Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender Inequality
Socioeconomic Analysis and Developing Country Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2019
This unique book provides an easily comprehended overview of facts about gender inequality and contains a valuable introduction to economic theories of this inequality, the applicability of which is assessed in the light of empirical evidence. A special feature of this book is its adoption of a multidisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
“Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender...
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture
A Comprehensive Guide to Gender Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Doing Gender in Media, Art and Culture, 2nd edition is a comprehensive gender studies textbook with an international focus and relevance across a broad range of academic disciplines. Covering an array of topics, theories and approaches to gender studies, it introduces students to the study of gender...
by Edmond J Coleman, Theo Sandfort
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Important new findings on sex and gender in the former Soviet Bloc!
Sexuality and Gender in Postcommunist Eastern Europe and Russia is a groundbreaking look at the new sexual reality in Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe after the fall of communism. The book presents the kind of candid...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system’s development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based on the male offender. It was not until the 1970s that some criminologists began to draw attention...
Transformations of Gender and Race
Family and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
This is he first edited book on gender issues in transnational business cooperation concerning knowledge work. This area has so far been researched mainly by organizational theorists, with their background in business studies, finance, communication or sociology, and gender has seldom been taken into...
by Janet Momsen, Janet Momsen
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Global financial problems, rising food prices, climate change, international migration – increasingly by women – conflict situations in many poor countries, the spread of tropical diseases such as malaria and dengue fever and the increased incidence of HIV/AIDS and TB, and changing patterns...
by Toni Schindler Zimmerman
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Don't let hidden cultural expectations sabotage your therapeutic relationships!
Integrating Gender and Culture in Family Therapy Training offers positive strategies for teaching your students to understand the ways in which cultural expectations affect individuals, society, the therapeutic...
Gender and Sexuality in the Migration Trajectories
Studies between the Northern and Southern Mediterranean Shores
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
The concept of “gender” has recently become one of the symbols of what many consider “a clash of civilizations” between the West and Muslim countries. Recent events highlight how gender issues are emblematic of the basic traits of a country's culture, and thus constitute some of the elements...
Transgender Emergence
Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for...
Gender, Race, and American Science Fiction
Reflections on Fantastic Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why SF provides such a rich medium for both the...
Gender, Development and Environmental Governance
Theorizing Connections
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A major challenge in studies of environmental governance is dealing with the diversity of the people involved at multiple levels – villagers, development agents, policy-makers, private resource users and others – and taking seriously their aspirations, conflicts and collaborations. This book examines...
Gender Reckonings
New Social Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today
Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding...