Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Writing Beloveds
Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in...
by Joycelyn Bailey, Maria San Filippo, Yael Levy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch,...
Women, Law and Culture
Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world. It illustrates the way culture controls women's place in the world and how cultural constraints are not limited to any one culture, country, ethnicity, race, class...
African Women Under Fire
Literary Discourses in War and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
African writers and literary critics must account for the changing political terrain and how these contribute to creating new sources of conflicts and aggression toward women. This book brings insight and scholarly breadth to the growing research on women, war, and conflict in Africa. The aftermath...
Women's Identities at War
Gender, Motherhood, and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
There are few moments in history when the division between the sexes seems as "natural" as during wartime: men go off to the "war front," while women stay behind on the "home front." But the very notion of the home front was an invention of the First World War, when,...
The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
Humanism Series
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2017
“What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.”
One of twenty-first century’s most influential thinkers Abhijit Naskar makes an exuberant attempt with his sharp insight of the molecular realm of the mind,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing provide new directions for analyzing surveillance. They use feminist theory to expose the ways in which...
Gender Work
Feminism after Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between labor and gender. This book builds a theoretically-informed politics about changes in the gendered structure of labor by analyzing how the symbolic power...
Gendering the European Union
New Approaches to Old Democratic Deficits
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
An exploration of European integration as seen through a gender lens. This book looks at integration theories, institutional relationships, enlargement, the development of gender law and the role of formal actors, scholars and expert networks in the EU policy-making process. With a focus on gender mainstreaming as a new approach to gender policy.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.
American Anatomies
Theorizing Race and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1995
In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary clichés about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliché in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about...
by Marita Gronnvoll
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media coverage...
Ms. Prime Minister
Gender, Media, and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Ms. Prime Minister offers both solace and words of caution for women politicians. After closely analyzing the media coverage of former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell; two former Prime Ministers of New Zealand, Jenny Shipley and Helen Clark; and Australia’s 27th Prime Minister, Julia Gillard,...
The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds
Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance...