Gender Studies category: 10311 books

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Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves

A Gender Lens on Social Psychology

by Jocelyn A. Hollander, Daniel G. Renfrow, Judith A. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

The second edition of Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves has been updated throughout, and is an ideal introduction to the discussion of gender in social psychology. The book examines the basic underpinnings of everyday interaction: from how we think, to who we see ourselves and others to...
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Amateur

A True Story About What Makes a Man

by Thomas Page McBee
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018

*Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction *Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award *Shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize One of The Times UK’s Best Memoirs of 2018, BuzzFeed’s Best Nonfiction of 2018, Autostraddle’s Best LGBT Books of 2018, and 52 Insight’s Favorite...
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Inside and Out

Women, Prison, and Therapy

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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

A critical perspective on the treatment of incarcerated women—and their children Inside and Out: Women, Prison, and Therapy challenges conventional thinking about the therapeutic issues facing female prisoners and their children. Therapists, counselors, scholars, and activists examine the...
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Women of Color in STEM

Navigating the Workforce

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace...
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Asking the Right Questions 2

Talking about sexual orientation and gender identity in mental health, counselling and addiction settings

by Angela M. Barbara, PhD, Gloria Chaim
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2007

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, two-spirited, intersex and queer (LGBTTTIQ) people have specific life factors that relate to substance use and/or mental health problems. These factors include coming out, gender transition, societal oppression, loss of family support, isolation,...
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"You're in the Wrong Bathroom!"

And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People

by Laura Erickson-Schroth, Laura A. Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

Debunks the twenty-one most common myths and misperceptions about transgender issues From Laverne Cox and Caitlyn Jenner to Thomas Beatie (“the pregnant man”) and transgender youth, coverage of trans lives has been exploding—yet so much misinformation persists. Bringing together the medical,...
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by Willy Wilkinson
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015

In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson’s Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017

This new anthology brings together over 90 recent readings on gender, sexuality, and intimate relationships from Contexts, the award-winning magazine published by the ASA. Each contributor is a contemporary sociologist writing in the clear, concise, and jargon-free style that has made Contexts the...
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Recognizing Transsexuals

Personal, Political and Medicolegal Embodiment

by Zowie Davy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Recognizing Transsexuals draws on interviews with transsexuals at various stages of transition to offer an original account of transsexual embodiment and bodily aesthetics. Exploring the reasons for which transpeople desire to modify their bodies, it moves away from the focus on gender that characterizes...
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Bad Girls at Samarcand

Sexuality and Sterilization in a Southern Juvenile Reformatory

by Karin Lorene Zipf
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016

Of the many consequences advanced by the rise of the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, North Carolina forcibly sterilized more than 2,000 women and girls in between 1929 and 1950. This extreme measure reflects how pseudoscience justified widespread gender, race, and class discrimination...
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The Struggle for Equal Adulthood

Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

by Corinne T. Field
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

In the fight for equality, early feminists often cited the infantilization of women and men of color as a method used to keep them out of power. Corinne T. Field argues that attaining adulthood--and the associated political rights, economic opportunities, and sexual power that come with it--became...
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Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics

by Ya-chen Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012

Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of...
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100 Questions and Answers About Gender Identity

The Transgender, Nonbinary, Gender-Fluid and Queer Spectrum

by Michigan State University School of Journalism, Mara Keisling
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017

This simple, introductory guide answers 100 of the basic questions people ask about transgender people in everyday conversation. The questions come from interviews with transgender people who say these are issues they frequently get asked about or wish people knew more about. It has answers about...
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Zapotec Women

Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca

by Lynn Stephen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005

In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a detailed study of how the lives of women weavers and merchants in the Zapotec-speaking town of Teotitlán...
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