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This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using ‘citizenship’ as its organizing concept, it is a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-23
Collection :
Contemporary Performance InterActions
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Why are women still under-represented in politics? Can we speak of democracy when women are not fully included in political decision-making? Some argue that we are on the right track to full gender equality in politics, while others talk about women hitting the glass...
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Polity
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2017-11-10
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This book is an actor-centred sociological study of the EU-level processes that produce gender equality policy. Based on interviews and documentary analysis, the study unpacks the process of the “Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006-2010” to explain the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-08
Collection :
Gender and Politics
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A timely second edition of the classic text on transgender history, with a new introduction and updated material throughout Covering American transgender history from the mid-twentieth century to today, Transgender History takes a chronological approach to the subject...
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Seal Press
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2017-11-07
Collection :
Seal Studies
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Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more...
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Polity
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2017-09-18
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In einer empirisch gesättigten und innovativen Analyse der südafrikanischen Medienberichterstattung vor der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft der Männer 2010 zeigt die Autorin Carolin Küppers, wie über das Massenereignis WM Diskurse über Sexarbeit verstärkt medial inszeniert...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-09-15
Collection :
Geschlecht und Gesellschaft
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We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always...
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Virago
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2017-08-08
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This book is about ways to understand masculinity as systemic and corporeal, structural and performative all at once. It argues that the tension between an understanding of “masculinity” in the singular and “masculinities” in the plural poses a problem that can better...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-07-26
Collection :
Global Masculinities
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*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths and vaporises prejudice - I loved it!' Rebecca Root, star of Boy Meets Girl 'Funny, thoughtful and honest' Stylist'It's a...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2017-06-01
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Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
Collection :
Gender and Global Politics
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This book examines the formation of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs)—formal and informal—in public schools. These associations provide us with a way to think about intersectionality and tense encounters as spaces of possibility for new kinds of action, new kinds of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-04-07
Collection :
Queer Studies and Education
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Why is it so hard to talk about sex and sexuality? In this crisp and compelling book, Amin Ghaziani provides a pithy introduction to the field of sexuality studies through a distinctively cultural lens. Rather than focusing on sex acts, which make us feel flustered and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-04-03
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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This book sheds light on how sexuality and gender intersect in producing heteronormativity within the school system in Iceland. In spite of recent support for progressive policies regarding sexual and gender equality in the country, there remains a discrepancy between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-20
Collection :
Queer Studies and Education
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In der Diskussion um Frauengesundheit wird meist stillschweigend eine heterosexuelle Lebensweise unterstellt.In diesem Buch werden die Ergebnisse der bisher größten deutschen Befragug von Lesben über ihre gesundheitliche Situation dargestellt und diskutiert. Im...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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Verschiedene Genderdebatten in islamischen Ländern werden in diesem Sammelband von Studierendenunterschiedlicher Fachdisziplinen der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin untersucht. Die Arbeiten beleuchtendie Stellung der Frau sowie das Geschlechterverhältnis insgesamt in den...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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Wie stellen deutsche Frauen den Zweiten Weltkrieg dar? Die Auseinandersetzung mit Kriegserzählungen von Frauen fehlt bislang in der deutschsprachigen Germanistik. Unter (Welt-)Kriegsliteratur versteht man vor allem Erinnerungsliteratur ehemaliger Soldaten. Die...
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Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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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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Wie gehen von Gewalt betroffene Frauen mit der Gewalt ihres Partners um? Die Problematik der Partnergewalt wurde vielfach erforscht. So wurde auch in der vorliegenden Studie die Problematik aufgegliedert – von der Definition bis zu den Folgen. Diese und andere Fakten...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2016-12-21
Collection :
Gender and Diversity
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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...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2016-12-13
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