Gender studies, gender groups Books

Kelly Martin is a retired fifteen year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department. In this book she takes the reader along to experience the excitement of hitting the streets of Fort Worth for the very first time as a rookie police officer.It is while...

My story has to be told as it really can change lives. To say I am a survivor is an understatement. I was failed by the system. My lovely children became pawns in the system. I myself was sectioned 27 times under the mental health act, labeled subnormal...

Ante el Acuerdo de Paz entre el gobierno colombiano y las FARC, este libro reflexiona sobre lo que el género ha significado para la construcción de la transición y lo que la transición ha significado para la construcción del feminismo.

This book profiles the compelling story and lineage of Stephanie St. Clair, a black female Caribbean immigrant in the early twentieth century. Upon entering the US, St. Clair created and managed a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem ‒ earning a...

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.　A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics,...

In the years since independence, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed an alarming rise in violence against marginalized communities, with an increasing number of groups pushed to the margins of the democratic order. Against this background of violence,...

This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale...

2020 Gradiva Award Nominee, Best Edited BookPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women's identity,...

Addressing the significance of the pet in the Victorian period, this book examines the role played by the domestic pet in delineating relations for each member of the "natural" family home. Flegel explores the pet in relation to the couple at the head of...

The restructuring of teaching is a global issue, the result of a transnational movement of policy. Gender shapes the occupational reform and binds the global-to-the-local movement of reform ideas. Gender is also implicated in how policy is done and how...

This book focuses on the interplay of gender, race, and their representation in American science fiction, from the nineteenth-century through to the twenty-first, and across a number of forms including literature and film. Haslam explores the reasons why...

This volume marks the first sustained study to interrogate how and why issues of sexuality, desire, and economic processes intersect in the literature and culture of the Victorian fin de siècle. At the end of the nineteenth-century, the move towards new...

When did the sexual revolution happen? Most Americans would probably say the 1960s. In reality, young couples were changing the rules of public and private life for decades before. By the early years of the twentieth century, teenagers were increasingly...

This book brings together a diverse range of critical interventions in sexuality and gender studies, and seeks to encourage new ways of thinking about the connections and tensions between sexual politics, citizenship and belonging. The book is organized...

The late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century texts presented here describe female servants' experiences of work in early modern London. Domestics' court depositions offer qualitative evidence that female servants were an important support of...

In a set of compelling letters to teachers, Tara Goldstein addresses a full range of issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) students and families at elementary and secondary school. Goldstein talks to teachers about how they...

A Century of Encounters analyzes Arab, American, and European literary depictions of self and other as they interact with each other in Arab North Africa throughout the twentieth century and introduces the trope of the encounter as a lens through which...

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattari's theory of desire. Western tradition has thought of desire from the vantage point of masculine subjectivity; what happens when the order is...

This book offers a feminist analysis of military sacrifice and reveals the importance of a gender perspective in understanding the idea of honourable death.In present-day security discourses, traditional masculinised obligations to die for the homeland...

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence...

South Asia is the region with the highest number of slaves globally according to the Global Slavery Index. Bonded labour affects between 15 and 20 million labourers within the region, and is shaped by locally specific interconnections between ethnicity,...

What does it mean to be male in today's world?This volume interrogates the myriad practices and myth-making that underlie dominant and subordinate constructions of masculinities around the world. Challenging the patriarchal bias that restricts...

How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions? How are global institutions to be understood in terms of men, masculinities and gender power? What are men up to in such arenas as: global finance, corporate law, military...

This book is the first to examine gender and violence in Australian literature. It argues that literary texts by Australian women writers offer unique ways of understanding the social problem of gendered violence, bringing this often private and...

Diverse sex, gender, and sexual identities historically have been pushed to the margins in sport. While there is more visibility and inclusion for LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) people in sport today than in the past, there...

The issue of truth has been one of the most constant, complex, and contentious in the cultural history of travel writing. Whether the travel was undertaken in the name of exploration, pilgrimage, science, inspiration, self-discovery, or a combination of...

""The Story of Alice Cullis: Or How to Win by Example"" is a novel written by Ellen L. Brown and published in 1861. The book tells the story of Alice Cullis, a young woman who faces various challenges and obstacles in her life, but manages to overcome...

""The Evolution of a Girl's Ideal: A Little Record of the Ripening of the Affections to the Time of Love's Coming"" is a book written by Clara Elizabeth Laughlin and published in 1902. The book follows the story of a young girl as she grows up and...

Le livre intitul����� ""Histoire des Enfants Abandonn�����s : Depuis l'Antiquit����� jusqu'������ nos jours"" a �����t����� �����crit par Ernest Semichon en 1880. Ce livre relate l'histoire des enfants abandonn�����s depuis l'Antiquit����� jusqu'������...

""Correspondance Secr�����te Entre Ninon De Lenclos"" est un livre �����crit par Alexandre Joseph Pierre de S�����gur en 1805. Il s'agit d'une correspondance fictive entre Ninon de Lenclos, une courtisane fran�����aise du XVIIe si�����cle, et divers...

Le Secret De Triompher Des Femmes Et De Les Fixer (1828) est un livre �����crit par Ferlus, L. D. Ce livre est un guide pour les hommes qui cherchent ������ conqu�����rir et ������ garder le c�����ur des femmes. Il offre des conseils pratiques sur la...

Das Buch ""Die Einziehung der Produkte und Werkzeuge eines Delikts, ohne Unterschied, ob sie dem Verurteilten geh������ren oder nicht"" wurde im Jahr 1895 von Axel Vorberg verfasst. Es handelt sich um eine rechtliche Abhandlung, die sich mit der...

The Book of Woman's Power, written by Ida Minerva Tarbell and originally published in 1911, is a feminist text that explores the history and current state of women's rights and power in society. Tarbell, a prominent journalist and suffragist, argues that...

Rays From The Southern Cross is a book written by Georgiana Peacocke and published in 1876. The book is a collection of letters and journal entries written by Peacocke during her travels through Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. Peacocke was...

Memoirs of Rebecca Steward is a book written by T.G. Steward in 1877. The book is a biography of Rebecca Steward, providing a detailed account of her life. It includes various selections from her writings and letters, giving readers an insight into her...

""M�����moires de Madame la Baronne de Batteville, ou la Veuve Parfaite"" est un roman �����pistolaire publi����� en 1766 par Le Prince de Beaumont. L'histoire suit la vie de la Baronne de Batteville, une veuve exemplaire qui raconte ses m�����moires...

Lettres Sur Le Pouvoir De L�������Imagination Des Femmes Enceintes est un livre �����crit par Isaac Bellet et publi����� en 1745. Le livre se compose de lettres adress�����es ������ un m�����decin qui traite des effets de l'imagination sur les femmes...

Le livre ""M�����moires de la Cour de France, pour les ann�����es 1688 et 1689"" �����crit par Marie Madeleine Lafayette en 1742 est un t�����moignage historique sur la vie ������ la cour de France pendant les ann�����es 1688 et 1689. L'auteur, qui...

Katherine Morris: An Autobiography is a book written by Frances West Atherton Pike in 1860. It is a memoir of Katherine Morris, a woman who lived in the 19th century and experienced many significant events during her lifetime. The book is divided into...

Wood Leighton V2: Or A Year In The Country (1838) is a novel written by Mary Botham Howitt. The book is the second volume in a two-part series and follows the story of a young woman named Ellen, who is sent to live in the countryside with her aunt and...

Women In Public Life is a book written by Jane Addams and published in 1914. Addams was a social reformer and activist who was instrumental in the women's suffrage movement and the founding of the settlement house movement in the United States. In this...

Women At The Hague: The International Congress Of Women And Its Results (1915) is a historical book written by Jane Addams, an American social worker and Nobel Peace Prize winner. The book is a detailed account of the International Congress of Women that...

""Women As They Are V1"" is a book published in 1854, written by an author who goes by the pseudonym ""One Of Them."" The book is a collection of essays that explore the lives and experiences of women during the mid-19th century. The author delves into...

Women Ambassadors Abroad is a historical account written by Mildred Susan Garrett McFaden, first published in 1914. The book explores the experiences of women who served as ambassadors and diplomats in foreign countries during the early 20th century...

""Women's Cause"" is a book written by Carol Norton in 1895. The book highlights the struggles and challenges faced by women in the late 19th century, particularly in terms of their social, political, and economic status. Norton argues that women's...

""Women, Church and State"" is a historical account of the status of women throughout Christian history, written by Matilda Joslyn Gage and first published in 1893. The book explores the ways in which women have been oppressed and subjugated by the...