Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Hegemony and Heteronormativity
Revisiting 'The Political' in Queer Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
This book reflects on 'the political' in queer theory and politics by revisiting two of its key categories: hegemony and heteronormativity. It explores the specific insights offered by these categories and the ways in which they augment the analysis of power and domination from a queer perspective,...
Living with Strangers
Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Queer lives remain at the margins of most academic inquiry into domestic violence. When same-sex violence is considered, it is most commonly as an "added on," without close attention to the specificity and meaning of violence within the lives of lesbian/ gay/ bisexual/ transgender/Two-Spirit and queer...
Dude, You’re a Fag
Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and...
The Picture of Abjection
Film, Fetish, and the Nature of Difference
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2008
Tina Chanter resolves a fundamental problem in film theory by negotiating a middle path between "gaze theory" approaches to film and spectator studies or cultural theory approaches that emphasize the position of the viewer and thereby take account of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Chanter...
Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons
Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural...
Counseling Women Across the Life Span
Empowerment, Advocacy, and Intervention
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
"Dr. Jill Schwarz' Counseling Women Across the Lifespan is tailor made for gender-specific counseling courses. This text is highly accessible and comprehensive, and includes specific learning objectives, state-of-the-art research, and questions for student reflection and discussion. Importantly, each...
Queer Magic
LGBT+ Spirituality and Culture from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Queer Magic and Mysticism in History and Today
Queer Magic provides nourishment for LGBT+ souls and their allies who are interested in learning about the significant presence and influence of queer folks throughout history. Explore fascinating insights into queer relationships and spiritual...
Gaming Masculinity
Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male gamers threatened to rape and kill both women, and the news soon made international headlines, exposing the level of abuse that many women and...
Gendered Commodity Chains
Seeing Women's Work and Households in Global Production
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Gendered Commodity Chains is the first book to consider the fundamental role of gender in global commodity chains. It challenges long-held assumptions of global economic systems by identifying the crucial role social reproduction plays in production and by declaring the household as an important site...
Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories
Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The twentieth century has been a century of wars, genocides and violent political conflict; a century of militarization and massive destruction. It has simultaneously been a century of feminist creativity and struggle worldwide, witnessing fundamental changes in the conceptions and everyday practices...
Praising Girls
The Rhetoric of Young Women, 1895-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In Praising Girls, Henrietta Rix Wood explores how ordinary schoolgirls engaged in extraordinary rhetorical activities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States. Focusing on high school girls’ public writing, Wood analyzes newspaper editorials and articles, creative...
Feminist Security Studies
A Narrative Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
This book rethinks security theory from a feminist perspective – uniquely, it engages feminism, security, and strategic studies to provide a distinct feminist approach to security studies.
The volume explicitly works toward an opening up of security studies that would allow for feminist (and...
Too Much Too Young
Popular Music Age and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Too Much Too Young investigates how age and gender have shaped the careers and images of pop music stars, examining the role of youth and youthfulness in pop music through a series of themed case studies.
Whiteley begins by investigating the exploitation of child stars such as Brenda Lee and...