Gender Studies category: 10311 books
War Echoes
Gender and Militarization in U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
War Echoes examines how Latina/o cultural production has engaged with U.S. militarism in the post–Viet Nam era. Analyzing literature alongside film, memoir, and activism, Ariana E. Vigil highlights the productive interplay among social, political, and cultural movements while exploring Latina/o...
by Geoffrey Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
The aim of the book is to define the nature of literary collaboration by authors in the mediation and production of the novel of masculine action in the period 1885-1905. Its objective is to bring to the attention of academia long forgotten literary forms such as the romance genre, and make, quite...
Queer Philologies
Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history....
Woman Enough
How a Boy Became a Woman and Changed the World of Sport
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
A powerful and inspiring story of self-realization and legal victory that upends our basic assumptions about sexual identity.
In 1966, a male baby, Chris, was adopted by an upper-middle-class Toronto couple. From early childhood, Chris felt ill-at-ease as a boy and like an outsider in his conservative...
by Ian Wellard
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
This groundbreaking work explores masculinity and the body within sports. Sports continue to retain expectations for presentations of specific forms of masculinity. The body is central to these presentations. These everyday bodily performances are rehearsed and performed either successfully or unsuccessfully...
Gender Mainstreaming Case Study
India—Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project sought to improve the urban environment, economy, and living conditions of the residents of Kochi, Kollam, Kozhikode, Thiruvananthapuram, and Thrissur. Improvements in access to safe water and sanitation facilities have reduced the workloads of women...
Women in the Workforce
An Unmet Potential in Asia and Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Despite economic growth, decreasing fertility rates, and rising education levels, women in Asia are on average 70% less likely than men to be in the labor force, with the country-to-country percentage varying anywhere from 3% to 80%. Results of a new simulation model suggest that closing the gender...
Women and Leadership
A Contextual Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
This book examines womenís access to leadership roles and how these roles are perceived in society. It represents one of the first scholarly examinations of the burgeoning field of leadership. Using real-life examples and case studies of prominent women, Dr. Klenke explores the complex interactions...
by Bret Hinsch
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This accessible text offers a comprehensive survey of women’s history in China from the Neolithic period through the end of the Qing dynasty in the early twentieth century. Rather than providing an exhaustive chronicle of this vast subject, Bret Hinsch pinpoints the themes that characterized distinct...
Black on Both Sides
A Racial History of Trans Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
The story of Christine Jorgensen, America’s first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the postwar era. Her celebrity, however, has obscured other mid-century trans narratives—ones lived by African Americans such as Lucy Hicks Anderson and James McHarris. Their erasure...
by Marybeth Gasman, N. Drezner, E. Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
This volume centers on the lives and experiences of female and African American leaders of foundations and nonprofits. Contributors to the volume examine race and gender as constructs and provide a theoretical background for understanding their effect on the psycho-social development of the individuals.
Our Changing Land
Revisiting Gender, Class and Identity in Contemporary Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
The last two decades have seen big changes within a small nation; the distinctiveness of Wales, in terms of its political life and culture, has grown considerably in that time. This edited collection by a range of eminent Welsh writers, emerging academics and creative artists examines what is distinctive...
Art, Education and Gender
The Shaping of Female Ambition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Why do girls study art and why do girls become primary teachers? This book examines and reveals the powerful influence of the family, the school and the state in shaping female identity and constructing notions of gender appropriateness. It also discusses the status of art at school and the position of women artists in society.
Positioning Gender and Race in (Post)colonial Plantation Space
Connecting Ireland and the Caribbean
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Stoddard uses the Anglophone Caribbean and Ireland to examine the complex inflections of women and race as articulated in-between the colonial discursive and material formations of the eighteenth century and those of the (post)colonial twentieth century, as structured by the defined spaces of the colonizers' estates.