Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Mistress Dede
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Transgender is not the same as being transsexual. A transsexual was born one gender and transitions to the other. A transgendered person can be a man who is married to a woman. This man may dress in women's clothing, expressing himself as a woman at times. Gender has its roots in the mind, if you...
Lesbian Step Families
An Ethnography of Love
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Lesbian Step Families: An Ethnography of Love explores five lesbian step families’definitions of the step parent role and how they accomplish parenting tasks, cope with homophobia, and define and interpret their experiences. An intensive feminist qualitative study, the book offers guidelines for...
Unconditional
A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 New Release on Amazon! ─ Winner of the Sixth Annual Bisexual Book Award for Non-fiction, 2017
Looking for LGBTQ books that offer guidance on providing loving support to your LGBT child?
Parents of LGBT children guide: Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larger...
Trans Like Me
Conversations for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic
In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important...
Queer BDSM Intimacies
Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing boundaries, playing with gender and creating new kinds of intimacies and embodiments.
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers
Women Transforming Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant characteristics as space-claiming performances in and...
The Separation Solution?
Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Since the 1990s, there has been a resurgence of interest in single-sex education across the United States, and many public schools have created all-boys and all-girls classes for students in grades K through 12. The Separation Solution? provides an in-depth analysis of controversies sparked by recent...
Married To A Daughter Of The Land
Spanish-Mexican Women And Interethnic Marriage In California, 1820-80
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2009
The surprising truth about intermarriage in 19th-Century California. Until recently, most studies of the colonial period of the American West have focused on the activities and agency of men. Now, historian María Raquél Casas examines the role of Spanish-Mexican women in the development of California....
Men in Relationships
A New Look from a Life Course Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Listed in Today's Books, Book Register as a "!!!Must Read" title.
For the first time, experts in the areas of psychology, masculinities, social psychology, personal relationships, communication, gender studies, and clinical psychology offer their collective views on the interpersonal...
by William Schindler
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
We gay folk, who inhabit bodies of the type we naturally desire, require a sex-positive spiritual practice that celebrates and utilizes our gay being instead of opposing it. We need a spiritual practice that teaches us how to use our senses instead of merely shutting them off or repressing them. We...
Desire for Development
Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, Barbara Heron draws on poststructuralist notions of subjectivity, critical race and space theory, feminism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and travel writing to trace colonial continuities in the post-development recollections...