Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But...
Begging for Sex
Gender Equality from the Other Side
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
This book is a manifesto for shy males who are uncomfortable in the sexually aggressive role. That role specifies that men must make the advances, while women get to remain passive. For shy males, gender equality has been a cruel joke since not only do these roles still exist, the male role has been...
F-Bomb
Dispatches from the War on Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
“However you define feminism, read this book . . . Race, privilege, gender, sexuality; the work to be done, your invitation to the conversation, is here” (Karen Walton, screenwriter of Orphan Black).
In a world where sexual harassment allegations regularly dominate news coverage and in...
Free Hearts and Free Homes
Gender and American Antislavery Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
By exploring the intersection of gender and politics in the antebellum North, Michael Pierson examines how antislavery political parties capitalized on the emerging family practices and ideologies that accompanied the market revolution.
From the birth of the Liberty party in 1840 through the...
Race, Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970
We are the Supermen
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
Black Social Science and the Crisis of Manhood, 1890-1970 describes the young black male crisis, why we are largely unfamiliar with the story of the black superman, and why this matters to contemporary debates. It does so by returning to the work of those original black social scientists to explore...
Gender and Violence in Haiti
Women’s Path from Victims to Agents
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Women in Haiti are frequent victims of sexual violence and armed assault. Yet an astonishing proportion of these victims also act as perpetrators of violent crime, often as part of armed groups. Award-winning legal scholar Benedetta Faedi Duramy visited Haiti to discover what causes these women to...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2011
Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware...
Women's Football in the UK
Continuing with Gender Analyses
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This book examines the complex ways in which girls and women experience football cultures in Britain. It extends current debate surrounding women and football (namely, how gender has functioned to shape women’s experiences of playing the game), by focusing on organisational, administrative and coaching...
Selling Women Short
Gender and Money on Wall Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990s, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug.
Wall Street...
Women in the Academy
Learning From Our Diverse Career Pathways
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
This edited collection examines women’s roles in the academy. Statistics show that women outnumber men in most universities and that women’s pay still lags behind men’s, but the numbers only hint at the broader story. This edited collection fills that gap with the stories of twelve women—from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Transforming Gender and Development in East Asia brings together a collection of original essays from top scholars in the United States and Asia to explore the centrality of gender in the process of economic development in East Asia. Contributors demonstrate through ethnography, personal narratives,...
Rethinking Race, Class, Language, and Gender
A Dialogue with Noam Chomsky and Other Leading Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Oftentimes, critical examinations of oppression solely focus on one type and neglect others. In this single volume, Pierre Orelus examines the way various forms of oppression, such as racism, classism, capitalism, sexism, and linguicism (linguistic discrimination) operate and limit the life chances...
Women in a Globalizing World
Transforming Equality, Development, Diversity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
An exciting Canadian collection of feminist articles that pro- vide cutting-edge gender analysis for understanding diverse personal and political challenges and opportunities in our fast-changing global world. Canadian and international au- thors offer varied social justice, anti-racist, Indigenous,...
Gender Mainstreaming Case Study
Sri Lanka—North East Coastal Community Development Project and Tsunami-Affected Areas Rebuilding Project
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Two projects in Sri Lanka employed participatory approaches, bringing key stakeholders together and facilitating women's involvement---the North East Coastal Community Development Project which was aimed to improve sustainable livelihood and natural resource management in poor coastal communities,...