News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naive and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm and de-feminized as monsters.
News media reporting on female political violence invariably portrays the perpetrators as duped, naive and exploited, acting from personal rather than political motivations, as anomalous intruders in a masculine realm and de-feminized as monsters.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
Woman as gorgon, woman as temptress: the classical and biblical mythology which has dominated Western thinking defines women in a variety of patriarchally encoded roles.
Although Lady Harris is acknowledged as the artist of Aleister Crowley's Book of Thoth, to date, most studies have focused predominantly on Harris's role as Crowley's 'artist executant', and almost exclusively from Crowley's perspective.
A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the ancient Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire-desire as dangerous, polluting, and disorderly, and desire as creative, transcendent, even revolutionary-through the major turning points of European history.
During the Civil War, its devastating aftermath, and the decades following, many southern white women turned to writing as a way to make sense of their experiences.
THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe empowering, must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, perfect for readers of Glennon Doyle and Miranda July.
The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes.
The last few decades have seen remarkable developments in international criminal justice, especially in relation to the pursuit of individuals responsible for sexual violence and other gender-based crimes.
Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s.
Current histories seem to suggest that men alone have been capable of the development of ideas, analysis, and practice of international law until the 1990s.
An authoritative assessment of the early American republic through the lens of gender What does it mean to study early American history through gender?
Marking fifty years since the democratic transitions in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, this book traces how three countries that broke free from authoritarian rule in the mid-1970s have navigated consolidation, crisis, and the enduring tension between structural constraints and political agency to become, and remain, democracies.
International courts and other actors are increasingly taking into account pre-existing social structures and inequalities when addressing and redressing human rights violations, in particular discrimination against specific groups.
This book provides a unique, interdisciplinary and rights-based perspective on sexual and reproductive health, sexualised violence and gender-based violence (GBV) among refugees, displaced persons and other migrants.
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives.
While most people who have waited in grocery or newsstand checkout lines today will recognize the magazines Elle and Marie-Claire, few know that two journalists, Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Segal, were critical to the success of these magazines when they began publication in France.
In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual.
While most people who have waited in grocery or newsstand checkout lines today will recognize the magazines Elle and Marie-Claire, few know that two journalists, Marcelle Auclair and Marcelle Segal, were critical to the success of these magazines when they began publication in France.
'Excellent' KATE BORNSTEIN'The compassionate, accessible manual the world has been waiting for' LAURIE PENNYHave you ever questioned your own gender identity?
Individuals who transition from one gender to another are often in some degree of a relationship, and over 55% of these relationships endure through the transition process.
There are growing numbers of youth who identify as transgender, and as a result, clinicians and counselors are in need of an informed resource that covers the basics of gender identity and expression.
Black women earn 67% of all doctorates earned by Blacks in the United States, yet their presence in higher education as tenured professors remains dismally low.
In this study of sex, gender, sexual violence, and power along the border, Bernadine Marie Hernndez brings to light under-heard stories of women who lived in a critical era of American history.
Although, for years, women were portrayed as one-dimensional beings, Indian graphic novels have come a long way from solely idealizing the Hindu/Vedic past to contemporary digital comics with augmented reality, where individual stories of women are shared and politicized.
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives.
Marking fifty years since the democratic transitions in Greece, Portugal, and Spain, this book traces how three countries that broke free from authoritarian rule in the mid-1970s have navigated consolidation, crisis, and the enduring tension between structural constraints and political agency to become, and remain, democracies.
A FRANK, FUNNY AND EMPOWERING CELEBRATION OF FEMALE PLEASUREAn orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it doesn t cost money and isn t a scarce resource.
Forever Girls explores girlhood manifest in contemporary South Korean cinema within the conflicting socio-political forces that shaped the nation: coloniality, postcolonial and postwar traumas, modernity, and democracy.
