Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Laura Vance
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
Women in New Religions offers an engaging look at women’s evolving place in the birth and development of new religious movements. It focuses on four disparate new religions—Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, The Family International, and Wicca—to illuminate their implications for gender socialization,...
Gendered Pasts
Historical Essays in Femininity and Masculinity in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
It is commonplace today to suggest that gender is socially constructed, that the roles women and men fulfill in their daily lives have been created and defined for them by society and social institutions. But how have men and women negotiated and navigated the gender roles that have been thrust upon...
Beyond the Divide
Men and Women Learning from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
The gender war is over -- and if it isn’t, it should be.
Most people are willing to work for gender equality that leads to positive and productive relationships with the opposite sex. Applying the current social and interpersonal tools available often leaves them feeling frustrated and...
by Karen G. Ruffle
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles. Ruffle focuses on the annual mourning assemblies held on 7 Muharram to commemorate...
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos engaged...
The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms
Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The past twenty years have witnessed a renewal of interest in feminist activism on both sides of the Atlantic. In part this has been a response to neoliberal and neoconservative attacks, both implicit and explicit, on the gains made by feminists during the 1960s and 70s.
This study adds a comparative...
Ethical Trade, Gender and Sustainable Livelihoods
Women Smallholders and Ethicality in Kenya
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Fair and ethical trade is often criticized for being highly gendered, and for institutionalizing the ethical values of consumers, the priorities of NGOs and governments, and most of all, food retailers. But little is known about how women smallholder farmers experience diverse ethical standards,...
Gender Issues in Water and Sanitation Programmes
Lessons from India
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Exclusion and inequitable access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services and opportunities are major concerns to development practitioners. The job of providing water for the household invariably falls on women, often at the expense of their education, income-earning opportunities and social,...
Unequal Ageing in Europe
Women's Independence and Pensions
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
While much is known about the situation in the labour market in the form of gender pay and earnings gaps, rather little is understood about their sequel in old age the gender pension gap. Entering the world of pensions may well signal a step backwards as far as women's independence is concerned, particularly...
Taking the Heat
Women Chefs and Gender Inequality in the Professional Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2015
A number of recent books, magazines, and television programs have emerged that promise to take viewers inside the exciting world of professional chefs. While media suggest that the occupation is undergoing a transformation, one thing remains clear: being a chef is a decidedly male-dominated job. Over...
Diverting the Flow
Gender Equity and Water in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Across the South Asian region, water determines livelihoods and in some cases even survival. However, water also creates exclusions. Access to water, and its social organisation, are intimately tied up with power relations. This book provides an overview of gender, equity and water issues relevant to...
by Brita Ytre-Arne, Kari Jegerstedt
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
This book sheds new light on gender-based inequalities in a globalized world. Interdisciplinary in scope, it reveals new avenues of research on gendered citizenship, analysing the possibilities and pitfalls of being represented and of representing someone. Drawing on contexts both historical and...
Gender on Wall Street
Uncovering Opportunities for Women in Financial Services
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book contains advice and direction for women who are either seeking a career or who have already embarked on a career in financial services. The book first aims to help the female reader gain clarity on her motivation in pursuing a career in finance. It then identifies potential gender-specific...
Gender, ageing and extended working life
Cross-national perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending...