Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Invention Of Women
Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology...
Gender Politics and Security Discourse
Personal-Political Imaginations and Feminism in 'Post-conflict' Serbia
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2015
This book investigates competing modes of thought about gender security and aims to understand the policy implications of personal-political imaginations.
The work draws upon extensive research conducted by the author in Serbia to develop a comprehensive picture of how feminist and women’s...
Global Gender Research
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.
This volume provides an in-depth comparative picture of the current state of feminist...
by Heather Brook, Nickie Charles, Priscilla Dunk-West
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The fourth edition of this classic, comprehensive and best-selling text on gender and women's studies marks over twenty years of engaging with the key issues and developments in gender and feminist theory. With fully revised chapters written by specialists across a range of core topics, including...
Gender and Sexuality
Critical Theories, Critical Thinkers
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2005
This accessible introduction to gender and sexuality theory offers a comprehensive overview and critique of the key contemporary literature and debates in feminism, sexuality studies and men's studies.
Chris Beasley's clear and concise introduction combines a wide-ranging survey of the major...
Women, Gender and Disaster
Global Issues and Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Women, Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives examines gender within the context of disaster risk management. It argues for gender mainstreaming as an effective strategy towards achieving disaster risk reduction and mitigating post-disaster gender disparity. Highlighting that gender inequalities...
Rape Culture, Gender Violence, and Religion
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This volume explores the multiple intersections between rape culture, gender violence, and religion. Each chapter considers the ways that religious texts, theologies, and traditions engage with contemporary cultural discourses of gender, sexuality, gender violence, and rape culture. Particularly,...
Gender and Modernity in Central Europe
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
At the end of the nineteenth century, Austro-Hungarian society was undergoing a significant re-evaluation of gender roles and identities. Debates on these issues revealed deep anxieties within the multi-ethnic empire that did not resolve themselves with its dissolution in 1918. Concepts of gender...
by Mary Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2008
Why are we so insistent that women and men are different? This introduction to gender provides a fascinating, readable exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. Gender and Everyday Life explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms,...
by Judith Roof
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment,...
Gender at Work
Theory and Practice for 21st Century Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
At a time when some corporate women leaders are advocating for their aspiring sisters to ‘lean in’ for a bigger piece of the existing pie, this book puts the spotlight on the deep structures of organizational culture that hold gender inequality in place. Gender at Work: Theory and Practice for...
Gender Talk
The Struggle For Women's Equality in African American Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Why has the African American community remained silent about gender even as race has moved to the forefront of our nation’s consciousness? In this important new book, two of the nation’s leading African American intellectuals offer a resounding and far-reaching answer to a question that has been...
by Professor Susan Kingsley Kent
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
What is gender and who has it? History, theory and gender are inextricably linked, but how exactly do they fit together? How do
historians use theories about gender to write history?
In this jargon-free introduction, Susan Kingsley Kent presents a student-friendly guide to the origins, conceptual...
Women, Work, and Globalization
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Women increasingly make up a significant percentage of the labor force throughout the world. This transformation is impacting everyone's lives. This book examines the resulting gender role, work, and family issues from a comparative worldwide perspective. Working allows women to earn an income, acquire...