Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Sexing the Soldier
The Politics of Gender and the Contemporary British Army
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2007
Sexing the Soldier takes a critical look at how gender - what it means to be a man or a woman - is understood within the contemporary British Army, and the political and practical consequences of this. Drawing on original research, this informaive volume looks at:
the history and structure of...
by Alpona Halder
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, University of Manchester, language: English, abstract: Far and beyond the world of education and global social justice lays the unknown mysterious world of Eunuchs who are better known as Hijras in India. The reality of...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
The relationship between men and feminism is frequently assumed to be antagonistic. This volume confronts this assumption by bringing critical attention to men’s engagement in feminist research, pedagogy, and activism in India. The chapters in this collection respond to two broad thematic concerns:...
Mapping Difference
The Many Faces of Women in Contemporary Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors are an interdisciplinary, transnational group of scholars from gender studies, feminist theory, history, anthropology, sociology,...
The Man Who Invented Gender
Engaging the Ideas of John Money
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
This book is essential reading for scholars of gender studies in both cultural studies and medicine, and for anyone seeking a fuller interpretation of the leading sexologist’s theories and accomplishments.
Discourses of Ageing and Gender
The Impact of Public and Private Voices on the Identity of Ageing Women
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
This book presents in-depth investigation of the language used about women and ageing in public discourse, and compares this with the language used by women to express their personal, lived experience of ageing. It takes a linguistic approach to identify how messages contained in public discourse...
Queering The Terminator
Sexuality and Cyborg Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
The Terminator film series is an unlikely site of queer affiliation. The entire premise revolves around both heterosexual intercourse and the woman's pregnancy and giving birth. It is precisely the Terminator's indifference to both that signifies it as an unimaginably inhuman monstrosity. Indeed,...
Chinese-British Intermarriage
Disentangling Gender and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Exploring how people negotiate and reconcile, construct and re-construct their distinctive gender and ethnic identities in a cross-cultural context, Hu examines what happens when two distinct cultures meet at the intimate interface of marriage and family. Chinese-British Intermarriage reveals how...
by Susan Paulson
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
The first book to examine the impact of neoliberalism on male identities and gender relations, filling a major gap in the scholarship on gender and identity.
The significance of its findings extend far beyond gender studies, and will appeal to fields ranging from anthropology and international...
Women in the Shadows
Gender, Puppets, and the Power of Tradition in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
Wayang kulit, or shadow puppetry, connects a mythic past to the present through public ritual performance and is one of most important performance traditions in Bali. The dalang, or puppeteer, is revered in Balinese society as a teacher and spiritual leader. Recently, women have begun to study and...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Providing nuanced accounts of how the social identities of men and women, the context of displacement and the experience or manifestation of violence interact, this collection offers conceptual analyses and in-depth case studies to illustrate how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment...
Just Between Us
An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
A photograph of two men, cowboy-hatted and -booted and discreetly holding hands, is the departure point in a groundbreaking study on masculinity and homosexuality in Mexico. Just Between Us, an ethnography of intimacy and affection between men, explores the concept of masculine identity and homoeroticism,...