Catálogo de libros: Estudios de género, grupos de género

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  • Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis
    Misconceptions regarding gender identity and issues of inequality that women around the world face have become a predominant concern for not only the citizens impacted, but global political leaders, administrators, and human rights activists. Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis explores how an analysis of language us...
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    242,72 €

  • Contemporary Global Perspectives on Gender Economics
    Susanne Moore
    The rise of women in the workforce has led to many campaigns for wage equality and the impartial treatment of both sexes as they pursue careers previously designated as either a man’s or a woman’s job. The impact of these campaigns has been felt, but a sense of gender stereotyping still affects not only the social and cultural well-being of the modern organization, but the driv...
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    256,04 €

  • Gender and Information Technology
    Mary Kirk
    The exponential growth of technology and concurrent information revolution is creating a tremendous cultural shift on a global scale. However, the direction of that shift is being determined by those privileged few who participate. Women and people of color remain underrepresented as developers, users and beneficiaries of technology. Using gender as a starting point, Gender and...
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    216,73 €

  • I Promised Not to Tell
    Cheryl B Evans
    A Readers' Favorite 2017 Bronze Medal Award Winner.  Cheryl Evans and her husband Jim raised their children telling them: 'You can be anything and do anything you want in life.' They just never expected to learn that what their youngest daughter desired most in the world was to be a boy. Experience this powerful, raw and, deeply personal story as one family invites you to b...
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    14,94 €

  • Men, War and Film
    Steve Hawley
    The story and analysis of the Calling Blighty series of films made by the Combined Kinematograph Service in Burma and India between 1943 and 1946. These are remarkable and moving documents, a one-way Skype of their day, where men - and a very few women - sent spoken messages home to be shown to families and sweethearts in local cinemas. 42 illus. ...
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    51,52 €

  • Becoming a mother
    Carla Pascoe Leahy
    This book charts the history of first-time Australian motherhood across the last 75 years, drawing upon oral history interviews with a diverse group of mothers. Through thematic chapters covering pregnancy, birth, childrearing, relationships, work and identity, the book analyses change and continuity in experiences of becoming a mother since 1945. ...
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    44,09 €

  • Tactical Approaches to Technical Communication
    Delves into how individuals tactically exist within communicative systems, carving out spaces for themselves in places they don’t necessarily fit.In 1984, Michel de Certeau described the terms 'strategies' as how institutions communicate their wants/demands/desires and 'tactics' as how individuals navigate these potentially hostile, unwelcoming systems. A little over two decade...
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    167,22 €

  • Rising Tide, Resilient Voices
    Mumita Tanjeela
    Bangladesh’s deltas are the front lines of the climate crisis-but they are also front rows for women’s ingenuity. Rising Tide, Resilient Voices follows Dr. Mumita Tanjeela deep into cyclone‑lashed coasts, drought‑parched plains, flood‑soaked river basins, and precarious hill settlements to hear how women navigate escalating hazards that threaten land, livelihoods, and life itse...
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    37,28 €

  • How To Get Great Dating Outcomes In A Modern World
    Glenn Sandifer II
    Description: Re-Discover The New Rules for Relationships and Dating. Second Edition explores the complexities successful individuals face in their romantic lives. While professional achievers strive for excellence, applying that same drive to relationships can be challenging. Author Glenn Sandifer, emphasizes that both professional success and fulfilling relationships are attai...
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    15,94 €

  • Women’s Troubles
    Claire Pierson
    Women’s Troubles sets out to capture the complexities of feminist movement building in the divided society of Northern Ireland, contributing to ongoing analysis of contemporary global feminisms. ...
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    145,49 €

  • Potter Stinks
    Keridiana Chez
    Decades after captivating the globe with the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling ignited fierce controversy by promoting anti-trans views through social media and her website. The ensuing debate prompted a re-reckoning of the series’ latent conservatism as devoted fans grappled with its lionized author’s online vitriol against a vulnerable group. In the wake of this controversy,...
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    142,37 €

  • Potter Stinks
    Keridiana Chez
    Decades after captivating the globe with the Harry Potter series, J. K. Rowling ignited fierce controversy by promoting anti-trans views through social media and her website. The ensuing debate prompted a re-reckoning of the series’ latent conservatism as devoted fans grappled with its lionized author’s online vitriol against a vulnerable group. In the wake of this controversy,...
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    35,66 €

  • Sex, Risk, and Society
    Sarah H. Pollock
    When is sex abnormal and when is it dangerous? A multi-disciplinary approach that includes sociology, anthropology, history, and philosophy provides an understanding of how cultural norms have shifted over time and the implications of these shifts. Proposed definitions of 'abnormal' and 'dangerous' and their impact on public policies and practices are evaluated, as are our cont...
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    163,87 €

  • Care at the End of the World
    Jina B. Kim
    In Care at the End of the World, Jina B. Kim develops what she calls crip-of-color critique, bringing a disability lens to bear on feminist- and queer-of-color literature in the aftermath of 1996 US welfare reform and the subsequent evisceration of social safety nets. She examines literature by contemporary feminist, queer, and disabled writers of color such as Jesmyn Ward, Oct...
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    34,33 €

  • Sociology and Popular Television
    Raisa-Gabriela Zamfirescu
    This book examines representations of gender, age and identity across the Hallmark film and television output in relation to specific periods of time that pertain to changes within the specific entertainment sector. Using a comprehensive collection of 628 original Hallmark television films released between January 2015 and December 2023, the book applies content analysis to a v...
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    168,88 €

  • Feminist Futures for Sport
    Adele Pavlidis / Simone Fullagar / Wendy O’Brien
    This book examines the historical present as a turning point for women who are moving into traditional masculine cultures of team contact sports. The authors investigate how shifting gender dynamics are reshaping sports practices, organisations, and representations. They ask: What happens when women’s sporting bodies enter spaces that have historically excluded them? How is thi...
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    167,17 €

  • Gender, Sexual Citizenship and Epistemic Injustice in the Caribbean
    Charmaine Crawford
    This book interrogates the relationship between gender, sexual citizenship and epistemic injustice as it relates to the experiences of LGBTQ persons in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Whether it is the recognition of gender/sexual identities, sexual freedom, bodily autonomy, marriage or creating a family, sexual citizenship encompasses different aspects of our intimate lives that h...
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    49,93 €

  • Analysing American Advice Books for Single Mothers Raising Sons
    Berit Åström
    This intersectional study analyses the normative pressures placed on single mothers raising sons in contemporary parenting literature and how traditional ideas of masculinity and femininity are used to undermine the mothers. The study further connects the advice books to a cultural backlash against ideas of ’involved fatherhood’ and ’caring masculinity’. ...
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    50,71 €

  • How to Suppress the Careers of Female Social Scientists - Volume 1
    This book is the first of a series of five volumes that analyze and denounce the gender inequalities and violence faced by Latin American female social scientists in academic settings. The five volumes will present and discuss the results of an ethnographic research project conducted in four countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico - to analyze gender inequalities exper...
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    206,25 €

  • Narrating Change
    Storytelling has always been a powerful medium for reflecting, challenging, and transforming societal norms. Literature and cinema, as two of the most influential narrative forms, have played a crucial role in shaping our understanding of identity, power, and change. Narrating Change: Gender, Technology, and Power in Literature and Cinema is a scholarly exploration of how narra...
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    101,41 €

  • Waves of Belonging
    Showcases surfing as a site of social belonging and power formationThe surf zone—the place between ocean and shore—offers a powerful space to reflect on the dynamic contemporary politics of our worlds. Surfing always occurs on Indigenous lands, and centering Indigeneity in surfing studies both recognizes this fundamental fact and creates a different starting point for connectin...
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    157,89 €

  • Material masculinities
    Ben Jackson
    This book explores men’s material culture and consumer behaviour in the rapid social and economic transformations of eighteenth-century England, arguing that men came to rely on their possessions to make sense of their identities during such significant historical changes. ...
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    157,10 €

  • Reproductive uncertainty
    Tiantian Chen
    This book provides the first sustained account of intense debates in China over the ban on single women’s access to assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs). Drawing on the author’s fieldwork in clinics and government agencies in Beijing, it mainly explains Chinese policymakers’ and clinicians’ rationale for restricting single women’s use of ARTs even if they celebrate ARTs as...
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    55,83 €

  • Risk, Stigma, Agency
    Sunny Sinha
    This book centers the life histories of three women engaged in sex work in Kolkata, India to show how they make sense of their lived experiences and reveals deep insights into the risks women face in the current social environment of India. Much of the risk discourse surrounding sex work in India comes from academics, social and health workers, epidemiologists, and policymakers...
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    167,21 €

  • Affective Activisms and the Right to Have Rights in Turkey
    Eirini Avramopoulou
    This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism. Based on extensive ethnographic research of the life and politics of feminist, LGBTQI+, and women’s religious groups in Istanbul from 2007 to 2015, it explores the affects, meanings, and interpretations these groups express in their activism-in particular, their strategic use of huma...
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    166,65 €

  • Life as a Migrant Muslim Woman in Sectarian Northern Ireland
    Amanda J. Lubit
    The lives of migrant Muslim women in divided, post-conflict Northern Ireland, both before and after the pandemic, are full of diverse stories and experiences of belonging. This book explores how women strive to belong and create a home despite pervasive hatred, sexism and racism. Under these circumstances, women employ various strategies to connect with people and places around...
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    184,40 €

  • Muslim Women’s Lived Experiences and Intersectional Identities
    This volume takes a global perspective on intersectionality embodied by Muslim women. It addresses questions such as balancing multiple identities, lived experiences and complex realities, and the role of faith in social roles. The chapters debunk the idea of Islam or gender being monoliths. They layer faith over gender across the globe and consider migration as an important fa...
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    235,46 €

  • Desire beyond Identity
    Wesley N. Barker
    Critically adapts the notion of desire in Luce Irigaray’s philosophy to rethink the role of embodiment in sociopolitical and philosophical discourses today.Arguing for a radical return to desire in Luce Irigaray’s thought, this book decisively intervenes in impasses around questions of identity that continue to confound contemporary discourse and politics. By prioritizing the d...
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    167,18 €

  • Empowering Indian Women Through Resilience
    The book examines various aspects of women empowerment in South Asia, particularly in India. The term 'empowerment' refers to women’s liberation from social-economic restraints of reliance. Women worldwide actively work as leaders and establish new dimensions in all fields. Yet, in India, although women comprise around 50% of India’s population, most stay economically dependent...
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    222,15 €

  • Use of Digital and Advanced Technologies in the Fashion Supply Chain
    This book explores the integration of innovative technologies in the fashion industry to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and customer experience. It provides an in-depth analysis of the various advanced technologies, such as data analytics, 3D printing, robotics, blockchain, RFID, IOT, and artificial intelligence, and how they can be applied in the fashion supply chain. The...
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    261,18 €


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