Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Gender Studies

Gender and Social Hierarchies offers a fresh and coherent picture of applied research from within social psychology on the intricate relationship between gender and social status. It comprises a collection of innovative approaches which seek to understand the pervasiveness of status asymmetry between gender categories. Drawing upon recent theoretical advances in gender psychology, the book provides tools for developing practical and political recommendations to address and resolve status inequality today.

Each chapter examines a different aspect of the impact that...

In order to understand how boys and young men experience and live in school one needs to pay attention to how place contributes to the production of self. This study of how boys and young men make sense of themselves, others, and the experience of being educated in private and single-sex schooling explores the concepts of school space and place and the production of self. Based on empirical research into how boys and young men articulate their coming into consciousness of themselves and others as gendered and sexed beings the work extends beyond traditional ways of studying and writing...

First published in 1981, this book traces the history of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) from 1897-1914. Whereas most historians have focused on the more militant aspect of the struggle for female enfranchisement, embodied by the Women's Political and Social Union (WPSU), this work provides an essential overview of the often dismissed non-violent and constitutional NUWSS -- by 1914 the largest single women's suffrage organisation. The author argues that, although a less dramatic organisation than the WPSU, the NUWSS was far more responsible for laying the pre-war...

Through the theoretical lenses of dress studies, gender, science, and visual studies, this volume assembles Ruskin's theory of surface architecture, or the adorned "wall veil." This book positions Ruskin as having proposed an unorthodox definition of architecture as surface, highlighting his major contribution to the field and an important moment in the history of architectural modernity.

John Ruskin and the Fabric of Architecture　examines how the creative act in architecture, analogous to the divine act of creation, was viewed as a form of dressing....

Women of Asiais an anthology that focuses on globalization, development and change. The book incorporates 20 original contributions organized by region with introductory essays from the editors politically, sociologically, and economically contextualizing each area.

Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men's subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects.

The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target...

This book examines the mobilization, role, and trajectory of women rescuers and perpetrators during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

While much has been written about the victimization of women during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, very little has been said about women who rescued targeted victims or perpetrated crimes against humanity. This book explores and analyzes the role played by women who exercised agency as rescuers and as perpetrators during the genocide in Rwanda. As women, they took actions and decisions within the context of a deeply entrenched patriarchal system that...