Gender studies, gender groups

This aint no Dreamgirls, Rhodessa Jones warns participants in the Medea Project, the theater program for incarcerated women that she founded and directs.

Females are the recipients of rivalrous behaviors from other women, consistently.

Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters.

This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,0, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Gender Studies), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht, ob sich die Spielerinnen und Spieler der deutschen Nationalmannschaft im Fußballsimulationsspiel "EA FC 24" hinsichtlich geschlechtsspezifischer Stereotype unterscheiden.

In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of dance as an art of and from America.

The intense urbanization and industrialization of Americas largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound shifts in sexual morality, sexual practices, and gender roles.

In this biography, Ula Taylor explores the life and ideas of one of the most important, if largely unsung, Pan-African freedom fighters of the twentieth century: Amy Jacques Garvey (18951973).

In this comprehensive history of womens antislavery petitions addressed to Congress, Susan Zaeske argues that by petitioning, women not only contributed significantly to the movement to abolish slavery but also made important strides toward securing their own rights and transforming their own political identity.

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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women but at a price.

Offering fresh insights into the history of labor policy, the New Deal, feminism, and southern politics, Landon Storrs examines the New Deal era of the National Consumers' League, one of the most influential reform organizations of the early twentieth century.

As many as 20,000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during Americas bloodiest war.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years.

Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; Old Elizabeth, an ex-slave who courageously traveled to the South to preach against slavery in the early nineteenth century; Harriet Livermore, who spoke in front of Congress four times between 1827 and 1844 these are just a few of the extraordinary women profiled in this, the first comprehensive history of female preaching in early America.

A disrobing acrobat, a female Hamlet, and a tuba-playing labor activist all these women come to life in Rank Ladies.

In the 1960s, increasing numbers of African American students entered predominantly White colleges and universities in the northern and western United States.

Farm women of the twentieth-century South have been portrayed as oppressed, worn out, and isolated.

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century.

Much of the most influential work on Joyce over the last decade has been devoted to the study of gender representation, performance, privilege, and anxiety.

In this multidisciplinary study, Ann Folwell Stanford reads literature written by U.

Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute deadbeat dads, Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make runaway husbands support their families.

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals.

This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of womens history.

In this first comprehensive study of womens property rights in early America, Marylynn Salmon discusses the effect of formal rules of law on womens lives.

The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras.

This classic work helps recover the central role of black women in the political history of the Jim Crow era.

The 1920s Jazz Age is remembered for flappers and speakeasies, not for the success of a declining labor movement.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2022 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 2,7, Free University of Berlin (Institut fur Englische Philologie), course: Culture-Gender-Media, language: English, abstract: The aim of this thesis is to examine the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women in the UK.

This book explores how women dissidents in the Soviet Union faced punishments equal to men in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, labour camps and exile, yet their political activism, imprisonment and acts of resistance remain largely overlooked in literature.

Celebrated as new consumers and condemned for their growing delinquencies, teenage girls emerged as one of the most visible segments of American society during and after World War II.

This book explores how women dissidents in the Soviet Union faced punishments equal to men in psychiatric hospitals, prisons, labour camps and exile, yet their political activism, imprisonment and acts of resistance remain largely overlooked in literature.

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960.

Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American healing practices became arts of resistance in the antebellum South.

Crime is a gendered phenomenon.

During the westward expansion of America, white middle-class ideals of home and domestic work were used to measure differences between white and Native American women.

In a pathbreaking new assessment of the shaping of black male identity in the early twentieth century, Martin Summers explores how middle-class African American and African Caribbean immigrant men constructed a gendered sense of self through organizational life, work, leisure, and cultural production.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Esslingen (Soziale Arbeit), Veranstaltung: Soziale Ungleichheit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Untersuchung, inwiefern die Darstellung von Frauen in der Werbung, speziell im Kontext unrealistischer Schönheitsideale, soziale Ungleichheit durch den Einfluss auf die Entstehung und Verstärkung von Geschlechtsstereotypen beeinflusst.

In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American womens literary history.

With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the womens rights movement.

Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the womens section of a rural North Carolina jail.

Rural women comprised the largest part of the adult population of Texas until 1940 and in the American South until 1960.

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power.

Drawing on international research and practice, this fully updated new edition of Domestic and Family Violence: A Critical Introduction to Knowledge and Practice examines current debates and research evidence around domestic and family violence, including sexual violence, non-fatal strangulation, and coercive control and explores current legislative reforms.

Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of womens history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy.

Despite three decades of progress, American women's incomes still average just over half of those of men.

Too often, depictions of womens rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs.

In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy.