Gender studies, gender groups

The story of how the womens rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth.

In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnsons refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D.

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

The career of Constance Rourke (18851941) is one of the richest examples of the American writers search for a usable past.

"e;It is so obvious that to treat people equally is the right thing to do, wrote Gertrude Weil (18791971).

Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities all linked by a place where such identities have generally placed them on the margins of society.

The stereotype of the gold digger has had a fascinating trajectory in twentieth-century America, from tales of greedy flapper-era chorus girls to tabloid coverage of Anna Nicole Smith and her octogenarian tycoon husband.

This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture reflects the dramatic increase in research on the topic of gender over the past thirty years, revealing that even the most familiar subjects take on new significance when viewed through the lens of gender.

**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023**They have waited 75 years for an acknowledgment that what was done to them was a war crime.

Plays by Early American Women: 1775-1850 provides a comprehensive view of American women's engagement with drama.

**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023**They have waited 75 years for an acknowledgment that what was done to them was a war crime.

Examining the convergence of socialism and feminism in the German labor movement around the turn of the century, Jean Quataert probes the competing identities and loyalties of class and sex and the problems their adherents faced in reconciling the two.

In a century torn by violent civil uprisings, civilian bombings, and genocides, war has been an immediate experience for both soldiers and civilians, for both women and men.

Analyzing published and archival oral histories of formerly enslaved African Americans, Libra R.

System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves.

While Rosie the Riveter had fewer paid employment options after being told to cede her job to returning World War II veterans, her sisters and daughters found new work opportunities in national defense.

In this thought-provoking study of nineteenth-century America, J.

Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850.

Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War.

The broad sweep of environmental and ecological history has until now been written and understood in predominantly male terms.

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organizations men, who were fiercely committed to these masculine roles.

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether its jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

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

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt.

A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (180289) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists.

With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe.

In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.

This compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the timesfrom civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activismhelped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality.

Is a womans writing different from a mans?

For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power.

In 'De beroepsarbeid der vrouw en het socialisme' wordt een interessant overzicht gegeven van de emancipatie van de vrouw.

Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900 focuses on women writers and their struggle to protect animals from abuse in the transition from preindustrial to Victorian society.

Seminar paper from the year 2025 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: 1,0, University of Hamburg (Sozialwissenschaft), course: Qualitative Research, language: English, abstract: The seminar paper begins with a review of existing literature on gender representation in general and in sports specifically, outlining key theoretical frameworks and previous findings to form the research question.

Sammelband aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet vier Hausarbeiten.

By analysing research into links between low psychological wellbeing and sexual risk-taking behaviours that occur in men who have sex with men (MSM), this book demonstrates what impact social and psychological interventions could have on MSM at risk of poor sexual outcomes.

In Italy as in other Western societies, the medicalization of basic biological functions contributes to the loss of personal confidence in the care of the body.

This groundbreaking collection introduces the concept of gender power as a pervasive but overlooked force within institutions, particularly U.

The first women lawyers in America, like many of their twentieth-century counterparts, had to reconcile the traditional roles assigned to women with their roles as lawyers.

Politics of Feminist New Materialisms at Music Playschools: Musicking in the Middle examines how feminist new materialist politics unfold within diverse music playschool practices in Finland.

Working Time collects essays by prize-winning poet Jane Miller on the subjects of poetry, travel, and culture.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2026 im Fachbereich Geschlechterstudien / Gender Studies, Note: 1.

Fairy tales, often said to be 'timeless' and fundamentally 'oral,' have a long written history.

Virtue and Venom traces the history of a previously neglected genre, the catalog of women, from its origins in Greece and Rome to the late Middle Ages, revealing the catalogs' considerable importance as cultural documents of the evolution of the Western definition of womankind.