Gender Studies

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement. The book helps to broaden the group's "collective...

Set against the backdrop of a country which upholds a heteronormative and narrow view of family, this book provides insights into the lives of Hungarian same-sex couples and their heterosexual relatives. Beres-Deak utilizes the theoretical framework of...

This book contributes to the emerging field of men’s health studies, delving into how men incorporate, adapt, negotiate, and reject health care practices to perform masculinities in daily interactions. By moving beyond the simplistic association between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783846539040Author Rajni Singh RajawatFormat PaperbackImprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639100280Author Iryna BagramyanFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 136g

Offering 12 interviews with postcolonial thinkers in the social sciences and humanities, this collection features theorists such as Sara Ahmed and Paul Gilroy. Topics range from Bob Marley to the Black Panthers, Fanon to feminism, and anti-apartheid to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208118723Author Shradha VarmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint 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 9786208247393Author Moise DaFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

This book analyses the impact of postfeminist discourse and the mainstreaming of pornography on our understanding of intimacy and female sexuality. It is a broad critical survey of a recent publishing phenomenon - the female-authored erotic memoir - and...

This book explores gender inequity and the gender gap from a range of perspectives including historical, motherhood, professional life and diversity. Using a narrative approach, the book shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and...

Examines Tertullian of Carthage's (160-220 C.E.) writings on dress within Roman vestimentary culture. It employs a socio-historical approach, together with insights from performance theory and feminist rhetorical analysis, to situate Tertullian's...

In an age of global information structures, what scope exists for independent citizen action in media and cultural policy formation? How can audiences effectively voice critiques of media content? In an increasingly market-centred and consumer-oriented...

This book explores gender inequity and the gender gap from a range of perspectives including historical, motherhood, professional life and diversity. Using a narrative approach, the book shares diverse experiences and perspectives of the gender gap and...

This book explores the work and careers of women, trans, and third-gender artists engaged in political activism. While some artists negotiated their own political status in their indigenous communities, others responded to global issues of military...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789956615469Author Lilian Lem AtangaFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Langaa RPCIGPublisher Langaa RPCIGWeight(grams) 357g

This book proposes the framework of gendered academic citizenship to capture the multidimensional and complex dynamics of power relations and everyday practices in the contemporary context of academic capitalism. The book proposes an innovative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639137835Author Sarah Revi SterlingFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208540203Author Chafiaa DjouadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge PublishingWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786208035488Author José Maximiliano Ceiter FernándezFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Our Knowledge PublishingPublisher Our Knowledge...

Contributing to feminist approaches to masculinities, this book examines men's contextual experiences of masculine identity. Drawing on new data which compares men as they move across and between public and domestic spaces, it explores the implications...

Nyla Ali Khan, the granddaughter of the first Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, gives an insider's analysis on the political and social turmoil that has eroded the ethos and fabric of Kasmiri culture. She monitors the effects...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639143843Author Lekkie HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 395g

This timely study breaks new ground in exploring how recent film and television horror texts articulate a female rite of passage, updating the cautionary concerns found in fairy tales of the past, particularly in warning against predatory men,...

Dani Joly brings together theoretical and empirical research on ethnic minorities in Eastern and Western Europe showing that their positions and the increased prejudices they encounter share many similarities throughout Europe. Whether racism and...

This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776. Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the...

An exploration of the representations of the women's movement, its members, and their goals between 1968 and 2008 in the British and American press. Examining over 1100 news articles, the book analyses the nuanced ways feminism has historically been...

Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple sites such as media, politics and activism. Through individual examples, the essays reveal the extent to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781742589251Author Prudence BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint UWAPPublisher UWA PublishingWeight(grams) 500g

This book is about evangelical women, power and religion. It is a sociological study using quantitative data, including interviews. It looks at women's attitudes to ministry, work and childcare, marriage, money, and issues such as sex, abortion, divorce,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783030283094Author Jessica McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint Palgrave MacMillanPublisher Palgrave MacMillanWeight(grams) 148g

This book explores the place of feminism and uptake of trauma in contemporary work against sexual violence. Egan presents a refreshing alternative position on arguments about the co-optation or erasure of feminism within institutionalized,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783847373391Author Pydayya RajeevFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...

While some see the Miss American Pageant as hokey vestige of another era, many remain enthralled by the annual Atlantic City event. And whether you love it or hate it, no one can deny the impact the contest has had on American popular culture-indeed,...

This book provides an in-depth, feminist and sociological analysis of Gamergate, a major social movement and anti-feminist harassment campaign. Gamergate provides a clear example of both how a modern anti-feminist 'backlash' is enacted, and how feminists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783639378344Author Noemi PodolyakFormat PaperbackImprint VDM VerlagPublisher VDM VerlagWeight(grams) 150g

Can a person be Christian and Feminist at the same time? In these extended essays, authors explore the various intersections of feminism, feminist theory and practice, and Christian tradition as it is lived out in the lives of Christian academics.Book...

This book takes a novel approach to the study of male eating disorders - an area that is often dominated by clinical discourses. The study of eating disorders in men has purportedly suffered from a lack of dedicated attention to personal and...

This book analyzes the interaction between gender and species in Chaucer's poetry and strives to understand his adaptation of medieval discourse through an ecofeminist lens. Works that either speak of animals, or those with animals speaking, give new...

In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III)...

This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working relationships with their families of origin, as their notion of family distinguishes them from same sex...