Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Japanese Fashion Cultures
Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent...
by Michael Beattie, Penny Lenihan, Robin Dundas
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
For any student or practitioner needing to gain a sound understanding of the complex fields of gender variance, gender identity and gender dysphoria, this book provides the ideal starting point for the knowledge and skills that you need.
Emphasising the need for affirmative practice in gender...
Critically Sovereign
Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination,...
International Courts and the African Woman Judge
Unveiled Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
A sequel to Bauer and Dawuni's pioneering study on gender and the judiciary in Africa (Routledge, 2016), International Courts and the African Woman Judge examines questions on gender diversity, representative benches, and international courts by focusing on women judges from the continent of Africa.
Drawing...
Gender, Health and Healing
The Public/Private Divide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What do we mean by 'gender' and how does this relate to health?
How is 'biology' best understood?
What does a focus on the division of labour bring to our understanding of health work?
Is (gender) 'equity' in health possible?
How have developments such as the resurgence of emotions and the new genetics...
Trans Kids
Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018
*Trans Kids *is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender nonconformity in children. Earlier generations of parents sent such children for psychiatric treatment aimed at a cure, but today, many parents agree to call their...
Gender for the Warfare State
Literature of Women in Combat
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Gender for the Warfare State is the first scholarly investigation into the written works of U.S. women combat veterans in twenty-first century wars. Most recent studies quantify military participation, showing how many women participate in armed services and what their experiences are in a traditionally...
Fictional International Relations
Gender, Pain and Truth
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
This book proposes the idea of fictional International Relations (IR) and engages with feminist IR by contextualising the case of a woman spy in Korea in the Cold War.
Fictional imagination and feminist IR encourage one to go beyond conventional or standard ways of thinking; it reshapes taken-for-granted...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
Women and Nature?
Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Women and Nature? Beyond Dualism in Gender, Body, and Environment provides a historical context for understanding the contested relationships between women and nature, and it articulates strategies for moving beyond the dualistic theories and practices that often frame those relationships.
In...
Gender, Sexuality and Migration in South Africa
Governing Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
This book analyzes the intersections of gender, sexuality and migration in the South African context. It takes the form of a series of empirically-informed reflections on the ways that these issues have come together, and analyses the place that South Africa holds in increasingly global, and globally...
by Drude Dahlerup
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
The introduction of electoral gender quotas in diverse contexts around the globe has attracted a great deal of scholarly and political interest. To date, research on these measures has focused primarily on quota design, adoption, and effects on the numbers of women elected. While this remains a crucial...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
There is often a moment in time that acts as a rallying point around a particular issue. 2015 was one of those moments for women, peace and security as numerous landmark anniversaries were celebrated in the field. Africa has, in many ways, been the global laboratory for the gender, peace and security...
Children with Gender Identity Disorder
A Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
How should we understand transgenderism, especially as it affects children and adolescents? Psychiatric manuals include transgenderism among mental illnesses (Gender Identity Disorder). Such inclusion is relatively recent, and even the words transsexual and transgender were coined only a few decades...