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This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary and multicultural perspective on gender within Hispanic film and literature.

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Bringing together the work of distinguished China historians, anthropologists, and literary and film scholars, Gender in Motion raises provocative questions about the diversity of gender practices during the late imperial society and the persistence and transformation of older...

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This study is concerned with equal opportunities for girls. The book analyzes educational provision in the decades following the Sex Discrimination Act and asks whether the school curriculum is male-oriented.

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Valerie O'Regan examines the relationship between female policymakers and policy outputs. The first analysis involved three general policy measures that address two types of women's issue policiesemployment and social.

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This book provides a starting point for a long overdue movement to elevate applied gender studies, providing both a reference and guide for researchers, students, policymakers, funders, non-profit leaders, and grassroots advocates.

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This book provides a starting point for a long overdue movement to elevate applied gender studies, providing both a reference and guide for researchers, students, policymakers, funders, non-profit leaders, and grassroots advocates.

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This book explores how the Olympic industry has shaped hegemonic concepts of sporting masculinities and femininities for its own profit and image-making ends, examining its continuing marginalization of athletes on account of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and class.

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This book uses case studies of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru to examine the impact of gender quotas in Latin American politics. Through careful analysis of electoral data it sheds light on issues of interest to policymakers and scholars in the fields of comparative politics, electoral studies, Latin American politics, and women and politics.

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Investigating the timing and nature of politicians' decisions to improve women's political representation, the author uses the case of the French Socialist Party to show that ideational and electoral factors have the biggest influence on party officials' decisions to adopt, increase, and implement gender-based quotas.

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Gender roles are broadly defined to include adults' and children's gender roles, gender stereotypes, marital roles, parental roles, employee roles, and multiple roles.

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What is practical feminism in a postmodern world Together, the 16 essays in this volume represent many different voices of feminists who boldly take up familiar, everyday concerns from unorthodox vantage points within new conceptual and theoretical frameworks.

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Demonstrates that modern theories of freedom are susceptible to gender and class analysis and they must be analyzed in terms of gender and class in order to be understood. Through readings of major and minor works of Hobbes, Locke, Kant, and Mill, this book examines the gender and class foundations of the modern understanding of freedom.

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This book examines the position of women in formal peace making in the context of UNSC Resolution 1325. It asks if the resolution, passed seventeen years ago, has been consigned to the domain of rhetoric, or whether it still has practical significance.

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This book examines the position of women in formal peace making in the context of UNSC Resolution 1325. It asks if the resolution, passed seventeen years ago, has been consigned to the domain of rhetoric, or whether it still has practical significance.

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Drawing on first-generation critical theory of Horkheimer, Adorno, and Marcuse and second-generation critical theory of Habermas, Agger argues for the priority of critical theory over the antitotality perspectives of postmodernism and feminism.

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Gender, Ethnicity, and Violence in Kenyas Transitions to Democracy examines gendered violence in the context of multiparty politics in Kenya, placing it in the historical milieu of colonial rule and its legacies of the ethnicization of both state and society.

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The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria), mental health, the relationship between religious beliefs and health, domestic violence, sex trafficking, and ageing and dementia.

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The themes dealt in the chapters of the book vary from questions of reproductive health, to non-communicable (e.g. breast cancer) and communicable diseases (HIV/AIDS, malaria), mental health, the relationship between religious beliefs and health, domestic violence, sex trafficking, and ageing and dementia.

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Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean uses case studies, ethnographic research, and theoretical analysis to craft locally defined cultural critiques of gender and health in modern Latin American societies as well as for Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora.

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Gender, Heterosexuality, and Youth Violence explores why some boys and girls engage in assaultive or sexual violence while others do not.Acclaimed criminologist James W. Messerschmidt shares six compelling life histories of boys and girls to address the relationship among gender, heterosexuality, violence, and non-violence.

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An award-winning author and transdisciplinary social scientist offers a must-read guide to paradigm change for creating a socially and ecologically sustainable future.