Gender Studies category: 10311 books
The Great Woman Singer
Gender and Voice in Puerto Rican Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Licia Fiol-Matta traces the careers of four iconic Puerto Rican singers—Myrta Silva, Ruth Fernández, Ernestina Reyes, and Lucecita Benítez—to explore how their voices and performance style transform the possibilities for comprehending the figure of the woman singer. Fiol-Matta shows how these...
The Changing Face of Representation
The Gender of U.S. Senators and Constituent Communications
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
As the number of women in the U.S. Senate grows, so does the number of citizens represented by women senators. At the same time, gender remains a key factor in senators’ communications to constituents as well as in news media portrayals of senators. Focusing on 32 male and female senators during...
Same Sex, Different Cultures
Exploring Gay And Lesbian Lives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Because homoerotic relations can be found in so many cultures, Gilbert Herdt argues that we should think of these relations as part of the human condition. This new cross-cultural study of gays, lesbians, and bisexuals around the world, Same Sex, Different Cultures provides a unique perspective on...
Women's Health in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Theory and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2008
In recent years, healthcare professionals have recognized the distinctly different healthcare needs and concerns of men and women. Women's health, in particular, has come into its own in the last two decades. In Canada, however, there has been little available in the way of a general text on women's...
Domestic Disturbances
Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The issue of immigration is one of the most hotly debated topics in the national arena, with everyone from right-wing pundits like Sarah Palin to alternative rockers like Zack de la Rocha offering their opinion. The traditional immigrant narrative that gained popularity in the nineteenth and twentieth...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Women in many Westernized countries encounter a wider variety of career opportunities than afforded in previous decades, and the percentage of women leaders in nearly every sector is on the rise. Sport coaching, however, remains a domain where gender equity has declined or stalled, despite increasing...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
While efforts to include gay and lesbian athletes in competitive sport have received significant attention, it is only recently that we have begun examining the experiences of transgender athletes in competitive sport. This book represents the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender...
Connecting Women
Women, Gender and ICT in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
This important volume examines European perspectives on the historical relations that women have maintained with information and communication technologies (ICTs), since the telegraph. Features: describes how gendered networks have formed around ICT since the late 19th Century; reviews the gendered...
Stepdaughters of History
Southern Women and the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
In Stepdaughters of History, noted scholar Catherine Clinton reflects on the roles of women as historical actors within the field of Civil War studies and examines the ways in which historians have redefined female wartime participation. Clinton contends that despite the recent attention, white and...
by Lisa Lindquist Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
For decades, historians have primarily analyzed charges of black-on-white rape in the South through accounts of lynching or manifestly unfair trial proceedings, suggesting that white southerners invariably responded with extralegal violence and sham trials when white women accused black men of assault....
Beyond Bylines
Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Beyond Bylines: Media Workers and Women’s Rights in Canada explores the ways in which several of Canada’s women journalists, broadcasters, and other media workers reached well beyond the glory of their personal bylines to advocate for the most controversial women’s rights of their eras. To do...
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2001
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2009
"With the publication of the Handbook of Diversity in Feminist Psychology, the field of feminist psychology has achieved a new depth; the volume is a sophisticated and cutting-edge compendium that not only describes the state of the field, but also pushes its boundaries in important ways."----Sex...
Black Sexual Politics
African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2005
In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.