Gender Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783515093439Author Monica NeveFormat HardbackPage Count 259Imprint Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbHPublisher Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden...

What do home health aides, call center operators, prostitutes, sperm donors, nail manicurists, and housecleaners have in common? Around the world, they make their livings through touch, closeness, and personal care. Their labors, both paid and unpaid,...

Relatively high wages and the opportunity to be part of an upscale, globalized work environment draw many in India to the call center industry. At the same time, night shift employment presents women, in particular, with new challenges alongside the...

The collapse of state socialism in eastern and central Europe in 1989 had a dramatic impact on women. Witnessing the loss of state support for their economic activity, the curtailing of their reproductive rights, and the rise of gender ideologies that...

Since the 1990s, Gender-Based Violence (GBV) has been contextualized as one of the primary endemic developmental issues affecting the lives of Caribbean people. Physical, verbal, sexual, emotional and financial violence against persons as a result of...

This sophisticated and comprehensive study is the first to situate Japanese American women's writing within theoretical contexts that provide a means of articulating the complex relationships between language and the body, gender and agency, nationalism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781776920730Author Alison GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Te Herenga Waka University PressPublisher Te Herenga Waka University Press

This book explores the systemic treatment of women in various countries — especially in the Indian sub-continent, the Middle East, and in sub-Saharan Africa — highlighting why these areas are amongst the most dangerous places in the world for women to...

A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.  We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist...

Reading Literature and Theory at the Intersections of Queer and Class focuses on the crossover of queer and class, examining a range of texts across languages and genres and spanning nearly a century.This collection of chapters considers the intersection...

Being a Woman and Being Tatar uses ethnographic research to explore the multifaceted and complex identities - such as gender, ethnicity, religion - of Tatar women in Siberia and Estonia.Focusing on the intersections and interactions of multiple...

This book tells the story of how ordinary Peruvian men and women experienced their lives, and especially their marriages, in a patriarchal society and how, through the struggles involved in divorce, women tried to defend their rights and in the process...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893030723Author Diane EhrensaftFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The Experiment LLCPublisher The Experiment LLC

Original research chapters are balanced with personal narratives.About the AuthorChris Bobel, Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Samantha Kwan, Associate Professor of Sociology at...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826517869Author Chris BobelFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Critically adapts the notion of desire in Luce Irigaray's philosophy to rethink the role of embodiment in sociopolitical and philosophical discourses today.Arguing for a radical return to desire in Luce Irigaray's thought, this book decisively intervenes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783825855789Author Maike De HaardtFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit Verlag

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608012053Author Julia RothFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint University of New Orleans PressPublisher University of New Orleans PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783643905499Author Mechthild LeutnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Lit VerlagPublisher Lit VerlagWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956504020Author Carolin HauckFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint ErgonPublisher ErgonWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783848770960Author Ulla WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftPublisher Nomos VerlagsgesellschaftWeight(grams) 567g

Why are so many ghost stories narrated by men - and what do these tales reveal about ideas of masculinity? Anna S. Berger explores how Victorian and Edwardian supernatural fiction reflects anxieties around imperial decline, compulsive heterosexuality,...

This anthology explores the causes and consequences of persistent gender-based inequalities in contemporary China. Through 13 chapters, it examines how gender inequality is shaped, reinforced, questioned and worked around in early 21st century China...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634312745Author Anita BartholomewFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Pitchstone PublishingPublisher Pitchstone PublishingWeight(grams) 349g

Women, Travel, and Writing in the Interwar Era engages feminist, temporal, and narrative theories to offer fresh examinations of interwar-era accounts by women about travel and movement and considers the use and limitations of time as a subversive force...

Women in Eastern European Post-Socialist Countries: Social, Scientific, and Political Lives explores the role of women in Central and Eastern Europe in bringing about social change, and the obstacles they face in fighting for equality in various areas of...

Feminist Literary and Filmic Cultures for Social Action: Gender Response-able Labs examines teaching and research practices under feminist new materialisms, affect theories and response-ability through literary and visual products, and offers possible...

Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health addresses the sexual and reproductive health needs of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) women from a structural and intersectional perspective.AANHPI women in the United States have...

Exploring gender through the lens of field theory, Gender Fields proposes a new framework for understanding the social organisation of gender identity. In conversation with Pierre Bourdieu's field theory, the book conceptualises under-theorised situated...

A revolutionary feminist case for child liberation, a utopian project that helps us imagine ways to build insurgent, collective forms of care.  We live in a world that is profoundly against children—evident in the genocide in Palestine, the fascist...

Women in science face particular challenges, such as structural inequalities, highly competitive work environments, and at times toxic cultures. This collection conveys the experiences of women academics in Switzerland, featuring insights from twelve...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761343445Author Julia GillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798891131743Author Ossi AutioFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers Inc

Map Worlds plots a journey of discovery through the world of women map-makers from the golden age of cartography in the sixteenth-century Low Countries to tactile maps in contemporary Brazil. Author Will C. van den Hoonaard examines the history of women...

In the first three volumes of this series, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young challenge theories about patriarchy that ideological forms of feminism have promoted. In this volume, they argue that we must replace those misandric theories with one that...

Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender...