Gender studies, gender groups

Focusing on their conception and use of the notion of the mother, Modernism, Self-Creation, and the Maternal proposes a new interpretation of literature by modernist authors like Rousseau, Baudelaire, Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, Joyce, and Beckett.

Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in nineteenth-century definitions of homosexual identity.

This book focuses on how group-based microcredit programs in India facilitate women''s empowerment through the mechanism of group participation and networking.

This collection brings together established and exciting new voices to shed light on the language of and about sex work, offering an empirically nuanced understanding of commercial sex through language.

Revolutionary Imaginings in the 1790s discusses the work of three prominent women writers by focusing on the response to the French Revolution and the struggle for reform in Britain.

After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis.

Forensic genetic technologies are popularly conceptualized and revered as important tools of justice.

Selected as a 2019 LGBT Book of the Year by Dazed and Ms.

This is the first major book to explore uniquely Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), and specifically Oneida, components in the Native American oral narrative as it existed around 1900.

This book draws attention to emerging issues around the rights of minorities, marginalized groups, and persons in Africa.

Stories are a valuable vehicle for practitioners in research, education, human services and the arts to enable individual and cultural change.

From the late eighteenth century until about 1840, schoolgirls in the British Isles and the United States created embroidered map samplers and even silk globes.

Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family.

Winner of the Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor's Book Award 2012!

This annual series, published in co-operation with the Women in International Development Program at Michigan State University, uses a multidisciplinary approach to explore women's experiences across a wide range of geographical areas, economic sectors, and societal institutions.

Woman's Relationship with Herself explores the relationship women have with themselves and demonstrates how this relationship is often dominated by debilitating practices of self-surveillance.

First published in 1988, Alcoholism Etiology and Treatment provides a stimulating discussion concerning an understanding of the etiology and treatment of alcoholism.

Bringing together a collection of narratives from those who are on the autism spectrum whilst also identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and/or asexual (LGBTQIA), this book explores the intersection of the two spectrums as well as the diverse experiences that come with it.

Popular culture is awash with discussions about the difficulties associated with being a man.

The adventures of eight inspiring women of the twentieth century.

The chapters published in this volume developed from presentations, and their associated discussions at a conference organised by the Scottish Branch of the British Psychological Society, held at Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland in September 1987.

When someone says Cowgirl Up!

Selvaratnam very bravely and compellingly uses her personal experience to shine a light on the global crisis of violence against women.

Cross-gender performance was an integral part of Shakespearean theatre: from boys portraying his female characters, to those characters disguising themselves as men within the story.

In the wake of the Great Depression, economic recovery and nutritional improvement in Britain simultaneously occurred with their decline in British Africa.

This book discusses Japanese conceptions of power and presents a complex, nuanced look at how power operates in society and in politics.

Women and the Liberal Democrats is a timely and original exploration of women's representation and the third party in UK politics.

The essays in this collection represent the explosion of scholarly interest since the 1960s in the pioneering feminist, philosopher, novelist, and political theorist, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Gender and Cosmopolitanism in Europe combines a feminist critique of contemporary and prominent approaches to cosmopolitanism with an in-depth analysis of historical cosmopolitanism and the manner in which gendered symbolic boundaries of national political communities in two European countries are drawn.

Twenty-eight women, ranging from Anita Roddick and Prue Leith to less well-known names, write their own personal stories which are accompanied by Elizabeth Handy's black and white photographs and an introductory essay by Charles Handy.

In nineteenth-century Europe, differences among human bodies were understood to be matters of scientific classification.

The History of Feminism series makes key archival source material readily available to scholars, researchers, and students of women's and gender studies, women's history, and women's writing, as well as those working in allied and related fields.

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, a substantial amount of scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945.

The relative rise or decline of feminist movements across the globe has been debated by feminist scholars and activists for a long time.

In the past 20 years, the number of women over 65 has grown enormously.

This book shines a light on the issues of governance, rights and the injustices that are meted out to an ever growing and vulnerable sector of the global migrant community - women.

This book offers a new way for biblical scholars and archaeologists to envision how the Bible''s story relates to history.

In an era of longer hours and shorter contracts, of tighter margins and frequent organizational change, stress can undermine both the mental health and performance of employees.

This book is a deep dive into the largely unexplored space of BBW "e;bashes"e;-multi-day gatherings of fat women and their admirers.

Men who do "e;women's work"e; have consistently been the butt of jokes, derided for their lack of drive and masculinity.

This volume examines strategies for embedding gender awareness within translation studies and translator training programmes.

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights: History, Politics, Practice is an edited collection that brings together analyses of human rights work from multiple disciplines.

This cutting edge, innovative volume offers the best of current scholarship on feminist perspectives in marketing.

"e;Times Are Altered with Us"e;: American Indians from Contact to the New Republic offers a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of the history of Native Americans and their interactions with Europeans and then Americans from 1492 to 1800.

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.