Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Women Leading Justice
Experiences and Insights
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2018
The women’s movement and increasing social consciousness regarding gender disparity and discrimination has helped to make gains over the past several decades to reduce gender disparity for women in the workplace. However, gender discrimination and disparity continue to exist. Women continue to receive...
(Un)thinking Citizenship
Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of...
Fixing Sex
Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
What happens when a baby is born with “ambiguous” genitalia or a combination of “male” and “female” body parts? Clinicians and parents in these situations are confronted with complicated questions such as whether a girl can have XY chromosomes, or whether some penises are “too small”...
by Ann Oakley
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
What are the differences between the sexes? That is the question that Ann Oakley set out to answer in this pioneering study, now established as a classic in the field. To answer it she draws on the evidence of biology, anthropology, sociology and the study of animal behaviour to cut through popular...
Toward a Humanist Justice
The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
The late Susan Moller Okin was a leading political theorist whose scholarship integrated political philosophy and issues of gender, the family, and culture. Okin argued that liberalism, properly understood as a theory opposed to social hierarchies and supportive of individual freedom and equality,...
by Nancy Folbre
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2020
A major new work of feminism on the history and persistence of patriarchal hierarchies from the MacArthur Award-winning economist
In this groundbreaking new work, Nancy Folbre builds on a critique and reformulation of Marxian political economy, drawing on a larger body of scientific research,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
This is the final volume in the five volume series on Women and Migration in Asia.
The articles in this volume bring a gender-sensitive perspective to bear on aspects of marriage and migration in intra- and transnational contexts. In particular, they consider: a) how, given specific rules of...
Hegemonic Masculinity
Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
The concept of hegemonic masculinity, formulated by Raewyn Connell more than three decades ago, has been the driving force behind the expanding field of masculinities studies. Hegemonic Masculinity: Formulation, Reformulation, and Amplification provides the first comprehensive overview of the concept—from...
Practiced Citizenship
Women, Gender, and the State in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Over fifty years ago sociologist T. H. Marshall first opened the modern debate about the evolution of full citizenship in modern nation-states, arguing that it proceeded in three stages: from civil rights, to political rights, and finally to social rights. The shortcomings of this model were clear...
Futurist Women
Florence, Feminism and the New Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Futurist Women broadens current debates on Futurism and literary studies by demonstrating the expanding global impact of women Futurist artists and writers in the period succeeding the First World War. This study initially focuses on the local: the making of the self in the work by the women who were...
Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers
Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE’s Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King). This book examines these anachronisms as a dialogue...
Contracting Masculinity
Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean – and presented as – the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar...
Engendering Development
Capitalism and Inequality in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Engendering Development demonstrates how gender is a form of inequality that is used to generate global capitalist development. It charts the histories of gender, race, class, sexuality and nationality as categories of inequality under imperialism, which continue to support the accumulation of capital...
New Lamps for Old?
Gender Paradoxes of Political Decentralisation in Kerala
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Based on a large number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions since the mid-1990s in Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate on the impact of the large-scale induction of women into the institutions of local...