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Gender Studies eBooks

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  • Empowering Female Climate Change Activists in the Global South

    The Path Toward Environmental Social Justice

    Series series Diverse Perspectives on Creating a Fairer Society
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.The COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt made it clear that fighting global warming will require continuing commitment, cooperation, and collaborative action from multiple constituencies around the world. Urging readers from the Global North to rethink ... Read more

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  • More Shit that Pisses Me Off

    by Peg Tittle ...
    Series series Shit that Pisses Me Off
    Why do men spit (and women don’t)? What’s the real problem with cellphones? What’s wrong with wedding leave? Do you remember Grade Ten History? Why isn’t being a soldier more like being a mother? What did God really promise? And let’s talk about sex…"... smart, witty essays that challenge the intellect ... her razor sharp words will slice and dice the cerebral jugular." Laura Salkin, thinkspin"… ... Read more

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  • Gender Violence, the Law, and Society

    Interdisciplinary Perspectives from India, Japan and South Africa

    Edited by M. Susanne Schotanus ...
    Series series Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online.Gender Violence, the Law, and Society analyses and explores the historical and cultural roots of issues of gender-based and sexual violence in Japan, India and South Africa. Using a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods, this edited collection highlights the ... Read more

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  • THE BOOK OF THIS

    We journey into history and reason and science. For people with autism, a religious cannon fires upon the medical canon and obliterates it. And we realize finally and irrevocably that faith is doubt and doubt is faith and that the doubtful can be the faithful and that the faithful can be unfaithful. We'll overturn many accepted conventions, and in doing so, we will uncover a quiet beautiful truth. ... Read more

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  • Everyday Sustainability

    Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling

    by Debarati Sen ...
    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Honorable Mention, 2019 Michelle Z. Rosaldo Prize presented by the Association for Feminist AnthropologyWinner of the 2018 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize presented by the National Women's Studies AssociationWinner of the 2018 Global Development Studies Book Award presented by the Global Development Studies Section of the International Studies AssociationEveryday Sustainability takes readers to ... Read more

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  • As Long as We Both Shall Love

    The White Wedding in Postwar America

    In As Long as We Both Shall Love, Karen M. Dunak provides a nuanced history of the American wedding and its celebrants. Blending an analysis of film, fiction, advertising, and prescriptive literature with personal views from letters, diaries, essays, and oral histories, Dunak demonstrates the ways in which the modern wedding epitomizes a diverse and consumerist culture and aims to reveal an ... Read more

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  • A Queer New York

    Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

    Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of GeographersThe first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York CityOver the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many lesbian and queer spaces, displacing some of the most marginalized members of the LGBTQ+ community. In A Queer New York, Jen Jack Gieseking highlights the ... Read more

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  • Moving across Differences

    How Students Engage LGBTQ+ Themes in a High School Literature Class

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Grounded in ethnography and teacher research, Moving across Differences examines how an LGBTQ+-themed literature course enabled high school students to negotiate their differences and engage in ethical encounters. Drawing on the work of queer theorists, Mollie V. Blackburn conceptualizes these encounters as forms of movement across differences of not only gender and sexuality but also identity and ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

    This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across ... Read more

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  • Horizons of Phenomenology

    Essays on the State of the Field and Its Applications

    Series Book 122 - Contributions to Phenomenology
    This is an open access book which explores phenomenology as both an exceptionally diverse movement in philosophy as well as an active research method that crosses disciplinary boundaries. The volume brings together lively overviews of major areas and schools of phenomenology, as well as the most recent applications across a range of fields.The first part reviews the state-of-the-art in various ... Read more

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  • Clarissa's Ciphers

    Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa

    by Terry Castle ...
    As Samuel Richardson's 'exemplar to her sex,’ Clarissa in the eponymous novel published in 1748 is the paradigmatic female victim. In Clarissa’s Ciphers, Terry Castle delineates the ways in which, in a world where only voice carries authority, Clarissa is repeatedly silenced, both metaphorically and literally. A victim of rape, she is first a victim of hermeneutic abuse. Drawing on feminist ... Read more

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  • A History of Male Psychological Disorders in Britain, 1945-1980

    Series series Mental Health in Historical Perspective
    This book is open access under a CC BY license and explores the under-researched history of male mental illness from the mid-twentieth century. It argues that statistics suggesting women have been more vulnerable to depression and anxiety are misleading since they underplay a host of alternative presentations of 'distress' more common in men. ... Read more

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  • Refiguring Motherhood Beyond Biology

    Edited by Valerie Renegar, Kirsti Cole ...
    Series series Interdisciplinary Research in Motherhood
    This book unpacks and interrogates dominant constructions of mothering, making use of interdisciplinary, ideological and theoretical perspectives to investigate how new rhetorics of mothering can expand the realm of maternal care-givers beyond the biological definitions of motherhood.This diverse collection is at the cutting-edge of rhetoric, feminism, and motherhood studies, and the chapters ... Read more

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  • Intersectional Lives

    Chinese Australian Women in White Australia

    by Alanna Kamp ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies of Women and Place
    Intersectional Lives explores the varied experiences of Chinese Australian females across time and place during the White Australia Policy era (1901-1973). Chinese Australian women’s personal reflections are examined alongside postcolonial feminist readings of official records to illustrate how their everyday lives were influenced by multiple and fluid identities and subject positions including ... Read more

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  • Freedom to Differ

    The Shaping of the Gay and Lesbian Struggle for Civil Rights

    Many of us have grown up with the language of civil rights, yet rarely consider how the construction of civil rights claims affects those who are trying to attain them. Diane Miller examines arguments lesbians and gay men make for civil rights, revealing the ways these arguments are both progressive--in terms of helping to win court cases seeking basic human rights--and limiting--in terms of ... Read more

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  • A Feeling of Belonging

    Asian American Women's Public Culture, 1930-1960

    Series Book 3 - American History and Culture
    When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time.In A Feeling of Belonging, Lim highlights ... Read more

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  • Dying Unneeded

    The Cultural Context of the Russian Mortality Crisis

    In the early 1990s, Russia experienced one of the most extreme increases in mortality in modern history. Men's life expectancy dropped by six years; women's life expectancy dropped by three. Middle-aged men living in Moscow were particularly at risk of dying early deaths. While the early 1990s represent the apex of mortality, the crisis continues. Drawing on fieldwork in the capital city during ... Read more

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  • Dancing for Your Life: The True Story of Maria de la Torre and Her Secret Life in a Hong Kong Go-Go Bar

    Dancing for Your Life chronicles the true story of a beautiful, young Filipina who, in order to help her family financially, leaves her home in the quiet Philippines countryside to work as a dancer in Hong Kong's red-light district of Wan Chai. This book will hold special appeal for readers interested in gaining a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of an Asian go-go bar and will serve as a ... Read more

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  • Disrupted Idylls

    Nature, Equality, and the Feminine in Sentimentalist Russian Women’s Writing (Mariia Pospelova, Mariia Bolotnikova, and Anna Naumova) – With translations by Emily Lygo

    Translated by Emily Lygo ...
    Series Book 47 - Slavische Literaturen
    The study provides a close analysis of literary works by women in late-18th- and early-19th-century Russia, with a focus on Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to examine restrictions imposed on women. Women authors in particular were fettered by a culture of feminisation strongly influenced by the French philosopher Jean ... Read more

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  • Powerful Women, Threatened Men: The Femme Fatale Myth

    Women's Power in Culture

    by Edith Zack ...
    Series series Women's Power in Culture
    The femme fatale is a male topos in which masculine traits are attributed to a woman. Thus, she is powerful, initiating, and independent; yet being also beautiful and erotic she is associated with seduction and corrupting forces which lead men to their own destruction. Though this topic had existed since the beginning of humankind, her image was presented almost obsessively at the turn of the ... Read more

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  • The Ironing Cure

    by Ian Stables ...
    Stop struggling with the ironing. Do it the better way.I used to find ironing hard.I hated it. I particularly hated ironing leggings as new creases used to form on the other side from the iron itself. They were a real pain.Over time I discovered what worked better. The main thing is the lifting method. Combined with the other things I do, ironing is now a lot easier and faster.Even though this is ... Read more

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  • Overcoming the Challenge of Structural Change in Research Organisations

    A Reflexive Approach to Gender Equality

    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.The under-representation of women in research and innovation has been documented as a global phenomenon and is particularly heightened on decision-making boards and in leadership positions. Presenting a reflexive approach to gender equality for research organisations developed within the TARGET project, funded by ... Read more

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  • The Ripple Effect

    Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature

    Series series Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures
    In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys ... Read more

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  • Celebrity Bromances

    Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity.The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly ‘Western’ celebrity culture from three primary perspectives: construction ... Read more

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