Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Qutub Jehan Kidwai
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2006
The basic objective of this book is to explore the possibilities of reform in Muslim Personal Law and Hindu Personal Law from women rights perspective. It is a long, complex discourse. But the key factor in the whole discourse is gender . The issue of Uniform Civil Code (UCC ) is being hugely politicized...
Gender Responsive and Participatory Budgeting
Imperatives for Equitable Public Expenditure
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
This unique book focuses on the hybridization of grassroots participation in planning, implementing, and developing gender-responsive budgeting. It explores the possibilities for gender sensitive budgeting when implemented using techniques that have been popularized by participatory governance activists....
Food and Gender in Fiji
Ethnoarchaeological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2009
Food and Gender in Fiji is an ethnoarchaeological investigation of the social relations surrounding foodways on the island of Nayau in Fiji. Writing from the perspective of an archaeologist, Jones answers questions raised by her archaeological research using original ethnographic data and material...
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
Confucianism or Gender Equality?
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Many people in Europe are stigmatised because of their sexual orientation or gender identity and cannot fully enjoy their universal human rights. Some of them are victims of violence, others have fled to Europe from countries where they risk being persecuted. Organisations representing lesbian, gay,...
Gender, Ethnicity and Place
Women and Identity in Guyana
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This book is concerned with the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of households in Guyana. Using detailed data collected from male and female respondents in three separate locations, two urban and one rural, and across...
Gender and Austerity in Popular Culture
Femininity, Masculinity and Recession in Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and...
Gender and the American Presidency
Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In Gender and the American Presidency: Nine Presidential Women and the Barriers They Faced, Theodore F. Sheckels, Nichola D. Gutgold, and Diana Bartelli Carlin invite the audience to consider women qualified enough to be president and explores reasons why they have been dismissed as presidential contenders....
by Wendy Pojmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The influx of female migrants to Europe has posed challenges to established European feminist movements. In this book the author assesses the significance of female immigration to Italy and its impact on Italian feminism by analyzing the way in which immigrant and Italian women have constructed their...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This volume counters one-sided dominant discursive representations of gender in human rights and transitional justice, and women’s place in the transformations of neoliberal human rights, and contributes a more balanced examination of how transitional justice and human rights institutions, and political...
Dalit Women
Honour and Patriarchy in South India
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
One of the only ethnographic studies of Dalit women, this book gives a rich account of individual Dalit women’s lives and documents a rise in patriarchy in the community. The author argues that as Dalits’ economic and political position improves, ‘honour’ becomes crucial to social status....
Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman
The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood
This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses...
Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenya’s Transitions to Democracy
States of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Critiquing the valorization of democracy as a means of containing violence and stabilizing political contestation, this book draws links between the democratization process and sexual/gendered violence observed against women during electioneering periods in Kenya. The book shows the contradictory...
Why Can't a Man Be More Like a Woman?
The Evolution of Sex and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
How different are men and women, really? Controversy surrounds the question and makes uncovering the answers—based in evolution, genetics, and biology—increasingly difficult. Still, significant differences between the sexes are apparent everyday to both men and women. Whether it’s a boyfriend’s...