Gender Studies category: 10311 books
Gender based violence in university communities
Policy, prevention and educational initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
Until recently, higher education in the UK has largely failed to recognise gender-based violence (GBV) on campus, but following the UK government task force set up in 2015, universities are becoming more aware of the issue. And recent cases in the media about the sexualised abuse of power in institutions...
Feminist Perspectives on Art
Contemporary Outtakes
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
When the body is foregrounded in artwork – as in much contemporary performance, sculptural installation and video work – so is gendered and sexualised difference. Feminist Perspectives on Art: Contemporary Outtakes looks to interactions between art history, theory, curation, and studio-based...
by Tina White
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAN’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY GOES HEAD-TO-HEAD WITH A WOMAN’S LOVE?Tom had carved out a successful career helping companies transform. He loved big change. He also loved being a husband and father. His wife, Mary, called him her knight in shining armor.But Tom struggled with a...
Essential Breakthroughs
Conversations about Men, Mothers and Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
Essential Breakthroughs: Conversations About Men, Mothers, and Mothering thinks from the nexus of gender, essentialism, and care. The authors creatively blend the philosophical and the personal to collectively argue that while gender is essential to our social and theoretical definitions of care,...
Man-Made Woman
The Dialectics of Cross-Dressing
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2017
On July 27th, 2015, Colin Cremin overcame a lifetime of fear and repression and came to work dressed as a woman called Ciara. This book charts her personal journey as a male-to-female cross-dresser in the ever-changing world of gender politics. Interweaving the personal and the political, through...
Making Black Los Angeles
Class, Gender, and Community, 1850-1917
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
Black Los Angeles started small. The first census of the newly formed Los Angeles County in 1850 recorded only twelve Americans of African descent alongside a population of more than 3,500 Anglo Americans. Over the following seventy years, however, the African American founding families of Los Angeles...
by Paula J Caplan, Jeremy Caplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
The authors first demonstrate that most of the claims about sex and gender are not well supported by research, and then provide readers with constructive critical tools they can apply to this wealth of research to come to realistic, constructive conclusions. All of this is provided in a concise, inexpensive volume by a best-selling trade author and instructor team.
International Criminal Law and Sexual Violence against Women
The Interpretation of Gender in the Contemporary International Criminal Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This book explores the prosecution of wartime sexual violence in international criminal law and asks what the juridicalisation of gender-based violence signifies for women. The book explores the portrayal of the various gendered identities that surface in armed conflict and it asks whether the law...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
countries in this region have been particularly limited (for an exception to this, see Petmesidou & Papatheodorou, 2006). The underlying assumption in this volume is that despite the diversity of welfare states bordering the Mediterranean Sea, some interesting commonalities are shared by these...
Converting Women
Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
With the emergence of Hindu nationalism, the conversion of Indians to Christianity has become a volatile issue, erupting in violence against converts and missionaries. At the height of British colonialism, however, conversion was a path to upward mobility for low-castes and untouchables, especially...
Missing the Mark?
Women and the Millennium Development Goals in Africa and Oceania
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
In the year 2000, United Nations world leaders set out eight targets, the UN Millennium Development Goals, for achieving improved standards of living at the micro level in poorer nations around the globe, by the year 2015. The papers in this collection present fine-detailed ethnographic studies of...
Race and Gender in the Classroom
Teachers, Privilege, and Enduring Social Inequalities
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Race and Gender in the Classroom explores social inequalities in education in the current era of “post-racial” and “post-gendered” politics. In particular, this book illuminates the obstacles that mitigate the potential for teachers to serve as social justice advocates in the classroom by...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger context of early modern Europe. How do early scientific discourses infiltrate other cultural domains...
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.