Gender Studies category: 10311 books
I Am a Man!
Race, Manhood, and the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2006
The civil rights movement was first and foremost a struggle for racial equality, but questions of gender lay deeply embedded within this struggle. Steve Estes explores key groups, leaders, and events in the movement to understand how activists used race and manhood to articulate their visions of what...
American Girls and Global Responsibility
A New Relation to the World during the Early Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
American Girls and Global Responsibility brings together insights from Cold War culture studies, girls’ studies, and the history of gender and militarization to shed new light on how age and gender work together to form categories of citizenship.
Jennifer Helgren argues that a new internationalist...
Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835-1913
The Cotton and Metal Industries in England
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Women Workers and Gender Identities, 1835 - 1913 examines the experiences of women workers in the cotton and small metals industries and the discourses surrounding their labour. It demonstrates how ideas of womanhood often clashed with the harsh realities of working-class life that forced women into...
Mormon Feminism
Essential Writings
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This groundbreaking collection gathers together for the first time the essential writings of the contemporary Mormon feminist movement--from its historic beginnings in the 1970s to its vibrant present, offering the best Mormon feminist thought and writing. No issue in Mormonism has made more headlines...
The Silent Sex
Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group interacts, the kinds of issues the group...
The Emotions of Justice
Gender, Status, and Legal Performance in Choson Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Choson state (1392–1910) is typically portrayed as a rigid society because of its hereditary status system, slavery, and Confucian gender norms. However, The Emotions of Justice reveals a surprisingly complex picture of a judicial system that operated in a contradictory fashion by discriminating...
The Fair Sex
White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2005
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002
Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were...
by Malin Grahn-Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
This book investigates the Ancient Stoic thinkers’ views on gender and sexuality. A detailed scrutiny of metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy reveals that the Stoic philosophers held an exceptionally equal view of men and women’s rational capacities. In its own time, Stoicism was frequently...
Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance
Claiming a Seat at the Table
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Contemporary research on the lives and experiences of women of color tends to neglect the influence of women’s perceived access to voice as they manage tensions related to race, class, and gender. Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table contributes to current...
Gender, Metal and the Media
Women Fans and the Gendered Experience of Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
This book is a timely examination of the tension between being a rock music fan and being a woman. From the media representation of women rock fans as groupies to the widely held belief that hard rock and metal is masculine music, being a music fan is an experience shaped by gender. Through a lively...
Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance
Architectures of Wonder in Melusine
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life—and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2015
This book develops creative imagining of traditional doctrines. Chapters show the effectiveness of Latina/mujerista, evangélica, womanist, Asian American, and white feminist imaginings in the furthering of global gender justice.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treats the period c.800-1500, with a particular focus on the era of the Gregorian reform movement, the First Crusade, and its linked attacks on Jews at home.
The Wrong of Injustice
Dehumanization and its Role in Feminist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book examines contemporary structural social injustices from a feminist perspective. It asks: what makes oppression, discrimination, and domination wrongful? Is there a single wrongness-making feature of various social injustices that are due to social kind membership? Why is sexist oppression...