Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Categories We Live By
The Construction of Sex, Gender, Race, and Other Social Categories
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
We are women, we are men. We are refugees, single mothers, people with disabilities, and queers. We belong to social categories and they frame our actions, self-understanding, and opportunities. But what are social categories? How are they created and sustained? How does one come to belong to them?...
Cosmopolitan Sexualities
Hope and the Humanist Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many countries across the world employ...
Questioning Identity
Gender, Class, Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines...
Is the death of feminism imminent?
A radical feminist critique of post-feminism.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 1:0, University of Birmingham, course: International Relations with Political Science, language: English, abstract: Feminism observes and problematizes the fundamentally political relationship between gender and power (Stoker,...
by Lise Rolandsen Agustín
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Gender is being marginalized with the increased attention to "multiple discrimination" and civil society landscape at the transnational level is increasingly diversified. The book looks at the processes of (strategic) degendering in EU policy-making and on the interaction between EU institutions and European women's organizations.
Gender, Justice, and the Problem of Culture
From Customary Law to Human Rights in Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
When, where, why, and by whom is law used to force desired social change in the name of justice? Why has culture come to be seen as inherently oppressive to women? In this finely crafted book, Dorothy L. Hodgson examines the history of legal ideas and institutions in Tanzania – from customary law...
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
Aging, Gender, and Body in North India
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2000
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open...
Gender and Power in Sierra Leone
Women Chiefs of the Last Two Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.
Revolution within the Revolution
Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutionary struggle. However, the story of women's part in the struggle's success has only now received comprehensive consideration in Michelle Chase's history...
by Anne M. Prouty Lyness
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Reinforce the relationship between healthy bodies and healthy relationships in families!
Feminist Perspectives in Medical Family Therapy explores the groundbreaking collaboration of therapy and medicine to form a biopsychosocial approach to health care. In this book, feminists from several...
Hard Work Is Not Enough
Gender and Racial Inequality in an Urban Workspace
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed. Moreover, the gap between the wealthy and the poor had widened in past decades as mobility remained stubbornly unchanged. Against this deepening...
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust
Between Destruction and Construction
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This book explores, for the first time, the impact of the Holocaust on the gender identities of Jewish men. Drawing on historical and sociological arguments, it specifically looks at the experiences of men in France, Holland, Belgium, and Poland.
Jewish Masculinity in the Holocaust starts by...
The state as master
Gender, state formation and commercialisation in urban Sweden, 1650–1780
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
We tend to think of state service as the typical male form of work. However, this notion does not do justice to the early history of states and their servants, and it obscures the role of women and gender entirely. Teasing out these entanglements, The state as master shows how early modern state formation...
Race, Gender, and Class in Criminology
The Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
These essays, first published in 1996, focus on class, race, and gender as organising and analytical concepts in criminology. For many years, their importance in studying how the world relates to crime and its control was minimized or ignored. It is clear, however, that these concepts are of critical...