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Science, Technology and Modernity
This book provides a full scale description and discussion of science, technology, society, cross-cultural communication and modernity and is presented at a level that makes it accessible to the interested academic. Starting with the historical overview, the text outlines the relevance of technology today and in the future. Then follows an introduction to the discovery and invention by agricult…
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- 978-3-030-80465-7
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- xxxi, 179p.:ill
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- 305.3 Jer s
How Everyday Forms of Racial Categorization Survived Imperialist Censuses in …
This book examines the history of racial classifications in Puerto Rico censuses, starting with the Spanish censuses and continuing through the US ones. Because Puerto Rican censuses were collected regularly over hundreds of years, they are fascinating “test cases” to see what census categories might have been available and effective in shaping everyday ones. Published twentieth-century cen…
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- 978-3-030-82518-8
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- ix, 109p.:ill
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- 305.3 Emi h
The Queer Outside in Law
This book contributes to current debates about “queer outsides” and “queer outsiders” that emerge from tensions in legal reforms aimed at improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer people in the United Kingdom. LGBTIQ people in the UK have moved from being situated as “outlaws” – through prohibitions on homosexuality or cross-dressing – to re…
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- 978-3-030-48830-7
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- X, 277p.:ill
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- -
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- 305.3 The
Embodying Middle Class Gender Aspirations
This book takes a feminist approach to analyse the lives of well-educated urban Chinese women, who were raised to embody the ideals of a modern Chinese nation and are largely the beneficiaries of the policy changes of the post-Mao era. It explores young women’s gendered attitudes to and experiences of marriage, reproductive choices, careers and aspirations for a good life. It sheds light on w…
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- 978-981-16-1139-1
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- xix, 303p.:ill
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- Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
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- 305.3 Xie e
Sportswomen’s Apparel in the United States
This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender. Drawing on uniform and sports apparel as a means of exploring the socio-sexual politics of contemporary US society, the contributions analyse the historical, political-economic, socio-cultural and sport-specific dimensions of gendered clothing in sport. Part of a two-volume series …
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- 978-3-030-45477-7
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- xxxv, 277p.:ill
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- 305.3 Spo
Women’s Activism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Through an intersectional feminist re-reading of the Habermasian theoretical framework, this book analyses how women's activism has developed and operated in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Chapters look at three key areas of women's activism in Iran: how women deliberately engaged with media activism despite the government's controlling and repressive policies; women's involvement in civil socie…
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- 978-3-030-70232-8
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- xiii, 192p.:ill
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- 305.3 Gho w
Politicizing Rape and Pornography
This book examines how feminist movements in Norway and France have politicized rape, pornography and sexual exploitation of women from the 1970s to the present. Through a cross-national comparison, it provides insights into why the fight against rape became top priority for French feminists in the 1970s; what kind of strategies the feminist movements used when politicizing sex and violence; wh…
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- 978-3-030-55639-6
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- xii, 297p.:ill
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- 305.3 Kor p
Men, Masculinities, and Earth
This book considers issues of social and ecological significance through a masculinities lens. Earth – our home for aeons – is reeling. The atmosphere is heating up, causing reefs to bleach, fisheries to collapse, regions to flood and dry, vast tracts to burn, the polar ice caps to melt, ancient glaciers to retreat, biodiversity to decline exacerbated by the sixth great extinction, and more…
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- 978-3-030-54486-7
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- xxi, 648p.:ill
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- 305.3 Men
(Re-)Claiming Bodies Through Fashion and Style
This book investigates ways of dressing, style and fashion as gendered and embodied, but equally as “religionized” phenomena, particularly focusing on one significant world religion: Islam. Through their clothing, Muslims negotiate concepts and interpretations of Islam and construct their intersectionally interwoven position in the world. Taking the interlinkages between ‘fashionized rel…
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- 978-3-030-71941-8
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- xvii, 317p.:ill
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- 305.3 Cla
Attitudes, Norms, and Beliefs Related to Assisted Reproduction Technologies a…
This book examines the general attitudes of childless women to assisted reproduction technologies as well as the norms and beliefs concerning partnership, age and burdens related to assisted reproduction technologies based on four focus group discussions and 32 semi-structured, in-depth interviews. The results show that there is an overall positive attitude to assisted reproduction, but that do…
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- 978-3-658-35628-6
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- x, 44p.:ill
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- 305.3 Sza a
Gendered Experiences of COVID-19 in India
This edited volume critically reflects on the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected and continues to affect women in India. Drawing on a range of qualitative and quantitative research, contributors analyze the implications of the pandemic on the informal sector, migrant women workers, women in the health care sector, women’s economic engagement, the experiences of elderly women, me…
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- 978-3-030-85335-8
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- xxii, 370p.:ill
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- 305.3 Gen
An Anthropology of Gender Variance and Trans Experience in Naples
This book recounts the author’s fieldwork among the trans and gender-variant communities in Naples. This is where a gender-variant figure, the femminiello, has found a safe environment within the city’s historical poorest neighborhoods, the so-called “quartieri popolari”, which were and continue to be culturally and socially connoted. The femminielli, who can be read as “suspended” …
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- 978-3-030-86924-3
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- x, 108p.:ill
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- 305.3 Mau a
A Guide to Teaching Introductory Women’s and Gender Studies
This book provides a practical, evidence-based guide to teaching introductory Women's and Gender Studies courses. Based on the findings of a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project that analyzed 72 Intro students’ written work, the authors equip instructors with key principles that can help them adapt their pedagogy to a range of classroom environments. By putting student learning at the…
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- 978-3-030-71785-8
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- XV, 133p.:ill
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- 305.3 Has a
Language, Gender and Videogames
This book explores how corpus linguistic techniques can be applied to close analysis of videogames as a text, particularly examining how language is used to construct representations of gender in fantasy videogames. The author demonstrates a wide array of techniques which can be used to both build corpora of videogames and to analyse them, revealing broad patterns of representation within the g…
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- 978-3-030-74398-7
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- xiv, 245p.:ill
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- 305.3 Her l
PERMASALAHAN GENDER PADA PEREMPUAN BERSTATUS JANDA DI KELURAHAN KEBUN BUNGA K…
This study aims to know and see the gender problems faced by women with widow status in Kebun Bunga Village, Sukarami District, Palembang. The research method used is qualitative descriptive with data collection techniques through in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentation. This research uses the concept of gender injustice from Mansour Fakih. The results showed that widowed…
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- xvii, 119 hlm.; ilus.; 29 cm
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- T1391842023
The Palgrave Handbook of Gender and Migration
This handbook adopts a distinctively global and intersectional approach to gender and migration, as social class, race and ethnicity shape the process of migration in its multiple dimensions. A large range of topics exploring gender, sexuality and migration are presented, including feminist migration research, care, family, emotional labour, brain drain and gender, parenting, gendered geographi…
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- 978-3-030-63347-9
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- xv, 541p.:ill
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- 305.3 The
RESISTENSI PEREMPUAN TERHADAP OBJEKTIVIKASI SEKSUAL DI TWITTER
This research focuses on women's resistance to sexual objectification on Twitter. The subjects in this research were female Twitter users. In this research, the theory used is James C. Scott's Theory of Resistance using descriptive qualitative methods and case studies as research strategies. Data collection techniques in this research were carried out through observation, interviews, documentat…
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- xiii, 95 hlm.; ilus.; 29 cm
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- T1418122024
PERAN GENDER PADA KELUARGA PETANI KARET DI DESA PERMATA BARU INDRALAYA UTARA
This research is entitled "Gender Roles in Rubber Farming Families in Permata Baru Village, North Indralaya". This research aims to identify gender roles in the family. This type of research is descriptive and qualitative. Determining informants using purposeful techniques with data collection techniques, namely non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. This research …
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- xvii, 90 hlm.; ilus.; 29 cm
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- T1390712023
The Moral Case for Abortion
This revised and updated edition of the 2016 bestselling work sets out the moral arguments for a woman’s right to decide the future of her pregnancy. Drawing on traditions of philosophical and sociological thinking, it presents the case for recognizing autonomy in personal, private decision-making about reproductive intentions. Further, it argues that to prevent a woman making this decision a…
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- 978-3-030-90189-9
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- 978-3-030-90189-9
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- 305.3 Fur t
Kinship, Patriarchal Structure and Women’s Bargaining with Patriarchy in Ru…
The book provides insights into the prevailing patriarchal system in rural Pakistan. It elaborates on the kinship system in rural Sindh and explores how young married women strategize and negotiate with patriarchy. Drawing on qualitative methodologies, the book reveals the strong relationship between poverty and the perpetuation of patriarchy. Women’s strategies help elevate their position in…
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- 978-981-16-6859-3
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- xvii, 273p.:ill
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- 305.3 Agh k
Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis in Public Health
This book is the first to focus on sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) in public health, addressing the dearth of thinking, practice, and publication on SGBA and public health. The Canadian government is a global leader in seeking gender equity and mandating SGBA in federal initiatives, programs, and policies, continuing to advocate for the uptake of SGBA. However, there is differenti…
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- 978-3-030-71929-6
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- xviii, 170p.:ill
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- 305.3 Sex
Translating Feminism
This edited book addresses the diversity across time and space of the sites, actors and practices of feminist translation from 1945-2000. The contributors examine what happens when a politically motivated text is translated linguistically and culturally, the translators and their aims, and the strategies employed when adapting texts to locally resonating discourses. The collection aims to answe…
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- 978-3-030-79245-9
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- xvii, 271p.:ill
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- 305.3 Tra
Gender and Domestic Violence in the Caribbean
Domestic violence, interpersonal violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence continues to be a social problem that is rarely understood or discussed in many parts of society, worldwide. The same holds true in the Anglophone Caribbean. Most Caribbean societies are patriarchal in nature, as most men govern and create the political and economic landscape where citizens live. This…
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- 978-3-030-73472-5
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- xxi, 324p.:ill
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- 305.3 Gen
Intersectional Perspectives on LGBTQ+ Issues in Modern Language Teaching and …
This edited book examines how sexuality and sexual identity intersect and interact with other identities and subjectivities – including but not limited to race, religion, gender, social class, ableness, and immigrant or refugee status – to form reinforcing webs of privilege and oppression that can have significant implications for language teaching and learning processes. The authors explor…
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- 978-3-030-76779-2
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- xvii, 288p.:Ill
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- 305.3 Int
Sportswomen’s Apparel Around the World
This volume presents a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sporting clothing and gender. Drawing on uniform and sports apparel as a means of exploring the socio-sexual politics of the contemporary world, the contributions analyse the historical, political-economic, socio-cultural and sport-specific dimensions of gendered clothing in sport. Part of a two-volume series …
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- 978-3-030-46843-9
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- xxxv, 294p.:ill
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- 305.3 Spo
IMPLEMENTASI JURNALISME BERPERSPEKTIF GENDER (ANALISIS ISI KUANTITATIF PADA P…
In situation where cases of sexual violence are increasing, reporting by mass media, particularly online media, often perpetuated stigmatization and stereotypes against survivors that reflect gender insensitivity. Gender perspective journalism played an important role in helping survivors recover. This research analyzes the reporting of sexual violence on Tribunsumsel.com in January 2023 using …
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- xvi, 326 hlm.; ilus.; tab.; 29 cm.
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- T1634392024
Sporty Girls
This book engages with the ongoing question of why many girls stop doing sport and physical activity in their teenage years. Previous research has found that many girls’ disengagement from sport takes place despite their childhood enjoyment and that frequently these same women take up sport again as adults. Within these chapters, Sheryl Clark explores what it is about this period of time that…
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- 978-3-030-67249-2
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- v, 193p.:ill
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- 305.3 Cla s
Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy
This open access book discusses and analyses competing views and social implications of gestational surrogacy, which is making inroads as an option for parenthood as well as a work opportunity for women. It provides a rich account of transnational mobilizations for the abolition and regulation of surrogacy, with focus on United States, Italy and Mexico. The author critically assesses the core n…
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- 978-3-030-80302-5
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- xxii, 158p.:ill
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- 305.3 Ban s
Gendered Perspectives on Covid-19 Recovery in Africa
This book describes the political, social, and economic connections between gender and the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors offer innovative ideas for recovery that will build a more prosperous, healthy, equitable, and sustainable future for African women and girls, targets identified under Goal 5 (Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment) of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals s…
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- 978-3-030-88152-8
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- xxi, 334p.:ill
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- 305.3 Gen
Femininities and Masculinities in the Digital Age
This book provides a fresh overview on the debate about the remarkable regression of gender equality in the Balkans and South Caucasus caused by the fall of socialism and by the revitalization of religion in Turkey. Contrary to the prevailing opinion of researchers who state continuous male domination, the book presents strong arguments for an alternative outlook. By contrasting the realia of g…
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- 978-3-030-78412-6
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- xv, 240p.:ill
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- 305.3 Kas f
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