Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Gender Studies

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility. The volume covers the 1950s to the present day and examines autobiographical accounts and films featuring gender transition. Chapters focus on various stages of transitioning. Interviews with trans people are also provided.

This book forges a new approach to historical and geographical change by asking how gender arrangements and dynamics influence the evolution of institutions and environments. This new theoretical approach is applied via mixed methods and a multi-scale framework to bring together unusually diverse phenomena. Regional trends demonstrated with quantitative data include the massive incorporation of women into paid work, demographic masculinization of the countryside and feminization of cities, rapidly increasing gaps that favor women over men in education and life expectancy, and...

This book brings together the work of scholars from around the world in a consideration of how gender is contested in various parts of Asia in China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and the Philippines.

Part I of this collection explores notions of agency in relation to women s domestic and everyday lives. While agency is one of the key terms in contemporary social science, scholarship on women in Asia recently has focussed on women s political activism. Women s private lives have been neglected in this new scholarship. This volume has a special focus on women s relational and emotional lives,...

This challenging new study examines gender and sexuality in relation to the roving colonialism of sport mega-events. Built around four case studies in postcolonial and settler colonial contexts the Olympics in Vancouver, London and Sochi and soccer fans in the Egyptian revolution the book examines sporting 'homonationalism' and anti-colonial resistance.

The first part discusses different moments of homonationalism in sport. The second part explores how indigenous and anti-colonial protests against mega-sport events lead to different views about gender and sexuality politics...

Since the 1970s, research into Intersex has been a central fascination for feminist theorists seeking to make arguments about how men and women are created as social/gender categories. Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony takes the case of Olympic runner Caster Semenya as a starting point to explore the issue of determining sex, and the ways in which intersexuality is a threat to the distinction between men/women, homosexuality/heterosexuality and white/black.

By focusing on the 1950s and the 40 years after, Eckert shows how what she calls intersexualization began...

Exploring the use of assisted reproduction technologies in many different locations, this volume addresses five central themes--transnational reproflows, national constraints and conditions, religious and other kinds of fundamentalism, demographic agendas and biopolitics, and "new normals" and their discontents--to provide a general understanding of policies, discourses and practices of ARTs in the contemporary world.