Gender studies, gender groups

A riveting look at the real reasons Americans feel inadequate in the face of their dreams, and a call to celebrate how we support one another in the service of family and work in our daily life.

This comprehensive revision of the invaluable reference presents a rigorous survey of pain and palliative care phenomena across the lifespan and across disciplines.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

Informal norms and political practices can act to facilitate or block changes to formal rules, with important consequences for efforts to promote gender equality.

The Taliban made piety a business of the state, and thereby intervened in the daily lives and social interactions of Afghan women.

In contemporary western societies, the fat body has become a focus of stigmatizing discourses and practices aimed at disciplining, regulating and containing it.

In this comprehensive history, Ashley D.

This book analyses the gendered nature of patent law and the knowledge governance system it supports.

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

Contributors demonstrate that informal traditional and popular expressive cultural forms continue to be central to Canadians' gender constructions and clearly display the creation and re-creation of women's often subordinate position in society.

In this now established text the author presents her analysis of the power of law and argues for a feminist post-structuralist approach.

This book examines the rehabilitation of language disorders in adults, presenting new research, as well as expert insights and perspectives, into this area.

First published in 1973, Women on the Rope provides the first consecutive story of the 'feminine share in mountain adventure', a share which has grown from tiny beginnings in 1808 to a level at which women have won their place at Everest expeditions.

Though some believe that the Indian treaties of the 1870s achieved a unity of purpose between the Canadian government and First Nations, in From Treaties to Reserves D.

Since 1945 more than 20 international legal instruments dealing specifically with women have been modified or consummated, reflecting a growing international consensus on issues concerning women's role in society.

First published in 1991.

Research conducted in the last fifteen years has placed in question many of the traditional conclusions scholars have formed about human female sexuality.

Deep in the forested Vietnamese island of Cat Bac, a jungle seethes with the irrepressible force of its own history.

Best known for The Piano, Jane Campion is an author/director whose films explore the relationship between literature and cinema.

Faith-Based Wisdom for Joy-Filled Parenting While most moms share the desire to love their kids and parent them well, you might be surprised to discover just how many of them feel as though they are messing it up!

Japan's first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku ('The Rose Tribes'), was launched in 1971.

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.

The Naxalbari movement marks a significant moment in the postcolonial history of India.

What Does It Mean to 'Make' Love?

This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty.

An insider's view of the world of contemporary Japanese women.

In Search of Belonging explores the ways Latina/o audiences in general, and women in particular, make sense of and engage both mainstream and Spanish-language media.

Disabled women represent one of the most marginalised minority groups in the world, hence they are largely silent while their sexuality is ignored, suppressed, forbidden and buried underneath the carpet.

Provides a research-informed review of topics essential to clinical psychological assessment and diagnosis.

College Curriculum at the Crossroads explores the ways in which college curriculum is complicated, informed, understood, resisted, and enriched by women of color.

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E.

Creating a Place For Ourselves is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines gay life in the United States before Stonewall and the gay liberation movement.

Ray should have died on three separate occasions when he was in the ICU.

This timely book moves beyond struggling, suffering and loss to argue that forced migration often provides opportunities for men to pursue new relationships and re-organise their intimate lives.

This book seeks to revive dialectical materialist interpretations of sexuality, relevant to K-12 settings and society.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

In this lively and engaging work, Carolyn Lewis explores how medical practitioners, especially family physicians, situated themselves as the guardians of Americans' sexual well-being during the early years of the Cold War.

This book-along with its companion volume Mary I in Writing: Letters, Literature, and Representations-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources.

The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism.

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

In 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in "e;a dress not belonging to his or her sex.

In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London.

This volume offers an understanding of institutional reforms, gender-related policy dynamics, the role of different actors in the policy process, and the impact of a particular policy on the state of women's political participation in Bangladesh.