Gender Studies

This book adds significantly to the discourse surrounding the progress made in empowering women in Africa over the last decade, providing strong research evidence on diverse and timely gender issues in varied African countries. Topics covered include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782869781399Author Elizabeth Annan-YaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CODESRIAPublisher CODESRIAWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

This book is about Black women's search for relationships and encounters that support healing from intimate and cultural violence. Narratives provide an ethnographic snapshot of this violence, while raising concerns over whether or not existing paradigms...

This book uncovers some of the major moments in the fragile and still poorly known herstory of feminist lesbian engagement in Serbia and Croatia. By treating the trauma of war, homophobia, and neoliberal capitalism as a verbally impenetrable experience...

This book interrogates why feminist memories matter. Feminist Afterlives explores how the images, ideas and feelings of past liberation struggles become freshly available and transmissible. In doing so, Red Chidgey examines how popular feminist memories...

This book is based on rich empirical data and findings concerning the lives, perceptions and ambitions of young middle-class female graduates, thus providing essential insights into the lives and viewpoints of a previously unresearched group in China...

This book provides innovative pedagogy, theory, and strategies for college and university professors who seek effective methods and materials for teaching about gender and sex to today's students. It provides thoughtful reflections on the new struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639004052Author Jennifer ReadeFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 218g

The sixth edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael Kimmel challenges the claim that gender is limited to women's experiences. His compelling and balanced study of...

Using each chapter to juxtapose works by one female and one male Spanish writer, Gender and Modernity in Spanish Literature: 1789-1920 explores the concept of Spanish modernity. Issues explored include the changing roles of women, the male hysteric, and...

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray. Arguing that female-directed cinema provides new ways to explore ideas of representation and...

This interdisciplinary anthology highlights exiled/alienated women in literature, history, and cinema. Contributors investigate when and how women from diverse backgrounds have been relegated to the margins in order to shed light on the state of...

Through focusing on the sexual politics that have emerged out of post-apartheid South Africa, Spurlin investigates textual and cultural representations of same-sex desire outside of the Euroamerican axes of queer culture and politics, and considers the...

Based on interviews with pregnant women, this book provides a multi-disciplinary empirical account of pregnant embodiment and how it relates to wider sociological and feminist discourses about gender, bodies, 'fitness', 'fat', celebrity and motherhood...

Racial Justice in America examines a volatile social issue that is always in the news, focusing on five critical areas: criminal justice, education, employment, living accommodations, and political participation. By 1451, Africans were used as slaves in...

This book examines how feminist movements in Norway and France have politicized rape, pornography and sexual exploitation of women from the 1970s to the present. Through a cross-national comparison, it provides insights into why the fight against rape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843364256Author Olga OsinovskayaFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786138922377Author Amal KhalilFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Scholars' PressPublisher Scholars' PressWeight(grams) 152g

This book presents an engaging sociological investigation into how gender is negotiated and performed in ballroom and Latin dancing that draws on extensive ethnographic research, as well as the author's own experience as a dancer. It explores the key...

This volume charts the most significant changes for a literary history of women in a period that saw the beginnings of a discourse of 'enlightened feminism'. It reveals that women engaged in forms old and new, seeking to shape and transform the culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789970022953Author Joy KwesigaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Fountain PublishersPublisher Fountain PublishersWeight(grams) 462g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786200316981Author Sanae AchagFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639100914Author Hayrunnisa GokselFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836477826Author Spogmai AkseerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 227g

This volume brings together the practical insights and experiences of individuals and organisations working in diverse regions and contexts to combat 'crimes of honour'. Authors examine strategies of response to such manifestations of violence against...

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume analyses this field of representation to argue that, while celebrations of ageing as an inspirational journey are increasing, most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639236668Author Mae ProudleyFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783844309416Author Daniel Yaw FiavehFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Multinational Maids offers an in-depth investigation into the international migrations of Filipino and Indonesian migrant domestic workers. The author taps on her rigorous study of more than 1,200 subjects' migration trajectories to reveal how these...

This Open Access book uses the concept of ‘euphoria’ to investigate when, why and how marginal gender, sex and sexuality groups have positive experiences of their diverse variations even within repressive and disordering contexts. Drawing on data from...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961609013Author Jill EichhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Thorncraft PublishingPublisher Thorncraft PublishingWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789292770914Author Asian Development BankFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Asian Development BankPublisher Asian Development BankWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207770397Author Alessandra Leite Prado LudwigFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208318291Author Karla Valeria Rodriguez CastilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207949694Author Eliza AraújoFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208424961Author Yogesh YadavFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781966014089Author Esme MeesFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint PublishdrivePublisher PublishdriveWeight(grams) 204g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648890178Author Carlos Eduardo HenningFormat HardbackPage Count 206Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon PressWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250371911Author Judith ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...