Category: Gender Studies

By J. Armengol

Inverting the conventional concentration of ethnic reports on blackness because the item of scrutiny, this ebook explores dominant different types of white masculinity as obvious by way of African American authors positioned along sure white writers. writer analyzes texts via Herman Melville, Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, Frederick Douglass, and James Baldwin.

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By Jennifer Coates

Women, males and Language has lengthy been proven as a seminal textual content within the box of language and gender, providing?an account of the various ways that language and gender intersect. during this pioneering publication, bestselling writer Jennifer Coates explores linguistic gender variations, introducing the reader to a variety of sociolinguistic study within the field.


Written in a transparent and obtainable demeanour, this publication introduces the belief of gender as a social build, and covers key?topics similar to conversational perform, comparable intercourse speak, conversational dominance, and children’s acquisition of gender-differentiated language, discussing the social and linguistic results of those styles of talk.


Here reissued as a Routledge Linguistics vintage, this publication incorporates a fresh preface which situates this article within the modern-day research of language and gender, masking the postmodern shift within the knowing of gender and language, and assessing the book’s influence at the box. Women, males and Language is still crucial examining for any scholar or researcher operating within the sector of language and gender.

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By Birthe Zenker

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, be aware: 1,0, , Veranstaltung: Einführung Gender reports, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Der Begriff gender wird mittlerweile in den verschiedensten Bereichen der Gesellschaft genutzt. Doch used to be ist damit gemeint? Woher stammt diese Benennung? Wo wird dieser Begriff angewendet?

In der Linguistik bezeichnet das Wort gender zunächst im Englischen den Genus beziehungsweise das grammatikalische Geschlecht – das heißt die Unterscheidung zwischen weiblich, männlich und sächlich. Im wissenschaftlichen Sprachgebrauch wird gender als Bezeichnung für das soziale Geschlecht und in Abgrenzung dazu intercourse als biologisches Geschlecht definiert.

Aus dem Inhalt:

– Themeneinführung / Übersicht;
– state of affairs von Frauen in der Gesellschaft (Studienergebnisse);
– used to be bedeutet es, Junge oder Mädchen, Mann oder Frau zu sein? (Judith Butler);
– Kulturelle Gendermuster in Buch und Bild;
– Genderkompetenz in der sozialen Arbeit;
– used to be ist Gender Mainstreaming?
– Schärfen oder trüben mediale Bilder von Körpern und Sexualität den Blick auf das Sexuelle?
– Diskriminierung von Homo- und Bisexuellen (Steffens);
– Respekt und Zumutung bei der Begegnung von Schwulen/Lesben und Muslimen;
– Der neue Antifeminisimus / Relativierung von Gewalt gegen Frauen.

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By Stella Hockenhull

This e-book makes a speciality of the output of girls movie administrators within the interval publish Millennium whilst the variety of girl administrators operating in the movie rose considerably. although nationally and the world over girls movie administrators are underrepresented in the undefined, there's a wealth of expertise presently operating in Britain. throughout the early a part of the 2000s, the UKFC instigated regulations and techniques for gender equality and because then the British movie Institute has persevered to motivate range. British ladies administrators within the New Millennium for that reason examines the construction, distribution and exhibition of woman administrators’ paintings in gentle of coverage. The ebook is split into sections: half one incorporates a historic heritage of girls administrators operating within the 20th century ahead of discussing a few of the variety investment possibilities on hand given that 2000. the second one a part of the booklet examines the innovation, creativity and resourcefulness of British girl movie administrators, in addition to the enormous number of movies that they produce, deciding on particular examples for research within the approach.    

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By Kimberly A. Williams

A daring paintings of feminist diplomacy that contributes to our realizing of the gendered, racialized, and heteronormative dynamics of U.S. international coverage, either in kinfolk with Russia and within the invasion of Iraq.

Co-winner of the 2009 SUNY Press Dissertation/First booklet Prize in Women’s and Gender reviews, Imagining Russia makes use of U.S.–Russian kinfolk among the autumn of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 as a case learn to check the deployment of gendered, racialized, and heteronormative visible and narrative depictions of Russia and Russians in modern narratives of yank nationalism and U.S. overseas coverage. via analyses of numerous key post-Soviet American renowned and political texts, together with the hit tv sequence The West Wing, Washington D.C.’s overseas secret agent Museum, and the legislative hearings of the liberty help Act and the Trafficking sufferers defense Act, Williams calls awareness to the construction and operation of 5 sorts of “gendered Russian imaginaries” that have been explicitly used to reinforce aid for and legitimize U.S. geopolitical unilateralism after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, demonstrating the ways in which the masculinization of U.S. army, political, and fiscal strength after 1991 prepared the ground for the invasion of Iraq in 2003.

“Williams has written a masterful examine the gendered rhetoric produced within the West (and occasionally by means of Russians themselves) to explain post-Soviet Russia within the aftermath of the chilly warfare … hugely recommended.” — CHOICE

“This is a phenomenal ebook and a very good instance of feminist IR research. The thesis and targets are to teach the ideological factors of (asymmetrical and deteriorating) U.S.–Russian family, which Williams convincingly argues are rooted in gendered understandings.” — Valentine M. Moghadam, coeditor of constructing Globalization paintings for ladies: The position of Social Rights and alternate Union Leadership

Kimberly A. Williams is Assistant Professor of Women’s reports at Mount Royal University.

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By Cynthia Enloe

Nimo, Maha, Safah, Shatha, Emma, Danielle, Kim, Charlene. In a e-book that when back blends her designated aptitude for shooting the feel of lifestyle with sensible political insights, Cynthia Enloe appears heavily on the lives of 8 usual ladies, 4 Iraqis and 4 american citizens, in the course of the Iraq battle. between others, Enloe profiles a Baghdad good looks parlor proprietor, a teenage woman who survived a bloodbath, an elected member of Parliament, the younger spouse of a military sergeant, and an African American lady soldier. every one bankruptcy starts with a close-up examine one woman’s stories and widens right into a impressive exam of the bigger canvas of war’s gendered dimensions. Bringing to mild hidden and unforeseen theaters of operation—prostitution, sexual attack, marriage, ethnic politics, sexist economies—these tales are a super entryway into an eye-opening exploration of the particular motives, expenditures, and long-range outcomes of warfare. This specific comparability of yank and Iraqi women’s diversified and complicated stories sheds a robust mild at the various realities that jointly we name, might be too simply, "the Iraq war."

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By Teresa Ortiz-Gómez,María Jesús Santesmases

medicinal drugs are thought of to be healers and harmers, ask yourself ingredients and data makers; gadgets that influence on social hierarchies, future health practices and public rules. As a collective endeavour, this e-book specializes in the ways in which gender, in addition to race/ethnicity and sophistication, effect the layout, standardisation and flow of gear all through a number of hugely medicalised nations through the 20th century and until eventually the twenty-first. Fourteen authors from diverse eu and non-European international locations examine the level to which the dominant rules and values surrounding masculinity and femininity have contributed to form the examine, prescription and use of gear by way of men and women inside specific social and cultural contexts. New and lesser-known, gender-specific concerns in existence and social practices linked to pharmaceutical applied sciences are analysed, as is the way during which they intrude in existence studies corresponding to copy, sexual wish, childbirth, melancholy and happiness. The strategies of prescribing, promoting, advertising and marketing and accepting or forbidding medicinal drugs can also be tested, as is the contribution of gendered clinical practices to the medicalisation and growing to be intake of substances by way of girls. Gender kinfolk and different hierarchies are concerned as either motives and outcomes of drug cultures, and of the historical past and social lifetime of gender in modern drug creation, use and intake. A community of brokers emerges from this book’s examine, contributing to a greater realizing of either gender and medication inside our society.

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By Ryan Ashley Caldwell

Fallgirls offers an research of the abuses that came about at Abu Ghraib by way of social concept, gender and gear, in accordance with first-hand participant-observations of the courts-martials of Lynndie England and Sabrina Harman. This booklet examines the rigors themselves, together with interactions with squaddies and protection groups, files bearing on the courts-martials, US executive experiences and pictures from Abu Ghraib, so as to problem the view that the abuses have been performed by the hands of some rogue squaddies. With a prepared concentrate on gender and sexuality as admired facets of the abuses themselves, in addition to the ways that they have been portrayed and attempted, Fallgirls engages with glossy feminist suggestion and modern social thought as a way to examine the way during which the abuses have been framed, while additionally exploring some of the lived realities of Abu Ghraib by means of either prisoners and squaddies alike. supplying a different standpoint and an intensive theoretical exam of the occasions, their framing and depiction, this booklet should be of curiosity to sociologists, feminists, and social and political theorists considering cultural reviews, political communique and gender and sexuality.

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By Barbara Antoniazzi

The Wayward Woman takes a clean examine the revolutionary period, recasting the turn-of-the-century debate on gender roles and prostitution. Recapitulating and transcending extant experiences of woman delinquency, prostitution literature, and revolutionary womanhood, this paintings is aware “female waywardness” because the severe intersection among the increase of woman emancipation and the panic encouraged through the period’s obsession with sexual enslavement. simultaneously, it explores the innovative ambivalence approximately compassion and regulate which spread out along a warfare on prostitution that traversed the nation-states of legislations, drugs, literature and politics. Drawing on theories of performativity the writer develops “the wayward girl” as a capacious analytical type that encompasses all girls who, countering the residual injunction of domesticity, introduced new varieties of femininity into the sunshine of the general public sphere: the activist, the pro and the divorcee, but in addition the feminine breadwinner, the charity lady and the city lady of color––among many others. The e-book investigates the continuum of waywardness that stretches from the high-minded New lady to the ever-victimized “white slave” as a cultural battlefield the place a variety of girls stepped around the barriers of sophistication, race and respectability to assert new public personas. whilst it reads the preoccupation with white slavery either as a symptom of and an antidote to this wave of swap. via an innovating selection of assets which brings jointly sociological writings, novels, performs, videos and criminal records, the publication rearticulates the tensions of the revolutionary period among gender roles, blackness and whiteness, reformers and reformed, the electorate and the nation. The Wayward Woman could be of a lot curiosity to scholars and students within the fields of yankee stories, girls experiences and function studies.

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