Gender Studies category: 10311 books
![Cover of Gay Perspective: Things our [Homo]sexuality Tells Us About the Nature of God and the Universe](https://www.kuoky.com/images/2018/september/300x300/9780463568880-xgF5_300x.jpg)
by Toby Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2018
In this companion volume to his critically acclaimed, Lambda Literary Award-winning title Gay Spirituality, Toby Johnson further explicates his visionary stance that gay people's nature as outsiders gives them a uniquely powerful perspective on the nature of God and religion. By living outside gender...
Women Sport Fans
Identification, Participation, Representation
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Women worldwide are making their presence felt as sport fans in rapidly increasing numbers. This book makes a distinctive and innovative contribution to the study of sport fandom by exploring the growing visibility and interest in women who follow sport. It presents the latest data on women’s sport...
Gender and the Quest in British Science Fiction Television
An Analysis of Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Red Dwarf and Torchwood
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television. With such characters as the Doctor (an enigmatic time-traveling alien), Kerr Avon (a problematic rebel leader), Dave Lister (a slovenly last surviving human) and Captain Jack Harkness (a complex omnisexual...
Governing Women
Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of this acute social problem,...
Freedom without Permission
Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi...
Queering Sexual Violence
Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and...
Gay, Explained
History, Science, Culture, and Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Imagine your favorite gay uncle sitting you down and explaining everything you ever wondered about gay people. That is Gay, Explained. Written for gay and straight people alike, Gay, Explained leads the reader on a journey that even the most educated may find surprising. Told in a warm and...
Looking Queer
Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Looking Queer: Body Image in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities contains research, firsthand accounts, poetry, theory, and journalistic essays that address and outline the special needs of sexual minorities when dealing with eating disorders and appearance obsession. Looking Queer...
Sexual Metamorphosis
An Anthology of Transsexual Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
But who could describe my fright when, on the next morning, I awoke and found myself feeling as if completely changed into a woman. — Case 129, Autobiography, from Psychopathia Sexualis, a Medico-Forensic Study by Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
At the time the passage above was written, people who felt...
Nobody Passes
Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2010
An anthology exploring the act of passing-as the "right" gender, race, class, sexuality, age, ability, body type, ethnicity, and beyond
Nobody Passes is a collection of essays that confronts and challenges the very notion of belonging. By examining the perilous intersections of identity,...
Private Women, Public Lives
Gender and the Missions of the Californias
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Through the lives and works of three women in colonial California, Bárbara O. Reyes examines frontier mission social spaces and their relationship to the creation of gendered colonial relations in the Californias. She explores the function of missions and missionaries in establishing hierarchies...
Labor and Desire
Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals. Arguing that class consciousness was figured through metaphors of gender, Paula Rabinowitz challenges the conventional wisdom that feminism as a discourse...
Sex and Class in Women's History
Essays from Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
The essays collected in this volume reflect the upsurge of interest in the research and writing of feminist history in the 1970s/80s and illustrate the developments which have taken place – in the types of questions asked, the methodologies employed, and the scope and sophistication of the analytical...