain.
From the privileged youth of Brideshead Revisited, to the scruffs at 'Scumbag University' in The Young Ones, representations of the university undergraduate have been decidedly male. But...
Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence
The Struggle for Recognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
In Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence, James W. Messerschmidt unravels some of the mysteries of teenage violence. Written by one of the most respected scholars on the subject of gendered crime, this book provides a fascinating account of the connections among adolescent masculinities and...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This two-volume set examines how the evolution of gender roles in the United States has changed family dynamics, business practices, and our concepts of womanhood and manhood as well as affected debates about equality, political and military service, and childrearing roles and practices.
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Gender Statistics in the Southern Caucasus and Central and West Asia
A Situational Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
This report provides a baseline of the capacity of Asian Development Bank developing member countries to generate, analyze, disseminate, and use sex-disaggregated data. It introduces a framework on gender statistics and guides in assessing statistical systems in the Southern Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan,...
Women and Transitional Justice
Progress and Persistent Challenges in Retributive and Restorative Processes
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval? How can transitional justice provide redress to women for harms suffered? How can transitional justice help transform unequal gender relations post-conflict?...
New Pathways in International Development
Gender and Civil Society in EU Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Gender considerations and civil society are both major issues in the current debate about the implementation of EU development policy. This volume provides a new perspective and focus on the increasingly important issues of gender equality, democracy and participation to explain how they impact on...
Fair Sex, Savage Dreams
Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2001
In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher in it the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning Freud’s problematic accounts of sexual subjectivity,...
This is How We Dance Now!
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers’ classes,...
Voicing Girlhood in Popular Music
Performance, Authority, Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This interdisciplinary volume explores the girl’s voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girls’ online media culture. While girls’...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time