Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal
Transitions into Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
South Asia is the region with the highest number of slaves globally according to the Global Slavery Index. Bonded labour affects between 15 and 20 million labourers within the region, and is shaped by locally specific interconnections between ethnicity, class, caste and, critically, gender structures....
Gleichstellung messbar machen
Grundlagen und Anwendungen von Gender- und Gleichstellungsindikatoren
Language: German
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Dieser Band schließt eine wichtige Lücke in den politischen und wissenschaftlichen Debatten um Gleichstellung, indem die zahlreichen Herausforderungen, die die Entwicklung und Bewertung von Indikatoren für Gleichstellung mit sich bringen, umfassend dargestellt und diskutiert werden. Auf dieser...
Queer Masculinities
A Critical Reader in Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Queer Masculinities: A Critical Reader in Education is a substantial addition to the discussion of queer masculinities, of the interplay between queer masculinities and education, and to the political gender discourse as a whole. Enriching the discourse of masculinity politics, the cross-section of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis for good practice when working with non-binary individuals.
The...
Contemporary Masculinities
Embodiment, Emotion and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health. Brendan Gough questions conventional assumptions about masculinity and men’s health and responds to recent...
Gender and Sexual Identity
Transcending Feminist and Queer Theory
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Beyond developing a formulation of transgender theory that incorporates...
Sex Rules!
Astonishing Sexual Practices and Gender Roles Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
“[Brodman] shares the results of years of research and world travel to show . . . just how wildly divergent ideas about sexuality and gender roles can be.” —Vice
This book is a humorous glimpse of a wide range of stereotype-busting sexual, relationship, and romantic mores around the world....
A Murder Over a Girl
Justice, Gender, Junior High
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A psychologist's gripping, troubling, and moving exploration of the brutal murder of a possibly transgender middle school student by an eighth grade classmate
On Feb. 12, 2008, at E. O. Green Junior High in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon...
Engendering Psychology
Women and Gender Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Engendering Psychology's treatment of issues is based solidly on scientific evidence and presented in a balanced manner. The text combines a developmental and topical approach. Denmark, Rabinowitz, and Sechzer explore the concept of gender as a social construction across the lines of race, ethnicity,...
High Contrast
Race and Gender in Contemporary Hollywood Films
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 1997
In High Contrast, Sharon Willis examines the dynamic relationships between racial and sexual difference in Hollywood film from the 1980s and 1990s. Seizing on the way these differences are accentuated, sensationalized, and eroticized on screen—most often with little apparent regard for the political...
Frauen-Womanistische Literatur in Werken Heinrich Bölls
Genderstudien bei Heinrich Böll und in der Literatur
Language: German
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, , Veranstaltung: Women Studies / Gender Studies, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Heinrich Böll hat über 34 Werke, Erzählungen und Romane zu verschiedenen Themen geschrieben: Der Zug war pünktlich (Erzählung, 1949), Wanderer...
Invisible Women
Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical,...
Amplify
Graphic Narratives of Feminist Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
In this highly original text – a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist – graphic storytelling offers a unique way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance in a more emotionally resonant way.
Issues of performativity, gender roles,...
Inferior
How Science Got Women Wrong-and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
What science has gotten so shamefully wrong about women, and the fight, by both female and male scientists, to rewrite what we thought we knew
For hundreds of years it was common sense: women were the inferior sex. Their bodies were weaker, their minds feebler, their role subservient. No less...