Gender Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207805723Author Hellen A MwangovyaFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786207744473Author Nayara Thainan Costa RuggeriFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781760460884Author Martha MacIntyreFormat PaperbackImprint ANU PressPublisher ANU Press

Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783038978664Author Christa BinswangerFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Mdpi AGPublisher Mdpi AGWeight(grams) 762g

Published over forty years ago, the original edition of Titled Elizabethans provided a ready reference source to Elizabethan court, state, and household. This long-awaited revised edition expands considerably upon the original, adding new categories and...

Zimbabwean social media has been awash with images of a woman character, spirit, or concept called Chihera. Traditionally, a woman descending from the Mhofu (Eland) lineage/totem is known as Chihera. In the cumulative tradition of the Shona (a Zimbabwean...

This wide-ranging collection analyzes the status and advancement of women both in a national context and collectively on a global scale, as a powerful social force in a rapidly evolving world. The countries studied-China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Egypt,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639035452Author Paula MahlckFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639005585Author Mikhail NemtsevFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639762273Author Elfira MinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Scholars' PressPublisher Scholars' PressWeight(grams) 739g

This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico. The authors document and celebrate many of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783843359382Author Emek ErgunFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639156904Author Alys WillmanFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 336g

This volume is an engaging and provocative introduction to Feminist Biblical Studies. The authors draw upon their own social, cultural and religious backgrounds and experiences in reading the New Testament as feminists in the context of globalization...

Repetition and seriality are inherent in pornography and is constitutive for its functionality as a film genre, an industry, and an area of gender studies. By linking the styles of the genre to processes of serial production, consumption, and discussion,...

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West. In this wide-ranging reevaluation, incorporating development studies and political sociology, Maxine Molyneux redresses this...

An examination of the interrelationship between gender, race, narrative, and nationalism in black politics specifically within American politics as a whole. The author not only highlights the critical role of race and gender, she goes further to show how...

Inverting the traditional focus of ethnic studies on blackness as the object of scrutiny, this book explores dominant forms of white masculinity as seen by African American authors placed alongside certain white writers. Author analyzes texts by Herman...

This book makes a unique contribution to contemporary research into masculinities, men's movements, and fathers' rights groups. It examines the role of changing masculinities in creating equality and/or reinforcing inequality by analysing diverse men's...

Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and social integration, arguing that women in Britain zigzag their way to social integration.Book...

Japan and the United States are under global and domestic pressures to simultaneously expand and to restrict immigration. In both countries migration, refugee and citizenship policies have become highly contentious political issues. Myron Weiner and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208273323Author Camila ParenteFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Interested in the nexus between sport, gender, and language, Sport, Rhetoric, and Gender: Historical Perspectives and Media Representations contains 21 wide-ranging chapters examining sport vis-a-vis the language surrounding and incorporated by it in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779150066Author Sarah C MvududuFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Weaver PressPublisher Weaver PressWeight(grams) 122g

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the emergence, consolidation and development of the Irish women's movement, as a social movement, in the course of the twentieth century. It seek to address several lacunae in Irish studies by illuminating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789171067128Author Ilda LindellFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Nordic African InstitutePublisher Nordic African InstituteWeight(grams) 91g

This empowering volume presents current empirical findings and rich personal insights into the evolving challenges women face in attaining-and thriving in-leadership positions. Contributors add new voices to emerging and familiar topics, including...

A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach.Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639271799Author Vida RahiminezhadFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 272g

How is it possible to fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) without disrespecting traditional values? This study analyses 'film' as a tool for Human Rights Education in Burkina Faso, especially when it includes thought structures of the local...

This edited book provides a unique opportunity for international scholars to contribute to the exploration of liminality in the field of Anglo-American literature written by or about women between the Victorian period and the Second World War.Book...

An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power...

Initially expected to bring efficiency to the Russian economy and prosperity to Russian society, the shock therapy of price liberalization, privatization and macroeconomic stabilization introduced under Boris Yeltsin was quickly condemned as having...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789991271255Author Emang Basadi Women's AssociationFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint LightbooksPublisher LightbooksWeight(grams) 78g

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 book analyses the practice of virginity testing endured by South Asian women who wished to enter Britain between the late 1960s and the early 1980s, and places this practice into a wider historical context. Using recently opened government documents...

How many people have migrated from central and Eastern Europe since the 1989 revolutions? Are fears of mass migration from eastern Europe well-founded? What are the causes and effects, in both the sending and receiving countries, of such population...

The book's broad theme is that the evolution of the power to control labour flows among different territorial jurisdictions was of major importance in the formation of a system of states. Labour export policy in eight countries in Southern Africa is...

Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in recent years. This book analyzes the politics, ethics, and affects at play in the filmic construction of rape...