Gender Studies category: 10311 books
The Force of Beauty
Transforming French Ideas of Femininity in the Third Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The market for commercial beauty products exploded in Third Republic France, with a proliferation of goods promising to erase female imperfections and perpetuate an aesthetic of femininity that conveyed health and respectability. While the industry's meteoric growth helped to codify conventional standards...
Brilliant Imperfection
Grappling with Cure
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
In Brilliant Imperfection Eli Clare uses memoir, history, and critical analysis to explore cure—the deeply held belief that body-minds considered broken need to be fixed. Cure serves many purposes. It saves lives, manipulates lives, and prioritizes some lives over others. It provides comfort, makes...
by Harvard Law Review
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
The contents of Number 6 (Apr. 2014) include scholarly articles and student research, as well as as the extensive, annual survey of Developments in the Law. This year's subject is SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER IDENTITY. Topics include "Pro-Gay and Anti-Gay Speech in Schools," "Transgender...
Advertising Menswear
Masculinity and Fashion in the British Media since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
In what was a golden age of British advertising, the notion of the 'peacock male' was a strong theme in fashion promotion, reflecting a new affluence and the emergence of stylish youth cultures. Based on a detailed study of rich archival material, this...
Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace
Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.
Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald...
My Body Is Yours
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Lambda Literary Award finalist
Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male-a fey kid growing...
Born Both
An Intersex Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST
From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love.
My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This collection brings together cutting-edge work by established and emerging scholars focusing on key societies in the East Asian region: China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia and Vietnam. This scope enables the collection to reflect on the nature of the transformations...
by Sara L. Crawley, Lara J. Foley, Constance L. Shehan
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2007
Gendering Bodies explains how the social world shapes our physical bodies and how our bodies shape the social world. In this remarkable investigation into contemporary ideas of gender, sociologists Crawley, Foley, and Shehan argue that bodies are constantly being gendered, or encouraged to participate...
Cut of the Real
Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Following François Laruelle's nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered "unthinkable" by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as "the real,"...
by Andrea Nye
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
A feminist approach to the history of modern philosophy reveals new insights into the lives and works of major figures such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume, and is crucial to an appreciation of the advent of feminist philosophy. Feminism and Modern Philosophy introduces students to the main...
Normal Life
Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
Revised and Expanded Edition
Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee...
The Mixed Member Proportional System: Providing Greater Representation for Women?
A Case Study of the New Zealand Experience
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This Brief discusses the adoption of the mixed member proportional (MMP) electoral system in New Zealand and its subsequent effect on representation for women. Concerns about the homogeneity of the legislature under the Single Member Plurality electoral system and the need for increased representativeness...
queersexlife
Autobiographical Notes on Sexuality, Gender & Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Evocative of Patrick Califia-Rice and Kate Bornstein, this frank and personal collection of essays explores the politics of gender, identity, race, and queer sex imbued with the author’s own experiences. Terry Goldie delves into subjects that are both varied and explicit, including drag queens,...