Gender studies, gender groups

Sightlines: Race, Gender, and Nation in Contemporary Australian Theatre asserts the centrality of theater to the ongoing negotiations of the Australian context.

BMA Medical Book Awards FinalistThe number of people coming out as transgender continues to rise, and this book shows healthcare and medical practitioners how to deliver excellent primary and secondary care to gender diverse patients.

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.

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 'Honest, raw, moving' CHRISTINE BURNS 'Radical vulnerability at its finest' OWL FISHER'Highly recommended' SAN FRANCISCO REVIEW OF BOOKSThis is the deeply personal and witty account of growing up as the kid who never fitted in.

Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action by Susan D.

In 1859 high grade silver bullion was discovered on the Comstock Lode.

This book critically examines the intersection of gender, governance, and urban mobility through the lens of transit systems in postcolonial and developing countries.

Between 1861 and 1865, approximately 200,000 women were widowed by the deaths of Civil War soldiers.

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.

From 1898 until World War II, U.

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

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.

Over fifty years after her death, Simone Weil (1909-1943) remains one of the most searching religious inquirers and political thinkers of the twentieth century.

Delinquent Daughters explores the gender, class, and racial tensions that fueled campaigns to control female sexuality in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America.

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

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.

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.

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.

Americans wrote fiercely during the Civil War.

Throughout World War II, when Saturday nights came around, servicemen and hostesses happily forgot the war for a little while as they danced together in USO clubs, which served as havens of stability in a time of social, moral, and geographic upheaval.

Is a womans writing different from a mans?

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.

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.

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

The Great Recession punished American workers, leaving many underemployed or trapped in jobs that did not provide the income or opportunities they needed.

At a moment when freedom of religion rhetoric fuels public debate, it is easy to assume that sex and religion have faced each other in pitched battle throughout modern U.

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

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

Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orlecks Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and womens history.

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.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Although millions of African American women were held in bondage over the 250 years that slavery was legal in the United States, Harriet Jacobs (181397) is the only one known to have left papers testifying to her life.

In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners.

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

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.

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

In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates unruly women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War.

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

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.

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.

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.

In spite of Robert Frost's continuing popularity with the public, the poet remains an outsider in the academy, where more "e;difficult"e; and "e;innovative"e; poets like T.

Classical scholarship has traditionally neglected the prominence of the body in antiquity.

Daughters of Time: Women in the Western Tradition by Mary Kinnear offers a sweeping and insightful exploration of women's roles, identities, and achievements throughout the history of Western civilization.