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Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-01-19
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-20
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The new edition of Key Concepts in Gender Studies is a lively and engaging introduction to this dynamic field. Thoroughly revised throughout, the second edition benefits from the addition of nine new concepts including Gender Social Movements, Intersectionality and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-13
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How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-26
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The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-09-26
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This volume explores which relations produce or maintain masculinities
and certain gendered systems of power and the consequences of these gender
constructions that further gender research. To understand the meanings of
masculinity/masculinities and relationalities as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-05-30
Collection :
Crossroads of Knowledge
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This book is based on rich empirical data and findings
concerning the lives, perceptions and ambitions of young middle-class female
graduates, thus providing essential insights into the lives and viewpoints of a
previously unresearched group in China from a feminist...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-03-25
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Gender and Peacebuilding offers a comprehensive and up to date analysis of how and why gender matters in contemporary peace operations. It draws on a wide range of examples from across the world to offer a nuanced account of the UN?s attempts to mainstream gender into...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-03-11
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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This volume explores the interrelations between bodily boundaries and vulnerabilities. It calls attention to the vulnerability of bodies as an essential aspect of having boundaries and being bound to other bodies. The volume advances an understanding of embodiment as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-10-30
Collection :
Crossroads of Knowledge
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Transcultural Negotiations of Gender probes into how gender is negotiated along the two axes of ‘belonging’ and ‘longing’– the twin desires of being located within a cultural milieu, while yearning for either what has passed by or what is yet to come. It also probes...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-09-18
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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about ?sex?...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-06-05
Collection :
China Today
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The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualizing sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-01-12
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At no point in recorded history has there been an absence of intense, and heated, discussion about the subject of how to conduct relations between women and men. This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to these omnipresent issues and debates, mapping the present...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-08-12
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From Pakistan to Chechnya, Sri Lanka to Canada, pioneering women are taking their places in formal and informal military structures previously reserved for, and assumed appropriate only for men. Women have fought in wars, either as women or covertly dressed as men,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-07-17
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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Issues of global justice have received increasing attention in academic philosophy in recent years but the gendered dimensions of these issues are often overlooked or treated as peripheral. This groundbreaking collection by Alison Jaggar brings gender to the centre of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-01-14
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The third edition of Jill Steans’ popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Its nine chapters have been fully revised and expanded to cover key issues, developments and debates in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-24
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The third edition of Jill Steans’ popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up to date introduction to gender in international relations today. Its nine chapters have been fully revised and expanded to cover key issues, developments and debates in the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-12-24
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This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-11-15
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The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity. Beyond developing a formulation...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-10-21
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The idea that respect for cultural diversity conflicts with gender equality is now a staple of both public and academic debate. Yet discussion of these tensions is marred by exaggerated talk of cultural difference, leading to ethnic reductionism, cultural stereotyping,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-25
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