Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Feminism has transformed the academic study of literature, fundamentally altering the canon of what is taught and setting new agendas for literary analysis. In this authoritative history of feminist l...
Author: Luker, Kristin Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this important study of the abortion controversy in the United States, Kristin Luker examines the issues, people, and beliefs on both sides of the abortion conflict. She draws data from twenty year...
Author: Watson, Francis Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theol...
Author: Bowie, Angie Publisher: Pocket Essentials Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'To their way of thinking, what made it possible to desire a man or a woman was simply the appetite that nature had implanted in man's heart for 'beautiful' human beings whatever their sex might be.' ...
Author: Emmons, Kimberly K. Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: His "black dog"-that was how Winston Churchill referred to his own depression. Today, individuals with feelings of sadness and irritability are encouraged to "talk to your doctor." These have become b...
Author: Gimlin, Debra Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Today women are lifting weights to build muscle, wrapping their bodies in seaweed to reduce unwanted water retention, attending weigh-ins at diet centers, and devoting themselves to many other types o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other a...
Author: Bowden, Peta Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Caring" extends and challenges recent debates over feminist ethics by taking issue with accounts of the ethics of care which try to pin down the "principles" of caring, rather than understanding the ...
Author: Bowden, Peta Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This work investigates four main caring practices: mothering, friendship, nursing and citizenship examining the relationship between theory and practice in feminist ethics.
Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This first critical biography of Arturo Islas (19381991) brings to life the complex and overlapping worlds inhabited by the gay Chicano poet, novelist, scholar, and professor. Gracefully written...
Author: Hondagneu-Sotelo, Pierrette Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as ...
Author: Pascoe, C. J. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working...
Author: Crompton, Rosemary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Rates of employment amongst mothers of young children have risen rapidly in recent years. Attitudes to gender roles have changed, and both employers and governments have had to adjust to new realities...
Author: Menjívar, Cecilia Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Drawing on revealing, in-depth interviews, Cecilia MenjÃvar investigates the role that violence plays in the lives of Ladina women in eastern Guatemala, a little-visited and little-studied region. Wh...
Author: N/A Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume tracks countries' progress with implementing and financing the third Millennium Development Goal (MDG3) by examining national experiences and successes with policies and programs. It also ...
Author: Chambers, Leigh Ross Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For a generation or more, literary theorists have used the metaphor of "the death of the author" in considering the observation that to write is to abdicate control over the meanings one's text is cap...
Author: Craciun, Adriana Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played ...
Author: Scott, Gillian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This text discusses the development of the Women's Co-operative Guild from the 1880s to World War II. Charting the rise and fall of a feminist organization, the author assesses its political significa...
Author: Blum, Virginia L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: When did cosmetic surgery become a common practice, the stuff of everyday conversation? In a work that combines a provocative ethnography of plastic surgery and a penetrating analysis of beauty and fe...
Description: A much-anticipated sociological analysis of gender components in contemporary American Jewish life based on the most recent population data
Author: Magnusson, Eva / Marecek, Jeanne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender and Culture in Psychology introduces new approaches to the psychological study of gender that bring together feminist psychology, socio-cultural psychology, discursive psychology and critical p...
Author: World Bank, Publisher: World Bank Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "This evaluation assesses the effectiveness of the World Bank?s 2001 gender strategy and the results thereof. Covering the period fiscal 2002-08, the evaluation finds that the Bank made progress in g...
Author: Holmes, Mary Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Women and men are more alike than we might think. In this accessible and enthusiastic introduction Mary Holmes explains how sociological approaches to gender can help us understand how and why everyda...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the wake of new interest in alchemy as more significant than a bizarre aberration in rational Western European culture, this collection examines both alchemical and medical discourses in the larger...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Gender Ironies of Nationalism" provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. Including international case studies i...
Author: Bouta, Tsjeard Publisher: The World Bank Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gender, Conflict, and Development was written as an effort to fill a gap between the Bank's work on gender mainstreaming and its agenda in conflict and development. The authors identify a link between...
Description: This sixth volume of the CODESRIA Gender Series is a collection of discourses, perspectives, practices and policies on the role of the female gender in science and technology, particularly in the Afri...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of issues - both topical and controversial - raised by ...
Author: Frank, Marcie Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Gender, Theatre and the Origins of Criticism, Marcie Frank explores the theoretical and literary legacy of John Dryden to a number of prominent women writers of the time. Frank examines the pre-emi...
Author: Hollander, Jocelyn A. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The second edition of Gendered Situations, Gendered Selves has been updated throughout, and is an ideal introduction to the discussion of gender in social psychology. The book examines the basic und...
Author: Heiland, Donna Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Gothic novels tell terrifying stories of patriarchal societies that thrive on the oppression or even outright sacrifice of women and others. Donna Heiland's Gothic and Gender offers a historically inf...
Description: The traditional perception of African women is that they face grinding poverty and harsh cultural, traditional and social prejudices. Yet while it is true that African women are not equal to men, this...
Author: Koulouris, Theodore Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on materials from law, history, and social theory, this book addresses concerns specific to the underserved and understudied population of three million gay and lesbian elders in the United St...
Description: Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most important primary texts on homosexuality in ancient Greece and Rome are translated into modern, explicit English and collected together for the first time in this comprehensive sourcebook. Co...
Author: Althaus-Reid, Marcella Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: By examining the dialectics of decency and indecency and exploring a theology of sexual stories from the margins, this book brings together for the first time Liberation Theology, Queer Theory, post-M...
Author: Solinger, Rickie / Johnson, Paula C. / Raimon, Martha L. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interrupted Life is a gripping collection of writings by and about imprisoned women in the United States, a country that jails a larger percentage of its population than any other nation in the world....
