Gender Studies category: 10311 books
by Gail Hershatter
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
If we place women at the center of our account of China’s last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? This deeply knowledgeable book illuminates the places where the Big History of recognizable events intersects with the daily lives of ordinary people, using gender...
Reality Gendervision
Sexuality and Gender on Transatlantic Reality Television
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This essay collection focuses on the gendered dimensions of reality television in both the United States and Great Britain. Through close readings of a wide range of reality programming, from Finding Sarah and Sister Wives to Ghost Adventures and Deadliest Warrior, the contributors think through questions...
Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains
Beyond the Binary
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide...
Fashionable Queens
Body Power Gender
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The essays collected in this book provide profound insights into the wide-ranging topic of the fashionable queen: the manifold implications and effects that the combination of body, power and gender can have are examined by using different approaches and a variety of theoretical frameworks. By addressing...
by Lisa J. M. Poirier
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The individual and cultural upheavals of early colonial New France were experienced differently by French explorers and settlers, and by Native traditionalists and Catholic converts. However, European invaders and indigenous people alike learned to negotiate the complexities of cross-cultural encounters...
Two Spirits, One Heart
A Mother, Her Transgender Son, and Their Journey to Love and Acceptance
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
“Marsha shares her journey from fear and uncertainty to acceptance, support, and unconditional love of Aiden as he reconciled his gender identity…I recommend their co-written memoir Two Spirits, One Heart.”—George Takei
In the first book...
Making Sense of Parenthood
Caring, Gender and Family Lives
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Following on from Making Sense of Motherhood (2005) and Making Sense of Fatherhood (2010), Tina Miller's book focuses on transitions to first-time parenthood and the unfolding experiences of managing caring and paid work in modern family lives. Returning to her original participants, it collects later...
by Sarah Borden Sharkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
This book articulates the theoretical outlines of a feminism developed from Aristotle’s metaphysics, making a new contribution to feminist theory. Readers will discover why Aristotle was not a feminist and how he might have become one, through an investigation of Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition....
The Wars We Inherit
Military Life, Gender Violence, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
By combining personal memoir and critical analysis, Lori Amy links the violence we live in our homes to the violence that structures our larger culture. The Wars We Inherit brings insights from memory and trauma studies to the story of violence in the author’s own family.
In this brave, fascinating...
Global Masculinities
Interrogations and Reconstructions
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
What does it mean to be male in today’s world?
This volume interrogates the myriad practices and myth-making that underlie dominant and subordinate constructions of masculinities around the world. Challenging the patriarchal bias that restricts alternative understanding of masculinities,...
by Clare Bartholomaeus, Damien W. Riggs
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive account of the educational experiences of students, parents, and educators—transgender and cisgender—in the context of current debates about the inclusion of transgender people in schools. Drawing on critiques of cisgenderism and emphasising the importance of...
Rice Plus
Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2006
This book explores the economic coping practices of rural widows in the aftermath of the Cambodian civil war. War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the...
Digital Dilemmas
Transforming Gender Identities and Power Relations in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
The proliferation of digital technologies, virtual spaces, and new forms of engagement raise key questions about the changing nature of gender relations and identities within democratic societies. This book offers a unique collection of chapters that brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds...
Domestic Violence in Diverse Contexts
A Re-examination of Gender
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Overwhelmingly, it is women who are the victims of domestic violence and this book puts women’s experiences of domestic violence at its centre, whilst acknowledging their many diverse and complex identities.
Concentrating on the various forms of domestic abuse and its occurrence and manifestations...