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Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
With nine papers examining a distinct body of archaeological data, Ungendering Civilization offers a much needed scrutiny of the role of women in the evolution of states.
Studying societies including Predynastic Egypt, Minoan Crete, ancient Zimbabwe and the Maya - to determine what the facts...
Women's Rights in the USA
Policy Debates and Gender Roles
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
Women’s Rights in the USA is a rigorous examination of the intersection of gender roles and public policy and the implications for feminist activists. The book places full information on state and federal statutes and court decisions in the context of the ebb and flow of debates that have engaged...
The Cultural Politics of U.S. Immigration
Gender, Race, and Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
How the immigration policies and popular culture of the 1980's fused to shape modern views on democracy
In the 1980s, amid increasing immigration from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Asia, the circle of who was considered American seemed to broaden, reflecting the democratic gains made by...
Colonial Discourse and Gender in U.S. Criminal Courts
Cultural Defenses and Prosecutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The occurrence in some criminal cases of "cultural defenses" on behalf of "minority" defendants has stirred much debate. This book is the first to illuminate how "cultural evidence" — i.e., "evidence" regarding ethnicity — is actually negotiated by attorneys,...
by Cheryl B. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
2017 Reader's Favorite Bronze Medal Award Winner. When you have a baby girl you envision many things for her life but becoming a boy is not one of them. This book will benefit anyone who would like to learn more about gender dysphoria and is an absolute must-read for a parent, relative or friend of...
Interrogating Critical Pedagogy
The Voices of Educators of Color in the Movement
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Educators, teacher practitioners, and social activists have successfully used critical pedagogy as a tool to help marginalized students develop awareness and seek alternative solutions to their poor educational and socioeconomic situations. However, this theory is often criticized as being mostly...
When Couples Become Parents
The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
When couples make the journey through their first year of parenthood they confront the challenges of their new responsibilities with varying degrees of support and a range of personal resources. When Couples Become Parents examines the ways in which divisions based on gender both evolve and are challenged...
Pathways, Potholes, and the Persistence of Women in Science
Reconsidering the Pipeline
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative...
What the Village Gave Me
Conceptualizations of Womanhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013
In What the Village Gave Me, the contributors—all women of color—present their varied experiences regarding the conceptualizations of womanhood, beauty, and gender roles. The goal of this book is to illuminate how these issues intersect with the transmission of cultural norms, marriage rates,...
Finding Feminism
Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change.
In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled...
Dangerous Discourses
Feminism, Gun Violence, and Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Dangerous Discourses brings together new work by feminist scholars who provide a multifaceted view of the ways contemporary media discourses inscribe particular understandings of gendered social identities, gun violence, and public policy.
The chapters examine multiple media locations where discourses...
Revealing and Concealing Gender
Issues of Visibility in Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2010
Issues of visibility and invisibility are becoming increasingly apparent in gender research in organizations. This book will not only further develop current theoretical ideas around being seen and unseen within organizations, but will also provide us with the opportunity to problematize the concepts of visibility and invisibility.
by J. Belliappa
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific consequences of reflexive modernity in neo-liberal India.
Cartographies of Empowerment
The Mahila Samakhya Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a government programme for women’s education and empowerment as it is of the celebration of the struggles of poor women for gender just rights. Spread across eight states and more than 150 districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya programme grew out of a unique partnership...