Gender and History Special Issues – serie
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18 produkter
18 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
329 kr
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Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.
Häftad, Engelska, 1998
273 kr
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Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean builds up an important source of interdisciplinary information for the study of gender and the body in history. .
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
292 kr
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This book addresses the theme of the history of internationalism in feminist theory and praxis, covering such topics as the historical concept of internationalism within feminism and women's movements; the nature of historical shifts within feminist movements, and challenges to internationalism within feminism by women of colour and by women from colonised or formerly colonised countries.
Häftad, Engelska, 2000
347 kr
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This book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on how gender history has developed and where it is going.The subjects covered include gendered space, colonial identites, biology and science, politics, citizenship and the public shere, work, family, and oral history. Ranging from Europe to Asia, Australia to North and South America, together the essays provide an essential guide to the recent and future direction of gender history.
Häftad, Engelska, 2001
329 kr
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A collection in which a group of leading historians of medieval Europe apply a gendered analysis to a series of questions ranging from the transformation of the Roman world and the Christian challenge to late antique masculinity, through canon law and Byzantine coinage to the childhood of medieval visionaries.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
301 kr
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Gender and the City before Modernity presents a series of multi-disciplinary readings that explore issues relating to the role of gender in a variety of cities of the ancient, medieval, and early modern worlds. Presents an inter-disciplinary collection of readings that reveal new insights into the intersection of gender, temporality, and urban spaceFeatures a wide geographical and methodological rangeIncludes numerous illustrations to enhance clarity
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
301 kr
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Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal how historians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary, methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis. Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates central in gender history over the past two decadesContributions within this volume to the work on gender history are approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations and approachesThe volume demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery of common grounds
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
294 kr
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Sex, Gender and the Sacred presents a multi-faith, multi-disciplinary collection of essays that explore the interlocking narratives of religion and gender encompassing 4,000 years of history. Contains readings relating to sex and religion that encompass 4,000 years of gender historyFeatures new research in religion and gender across diverse cultures, periods, and religious traditionsPresents multi-faith and multi-disciplinary perspectives with significant comparative potentialOffers original theories and concepts relating to gender, religion, and sexualityIncludes innovative interpretations of the connections between visual, verbal, and material aspects of particular religious traditions
Häftad, Engelska, 2002
329 kr
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This volume explores the relationship of citizenship and gender across a range of regions, nations and historical time periods. At the heart of each case study is an exploration of how gender shaped citizenship as a claims-making activity, and how women, often aligned with immigrants and minorities, took a leading role in articulating these claims.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
347 kr
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Material Strategies brings together scholars from different disciplines to explore what dress and textiles can tell us about gender history. Broad in scope – covers women, men, social groupings and nations from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.Rich in detail – incorporates illustrations that provide visual evidence for gendered strategies of dress.Combines perspectives from design and textile history, business history, cultural anthropology, social history, art history and cultural history.Considers 'material strategies' in relation to production and consumption, the public and the private, the body and sexuality, and national identity.Written in a jargon-free style, making it accessible to readers from a wide range of backgrounds.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
320 kr
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This well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time, from the medieval world to the twenty-first century. Uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history. Considers the issues across time, from the classical world to the twenty-first century. Covers a wide range of locations, including Africa, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia. Academically and theoretically innovative. Includes work by authors from different countries and different disciplines. Helps readers to understand violence both as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures, and as a performative act that can be read symptomatically.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
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From Brazil to Germany, New York to Ghana, Dialogues of Dispersal examines intersections of gender and sexuality within Afro-diasporic communities. Considers communities in Brazil, the Caribbean, Germany, the UK, the US and West Africa, and how they overlap. Contains innovative analyses of knowledge production, globalization, popular culture, identity, colonialism, maternalism, dress, and transnational networks. Features interdisciplinary work by both established and emerging scholars. Acknowledges the accomplishments and the tensions of feminist scholarship and activism. Encourages further research by highlighting the range of electronic research materials on African diasporas available on the Internet.
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
301 kr
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This volume, which brings together articles by scholars and activists in China, Japan, Canada and the US in multiple disciplines, seeks to illuminate the problems and possibilities involved in translating feminism from the metropolitan ‘West’ to a locale rife with its own ideas about gender, class, body and sexuality. Showcases the centrality of gender in the formation of modern China Demonstrates the extent to which translated feminisms — whatever they mean — have transformed the terms in which modern Chinese understand their own subjectivities and histories
Del 2 - Gender and History Special Issues
Gender and Change
Agency, Chronology and Periodisation
Häftad, Engelska, 2009
301 kr
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Through a collection of essays by leading scholars on women's history and gender history, Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation questions conventional chronologies while reassessing the relationship between gender, agency, continuity and change. Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & HistoryReflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. For example, whether the European Renaissance can be classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the perspective of womenOffers innovative historiographical and theoretical reflection on approaches to gender, agency, and change
Del 4 - Gender and History Special Issues
Homes and Homecomings
Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
301 kr
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In Homes and Homecomings an international group of scholars provide inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings. Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, the book examines case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomingsTakes an historical approach to a subject area that is surprisingly little historicisedFeatures original research from a group of international scholarsThe book has an international approach that focuses on Africa, Asia, the Americas and East and West EuropeContains original illustrations of homes in a variety of historical contexts
Del 6 - Gender and History Special Issues
Historicising Gender and Sexuality
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
301 kr
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Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselvesPresents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
254 kr
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Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visualityIncludes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuriesHighlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globeFeatures innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices
Del 1 - Gender and History Special Issues
Visual Genders, Visual Histories
A Special Issue of Gender & History
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
259 kr
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This innovative book breaks new ground in visual studies with its specific exploration of the visual dimensions of gender. Explores visual genders through material ranging from documentary film footage of liberated concentration camps after World War II to contemporary fashion photography in Tehran. Chapters are organised conceptually under themes of documenting, trafficking and experimenting. A diverse selection of exceptional and provocative images accompanies the text.