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Advances in Gender Research
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 1997
1555 kr
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This series is aimed at presenting current methodological and theoretical research in the area of gender studies. It discusses topics such as gender labour markets and social policy, women and families in Costa Rica, and economic development, patriarchy, and intrahousehold dynamics.
Advancing Gender Research Across, Beyond and Through Disciplines and Paradigms
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 1999
1738 kr
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The contributors to this volume, the third in the series, refine ideas that have been part of the conceptual toolkit of gender scholarship from its inception, identifying new challenges to and new applications for the concepts of the public/private dichotomy and of patriarchy.
Social Change for Women and Children
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 1999
1428 kr
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The contributors to this volume consider policy implications of gender research with an emphasis on its relevance for children-particularly girls; and gender inequality within a range of contexts from that of Cameroon society where basic education is an issue, to that of feminist family settings in …
International Feminist Challenge to Theory
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2001
1774 kr
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In this volume, 15 feminist scholars from five continents, who participated in the 1998 conference co-sponsored by Research Committee 32, Women in Society, of the International Sociological Association (WISISA) and the Centre for Research and Teaching on Women at McGill University, consider, …
Gendered Sexualities
Av Patricia Gagne, Richard A. Tewkesbury
Inbunden, 2002
1814 kr
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Contemporary scholars have made important substantive and theoretical contributions to understanding the ways in which power is exercised through gender and through sexuality. Drawing upon a number of theoretical frameworks, including feminism, post-modernism, masculinities and queer theory, …
Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine
Key Themes
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1475 kr
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This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and class-structured institution. Taken as a whole the volume offers a critique of exclusively biomedical approaches to personal and public health and calls …
Gendered Perspectives on Reproduction and Sexuality
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1903 kr
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This volume offers feminist perspectives on the social, cultural and medical aspects of women as sexual beings and of their fertility, pregnancy and child bearing. It serves as a companion to "Advances in Gender Research volume 7, Gender perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes". As in the …
Gender Realities
Local and Global
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Inbunden, 2005
1738 kr
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The ten papers in "Gender Realities: Local and Global" document the types of work in which women engage, and gender equity issues they face. They show both the importance of considering the uniqueness of cultural contexts for understanding and resolving problems and how global interdependence …
Gender and the Local-Global Nexus
Theory, Research, and Action
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2006
1646 kr
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The nine papers in this volume have a world in which the local/global connection is salient as background. Examining gender and its implications for feminist action within this setting, they fall into three overlapping categories. The first, theory, involves the theoretical consideration of gender …
Sustainable Feminisms
Inbunden, 2007
1646 kr
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This volume illuminates the encounter of feminist activism with scholarship in political science, cultural studies, sociology, ethnic studies, and economics. The essays contribute images of the forces that lead to the development of many different kinds of feminisms and womens movements across the …
Analyzing Gender, Intersectionality, and Multiple Inequalities
Global-transnational and Local Contexts
Av Esther Ngan-Ling Chow, Marcia Texler Segal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1569 kr
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The papers in this volume were selected and revised from among those presented at the conference "Gender and Social Transformation: Global, Transnational, and Local Realities and Perspectives", Beijing, China in 2009. Through case studies and interview data from across the globe we see how …
Advances in Gender Research
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 1996
1555 kr
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"Advances in gender research" is a new series aimed at presenting current methodological and theoretical research in an area of rapid change and with a subject which is interdisciplinary spanning the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. The papers in volume 1 reflect the current state …
Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Esther Ngan-Ling Chow m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1512 kr
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This volume examines the ways individuals, families and societies strive to balance paid and unpaid labor, engage in parenting and accomplish other care-work, seek education for themselves and their children and respond to the mass media, sometimes under conditions of poverty or violence.
Notions of Family
Intersectional Perspectives
Av Marla H. Kohlman, Dana B. Krieg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1512 kr
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"Notions of Family: Intersectional Perspectives" presents new and original research on gender and the institution of family featuring both quantitative and qualitative analyses. The objective of this volume is to present a framework for understanding the ways in which the salient identities of …
Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Inbunden, 2013
1709 kr
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The chapters in this two-part volume deal with a range of gender-based violence issues that are making news headlines daily. In Part A the contributors address the ways in which wartime rape is treated in international courts, why and how the gender language used at the United Nations matters, how …
Gender Transformation in the Academy
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Catherine White Berheide m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1808 kr
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Gender inequality/inequity in the academy has been evidenced globally as women outnumber men seeking degrees in institutions of higher education, but remain concentrated in the lower faculty ranks and absent from administrative positions, particularly in the science, technology, engineering and …
At the center
Feminism, social science and knowledge
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2015
1625 kr
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At the Center reflects on how the study of gender has changed and how studying gender has affected our research methods and our knowledge of the world around us. In honor of Bell Hooks' prophetic work, Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center, the volume considers how advances in gender research …
Gender and Race Matter
Global Perspectives on Being a Woman
Inbunden, 2016
1540 kr
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The drive for gender equality is not a recent phenomenon with the UN cited as occupying a central role for legislative change globally. Gender inequality persists in most countries and although it appears that we have a long way to go, this collection contributes to a feminist scholarship that …
Gender and Food
From Production to Consumption and After
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Inbunden, 2016
1540 kr
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Volume 22 explores the complex relationships between gender and food in a variety of locations and time periods using a range of research methods. Authors show that gender inequality and men’s dominance are implicit or explicit, and that in times of both stability and change, the burden of many if …
Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality
The Legacy of Sandra L. Bem
Av Marla Kohlman, Dana Balsink Krieg
Inbunden, 2017
1173 kr
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Discourses on Gender and Sexual Inequality: The Legacy of Sandra L. Bemfocuses on emerging discourses on gender, gender roles, and gender schemas. This collection of essays aims to honor the legacy of Sandra Lipsitz Bem and, particularly, her trail-blazing text, The Lenses of Gender: Transforming …
Gender Panic, Gender Policy
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2017
1173 kr
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Using diverse theories and methods including analysis of online data, feminist critical discourse, fieldwork, grounded theory, and queer theory, this edited volume explores gender panic and policy in the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Japan, Russia, Sweden, and subnational …
Gender and the Media
Women's Places
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos
Inbunden, 2018
1215 kr
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Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gender and the Media: Women’s Places consider a variety of media to explore the impact of what is there, as well as what is missing. Their focus is on women. …
Marginalized Mothers, Mothering from the Margins
Av Tiffany Taylor, Katrina Bloch
Inbunden, 2018
1215 kr
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This volume focuses on the ways in which mothers aremarginalized based on intersecting identities, such as immigration status,race, class, disability, sexuality, and how these women mother from the margins.Divided into three sections, this collection brings forth the voices andexperiences of …
Gender and Generations
Continuity and Change
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2021
1048 kr
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This volume focuses on the ways in which gender interacts with generation. Developed as the contributors and editors lived through the Covid-19 pandemic, the chapters offer a timely examination of gender-related changes that have occurred against the backdrop of changing socio-dynamics such as …
Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge
Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South
Av Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Josephine Beoku-Betts
Inbunden, 2021
1187 kr
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In the global South there is growing concern about the dynamics of global politics that have the potential to marginalize the diverse voices and perspectives of subaltern communities. Exploring ongoing and new feminist dialogues in the global South, this book examines the ways in which dominant …
Advances in Trans Studies
Moving Toward Gender Expansion and Trans Hope
Av Austin H. Johnson, Baker A. Rogers m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1118 kr
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This volume of Advances in Gender Research gives space and voice to trans peoples’ experiences and interactions with various social institutions, including but not limited to, social media, healthcare and medicalization, the criminal justice system, and the family. The chapters in this volume …
Gender Visibility and Erasure
Av Vasilikie (Vicky) Demos, Marcia Texler Segal
Inbunden, 2022
1187 kr
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Gender can be rendered invisible when the gendered nature of institutions is ignored or when the genders of participants in events or movements are not identified. The genders of non-binary and gender-diverse individuals can be erased when gender is conceived of as binary. From an intersectional …
Gender, Power, and Society
Persistence and Change
Av Marcia Texler Segal, Marcia Texler Segal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1128 kr
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Gender, Power, and Society explores the multifaceted relationship between gender and power in contemporary society. Bringing together a diverse set of scholars who apply innovative theoretical frameworks, including intersectionality and feminism, chapters examine how power is distributed and …
People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments
Av VA SILIKiE (VICKY) DEMOS, MARCIA TEXLER SEGAL m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1124 kr
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Intersectional in approach, this volume of Advances in Gender Research offers an overview of the ways in which environments — broadly defined to include social, natural and built territories, domains and habitats — are gendered. Rooted in qualitative, feminist and change-oriented perspectives, this …
Embodiment and Representations of Beauty
Av Esther Hernández-Medina, Esther Hernández-Medina m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1199 kr
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Beauty embodiment and representations of beauty are crafted by legitimised hierarchies of power in popular culture, including across fashion, sports, media and social media outlets, and the arts. Informed and guided by an intersectional lens with a focus on underrepresented communities, this volume …
