Gender studies, gender groups

In A Daughter of Isis, Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero and one of the Arab world's greatest writers, tells the story of the formative years which shaped an iconic voice in global feminism.

The American adult education system has become an alternative for school dropouts, with some state welfare policies requiring teen mothers and women without high school diplomas to participate in adult education programs to receive aid.

This edited volume takes a new look at an old question: what is the relationship between beauty and monstrosity?

This five-volume series, British Women's Writing From Bronte to Bloomsbury, 1840-1940, historically contextualizes and traces developments in women's fiction from 1840 to 1940.

Hijab: Word of God or Word of Man?

Frances Hodgson Burnett is remembered today as the author of the children's classic "e;The Secret Garden,"e; but in her lifetime she had a long and successful career as a novelist, dramatist, and writer of children's stories.

As a field of scholarship, gender and politics has exploded over the last fifty years and is now global, institutionalized, and ever expanding.

Learn how to become irresistible to men with tutelage in the art of seduction from this scandalous and beautifully bound collection of rules.

Asian Americans have become the love-hate subject of the American psyche: at times celebrated as the model minority, at other times hated as foreigners.

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Traveling with-and learning from-the women saints While visiting Siena, Italy, Mary Lea Carroll grew fascinated with the remarkable story of St.

This work explains itself and is given to the world because it is needed.

Catalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years.

In addressing men-on-women violence, Domestic Violence: Identification and Restoration provides a look into the lives of the men who are perpetrators, as well as the women and children who experience domestic violence.

This book explores the intersections of partisan politics and Christianity in contemporary society.

Passionate, powerful and thought-provoking, in The Hidden Face of Eve, leading feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi provides a shocking account of the oppression of women in the Arab world.

Significantly expanded and updated, the second edition of The Handbook of Language, Gender and Sexuality brings together a team of the leading specialists in the field to create a comprehensive overview of key historical themes and issues, along with methodologies and cutting-edge research topics.

On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism.

Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding.

This book focuses on an underestimated alternative to the mainstream liberal rights-based approach: cultural activism.

The latest in the "e;New York Times"e; bestselling series is the perfect antidote to the lies told in boardrooms, locker rooms, and universities that are brainwashing young women every day.

This book focuses on Islam in Indonesia, showcasing the wide range of Muslim organisations, belief systems and movements, together with an analysis of the political behaviour of Indonesian Muslims.

This volume examines the role of culture in developing social, cultural and political discourses of HIV/AIDS from a contemporary viewpoint.

LGBT activism is often imagined as a self-contained struggle, inspired by but set apart from other social movements.

Catalan Cinema offers a theoretical reading of the most relevant cinematic productions to emerge from Catalonia in the last twenty years.

Something is rotten in the state of Spain.

On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina's first congresswoman.

This book approaches the field of Political Islam from a European security perspective.

Throughout the World War I era, the United States Marine Corps efforts to promote their culture of manliness directed attention away from the dangers of war and military life and towards its potential benefits.

Sports can serve as an inspirational example of what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance, regardless of one's race.

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Against a backdrop of continually growing global Islamophobia, this handbook provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of the key issues, theories, debates, and developments in gendered Islamophobia, unpacking how Western, Orientalist constructions of Muslim men and women affect the lived experiences of Muslim men and women; impact social, legal, and criminological policies, practices, and discourse; and give rise to resistance against gendered Islamophobia.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on the nonverbal cues that signal our biological sex, gender, and sexual  orientation to others, as well as our sexual/romantic interest in others.

Responding to the targeted destruction of women, Fields argues for establishing Gender as a protected class under the Genocide Convention.

Something is rotten in the state of Spain.

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face.

Indigenous allies helped the Spanish gain a foothold in the Americas.

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The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers.

This book approaches the field of Political Islam from a European security perspective.

'Absorbing' - The Guardian'Illuminating' - Vogue'Fascinating' - Pandora SykesIn Nostalgia, historian Agnes Arnold-Forster blends neuroscience and psychology with the history of medicine and emotions to explore the evolution of nostalgia from seventeenth-century Switzerland (when it was held to be an illness that could, quite literally, kill you) to the present day (when it is co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies).

A partir de un recorrido por la complejidad epistémica, social y política de los feminismos indígenas y comunitarios en América Latina, Victoria Martínez y Mariana Alvarado revisan conceptos clave de la modernidad hegemónica para visibilizar sus cuestionamientos en los pensares, decires y prácticas de resistencia y de lucha de las modernidades alternativas.

How do international students and alumni contribute to development in their countries of origin?