Gender Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385311830Author Anne MoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

The Irish battle for legal contraception was a contest over Irish exceptionalism: the belief that Ireland could resist global trends despite the impact of second-wave feminism, falling fertility, and a growing number of women travelling for abortion. It...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568588544Author Dani McClainFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 385gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm *...

This book presents a new approach to the understanding of non-normative sexuality and gender transgressive modes in South Asia and South Asian diaspora. It reconceives sexual representation from the point of view of the theoretical, political and...

Revisits and updates the centrality of the social construction of sexuality, especially in the age of Viagra, FSD (female sexual dysfunction) and the media saturation of sex. Leonore Tiefer is one of the foremost sexologists working in the United States...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857490162Author Sylvia TamaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Pambazuka PressPublisher Pambazuka PressDimensions(mm) 235mm * 160mm * 35mm

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.About the AuthorUlrich...

This book aims to help therapists understand the challenges gay men face in their sex lives, providing professionals and gay men with evidence-based interventions and clinical tools to help them heal and live overall healthier lives.Gay men have unique...

In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies...

This book analyzes the cosmopolitan lives of British Asian Muslim women. Drawing on interview and online data, the book debunks stereotypical assumptions and explores the multiple and meaningful links that British Asian Muslim women establish within and...

Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with the increasing dissatisfaction among women that is revealed in survey after survey? Do gender-blind...

Feminine Lost explores the premise that all human beings are constructed of two energies, one masculine and one feminine. With the rise of the feminist movement, many women have migrated to their masculine side, some to the extent of losing access to...

Showing how gender history contributes to existing understandings of the Second World War, this book offers detail and context on the national and transnational experiences of men and women during the war. Following a general introduction, the essays...

Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That's taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences explain everything from sexual...

Reproductive rights are fundamental for the life, freedom, health, and safety of over half the world's population. Yet reproductive freedoms are under attack worldwide, even where women have achieved political rights and workplace participation...

Arab American Women, Identity, and Intersectionality extends postcolonial feminist theory to include intersectionally marginalized bodies in the classroom and in social science discourse. In a climate where the Arab, Muslim, woman's identity is both...

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Is civil society's influence favorable to the evolvement of democratic structures and democratic gender relations? While traditional approaches would answer in the affirmative, the authors highlight the ambivalences. Focusing on women's organizations in...

In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book "The Female Body and the Law", Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road...

Der Menschheit ist es bislang nicht gelungen, die Lebensgrundlagen fur alle Menschen zu sichern. Ein wesentlicher Grund dafur ist die vorherrschende kapitalistische Weltwirtschaft, die auf der Ausbeutung und Nutzung der Natur beruht - doch dieser Zustand...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541603769Author Sara AhmedFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 20mm

The influential philosopher and theorist Luce Irigaray has been faulted for giving more importance to sexual difference than to race and multiculturalism. Penelope Deutscher's eagerly awaited book, the first to focus on the scholar's controversial later...

'A principled, timely and vital reminder of why justice matters' PHILIPPE SANDS'Accessible, forensic and breathtakingly humane' SHAMI CHAKRABARTITold through captivating real cases in real courts, the former President of the Supreme Court leads us on a...

This open access book tells the story of how Congress and courts have responded to online misogyny and online gender-based violence in Brazil. As thousands of women, young and old, famous and anonymous, are targeted with online violence violating their...

'Fun, rooted in science... May this book give all women strength for the times we now live in.' Cat BohannonA myth-busting vindication of women's physical strengthsFor decades, Starre Vartan - like most women - was told that having a woman's body meant...

Annis May Timpson demonstrates how Canadian women's calls for family-friendly employment policies have translated into inaction or inappropriate action on the part of successive federal governments. She focuses on debates, public inquiries, and policy...

The mental labor that keeps families afloat-and why women do most of itMothers and fathers use their time differently, with women spending roughly twice as many hours on family labor as men. But what about the gendered differences in the ways women and...

This book explores and compares the roles, mentalities, and destinies of elitist and working-class women in Europe's most dramatic revolutions: England's "Puritan Revolution" of 1640-1660, France's 1789 Revolution, and Russia's 1917 Revolution.By...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765153239Author Bailey StoneFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

The first book to explore the queer politics of LGBTQ+ Pride in global terms, exploring the impacts, controversies and potential of Pride across the world.Drawing from extensive fieldwork in South Africa, South and East Asia, Cuba and New York, The Queer...

The first book to explore the queer politics of LGBTQ+ Pride in global terms, exploring the impacts, controversies and potential of Pride across the world.Drawing from extensive fieldwork in South Africa, South and East Asia, Cuba and New York, The Queer...

Reimagining sport beyond the gender binary, where movement and identity break free from tradition Skating Away from the Binary takes a critical look at the ways gender binarism remains deeply embedded in sport, with a focus on pairs figure skating...

The concept of identity is complex and affected by personal and cultural pressures. No more so than during adolescence, a time when we endeavour to find out who we truly are as our minds and bodies go through many changes, we start to disidentify with...

The remarkable story of the women who defined sexual harassment as unlawful sex discrimination under Title IXWhen the US Congress enacted Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, no one expected it to become a prominent tool for confronting sexual...

This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era - changes in the family...

Femicide in Latin America: A Growing Threat to Women's Security explores the persistent and rising rates of femicide across sixteen Central and South American countries as a critical issue of national stability and regional security.The book examines how...

A landmark volume documenting the scope and insidiousness of gendered abuse in academia, revealing the limits of institutional redress, and sharing hard-won strategies for change.Broken Record brings together narratives of gendered abuse in academia from...

This book synthesises narrative research on men convicted of intimate femicide/feminicide in Latin America. Based on repeated biographical interviews conducted across eight countries, it offers a sociological exploration of the perpetrators' lives and...

This book explores representations of fathers in select South African novels published from the birth of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. Father figures in the texts reflect political and social climates in South Africa - at different times...

This Palgrave Pivot offers insight into the factors that influence, motivate and inform young men's online experiences. In Australia and globally recent media and public discourse has expressed strong concerns about the gender-based harms arising from...