Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Recoding Gender
Women's Changing Participation in Computing
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
The untold history of women and computing: how pioneering women succeeded in a field shaped by gender biases.
Today, women earn a relatively low percentage of computer science degrees and hold proportionately few technical computing jobs. Meanwhile, the stereotype of the male “computer geek”...
Women in Late Life
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and...
Maldives
Gender Equality Diagnostic of Selected Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
For the past decade, the Maldives has experienced economic growth, mostly driven by tourism. As an archipelago comprised of small islands, the land area is limited and the resource base narrow, with low potential for agriculture and other industries and high vulnerability to climate change. Its small...
Live and Die Like a Man
Gender Dynamics in Urban Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These events gave renewed urgency to the fraught topic of gender in the Middle East. The role of women in public life, the meaning of manhood, and the future of gender...
Language and Woman's Place
Text and Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2004
The 1975 publication of Robin Tolmach Lakoff's Language and Woman's Place, is widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between language and gender, touching off a remarkable response among language scholars, feminists, and general readers. For the past thirty years,...
The Fate of Gender
Nature, Nurture, and the Human Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the world, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to women's masturbation classes in Shanghai, from conservative Catholics in Paris fearful of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon parents in Utah. As he shares specific and...
Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.
Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning...
Gender in Practice
Culture, Politics and Society in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women are based on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identity and belongingness. Through a complex web of culturally...
by Mary Fambrough
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
A doctoral candidate in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve covers the Third International Congress on sex and gender held at Oxford University. She discusses intersexual individuals reported on by Lee Anderson Brown of Sydney, and explores sources that might inspire artistic representations...
by Dr Diann Rodgers-Healey
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
This book moves the discussion forward so that Australia will have a woman Prime Minister sooner rather than later. Underlined with a reflective, interpretive and explorative stance of Julia Gillard’s Prime Ministership, it presents an analysis on issues to do with gender and leadership...
Questioning Gender
A Sociological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
With content organized around big questions about gender, Questioning Gender: A Sociological Exploration serves as a point-of-departure for conversations about gender, and as a resource for exploring answers to many of those questions. Rather than providing definitive answers, this unique book exposes readers to new material that will lead them to question their assumptions.
Unbending Gender
Why Family and Work Conflict and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2001
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
Gender, Mastery and Slavery
From European to Atlantic World Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas. Gender, Mastery and Slavery is one of the first books to explore the importance of men and women to slaveholding across these eras.
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Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...