Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Identities on the Move
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy...
Indian Immigrant Women and Work
The American experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared. However, this immigration is seen as being overwhelmingly male. Female migrants are depicted either as family migrants following in the path chosen by men, or as victims of desperation,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding. The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Politics brings to political science an accessible and comprehensive overview of the key contributions of gender scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
The Routledge History of Gender, War, and the U.S. Military is the first examination of the interdisciplinary, intersecting fields of gender studies and the history of the United States military. In twenty-one original essays, the contributors tackle themes including gendering the "other,"...
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis
The Second Wave
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Get a feminist perspective on important changes in psychoanalysis!
Lesbians, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis: The Second Wave examines recent changes in psychoanalysis that have opened the door for new perspectives on same-sex desire. Authors from a variety of disciplines and theoretical orientations...
by Justin Charlebois
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
The corporate salaryman and professional housewife stand as hegemonic archetypes of masculinity and femininity in Japan. However, these rigid gender roles are being challenged by women who are seeking to move beyond the strictly defined confines of their traditional roles as caregivers and homemakers.
Through...
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora
Contesting History and Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together...
Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender
Transcultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who...
by Eva-Maria Krapfenbauer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 1,0, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Gender- und Diversitätmanagement), language: English, abstract: The following Bachelor's thesis deals with the (re-)production of gender-related and ethnic stereotypes...
Weimar through the Lens of Gender
Prostitution Reform, Woman's Emancipation, and German Democracy, 1919-33
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
"This book will make a valuable contribution to the field of German history, as well as the histories of gender and sexuality. The argument that Weimar feminism did bring about tangible gains for women needs to be made, and Roos has done so convincingly."
---Julia Sneeringer, Queens College
Until...
Gender Equality and Work-Life Balance
Glass Handcuffs and Working Men in the U.S.
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Pressure to achieve work-life "balance" has recently become a significant part of the cultural fabric of working life in United States. A very few privileged employees tout their ability to find balance between their careers and the rest of their lives, but most employees face considerable...
by Adem Yavuz Elveren
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the brain drain from Turkey, with particular focus on its gender dimension. The author presents a review of brain drain literature, as well as analyzing the brain drain from Turkey using original survey data. Presenting an account of state changes in...
Men of the World
Genders, Globalizations, Transnational Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
"Men of the World will be seized upon by academics and activists facing up to the persistence, proliferation and transnationalization of patriarchies."
- Cynthia Cockburn, City University, London and University of Warwick
"This is an important, thought-provoking and incredibly...
Transforming Scholarship
Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Transforming Scholarship is a user-friendly work of practical guidance and inspiration for supporting a student's interest in a Women's Studies degree. Berger and Radeloff use empirical evidence to help students with the major barriers they face when exploring Women's Studies: the negative response...