Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Understanding Global Sexualities
New Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Over the course of the past thirty years, there has been an explosion of work on sexuality, both conceptually and methodologically. From a relatively limited, specialist field, the study of sexuality has expanded across a wide range of social sciences. Yet as the field has grown, it has become apparent...
Challenging Myths of Masculinity
Understanding Physical Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Many myths surround male bodies and associated bodywork, especially when such bodywork is labelled culturally or socially atypical or 'problematic'. Bodybuilding, for example, has been explained in terms of gender inadequacy and an 'Adonis complex' akin to reverse anorexia, while men electing to undergo...
by Jacinta Bunnell
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Grab your crayons and your backpack for a fantastical journey through The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book, an activity book for adults that highlights memorable victories and collective moments in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and pansexual culture. Each unique page, made...
Next Year I Will Know More
Literacy and Identity among Young Orthodox Women in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries, literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently, women have not been taught the traditional male curriculum that includes the Talmud and midrashic books. But the situation is changing, partly because of the special emphasis that...
Law of Desire
A Queer Film Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
“This series will be a significant, valuable contribution to the history and literature of gay cinema. Each of these works will be valuable additions for academic and popular students of film and gay culture.”—Library Journal
Law of Desire, one of three inaugural titles in Arsenal Pulp...
The Material Gene
Gender, Race, and Heredity after the Human Genome Project
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Winner of the 2014 Diamond Anniversary Book Award
Finalist for the 2014 National Communications Association Critical and Cultural Studies Division Book of the Year Award
In 2000, the National Human Genome Research Institute announced the completion of a “draft” of the human genome,...
by Irene Gedalof
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book traces the narrative strategies framing austerity policies through an illuminating analysis of policy documents and political discourses, exposing the political consequences for women, racialized minorities and disabled people. While many have critiqued the ways in which austerity has...
by Mehl Allan Penrose
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In Masculinity and Queer Desire in Spanish Enlightenment Literature, Mehl Allan Penrose examines three distinct male figures, each of which was represented as the Other in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spanish literature. The most common configuration of non-normative men was the petimetre,...
by Felix Conrad
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
‘Autogynephilia’ is an important guide to understanding and living with femephilia. Not only is it of existential importance for a femephiliac to understand their sexuality and what it means, but it can become crucial for their mental health should they face a gender identity crisis. The book deals,...
Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue
Liberating Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In this collection of original essays, international scholars put Asian traditions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism, into conversation with one or more contemporary feminist philosophies, founding a new mode of inquiry that attends to diverse voices and the complex global relationships...
After Marriage Equality
The Future of LGBT Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades. Throughout its history, the marriage equality movement has been criticized by those who believe marriage rights were...
Sex for Life
From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Sexual beliefs, behaviors and identities are interwoven throughout our lives, from childhood to old age. An edited collection of original empirical contributions united through its use of a distinctive, cutting-edge theoretical framework, Sex for Life critically examines sexuality across the entire...
Gaming at the Edge
Sexuality and Gender at the Margins of Gamer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold, including women, people of color, and LGBT people, are often brutalized in forums and in public channels in online play. Discussion...
by Jane McDermid
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This book compares the formal education of the majority of girls in Britain and Ireland in the nineteenth century. Previous books about ‘Britain’ invariably focus on England, and such ‘British’ studies tend not to include Ireland despite its incorporation into the Union in 1801. The Schooling...