Collection: Gender & Sexuality Studies
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The political clinic
Carolyn laubenderCarolyn Laubender examines cases from Britain and its former colonies to show that clinical psychoanalytic practice constitutes a productive site for novel political thought, theorization, and action.
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New directions in women, peace and security
Anne marie goetz , Briana mawby , Christine chinkin , Gema fernández rodríguez , Marta bautista forcada , Anna stavrianakis , Jamie hagen , Toni haastrup , Sam cook , Louise chappell , Patricia viseur sellers , Elizabeth pearson , Marjaana jauhola , Minna lyytikäinen , Nicole george , Soumita basu , Paul c. kirby , Laura j. shepherdWhat does gender equality mean for peace, justice, and security? At the turn of the 21st century, feminist advocates persuaded the United Nations Security Council to adopt a resolution that drew attention to this question at the highest levels of international policy deliberations. Today the Wom...
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Career and family
Claudia goldinWinner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in EconomicsA renowned economic historian traces women’s journey to close the gender wage gap and sheds new light on the continued struggle to achieve equity between couples at homeA century ago, it was a given that a woman with a college degree had to choose betwee...
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Queen mothers
Rhonda baynes jeffriesThis text explores the complex roles of Black women as mothers, teachers, and leaders, challenging their devaluation and highlighting their contributions. It examines their experiences, the influence of spirituality on their leadership, and their unique positions in personal and professional spaces.
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Gumbo for the soul iii
Brian l. wright , Nathaniel bryan , Christopher j. p. sewell , Lucian yates iii , Michael a. robinson , Kianga thomasThis book for, about, and by Males of Color, amplifies triumphs and successes while documenting trials and tribulations that are instructive, inspiring, and praiseworthy. This book will be a must-read for every Male of Color.
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Women in science
Annalisa de cia , Sara hellmüller , Elizabeth mesokA collection of the experiences of twelve women academics, highlighting the challenges but also the privileges of an academic career.
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The unraveling heart
Madhuri deshmukhThis groundbreaking book shows that women’s songs of the grind mill played a foundational role in the vernacular turn to making literature in Marathi between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries.
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Woman, african, other
Oluwadunni o. talabiWoman, African, Other unpacks how interlocking (lethal) structuresimpact the gendered experiences of women of African heritage and permit our continued humiliation in the global sphere.
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Exploring gender and lgbtq issues in k-12 and teacher education
Adrian d. martin , Kathryn j. stromThis volume explores fostering inclusive school communities for non-cis and queer students, addressing violence, discrimination and conservative backlash. It provides empirical inquiries and theories on creating affirming educational spaces, dismantling hate-based ideologies and promoting LGBTQ i...
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Spectres of masculinity
Anna s. bergerHow do ghost stories of the Victorian and Edwardian periods challenge and reframe ideas of masculinity?
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The trials of madame restell
Nicholas l. syrettThe biography of one of the most famous abortionists of the nineteenth century—and a story that has unmistakable parallels to the current war on reproductive rights For forty years in the mid-nineteenth century, “Madame Restell,” the nom de guerre of the most successful female physician in Americ...
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The fox spirit, the stone maiden, and other transgender histories from late imperial china
Matthew h. sommerThis book is a groundbreaking study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. Through close readings of court cases, as well as Ming and Qing fiction and nineteenth-century newspaper accounts, Matthew H. Sommer examines the social, legal, and cultural histories of gender crossing.
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Transtopia in the sinophone pacific
Howard chiangHoward Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance. Defined as the antidote to transphobia, transtopia challenges a minoritarian view of transgender experience and makes room for the variability of transness on a historical continuum.
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Girl head
Genevieve yueGirl Head shows how gender has had a surprising and persistent role in film production processes, well before the image ever appears onscreen.For decades, feminist film criticism has focused on issues of representation: images of women in film. But what are the feminist implications of the mate...
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Migration and mobility in an enlarged europe
Sigrid metz-göckel , Mirjana morokvasic-müller , A. senganata münst , Krystyna slany , Claudia finotelli , Ludovica banfi , Ayse akalin , Dobrochna kalwa , Sabine hess , David karjanen , Norbert cyrus , Roos pijpers , Dorota praszalowicz , Magdalena ślusarczykThe book investigates transnational migration and mobility of women from and within Central-Eastern European countries. It looks at women’s practices and experiences mostly in the service sector where they are in demand as substitutes in stereotypically „women’s work“. The book combines different...
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From post-yugoslavia to the female continent
Tijana matijevicWomen’s writing from the former/post-Yugoslavia recollects but also produces the links among the post-Yugoslav present and the Yugoslav past. Drawing attention to an uninterrupted marginalization of women authors, Tijana Matijevic reconceptualizes contemporary literary production from Bosnia and ...
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Family in crisis?
Eva-sabine zehelein , Andrea carosso , Aida rosende-pérezScholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.
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Between a man and a woman?
Ludger h. viefhues-baileyThrough a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that, according to the statistics of conservative Christian groups, affects only a small number of Americans, Ludger Viefhues-Bailey alights on a profound theological conundrum: in today's conservative Chris...
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Gendering european integration theory
Gabriele abels , Heather macraeThe authors engage a dialogue between European integration theories and gender studies. The contributions illustrate where and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. The chapters are designed to make gender scholars...
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Queerbeograd cabaret
Ivana marjanovićThis book demonstrates how staging QueerBeograd contributed to the advancement of the intersectionality perspective beyond identity.
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The politics of our selves
Amy allenSome critical theorists understand the self as constituted by power relations, while others insist upon the self's autonomous capacities for critical reflection and deliberate self-transformation. Up to now, it has all too often been assumed that these two understandings of the self are incompati...
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There are two sexes
Antoinette fouque , Sylvina boissonnas , Catherine porterKey selections from the work of a groundbreaking French feminist who thought beyond Freud and Lacan to realize true parity between men and women.
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Poverty and social exclusion during and after poland's transition to capitalism
Paulina bunio-mroczek , Malgorzata potoczna , Wielislawa warzywoda-kruszynskaThis book examines poverty in Poland during the transition to capitalism and in the decade that followed through the lives of women in disadvantaged post-industrial urban neighborhoods. It searches for the causes that drive and maintain poverty in changes in industrial relations, welfare regimes,...
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Women political leaders in rwanda and south africa
Naleli mpho soledad morojeleThis book considers the successes, challenges, and controversies of women’s post-conflict political leadership. Through interviews with women who have held significant leadership positions, it explores the relationships between their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds.
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»gold fever« and women
Sigrid schönfelderSigrid Schönfelder discusses three healthcare providers within the social reform movement to illustrate the transformative power of the American West.
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Female identities in lesbian web series
Julia obermayrLesbian web series narrate female-centered stories, strengthen identity construction, and generate transnational communities beyond cultural barriers. Julia Obermayr explores representations of lesbian women in U.S.-American, Canadian, and Spanish web series from 2007 onward.
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Caring infrastructures
Sascia bailer , Finnegan shannon , Maja smrekar , Thomas schröder , Hannah cooke ,Theories and methods for transforming the arts through feminist care ethics, fostering support and equity for art workers and caregivers.
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Queer turkey
Ralph j. pooleQueer Turkey offers a broad range of reflections on queer Turkish cultures within a transnational, Euro-American context. Ralph J. Poole discusses queer travel writers, poets, playwrights, and film directors whose multifarious works manifest the subtle and subversive ways in which artists crisscr...
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Great queer provocation
Martin j. gössl , Henry hollandMartin Gössl reflects on the possibilities of queer recognition in different social contexts.
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We travel the space ways
Henriette gunkel , Kara lynchThis book gathers a range of contemporary voices who, carrying legacies of five hundred years of contact between Africa, Europe, and the Americas, reach toward the stars and unknown planets, galaxies, and ways of being. Writing from queer and feminist perspectives and circumnavigating continents,...
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Materializing fairness
Julia-constance dissel , Melanie levick-parkinThis book showcases initiatives addressing the gender gap across the tech industry's various sectors.
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Transgression and subversion
Maren lickhardt , Gregor schuhen , Hans rudolf veltenAlthough scholars have recognized the picaresque figure as a transgressive and subversive model, the queer effect of the figure is yet to be examined. Considering class, generation, and topography, the contributions assembled in this volume explore Spanish, French, English, and German novels from...
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No politics but class politics
Adolph reed , Walter benn michaels , Anton jäger , Daniel zamoraThis book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.
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Sex and world peace
Valerie m. hudson , Mary caprioli , Donna lee bowen , Rose mcdermottSex and World Peace is a groundbreaking demonstration that the security of women is a vital factor in the occurrence of conflict and war. This second edition revises and updates the book, enhancing its arguments with fresh data and analysis of additional examples of gender and conflict throughout...
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Come as you are
Judith roofRoof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are the necessary obstacles in a heroic plot of...
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History's queer stories
Natalie marena nobitzCritical analysis of homosexuality in British fiction about the Second World War is noticeable by its absence. Natalie Marena Nobitz analyzes four novels dealing with the disruption of gender roles and institutionalized heteronormativity during the war.
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Change the record – punk women music politics
M.i. franklinM.I. Franklin shows how punk women’s writings provide fans and music scholars with a corrective to androcentric studies of Punk as a DIY politics of resistance to the mainstream.
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Bouncing back: queer resilience in twentieth and twenty-first century english literature and culture
Susanne jungLGBTQ people have strategies of resilience at their disposal to help them deal with the challenge that heteronormativity as a power structure poses to their affective lives. This book makes the concept of resilience available to queer literary and cultural studies, analyzing these strategies in t...
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Signs and wonders
Ellen t. armourLays the groundwork for a theology and philosophy of life better suited to our (post)modern moment: one that owns up to the vulnerabilities that modernity sought to disavow and better enables us to navigate the ethical issues we now confront.
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Lesbian configurations
Renée c. hooglandWhat constitutes a narrative as "lesbian"? Hoogland provides original readings of such films as Basic Instinct and Bitter Moon, and novels such as The Bell Jar and Friends and Relations in order to trace the way lesbian identities are negotiated in Western culture.
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Way too cool
Shannon winnubstFollows the hollowing-out of "coolness" in modern American culture and its reflection of a larger evasion of race, racism, and ethics now common in neoliberal society
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Desiring revolution
Jane gerhardThere was a moment in the 1970s when sex was what mattered most to feminists. White middle-class women viewed sex as central to both their oppression and their liberation. Young women started to speak and write about the clitoris, orgasm, and masturbation, and publishers and the news media jumped...
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Gender and parenthood
W. bradford wilcox , Kathleen kovner klineThe essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered paren...
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Sight unseen
Ellyn kaschakReveals the cultural and biological realities of race, gender, and sexual orientation from the perspective of the blind.
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The discovery of anxiousness
Joana serradoJoana Serrado inaugurates anxiousness as a category of mystical knowledge in this innovative historical and philosophical study.
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The iranian constitutional revolution
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Paying for masculinity
Murray knuttilaMen commit crimes. Men are violent. Men start wars. Men have power.In Paying for Masculinity, Murray Knuttila argues that male dominance is best understood in the context of the particular mode of gender practice — hegemonic masculinity — that typifies patriarchal gender orders. This mode of masc...
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Intimacy in illegality
Flaminia bartoliniDrawing on rich biographical accounts and ethnographic methods, this book offers an insightful and sensitive look at a mostly unknown aspect of life in illegality. Flaminia Bartolini shows how intimacy should be understood in its intrinsic power dimension and looks critically at the German migrat...
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Marked men
Sally robinsonWhite men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike, James Dickey, John Irving, and Pat Conroy an...
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