Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Ann E. Burnette, Mary Frances Casper, Hao-Chieh Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
Brazilian 'Travesti' Migrations
Gender, Sexualities and Embodiment Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book sheds new light on the interconnections between identity, gender and geographical displacement. At its centre are Brazilian travesti migrants, assigned as male at birth but later seeking to convey the aesthetic attributes of women by repeatedly performing a minutely-studied type of femininity....
Masquerade and Gender
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1993
Terry Castle's recent study of masquerade follows Bakhtin's analysis of the carnivalesque to conclude that, for women, masquerade offered exciting possibilities for social and sexual freedom. Castle's interpretation conforms to the fears expressed by male writers during the period—Addison, Steele,...
Balancing on the Mechitza
Transgender in Jewish Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
***WINNER, 2011 Lambda Literary Award - Transgender Non-Fiction
While the Jewish mainstream still argues about homosexuality, transgender and gender-variant people have emerged as a distinct Jewish population and as a new chorus of voices. Inspired and nurtured by the successes of the feminist...
by Leo Castana
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Have you always been told you're a woman, but you know inside that you're really a man?Then "The Transgender Men's Guide to Life Series" is for you.In "Overcoming Doubt and Negative Thoughts" we will discuss the thoughts, feelings, and doubts you may have in first approaching...
Zen and the Art of De-programming (Vol.1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
Letting Go of Social Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Vol . 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series - the Zen edition.
Zen and the Art of De-programming : Letting go of Social Engineering is the Zen edition of Vol. 1 from the Lipstick and War Crimes Book Series by Ray Songtree, with an introduction that gives the Buddhist perspective. The author...
Feminism Revisited (Vol. 1, Lipstick and War Crimes Series)
The Globalist Assault on the Feminine
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Feminism Revisited is the feminist edition of Vol. 1 of the Lipstick and War Crimes Series by Ray Songtree and introduces us to the mind boggling reality of gender sculpting, using some of the female icons of the last 70 years. From Gloria Steinem to Miley Cyrus, we discover who was behind the creation...
Normal
Transsexual CEO's, Cross-Dressing Cops, Hermaphrodites with Attitude, and More
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Amy Bloom has won a devoted readership and wide critical acclaim for fiction of rare humor, insight, grace, and eloquence, and the same qualities distinguish Normal, a provocative, intimate journey into the lives of “people who reveal, or announce, that their gender is variegated rather than monochromatic”—female-to-male...
Male Lust
Pleasure, Power, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire!
Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex...
Queerness in Pop Music
Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury,...
The Trans Generation
How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) are Creating a Gender Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Winner, 2019 PROSE Award for Anthropology, Criminology and Anthropology, presented by the Association of American Publishers
A groundbreaking look at the lives of transgender children and their families
Some “boys” will only wear dresses; some “girls” refuse to wear dresses;...
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between...
She's Not the Man I Married
My Life with a Transgender Husband
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2007
Helen Boyd's husband, who had long been open about being a cross-dresser, was considering living as a woman full time. Suddenly, Boyd was confronted with the reality of what it would mean if her husband were actually to become a woman - socially, legally, and medically. Would Boyd love and desire...