Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Male Daughters, Female Husbands
Gender and Sex in an African Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands, to critical acclaim. This compelling and highly original book frees the subject position of 'husband' from its affiliation with men, and goes on to do the same for other masculine attributes,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
As religions grow and evolve, they adapt to their current circumstances, with new ideologies often deviating dramatically from their roots. The variety of religious institutions in modern society necessitates a focus on diversity and inclusiveness in the interactions between organizations of different...
by Michela Marzano
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Le discriminazioni e la violenza contro le donne e le persone omosessuali e transessuali sono oggi, almeno a parole, unanimemente condannate in Italia. Una frattura profonda divide invece il Paese quando si discute dei mezzi per combattere questi mali. Al centro del durissimo dibattito c’è la cosiddetta...
This One Looks Like a Boy
My Gender Journey to Life as a Man
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2019
Inspiring and honest, this unique memoir of gender transition and coming-of-age proves it’s never too late to find your true identity.
Since he was a small child, Lorimer Shenher knew something for certain: he was a boy. The problem was, he was growing up in a girl’s body.
In this...
The Transgender Child
A Handbook for Families and Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2008
This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in the field, the authors cover gender variance...
The Capacity to Care
Gender and Ethical Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting.
In this book, the...
by Jude Howell, Diane Mulligan
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Over the last two decades there has been considerable enthusiasm for the concept of civil society amongst researchers, practitioners and activists. Yet despite this enthusiasm for the concept, the gendered nature of civil society and the impact of feminist organizing on civil society has received...
Gender, Power and Political Speech
Women and Language in the 2015 UK General Election
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Gender, Power and Political Speech explores the influence of gender on political speech by analyzing the performances of three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. The analysis considers similarities and differences between the women...
Trans Studies
The Challenge to Hetero/Homo Normativities
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Sylvia Rivera Award in Transgender Studies from the Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
From Caitlyn Jenner to Laverne Cox, transgender people have rapidly gained public visibility, contesting many basic assumptions about what gender and embodiment mean. The vibrant discipline...
by Cara Anzilotti
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This compelling study of the American public's response to the fate of accused murderer Hattie Woolsteen uses this legal case to examine the complexities of gender history and societal fears about the changing roles of women during the Victorian era.
• Provides a solid introduction to women's/gender...
by David E. Newton
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Geared toward high school students, undergraduate students, and general readers, this reference work provides a thorough and unbiased treatment of sex, gender, and transgenderism—social issues of particular importance in today's world.
• Offers answers to essential questions about transgender...
Jewish Feminism
Framed and Reframed
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
In the last three decades, hundreds of books and essays have been published on women, gender, and Jewish Studies. This burgeoning scholarship has not been adequately theorized, contextualized, or historicized. This book argues that Jewish feminist studies is currently constrained by multiple frames...
Partners in Conflict
The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950–1973
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2002
Partners in Conflict examines the importance of sexuality and gender to rural labor and agrarian politics during the last days of Chile’s latifundia system of traditional landed estates and throughout the governments of Eduardo Frei and Salvador Allende. Heidi Tinsman analyzes differences between...
Gender Issues, Sex Offenses, and Criminal Justice
Current Trends
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Here is a powerful look at gender issues in the criminal justice system, particularly as gender is related to sex offenses and the system’s response to those offenses. Experts examine inmate sexual aggression, gender disparity in bail setting, racial patterns of rape, the female offender’s adjustment...