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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
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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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2013-10-21
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Mentoring hat Hochkonjunktur. Egal ob in Hochschulen, Wirtschaft oder Politik, überall findet man Mentoring-Programme als gendergerechte Personalentwicklung, die der Unterrepräsentanz von Frauen in Führungspositionen entgegenwirken sollen. Doch was bringen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2013-08-15
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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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This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-22
Collection :
What is History?
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Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era.Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over.Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain.Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. In The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-17
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Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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Where are the women? In traditional historical and scholarly accounts of the making and fighting of wars, women are often nowhere to be seen. With few exceptions, war stories are told as if men were the only ones who plan, fight, are injured by, and negotiate ends to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
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Gender issues continue to be a prominent concern of academics and policy-makers, and increasingly arise in various forms to be debated in the public sphere and popular media. But what exactly do we mean by gender? How can we best understand gender differences? How are...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-03
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Andreas Oskar Kempf behandelt transnationale Migrationsverläufe aus dem ländlichen Raum von Ost- nach Westeuropa mit dem Fokus auf Rumänien und Italien. Er rekonstruiert, in welche biographischen Zusammenhänge die transnationalen Migrationsprozesse eingebettet sind, und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2012-11-26
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Whether you drink it or not, alcohol is likely a potent part of your life: our culture is saturated in it. Ask any woman you know to tell you a drinking story, and she’ll come up with one—in fact, she may even come up with five. With friends and with...
Editeur :
Seal Press
Parution :
2012-09-04
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A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-06
Collection :
The New Middle Ages
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In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result takes the...
Editeur :
Robinson
Parution :
2012-06-07
Collection :
Brief Histories
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"A religious fundamentalist, a political operative, a primitive sermonizer, and an accomplice of worldly secular powers. Her mission has always been of this kind. The irony is that she has never been able to induce anybody to believe her. It is past time that she was...
Editeur :
Twelve
Parution :
2012-04-10
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