Gender studies, gender groups

This edited collection provides a forum for rigorous analysis of the necessity for both legal and social change with regard to regulation of same-sex relationships and rainbow families, the status of civil partnership as a concept and the lived reality of equality for LGBTQ+ persons.

Die Heilige Schrift Israels - in christlicher Leseweise das Alte Testament - ist der Horizont der neutestamentlichen Christusverkündigung.

Qu’est-ce qui provoque la nervosité féminine au XIX^e siècle ?

This volume presents a detailed and in-depth examination of women of color political elites in the United States in varying levels of office and non-elected positions.

Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship.

This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11.

This edited collection opens new ways to look at queenship in areas and countries not usually studied and reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary work and geographic range of the field.

Following the Second World War, women teachers filled a labour shortage in schools and Canadian newspapers rushed to feature their presence.

Ellison "e;Tarzan"e; Brown was one of America's premier marathon runners during the 1930s and 1940s.

Looking beyond the familiar trappings of the cult of female chastity-such as hagiographies of widows and chastity shrines--in late imperial China, this book explores the cult's political significance and practical ramifications in everyday life during the eighteenth century.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world.

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students.

Revolutionizing Motherhood examines one of the most astonishing human rights movements of recent years.

In 1931, the New York Times hailed Belle Case La Follette as "e;probably the least known yet most influential of all the American women who have had to do with public affairs.

This contributed volume is the first-known collection of essays that brings together scholarly review, critiques, and primary and secondary data to assess how sociocultural factors influence health behavior in South Asian women.

This collection of original essays on Virginia Woolf by leading scholars in the field opens up new debates on the work of one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century.

For some people, at some times, in some places, on some drugs, dance music can be a gateway to transformative, even transcendent experiences.

Dieses Buch wirft einen interdisziplinären Blick auf die Kultur der Scham in Zentralasien und bewertet ihre Rolle bei der Regulierung der sozialen und politischen Interaktionen in der Region.

This volume series on Women Society and Culture is an attempt to collate information from various sources on different themes strata it could serge a-s a repository not only to the masses but also to students, researchers.

COVID-19: Individual Rights and Community Responsibilities provides critical insights into the tensions between individual rights and community responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Japanese koseki system is the legal and social structure keeping record of all Japanese citizens.

"Der Pay Gap ist ein Mythos!

First published in 1984, Women who do and women who don't join the women's movement asks a variety of women - some of whom chose to align themselves with the women's movement, others who chose not to - to write about their lives and the reasons for choices they have made.

Public Health is one of the fastest growing university programs in the United States today.

Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes.

Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years.

Covering from 1900 to the present day, this book highlights how female artists, actors, writers, and activists were involved in the fight for women's rights, with a focus on popular culture that includes film, literature, music, television, the news, and online media.

This study shows how contemporary theory can serve to clarify structures of identity and economies of desire in medieval texts.

Anais Nin: A Myth of Her Own traces Nin's literary craft by following the intimacy of self-exploration and poetic expression attained in the details of the quotidian, transfigured into fiction.

A collaborative, up-to-the-minute account of American literature written by women, from pre-colonial times to the present.

Greater participation by women in peace negotiations, policy-making, and legal decision-making would have a lasting impact on conflict resolution, development, and the maintenance of peace in post-conflict zones.

In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities.

This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow's canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars-including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether, Ilene Philipson, Meg Jay, Daphne de Marneffe, Alison Stone and Petra Bueskens-in a mix of memoir, festschrift, reflection, critical analysis and new directions in Chodorowian scholarship.

First published in 1983, Prejudice and Pride chronicles legal and social discrimination against gay people living in Britain in 1980s.

During the mid-1990s, a bilingual intercultural education initiative was launched to promote the introduction of indigenous languages alongside Spanish in public elementary schools in Bolivia's indigenous regions.

This lively and beautifully illustrated account follows some remarkable eighteenth-century women in their gardens.

This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Baldwin (Publishers Weekly).

This book explores the relationship between gender, religion and political action in Indonesia, examining the patterns of gender orders that have prevailed in recent history, and demonstrating the different forms of social power this has afforded to women.

In 1763 King George III of Great Britain, victorious in the Seven Years War with France, issued a proclamation to organize the governance of territory newly acquired by the Crown in North America and the Caribbean.

Knockout: The Boxer and Boxing in American Cinema is the first book-length study of the Hollywood boxing film, a popular movie entertainment since the 1930s, that includes such classics as Million Dollar Baby, Rocky, and Raging Bull.

Exploring the history of contemporary legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, Williams here traces the development of the themes that justified and impelled Spanish, English, and American conquests of the New World.

A collective biography of France's first generation of female secondary schoolteachers, this book examines the conflict between their public and private lives and places their new professional standing wtihin the political culture of the Third Republic.

A Mohawk Memoir from the War of 1812 presents the story of John Norton, or Teyoninhokarawen, an important war chief and political figure among the Grand River Haudenosaunee (or Iroquois) in Upper Canada.

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought.

In Turkey, the Justice and Development Party government has introduced new regulations about reproductive rights, and shifted family and gender policies.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.

Starting after the Great War, this book charts the rise of the ritualistic engagement, the modern white wedding and the more widely available honeymoon holiday, to show changes and continuities in English masculinity by considering power relations between men and women.