Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Funny Girls
Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and...
Novelist Tagore
Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing...
by Craig D. Atwood, Claudia Bruns, Philippe C. Dubois
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Masculinity, Senses, Spirit brings together current work by leading scholars in the fields of gender studies, religion, history, and cultural studies to examine the complex interrelationship between gender, sexuality, and the realms of the spirit and the senses in the Atlantic world from the 18th...
Women and War in the Middle East
Transnational Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational...
Colored No More
Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Home to established African American institutions and communities, Washington, D.C., offered women in the New Negro movement a unique setting for the fight against racial and gender oppression. Colored No More traces how African American women of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth century made...
Gender, Migration and Domestic Service
The Politics of Black Women in Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The book examines the experiences of Black women in Italy from the 1970s to the 1990s. Although Italy is still perceived as a recent immigration country, the book demonstrates how Black women were among the first groups of new migrants to the country. Black women migrating to Italy were employed...
Anglo-Indian Women in Transition
Pride, Prejudice and Predicament
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community. It explores Anglo-Indian women as part of a cultural whole and as participants in the mainstream cultural claims of India. It notably highlights the marginalisation...
The Politics of Women's Interests
New Comparative Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
This new study reveals how institutional practices and discourses shape the way men and women are conceived of, and how through this process, gender stereotypes and expectations are created.
Informed by the latest research and trends, these expert authors examine the way in which domestic...
Contemporary Encounters in Gender and Religion
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The fields of gender and religious studies have often been criticized for neglecting to engage with one another, and this volume responds to this dearth of interaction by placing the fields in an intimate dialogue. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach and drawing on feminist scholarship, the book...
Sporting Gender
Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China’s National Crisis, 1931-45
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013
This book will appeal to those interested in Chinese history, gender studies, cinema studies, and sports history.
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act
Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2016
Communication and the Work-Life Balancing Act: Intersections across Identities, Genders, and Cultures offers scholarly research related to work-life balance in today’s environment, with a particular focus on the fields of communication and gender studies. The chapters examine the choices, challenges,...
Muscular Nationalism
Gender, Violence, and Empire in India and Ireland, 1914-2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A particular dark triumph of modern nationalism has been its ability to persuade citizens to sacrifice their lives for a political vision forged by emotional ties to a common identity. Both men and women can respond to nationalistic calls to fight that portray muscular warriors defending their nation...
Education, Poverty and Gender
Schooling Muslim Girls in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2015
This book investigates the nature of identity formation among economically backward adolescent Muslim girls in northern India by focusing on the interstitial spaces of the ‘home’ and ‘school’. It examines issues of religion, patriarchy and education, to interrogate the relationship between...
Rethinking Agency
Developmentalism, Gender and Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
This book proposes a new theoretical framework for agency thinking by examining the ethical, discursive and practical engagements of a group of women development workers in north-west India with developmentalism and individual rights.
Rethinking Agency asks an underexplored question, tracks...