Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Christy Tidwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Discussions of the politics of science fiction literature often consider gender, sexuality, race, class, and, more recently, disability; age, however, is far less present within science fiction and science fiction criticism. Few representations of old age spring to mind within the genre, particularly within written works of science fiction.
The Body of War
Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-up of Yugoslavia
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2007
In The Body of War, Dubravka Žarkov analyzes representations of female and male bodies in the Croatian and Serbian press in the late 1980s and in the early 1990s, during the war in which Yugoslavia disintegrated. Žarkov proposes that the Balkan war was not a war between ethnic groups; rather, ethnicity...
Gender, Class and Food
Families, Bodies and Health
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Everyday foodways are a powerful means of drawing boundaries between social groups and defining who we are and where we belong. This book draws upon auto/biographical food narratives and emphasises the power of everyday foodways in maintaining and reinforcing social divisions along the lines of gender and class.
Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire
“The Scope in Ev’ry Page”
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment...
Written in Her Own Voice
Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The contributors to Written in Her Own Voice illuminate how gender and gender roles affect women’s advancement, educational success, and life aspirations. Chapters provide thick, rich descriptions of the authors’ lives, using heuristic and phenomenological inquiry as guiding theoretical frameworks....
Finding Women in the State
A Socialist Feminist Revolution in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1964
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Finding Women in the State is a provocative hidden history of socialist state feminists maneuvering behind the scenes at the core of the Chinese Communist Party. These women worked to advance gender and class equality in the early People’s Republic and fought to transform sexist norms and practices,...
by P. Zhu
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the resilience and malleability of Chinese modernity through its progressive views on femininity.
Unsettled Subjects
Restoring Feminist Politics to Poststructuralist Critique
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
During the 1980s much of the work of feminist theory aimed to fully account for issues of class, race, and sexuality that previously had been overlooked. Susan Lurie argues that this work tended to privilege questions of race and class at the expense of gender, and frequently, if inadvertently, left...
Liberating Sexuality
Justice between the Sheets
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
For two thousand years, Christianity has been wrong about sex. To this day Christians grapple with defining gender, sexism, heterosexism, and what constitutes healthy sex. Miguel A. De La Torre-noted ethicist and scholar on the intersection of religion with race, class, gender, and sexuality-shines...
by P. McQueen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
In this book Paddy McQueen examines the role that 'recognition' plays in our struggles to construct an identity and to make sense of ourselves as gendered beings. It analyses how such struggles for gender recognition are shaped by social discourses and power relations, and considers how feminism can best respond to these issues.
by Thomas Underwood
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2016
Deciding to transition gender is likely to be the biggest decision you will ever make in your life. It will change your life irrevocably – and based on research, it will most likely change it for the better. Nevertheless, it is not an easy choice to make. When the author began to become outwardly...
At Work in the Iron Cage
The Prison as Gendered Organization
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2003
When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all correctional officers are women, and the rate at which women...
by Terry Threadgold, Anne Cranny-Francis
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1990
Feminine/Masculine and Representation provides a much needed introduction to a number of challenging issues raised in debates within gender studies, critical theory and cultural studies. In analysing cultural processes using a range of different methods, the essays in this collection focus on gender/sexuality, representation and cultural politics across a variety of media.
Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists
The Gender Politics of Food Contamination after Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
Following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 2011 many concerned citizens—particularly mothers—were unconvinced by the Japanese government’s assurances that the country’s food supply was safe. They took matters into their own hands, collecting their own scientific data that...