Gender studies, gender groups

Many British politicians, planters, and doctors attempted to exploit the fertility of Afro-Caribbean women's bodies in order to ensure the economic success of the British Empire during the age of abolition.

A lively and engaging study of on-screen and off-screen performances of masculinity, focusing on well-known male actors in American film and popular culture in the 1990s and 2000s.

Based on long-term ethnographic research, the book chapters explore the intersection of 'gender' and 'modernity' as they are mediated in the lives and subjectivities of diverse individuals and groups.

Christine Chaillot’s new book, The Traditional Teaching of the Ethiopian Orthodox Täwahedo Church: Faith and Spirituality, presents a topic that is little – if at all – known outside Ethiopia, even in Christian circles.

Although women constitute half of the world's population, their participation in the political sphere remains problematic.

This book explores the often contentious relationship between health, concepts of race and ethnicity, and the impact on South Asian groups.

The Life Within provides a social and cultural history of the indigenous people of a region of central Mexico in the later colonial period-as told through documents in Nahuatl and Spanish.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

Friederike Höher beschäftigt sich mit der nachhaltigen Wirksamkeit von Mentoring.

Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women's participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively.

Women and British Party Politics examines the characteristics of women's participation at the mass and elite level in contemporary British politics; as voters, party members and elected representatives respectively.

Beschäftigte in Service, Gewerbe und Produktion sind hohen körperlichen und psychosozialen Belastungen ausgesetzt.

Although over the last two decades there has been a proliferation of gender studies, transgender has largely remained institutionalised as an 'umbrella term' that encapsulates all forms of gender understandings differing from what are thought to be gender norms.

In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel.

How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century?

In this highly original text-a collaboration between a college professor, a playwright, and an artist-graphic storytelling offers an emotionally resonant way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance.

This volume explores the paramount importance of family to jihadism in France, Spain and in Europe more generally.

Grounded in black feminist scholarship and activism and formally coined in 1989 by black legal scholar Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, intersectionality has garnered significant attention in the field of public policy and other disciplines/fields of study.

This book unmasks the cultural and gender stereotypes that inform the legal regulation of the migrant.

Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts interrogates the politics of space expressed via womxn's artistic practices, which prioritise solidarity and collaboration across borders, imagining attentive geographies of difference.

In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities.

Until recently, women featured in the historiography of the landed class in Ireland either as bearers of assets to advantageous matches or as potential drains on family estates.

Internationally, marginalized populations, including indigenous people, refugees fleeing both war and the effects of climate change and people-of-color, have borne a disproportionate share of serious COVID 19 illnesses and deaths.

Aunque no son pocos los estudios que se han realizado sobre la relación de las mujeres y las artes, solo en los últimos tiempos se ha comenzado a tener conciencia de que su papel no fue una mera extensión del proceder de sus esposos.

This book is concerned with the gendered world of police leadership at a time when calls are being made for a different kind of police leader to guide the organisation through the twenty-first century.

While extensive attention has been paid to black youth, adult black British men are a notable omission in academic literature.

Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians.

Incorporating the voices and insights of street sex workers through personal interviews, this monograph argues that the material conditions of many street workers - the physical environments they live in and their effects on the workers' bodies, identities, and spirits - are represented, reproduced, and entrenched in the language surrounding their work.

When Indigenous and non-Indigenous activists work together, what are the ends that they seek, and how do they negotiate their relationships while pursuing social change?

In this book, author Stephanie Katz, founding editor of the award-winning literary journal 805 Lit + Art, shares practical tools and advice for starting successful creative publishing projects.

Women who work as prostitutes are struggling against a disadvantaged position in society.

Since the middle of the eighteenth century, the classical world has been seen as foundational and exemplary to Western civilization.

Exploring notions of activism and space as narrated by Karen displaced persons and refugees in the Thai-Burma borderlands, this book looks beyond refugees as passive victims or a humanitarian case .

This book explores the representation of real-life serial murders as adapted for the screen and popular culture.

Mainstream politics in Northern Ireland has not been welcoming to women, but many women have been present in community and voluntary organizations where their contribution has been outstanding.

This book explores contributions by some of the most influential women in the history of philosophy, science, and literature.

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry.

Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by a set of unspoken rules for the expression of gender.

Originally published in 1989.

This authoritative, state-of-the-art Handbook provides an authoritative overview of issues within sexuality education, coupled with ground-breaking discussion of emerging and unconventional insights in the field.

God can use imperfect people to do incredible things.

What are the political dimensions that are revealed in women's preferences for health care during pregnancy and childbirth?

Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror.