Gender category: 10444 books
Gender Inequality
Socioeconomic Analysis and Developing Country Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary...
Gender Reckonings
New Social Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today
Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding...
by Katharine M. Donato, Donna Gabaccia
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
In 2006, the United Nations reported on the “feminization” of migration, noting that the number of female migrants had doubled over the last five decades. Likewise, global awareness of issues like human trafficking and the exploitation of immigrant domestic workers has increased attention to the...
My Gender Workbook, Updated
A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced...
The Gender Creative Child
Pathways for Nurturing and Supporting Children Who Live Outside Gender Boxes
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
From a leading US authority on a subject more timely than ever—an up-to-date, all-in-one resource on gender-nonconforming children and adolescents
In her groundbreaking first book, Gender Born, Gender Made, Dr. Diane Ehrensaft coined the term gender creative to describe children whose unique...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new Reader brings together classic pieces of gender theory, as well as examples of the sophistication of contemporary gender theory and research methodologies in the field of education. Leading international gender researchers address current debates about gender, power, identity and culture...
by Joanne Conaghan
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Gender is an increasingly prominent aspect of the contemporary debate and discourse around law. It is curious that gender, while figuring so centrally in the construction and organization of social life, is nevertheless barely visible in the conceptual armoury of law. In the jurisprudential imagination...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
How human rights principles, like the right to gender identity, freedom, integrity and equality, respond to the concerns of different groups of adults and children who experience gender harm due to the binary conception of sexuality and gender identity is the overall theme of this book. The Yogyakarta...
Transgender Emergence
Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for...
Gender at Work
Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for...
by Jemima Repo
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Jemima Repo argues in this book, "gender" has come to be the major sexual signifier of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first century. In fact, in this historical excavation...
by Edmond J Coleman, Theo Sandfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Important new findings on sex and gender in the former Soviet Bloc!
Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia is a groundbreaking look at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. The book presents the kind of candid...
Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects
Regional Synthesis of Rapid Gender Assessments in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of loans in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the...
Gender Norms and Intersectionality
Connecting Race, Class and Gender
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2019
There have been few, if any, attempts to translate the immense library of academic studies on gender norms for a lay audience, or to illustrate practical ways in which their insights could (and should) be applied. Similarly, there have been few attempts to build the case for gender in diverse fields...