Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi
No Secret Under the Sun
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. By exploring tales of love...
Why Gender Matters, Second Edition
What Parents and Teachers Need to Know About the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
A revised and updated edition (with more than 70% new material) of the evergreen classic about the innate differences between boys and girls and how best to parent and teach girls and boys successfully, with completely new chapters on sexual orientation and on transgender and intersex kids.
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Gender-Technology Relations
Exploring Stability and Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Through empirical material as well as theoretical discussions, this book explores developments in gender-technology relations from the 1980s to today. The author draws on her long-lasting research in the field, providing insight in both historical and more recent discussions of gender in relation to computers and computing.
by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
This book draws on the concepts of hegemonic and nonhegemonic masculinities as well as emphasized and oppositional femininities to chronicle and illuminate the construction of gender in Beverly Hills, 90210. The book argues that not only delegitimized but also legitimated forms of masculinity and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines,...
Interconnections
Gender and Race in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
This collection builds on decades of interdisciplinary work by historians of African American women as well as scholars of feminist and critical race theory, bridging the gap between well-developed theories of race, gender, and power and the practice of historical research. It examines how racial...
On Their Own
Women, Urbanization, and the Right to the City in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
South Africa, the most urbanized country on the African continent, displays some of the highest levels of socio-economic inequality in the world. What is life like for low-income African women in urban South Africa in the post-apartheid era? Does urban life offer new opportunities for personal development,...
More Women Can Run
Gender and Pathways to the State Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Women remain dramatically underrepresented in elective office, including in entry-level political offices. While they enjoy the freedom to stand for office and therefore have an equal legal footing with men, this persistent gender imbalance raises pressing questions about democratic legitimacy, the...
Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship
Towards a Politics of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political, theoretical and policy shifts concerning gender and sexual diversity, and addresses current debates about equality and diversity, citizenship and recognition across a range of disciplines.
Becoming Centaur
Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and English Horsemanship
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In this study of the relationship between men and their horses in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Monica Mattfeld explores the experience of horsemanship and how it defined one’s gendered and political positions within society.
Men of the period used horses to transform themselves,...
States of Marriage
Gender, Justice, and Rights in Colonial Mali
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
States of Marriage shows how throughout the colonial period in French Sudan (present-day Mali) the institution of marriage played a central role in how the empire defined its colonial subjects as gendered persons with certain attendant rights and privileges. The book is a modern history of the ideological...
Navigating Gender-Inclusive Resettlement
The Experience of the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
This case study report describes the comprehensive approach to gender inclusiveness resettlement in the Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project in a remote mountainous region of Quang Nam Province, Viet Nam. Based on discussions with people in affected villages, the report illustrates how the project is promoting...
Gendered Agency in War and Peace
Gender Justice and Women's Activism in Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
This book examines how gendered agency emerges in peacebuilding contexts. It develops a feminist critique of the international peacebuilding interventions, through a study of transitional justice policies and practices implemented in Bosnia & Herzegovina, and local activists’ responses to official...
Gender in South Asia
Social Imagination and Constructed Realities
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and...