Gender studies, gender groups

Research on sexual violence has been a growing area of academic study since the 1970s.

In Teaching Critical Thinking, renowned cultural critic and progressive educator bell hooks addresses some of the most compelling issues facing teachers in and out of the classroom today.

A collection of 60 short prose pieces by best-selling author and design critic Akiko Busch that reflect, in her classic style of observation, on the human condition and offer insights on family, domestic space, and a changing environment.

September 11 has become a temporal and symbolic marker of the world's brutal entry into the third millennium.

Turning on its head that familiar "e;woman question,"e; this innovative work poses masculinity as a problem that requires explanation.

Alcohol has been central to social, religious and personal use throughout the history.

Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an emergent sport where competitors in a ring or cage utilize strikes (punches, kicks, elbows and knees) as well as submission techniques to defeat opponents.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful?

This set of original articles probes the breadth of vital issues surrounding the impact of war and violence on women globally-and examines what is being done to mitigate their effects.

A groundbreaking and deeply personal exploration of Tribal enrollment, and what it means to be Native American in the United States "e;A genre-bending work of reportage, memoir, and history"e; -The New Yorker"e;Candid, unflinching .

This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I's reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France.

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship.

This book explores the history, effects, diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue as well its significant links to other illnesses.

Heightened awareness of the problem of sexual abuse has led to deep anxiety over adults touching children-in nearly any context.

This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905.

In The Fantasy of Feminist History, Joan Wallach Scott argues that feminist perspectives on history are enriched by psychoanalytic concepts, particularly fantasy.

How can you make the most of retirement?

This timely volume identifies factors that impede the success of women in STEM professions and demonstrates the negative impact of sexual harassment on women's physical health, mental health, and job performance.

2 Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and preserved by the Church.

Ziel der Arbeit ist die Entwicklung und Validierung des wertorientierten Modells für das strategische Gesundheitsmanagement in Beratungsunternehmen (WOGE-Modell), um die Zusammenhänge zwischen der gesundheitlichen Konstitution von Unternehmensberaterinnen und -beratern und deren Wertschöpfung zu untersuchen.

How much sex should a person have?

Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil examines the dynamic interplay between the Brazilian government and the Xavante Indians of central Brazil in the context of twentieth-century western frontier expansion and the state's indigenous policy.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

Jennifer Bain contextualizes the revival of Hildegard''s music, engaging with intersections amongst local devotion and political, religious, and intellectual activity.

This book explores recent social policy reforms and innovations in Chile.

This book addresses the issue of agency in relation to child marriage.

Is obesity really a public health problem and what does the construction of obesity as a health problem mean for men?

Television writer Tracy McMillan’s comic literary road trip into the heart and soul of her relationship with her father—a convicted pimp, drug dealer, and felon—and what it has meant for her relationships with men.

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch.

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the nineteenth through early twenty-first centuries.

Winner of the 2008 Washington State Book Award in History/BiographyThis updated edition of Native Seattle brings the indigenous story to the present day and puts the movement of recognizing Seattle's Native past into a broader context.

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Do the new Asian economies encourage gender equality?

Warum erzeugt Gewalt wieder Gewalt?

In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets.

This book studies the intimate tensions between affect and emotions as terrains of sociopolitical significance in the cinema of Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, and Lucia Puenzo.

Raum ist nicht geschlechtsneutral - mittlerweile eine gängige Perspektive in den raumbezogenen Wissenschaften.

Pentecostalism is one of the fastest-growing religious movements in the world.

Much of the existing scholarship on Nancy Mairs has approached her essays in the context of disability studies.

What role do transitional justice processes play in determining the gender outcomes of transitions from conflict and authoritarianism?

This book is about the future: Ireland's future and feminism's future, approached from a moment that has recently passed.

In May 1936, Abe Sada committed the most notorious crime in twentieth-century Japan-the murder and emasculation of her lover.

The first comprehensive study of rape – its images and its politics – at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance.

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

Meaning-Centered-Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting provides a theoretical context for Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), a non-pharmalogic intervention which has been shown to enhance meaning and spiritual well-being, increase hope, improve quality of life, and significantly decrease depression, anxiety, desire for hastened death, and symptom burden distress in the cancer setting.

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?

A much-needed corrective to the history of single authorship, this timely volume offers new insight into the lives and practices of the artist couples, friendships and communities that shaped postwar art in Italy.

This book tells the story of new Yugoslav feminism in the 1970s and 1980s, reassessing the effects of state socialism on women's emancipation through the lens of the feminist critique.

England in the nineteenth century became a predominantly middle-class society, with new opportunities for men, but new social and economic restrictions on "e;respectable"e; women.