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People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments

Demonstrating how women and other marginalized groups respond to the limits and options imposed by the history and structure of spaces, this volume envisions a world beyond colonial, able-bodied, class and patriarchal limitations where freedom of movement functions for all.

Gender Visibility and Erasure
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Gender Visibility and Erasure

Gender Visibility and Erasure offers a unique way of focusing on gender by identifying the multiple contexts in which issues of visibility, invisibility, and erasure manifest, considering who is seen and who is ignored, who has voice and who is silenced, who has agency and who is controlled.

Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 326

Perceiving Gender Locally, Globally, and Intersectionally

Addresses questions about how feminist scholars conceptualize gender and view it in relationship to other attributes of individuals and of social systems. This book strives for intersectional analyses broadening that approach beyond the gender, race and class paradigm to include sexuality, employing a variety of methodologies.

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres

Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres

Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 312

Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence

The chapters in this two-part volume explore components of the emerging global discourse regarding gender and violence from a feminist and social scientific perspective. The authors address gender-based violence broadly, as an attribute of social structures as well as individuals and include LGBTQ individuals in its conceptualization of gender.

Gender and the Media
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

Gender and the Media

A variety of print, audio and visual media, including comics, trade publications, music and newspapers, are considered to explore the portrayal of gender and gender-related issues. With a focus on girls and women, the chapters ponder how media formats both shape, and are shaped by, the social order.

Gender Panic, Gender Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 363

Gender Panic, Gender Policy

Using diverse theories and methods including analysis of on-line data, feminist critical discourse, fieldwork, grounded theory, and queer theory, this volume explores gender panic and policy in the United States and beyond.

Interactions and Intersections of Gendered Bodies at Work, at Home, and at Play
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

Interactions and Intersections of Gendered Bodies at Work, at Home, and at Play

Includes articles that examine the intersection of gender with other characteristics in a variety of settings including factory floors and corporate offices, welfare offices, state legislatures, the armed forces, universities, social clubs and playing fields.

Gender and Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Gender and Food

Volume 22 explores the complex relationships between gender and food in a variety of locations and time periods using a range of research methods. Gender inequality as it affects the struggle for access to land, the affordability of food, and its nutritional value is identified as a major social policy issue.

Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

Consists of essays that discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British Author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. Continuing in the tradition established by the "Advances in Gender Research" series, this title explores gender as a social institution and social construct.