Gender studies, gender groups

The history of Islam and the changing role-performance of Muslim women, given the various interpretations of the belief system of Islam, are described.

The centerpiece of The Case of Mistress Mary Hampson is the autobiographical narrative of a 17th-century woman in an abusive and violent marriage.

This book tells the story of why and how mental health stigma impacts all of us.

In diesem Werk werden die gedruckten griechischen Beichtbücher erstmals einer umfassenden Untersuchung unterzogen.

Covenantal Rights is a groundbreaking work of political theory: a comprehensive, philosophically sophisticated attempt to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into current political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse more fully into Jewish thought.

Can college students confront race relations issues directly and make positive changes?

A book in two halves, Kissing Other People or the House of Fame opens with a sequence of poems that roam the grotty, sublime streets: patting rats, reading pamphlets, enduring labour, acquiring falafel, waving to friends.

A map for the masculine journey.

Andrea M.

A transnational history of how Indigenous peoples mobilised en masse to support the war effort on the battlefields and the home fronts.

The idea for this volume developed when we were co-teaching our introductory, mas- ter's-level course in the Department of Health Behavior at the UAB School of Public Health, a core course for all masters of public health students in the school regardless of the department in which they enrolled or the focus of their studies.

Many Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins.

An expansive collection of texts providing insight into the inner life, creativity, and practice of the innovative American artist Anne Truitt Spanning more than fifty years, this comprehensive volume collects the letters, journal entries, interviews, lectures, reviews, and remembrances of the groundbreaking twentieth-century artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004).

Applying modern dress theory to ancient evidence, this book reconstructs the social meanings attached to the dressed body in ancient Greece.

In Cupboards of Curiosity Amelie Hastie rethinks female authorship within film history by expanding the historical archive to include dollhouses, scrapbooks, memoirs, cookbooks, and ephemera.

This volume draws together the work of a diverse range of thinkers and researchers to address the question of happiness critically, using a wide variety of theoretical and empirical methodologies.

How have attempts to integrate Turkish agriculture into the global economy impacted rural populations?

Power, money, endless competition.

In this study Arun Bala examines the implications that Niels Bohr's principle of complementarity holds for fields beyond physics.

The traditional image of the Middle Eastern woman, as portrayed by the Western media, has tended to be one of a woman oppressed by men and religion.

The `riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a `dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved.

“Frustrated working with male co-workers?

Drawing on original research from the Women, Family, Crime and Justice research network, this edited collection sheds new light on the challenges and experiences of women and families who encounter the criminal justice system in the UK.

Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in structuring the metropolis, taking London, New York and Paris as examples.

'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of heartbreak in her twenties, Nikki Gemmell eventually resurfaced, reclaimed space for herself and found her voice.

Liquor was essential to military culture as well as healthcare regimens in both the Union and Confederate armies.

At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the unsuspecting European settlers living along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers of North Carolina.

Through interdisciplinary research, this book explores the continued cause of the significant gender pay gap that still exists in many countries today.

A more fulfilling marriage is within the reach of every husbandand getting there is not as difficult as you might think.

This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries.

A biting, hilarious memoir in essays chronicling a lifetime of being the Black friend* in white spaces.

If the home remained a safe space for families during the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, why is it that the memories of women's domestic lives in Soviet Lithuania are so fragmented?

Sous l’égide de Gisèle Halimi, des Femen, d’Albertine Sarrazin, d’Aung San Suu Kyi, de Madeleine Riffaud, de Rosa Parks, et sous la présidence d’Alima Boumediene Thiéry s’est tenu en 2023 le 13e colloque de l’association Mix-Cité 45.

Predatory Publishing introduces and examines many forms of unethical and unprofessional publishing, whilst also analyzing its tactics and impact on scholarly communication.

Psychoanalysis and the Unrepresentable opens a space for meaningful debate about translating psychoanalytic concepts from the work of clinicians to that of academics and back again.

This book studies the relationship between women, ageing and celebrity.

By drawing on the experience of trans people who are affected by physical disability, chronic illness and mental illness, this book is the definitive guide on providing best practice in approaches to health and care policy.

In this brief and powerful book, Diana Fuss takes on the debate of pure essence versus social construct, engaging with the work of Luce Irigaray and Monique Wittig, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it?

This collection explores the concepts and practices of masquerade as they apply to concepts and practices of war.

In this book, Sandra Barney examines the transformation of medical care in Central Appalachia during the Progressive Era and analyzes the influence of women volunteers in promoting the acceptance of professional medicine in the region.

Latino Orlando portrays the experiences of first- and second-generation immigrants who have come to the Orlando metropolitan area from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and other Latin American countries.

Women's Ghost Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain examines the Female Gothic genre and how it expanded to include not only gender concerns but also social critiques of repressed sexuality, economics and imperialism.

UNICEF, the UN Children's Fund, is renowned for its efficiency in both rich and poor countries.

Between 1867 and 2000, the Canadian government sent over 150,000 Aboriginal children to residential schools across the country.

The book examines gender roles, gender inequity, and the impacts of both unintentional and purposeful efforts to undermine women's equal treatment in the United States, documenting what women have faced in the past and still face in America today.

Are scientific 'facts' about body image enough to define conceptions of normality?

Despite diverse, rich cultural traditions and abundant economic opportunity, there has been a paucity of research on psychology in Southeast Asia.