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'A beautiful, brilliant, lively book that weaves together fascinating and moving examples with thoughtful analysis. Both heartfelt and rigorous, entertaining and scholarly, Before We Were Trans invites us to expand our sense of communities - past and present - in...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2022-06-23
Format(s) : ePub
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The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed. But in the view of the sociologist and trans...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-06-15
Format(s) : ePub
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“This book explores the everyday lives of gay men in Hainan, an island province of the People’s Republic of China. Taking an ethnographic and phenomenological approach, it asks how these men construct and experience ways of ‘sexual being’ –...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-03-15
Collection :
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-02-25
Format(s) : ePub
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*A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health*'This will blow you away'- Stylist'Joly's prose is sensitive and heartbreaking...darkly compelling' - Business Post'An extraordinary and...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2022-02-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Music and queerness interact in many different ways. The Oxford Handbook ofMusic and Queerness brings together many topics and scholarly disciplines, reflecting the diversity of current research and methodology. Each of the book's six sections exemplifies a particular...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2021-12-17
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Eines der aktuellsten Themen, die sowohl den öffentlichen als auch den akademischen Diskurs beschäftigen, ist Sexualität und die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen der sexuellen Selbstbestimmung, der Geschlechterordnung sowie der Homophobie. Der Religion kommt in diesem ...
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2021-11-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Today, in Western countries, we are seeing both the fragmentation of the gender binary (the division of the social world into two and only two genders) and its persistence. Multiple genders, gender-neutral pronouns and bathrooms, X designations, and other manifestations...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-10-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Women and Power in Africa: Aspiring, Campaigning, and Governing examines women's experiences in African politics as aspirants to public office, as candidates in election campaigns, and as elected representatives. Part I evaluates women's efforts to become party...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2021-09-21
Format(s) : ePub
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How does gender influence social movements?How do social movements deal with gender? In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection :
Social Movements
Format(s) : ePub
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***RECOMMENDED AS ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST SCIENCE BOOKS OF 2021'With all the talk about testosterone in sex, sports and politics, we need a good explanation of the science and its implications, and this one is outstanding.' STEVEN PINKER, bestselling author of The Blank...
Editeur : Cassell
Parution : 2021-07-08
Format(s) : ePub
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Feministische Bewegungen und ihre diversen widerständigen Praktiken haben in den vergangenen Jahren wieder an Sichtbarkeit gewonnen. Neben Protest- und Aktionsformen lassen sich auch zahlreiche Praktiken finden, die das Alltagsleben feministischer Akteur*innen prägen....
Editeur : Springer VS
Parution : 2021-06-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This collection advances vigilance as a critical feminist concept and strategy for addressing contemporary challenges. The assembled chapters develop feminist vigilance by elaborating concrete examples that emphasize action, ethics, and hope. Chapter authors expand on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2021-01-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it highlights the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-12-17
Collection :
New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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This book analyzes Nancy Chodorow’s canonical book The Reproduction of Mothering, bringing together an original essay from Nancy Chodorow and a host of outstanding international scholars—including Rosemary Balsam, Adrienne Harris, Elizabeth Abel, Madelon Sprengnether,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-11-30
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A comprehensive overview of feminist scholarship edited by an internationally recognized and leading figure in the field Companion to Feminist Studies provides a broad overview of the rich history and the multitude of approaches, theories, concepts, and debates central...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2020-11-24
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Provides a completely updated survey of the major issues in gender history from geographical, chronological, and topical perspectives This new edition examines the history of women over thousands of years, studies their interaction with men in a gendered world, and...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2020-11-19
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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What did gay men do in women’s liberation—and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women were homophobic...
Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2020-11-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How can we understand gender in the contemporary world? What psychological differences now exist between women and men?How are masculinities and femininities made? And how is gender entwined in global politics and debates over trans issues? Raewyn Connell – one of the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-11-10
Collection :
Short Introductions
Format(s) : ePub
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