Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Ting-Fang Chin
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book explores professional women’s experiences of gender in the Taiwanese workplace in the wake of the rapid transformation of the country's economy, identifying attitudes to gender in a heterosexist and heteronormative social culture. It contributes to understanding women’s relationships...
Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature
Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre. Based on the historical premise that the view of ageing as a burden emerges as a specific narrative in the late eighteenth century, the study highlights how the changing...
Doing Women's Studies
Employment Opportunities, Personal Impacts and Social Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
With the expansion of the EU in 2004 and its inclusion now of 25 European countries, the movement of workers across the Continent will affect the employment opportunities of women. But as this up-to-date investigation across nine countries shows, there remain significant differences amongst specific...
Gender and Conflict
Embodiments, Discourses and Symbolic Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Through an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimization, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hierarchies and power relations, but also motivates people...
by Caroline B. Brettell
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through an exploration of gendered labor...
Marching against Gender Practice
Political Imaginings in the Basqueland
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Marching against Gender Practice: Political Imaginings in the Basqueland begins with the question: why is it so problematic for the majority of people in the Basque town of Hondarribia to accept the broader participation of women in their annual military march known as the Alarde? To explain this...
Gender Politics
Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2005
Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system? What happens to gender theory when we consider sex and gender identities as more than just 'male' or 'female'? Crucially, what are the implications of gender and sexual fluidity and multiplicity for social policy, citizenship, new...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Today, gender and gender identity is at the forefront of discussion as the plight of women around the world and issues of gender equality and human rights have become an international concern for politicians, government agencies, social activists, and the general public. Discourse Analysis as a Tool...
Gender Equality Results in ADB Projects
Regional Synthesis of Rapid Gender Assessments in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Rapid gender assessments of 12 projects in four countries were undertaken as part of the Asian Development Bank's commitment to improving aid effectiveness. The assessment of loans in Indonesia, Mongolia, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam found that positive gender equality results were achieved due to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This is the first world-wide, comparative study of the controversial new trends of gender quotas now emerging in global politics, presenting a comprehensive overview of changes in women’s parliamentary representation across the world.
This is important reading for all those working to increase...
by Tiantian Zheng, Kevin Carrico, Professor Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In globalizing Asia, sexual mores and gender roles are in constant flux. How have economic shifts and social changes altered and reconfigured the cultural meanings of gender and sexuality in the region? How have the changing political economy and social milieu influenced and shaped the inner workings...
Gender and the Koseki In Contemporary Japan
Surname, Power, and Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens. Determined by the Civil Code and the Koseki Law, for activists challenging it, the koseki is also an ideological structure, which has produced patriarchal control through single-surname households.
Based...
by Jaimee Garbacik
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society’s definitions of “male” and “female” leave out much of the population? There is no consensus on what a “real” man or woman is, where one’s sex begins and...
Gender and Migration
Feminist Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Provocative and intellectually challenging, Gender and Migration critically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories, practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes of gender eschew the complexities of gender...