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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies
'Stunning . . . Built like a thriller, moving, wise and illuminated
on every page with love' -Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat When
Carolyn Hays's child made clear to the family that they were all
wrong, he was not a boy, but, in fact, a girl, the Hays shifted
pronouns, adopted a nickname and encouraged her to dress as she
felt comfortable. One ordinary day, a caseworker from the
Department of Children and Families knocked on their door to
investigate an anonymous complaint about the upbringing of their
transgender child. It was this threat that instilled in them a
deep-seated fear for their child's safety in the Republican state
they called home. And so they uprooted their lives to the more
trans-accepting Northeast United States, though they were never far
from the hate and fear resting at the nation's core. Intimate,
lyrical and thought-provoking, A Girlhood is an ode to Hays's
brilliant, brave child, as well as a cathartic revisit of the pain
of the past. It tells of the brutal truths of being trans, of the
sacrificial nature of motherhood, and of the lengths a family will
go to shield their youngest from the cruel realities of the world.
Hays asks us all to love better, for children everywhere enduring
injustice and prejudice just as they begin to understand
themselves. A Girlhood is a celebration of difference, a plea for
empathy, a hope for a better future, but moreover, it is a love
letter to a child who has always known herself and is waiting for
the rest of the world to catch up.
A coming-of-age travel memoir that probes thorny spiritual
questions while taking the reader on a wild ride from the deep
American South to the Middle East, Europe, and the Far East. Once
the golden girl of her Arkansas town, Natalie finds herself
squeezed under small town shame and rejection after being kicked
out of church for getting a divorce. It's a hard fall off of a
sanctimonious high horse, and religious fundamentalism has left her
feeling broken and stuck. But she can't shake the 'wanderlust woes'
that have plagued her since childhood, so she runs away to the
Middle East. As a mostly-sheltered Southerner, she struggles to
adapt but is determined to be 'at home' in the world. Her journey
is more than a pilgrimage, it's a peregrination: a one-way ticket
to elsewhere in search of the place of her own resurrection. Within
these pages is a suspenseful adventure filled with love, loss,
laughter, tears, and a little bit of scandalous behavior, but at
the heart of it, Natalie walks squarely into the unknown to
confront the secret matters of the soul that we wrestle with at
night.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. With contributions
from global leading scholars, this Research Agenda offers an
interdisciplinary collection of ideas investigating gender and
leadership; where we are today and where we are going. Using
critical perspectives, chapters challenge the way we think about
gender and leadership by questioning the status quo. Providing
cutting edge discussion from authors of diverse genders, races,
ages, ethnicities, and religions, this book provides analysis of
the key issues and methodologies in modern leadership research.
Forward thinking, it examines current guidelines and provides
insight towards an equitable and positive change in leadership.
Leadership scholars and graduate students interested in business
leadership as well as gender and management more broadly will find
this not only an informative but an illuminating read.
Written in an accessible style with comprehensive coverage, the
Handbook of Gender and Technology provides an excellent foundation
examining gender equity in technology fields. Covering the state of
the art, chapters consider three key influences - environmental,
identity and individual - to highlight interventions to address the
gender gap in technology. Using qualitative and quantitative
methods, the expert contributors seek to understand the subjective
reality of those experiencing gender barriers and provide the
reader with both theory and research results into gender diversity
in technology. This Handbook provides a comprehensive review of
issues faced by women and gender minorities in technology fields.
It is global in perspective, including chapters about Africa,
Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America. It is intersectional in
approach, including the standpoint of racial and ethnic minorities,
persons with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community.
Providing a unified look at the challenges faced, this insightful
Handbook will be an excellent resource for scholars interested in
gender and social inclusion in technology fields. It will also
provide an informative guide for policymakers and managers in
global organisations tasked with developing interventions using
data-driven practices to address the gender gap.
This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents
of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs' efforts and
supporting their value-creation activities. With important
implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct
attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of
women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses'
size and formal status. Challenging the underperformance hypothesis
associated with women entrepreneurs, chapters present evidence that
women do not underperform in their businesses, but that they add
value even in constrained environments. This intends to shift the
focus of research from questions like 'what do entrepreneurs do?'
to 'how do they do it?', focusing on the unique ways in which each
woman entrepreneur creates value, and 'for whom do they do it?',
looking at the multiple value outcomes women entrepreneurs create
and the beneficiaries of that value. With a global perspective on
women's entrepreneurship and their value creation, this Research
Handbook will be vital reading for researchers of entrepreneurship,
as well as government agencies and policymakers interested in
promoting entrepreneurial activity.
This timely Companion traces the interlinking histories of
globalisation, gender, and migration in the 21st century, setting
up a completely new agenda beyond Western research production.
Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Saskia Sassen bring together 27 incisive
contributions from leading international experts on gender and
global migration, uncovering the multitude of economies, histories,
families and working cultures in which local, regional, national,
and global economies are embedded. Examining recent migratory flows
and changing migration corridors across the globe, the Companion
offers critical insights into the wider dynamics that compel people
to migrate. Chapters address key topics relating to gender and
global migration, from global cities and border regions, internal
displacements, and humanitarian risks, to the changing face of care
chains and labour, pandemic mobilities, expulsions from climate
change and the weight of critical historical colonial studies in
contemporary feminisms. The volume further explores extractivism,
colonial images, the agrifood industry, qualified labour,
remittances, cross-border trade, and extreme violence. Advancing a
compelling range of forward-looking perspectives, this dynamic
Companion establishes a novel agenda for future research on gender
and global migration. Integrating empirical case studies with
cutting-edge theory, The Elgar Companion to Gender and Global
Migration will be an invaluable resource for a multidisciplinary
audience of scholars across sociology, anthropology, geography,
economics and political science, as well as migration and gender
studies. Its themes will also be of significant interest to
policymakers, administrators and grassroots organisations involved
in emerging topics in migration studies.
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