Gender studies, gender groups

Before we are anything else, we are feeling bodies.

Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known.

Für alle Sozialisations- und Bildungsbereiche ist die Heterogenität/Vielfalt/Diversität von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Erwachsenen eine drängende Herausforderung.

This book provides an in-depth exploration of the challenges and diversity inherent in the ageing process in India.

This book provides an in-depth study of Bette Davis, Joan Fontaine, Kim Novak and Meryl Streep, and the treatment of adultery in their films.

This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women's experiences of violence and abuse.

The Filipino Migration Experience introduces a new dimension to the usual depiction of migrants as disenfranchised workers or marginal ethnic groups.

This book examines gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing on gender relations in the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986.

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory is a hard-hitting history of the impact of racism and religion on the political, social, and economic development of the American nation from Jamestown to today, in particular the nefarious effects of slavery on U.

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Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities - of class, status, and gender.

This ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural migrant women working as karaoke bar hostesses, delving into the interplay of gender politics, nationalism, and power relationships that inhere in practices of birth control, disease control, and control of women's bodies.

The Republic of Korea achieved a double revolution in the second half of the twentieth century.

This enlightening book brings together the work of gender and forestry specialists from various backgrounds and fields of research and action to analyse global gender conditions as related to forests.

Voices from the Inside takes readers into the cells of a maximum security prison to reveal the personal accounts of over sixty women that are incarcerated for drug crimes.

Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution.

For a full list of entries and contributors, sample entries, and more, visit the Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women website.

This book is about the role of emotions in the creation and dissipation of feminist collectives and grapples with difficult questions that have been circulating for a while in activist circles but are far from answered.

"e;I was driven by the belief that if I wanted to go somewhere I'd need to be something other than Black.

According to a recent population report by the United Nations, "e;in most countries, older women greatly outnumber older men.

In today's political environment, who speaks for whom is not always clear.

Women are noticeably marginalized from the Latin American film industry, with lower budgets and inadequate distribution, and they often rely on their creativity to make more interesting films.

Women are at the center of American theatre and have the potential to shape the cultural imagination of theatre-goers as a complex new era unfolds.

This book examines how Gilberto Freyre''s notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil.

This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present.

This book debunks one of the greatest myths ever told in Caribbean history: that the indigenous peoples who encountered a very lost Christopher Columbus are 'extinct.

This book investigates how girls' automedial selves are constituted and consumed as literary or media products in a digital landscape dominated by intimate, though quite public, modes of self-disclosure and pervaded by broader practices of self-branding.

This book demonstrates the close relationship between religion and democracy in India.

Media, Crime and Racism draws together contributions from scholars at the leading edge of their field across three continents to present contemporary and longstanding debates exploring the roles played by media and the state in racialising crime and criminalising racialised minorities.

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Examining the multifaceted nature of Christianity in Fiji, My God, My Land reveals the deeply complex and often paradoxical dynamics and tensions between processes of change and continuity as they unfold in representations and practices of Christianity and tradition in people's everyday lives.

This book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UK's responses, failed responses and non-responses to atrocity crimes.

What is the next chapter in Judaism's story, the next step in its journey?

From the award-winning Southern lifestyle magazineGarden Guncomes this rich collection of some of the Souths most notable women.

Provides an invaluable primer on how culturally accepted stereotypes are impacting people throughout the United States.

Sie hat es getan: Die schlechteste Hausfrau der Welt hat ihren Mann verlassen und ist mit ihren beiden Kindern in eine eigene Wohnung gezogen – oder wie sie sagt: Sie wurde weggentrifiziert nach Lichtenrade.

A New Gospel for Women tells the story of Katharine Bushnell (1855-1946), author of God's Word to Women, one of the most innovative and comprehensive feminist theologies ever written.

Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old.

Composition Studies Through a Feminist Lens offers students a lucid and engaging introduction to the discipline's history, struggles, and accomplishments through the lens of feminism.

Archaeologists and anthropologists discover other civilizations; science fiction writers invent them.

Since the financial crisis, the issue of the 'one percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves.

Mobile phones are widely viewed as the information and communication technology that holds the most promise for bridging global digital divides.

Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

A unique combination of the activist and the academic, Feminist Review has an acclaimed position within women's studies courses and the women's movement.

In her latest book, Gillian Howie offers a bold new way to make sense of the relationship between feminist theory and capitalism.

This book explores cultural constructs, societal demands and political and philosophical underpinnings that position women in the world.

This book brings together studies that contribute to the emergence of a latinx queer psychology.