Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Geisha of a Different Kind
Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’...
Between a Man and a Woman?
Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Christian...
Making Womens Histories
Beyond National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women’s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women’s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography...
Asian Masculinities
The Meaning and Practice of Manhood in China and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
This book shows how East Asian masculinities are being formed and transformed as Asia is increasingly globalized. The gender roles performed by Chinese and Japanese men are examined not just as they are lived in Asia, but also in the West. The essays collected here enhance current understandings of...
Women in God’s Army
Gender and Equality in the Early Salvation Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they?
Women in God’s Army is the first study of its kind devoted to...
An Improper Profession
Women, Gender, and Journalism in Late Imperial Russia
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2001
Journalism has long been a major factor in defining the opinions of Russia’s literate classes. Although women participated in nearly every aspect of the journalistic process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female editors, publishers, and writers have been consistently omitted...
Language, Gender, and Community in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
American Voices and American Identities
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender, and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of novels by Alice Walker, Ernest Gaines, Ann Beattie, John Updike, Chang-rae Lee, and Rudolfo Anaya, among others, show how individuals find their American identities.
Body by Weimar
Athletes, Gender, and German Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
See the author featured in the "New Books in History" podcast: http://newbooksinhistory.com/2011/04/01/erik-jensen-body-by-weimar-athletes-gender-and-german-modernity-oxford-up-2010/ In Body by Weimar, Erik N. Jensen shows how German athletes reshaped gender roles in the turbulent decade after World...
Sojourning for Freedom
Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participation in the U.S. Communist Party (CPUSA) between 1919 and 1956. Erik S. McDuffie considers how women from diverse locales and backgrounds became radicalized,...
Competition, Gender and Management
Beyond Winning and Losing
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Investigates eight dimensions of competition which are active yet covert in the lives of managers. Explains in great detail the everyday experiences of men and women and the ways in which different cultures at work and in wider society, particularly exposure to sport and media, affect and reflect the relationship between gender and competition.
by Dench Geoff
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book brings together a wide selection of viewpoints on what is happening to relations between the sexes and the sexual division of labor in contemporary society. The contributors look at the ways in which gender relationships are changing, the consequences of these changes for family life and...
by Veronica McGivney
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2004
Male participation in education and training has previously been associated with the enhancement of work skills and employment prospects. As a sequel to Excluded Men, published in 1999, this book explores whether there have been any changes in men’s patterns of participation since the first study....
Women’s Political Participation in Bangladesh
Institutional Reforms, Actors and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women’s political participation in Bangladesh. The discussion is set against the background of the...
by Sarah F. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Broadside ballads-folio-sized publications containing verse, a tune indication, and woodcut imagery-related cautionary tales, current events, and simplified myth and history to a wide range of social classes across seventeenth century England. Ballads straddled, and destabilized, the categories of...