Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Sex among the Rabble
An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex...
by Dolly Roquette
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This is the frank and forthright account of myself, a MtF transsexual, taking into consideration all the joys and sorrows; trials and tribulations along the precarious path to gender reassignment, or gender confirmation as it is now often known.I am documenting a path which has taken me from the heights...
Gender, Youth and Culture
Young Masculinities and Femininities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.
by Alan Sinfield
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Following a first edition that generated wide-spread debate, Cultural Politics – Queer Reading is a bold study of the future of critical theory and the role of gender, ethnicity and cultures within academic literary studies.
An illuminating introduction to the second edition revisits the...
Bargaining for Women's Rights
Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Gender relations in Muslim-majority countries have been subject to intense debate in recent decades. In some cases, Muslim women have fought for and won new rights to political participation, reproductive health, and education. In others, their agendas have been stymied. Yet missing from this discussion,...
Longing to Tell
Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The Sexual Lives of Black Women, In Their Own Words
In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence, commonly held perceptions of black women as teenage mothers, welfare recipients, mammies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
A brutal gang-rape of a young woman in India in 2012 caused a global outcry against rising brutal violence against women. In response to the young woman's death and the protests that followed, the contributors analyze the position of women in South Asia, the issue of violence, women's political activism and gender inequalities.
Making Camp
Rhetorics of Transgression in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of “camp” in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality.
Camp has long been aligned with gay male...
Private Bodies, Public Texts
Race, Gender, and a Cultural Bioethics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2011
In Private Bodies, Public Texts, Karla FC Holloway examines instances where medical issues and information that would usually be seen as intimate, private matters are forced into the public sphere. As she demonstrates, the resulting social dramas often play out on the bodies of women and African Americans....
Latin American Women and the Literature of Madness
Narratives at the Crossroads of Gender, Politics and the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
At the turn of the millennium, narrative works by Latin American women writers have represented madness within contexts of sociopolitical strife and gender inequality. This book explores contemporary Latin American realities through madness narratives by prominent women authors, including Cristina...
Marginal Subjects
Gender and Deviance in Nineteenth Century Spain
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
Late nineteenth-century Spanish fiction is populated by adulteresses, prostitutes, seduced women, and emasculated men - indicating an almost obsessive interest in gender deviance. In Marginal Subjects, Akiko Tsuchiya shows how the figure of the deviant woman—and her counterpart, the feminized man...
Gender in the Mirror
Cultural Imagery & Women's Agency
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2002
Harmful, culturally prevalent imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood constrains women's self-determination. Gender in the Mirror proposes alternative imagery of feminine sexuality, beauty, and motherhood and advances an account of feminist discursive politics that takes on the challenge of neutralizing patriarchal imagery.
Domestic Negotiations
Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through “negotiation”—a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation—and...
Intersexuality and the Law
Why Sex Matters
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Winner of the 2013 Bullough Award presented by the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
The term “intersex” evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate. The millions of people with an intersex...