Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Housework and Gender in American Television
Coming Clean
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Housework and Gender in American Television: Coming Clean examines representations of housework and their relationships with gender in sixty of the most popular television shows of the 1950s through the 1980s, searching for trends, similarities, inconsistencies, and meaning. Much of the critical scholarship...
by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Gender and the Construction of Hegemonic and Oppositional Femininities investigates how hegemonic and nonhegemonic forms of femininity are constructed in the social institutions of school, the workplace, and the media. Hegemonic femininities are those that form a complementary and subordinate relationship...
Sexualised Citizenship
A Cultural History of Philippines-Australian Migration
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country. Focusing on Philippines-born migration, it presents the profile and history of this minority group through an examination of their print material culture over the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
This book comprehensively reviews the characteristics of the body reflected in the skin due to differences in gender. It investigates the genetic and hormonal differences that can affect skin structure and function, and resulting in variations between women and men. The aging process and exogenous...
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa
16 turning 17
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Love, Sex and Teenage Sexual Cultures in South Africa interrupts the relative silence around teenage constructions of love in South Africa. Against the backdrop of gender inequalities, HIV and violence, the book situates teenage constructions of love and romance within the wider social and cultural...
Gender and the Media
Women's Places
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on women....
Gender, Change and Identity
Mature Women Students in Universities
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
First published in 1999, this volume centres on a case study which looks at the experiences of non-traditional adult women students in universities, from the perspective of the actors. The interaction of structure and agency and the significance of macro and micro levels in shaping the behaviour,...
Steampunk
Gender, Subculture and the Neo-Victorian
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Victorian era, steampunk creatively warps history and presents an alternative future, imagined from a nineteenth-century perspective.
In her interdisciplinary...
by S. Budgeon
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This book critically assessesthird-wave feminist strategies for advancing a feminist 'politics of the self' within the late modern, postfeminist gender order – a context where gender equality has been mainstreamed, feminism has been dismissed, and a neoliberal culture of self-management has become firmly entrenched.
by Laura Palazzani
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
This book is an introductory systematic framework in the complex and interdisciplinary sex/gender debate, focusing on philosophy of law.The volume analyses the different theories that have dealt with the gender category, highlighting the conceptual premises and the arguments of the most influential...
Illdisciplined Gender
Engaging Questions of Nature/Culture and Transgressive Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This volume offers some of the outputs, challenges and opportunities created in an interdisciplinary programme that was set up to engage multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives on issues at the intersections of nature and culture, sex and gender. When working with mass spectrometers, microscopes,...
Gender
Eine neue Ideologie zerstört die Familie
Language: German
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Sie wissen nicht, was "gender" ist? Hier erfahren Sie das Wichtigste in Kürze: - Die Ziele der Gender-Ideologie - Der politische Missbrauch der Sprache - Die globale Durchsetzung durch UN und EU - Die Sexualisierung der Kinder - Das Erwachen des Widerstandes
Queer Embodiment
Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means, and has meant, to have a legible body in the West. Hilary Malatino explores how and why intersexuality became an anomalous embodiment requiring correction and how contesting...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...