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The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow - Staking Claims in the American Heartland (Hardcover): DaMaris B. Hill The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow - Staking Claims in the American Heartland (Hardcover)
DaMaris B. Hill; Contributions by Jason Barrett-Fox, DaMaris B. Hill, Tammy L. Kernodle, Denise Low-Weso, …
R3,315 R2,335 Discovery Miles 23 350 Save R980 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Fluid Boundaries of Suffrage and Jim Crow: Staking Claims in the American Heartland engages in an important conversation about race relations in the twentieth century and significantly extends the historical narrative of the Civil Rights Movement. The essays in this collection examine instances of racial and gender oppression in the American heartland-which is conceived of here as having a specific cultural significance which resists diversity-in the twentieth century, instances which have often been ignored or overshadowed in typical historical narratives. The contributors explore the intersections of suffrage, race relations, and cultural histories, and add to an ongoing dialogue about representations of race and gender within the context of regional and national narratives

Fantasies of Identification - Disability, Gender, Race (Hardcover): Ellen Samuels Fantasies of Identification - Disability, Gender, Race (Hardcover)
Ellen Samuels
R3,109 Discovery Miles 31 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"--the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society.

Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact.From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.

Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way (Hardcover): Karen Owen Women Officeholders and the Role Models Who Pioneered the Way (Hardcover)
Karen Owen
R2,527 Discovery Miles 25 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Recent electoral seasons in American politics demonstrate women's keen interest, involvement, and influence as candidates and officeholders. Women possess political ambition, albeit in varying degrees, and as such, women seek opportunities to be politically engaged and affect America's representative institutions. This book analyzes why American women run for political office, and explores how political role models, identified as publicly elected officials and/or those who have served in the political arena, have greatly motivated women to run for higher political office, including seats in the U.S. Congress and state governorships. Evidence from personal interviews with ten congresswomen and fifty-five female state legislators reveals the ambitious nature of female politicians, the encouragement of political factors in their decisions to advance in politics, and their perceived responsibility to be role models to other women. Moreover, in studying thirty-five years of elections data, I find substantial support for how female political role models influence female state legislators' candidacies and electoral outcomes to higher office. This work highlights the importance of women as symbolic representatives; female politicians are instrumental in emboldening a new generation of women to engage in politics. Role models in politics indeed have a purpose and an influential nature.

The Gender Vendors - Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud (Hardcover): A.L. Jones The Gender Vendors - Sex and Lies from Abraham to Freud (Hardcover)
A.L. Jones
R3,044 Discovery Miles 30 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, "the seed and the soil" is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy. As metaphor for gender and procreation, seed-and-soil constructs the father as the sole generating parent and the mother as nurturing medium, like soil, for the man's seed-child. In other words, men give life; women merely give birth. The Gender Vendors examines seed-and-soil in the context of the psychology of gender, honor and chastity codes, female genital mutilation, the taboo on male femininity, femiphobia (the fear of being feminine or feminized), sexual violence, institutionalized abuse, the early modern witch hunts, the medicalization and criminalization of gender nonconformity, and campaigns against women's rights. The examination is structured around particular watersheds in the history of seed-and-soil, for example, Genesis, ancient Greece, early Christianity, the medieval Church, the early modern European witch hunts, and the campaigns of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries against women's suffrage and education. The neglected story of seed-and-soil matters to everyone who cares about gender equality and why it is taking so long to achieve.

Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT (Hardcover): Idongesit Williams, Olga Millward, Roslyn Layton Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT (Hardcover)
Idongesit Williams, Olga Millward, Roslyn Layton
R5,264 Discovery Miles 52 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Despite advancements in technological and engineering fields, there is still a digital gender divide in the adoption, use, and development of information communication technology (ICT) services. This divide is also evident in educational environments and careers, specifically in the STEM fields. In order to mitigate this divide, policy approaches must be addressed and improved in order to encourage the inclusion of women in ICT disciplines. Gender Gaps and the Social Inclusion Movement in ICT provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of gender and policy from developed and developing country perspectives and its applications within ICT through various forms of research including case studies. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as digital identity, human rights, and social inclusion, this book is ideally designed for policymakers, academicians, researchers, students, and technology developers seeking current research on gender inequality in ICT environments.

Reclaiming Genders - Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle (Hardcover): Kate More, Stephen Whittle Reclaiming Genders - Transsexual Grammars at the Fin de Siecle (Hardcover)
Kate More, Stephen Whittle; Stephen Whittle
R3,902 Discovery Miles 39 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection of essays is an interdisciplinary work bringing together an internationally acclaimed group of transgender writers. Informed by both academic and street experiences, it considers the practical issues faced in changing the world view of gender as well as the limitations of queer, feminism and post-modernism. In a wide-ranging set of contributions, it addresses our engendered places now and what we can aim for in the future. It evaluates the mechanisms we can use to galvanize both the micro theories of gender as a personal experience of oppression and the macro theories of gender as a site of social regulation. The collection aims to take identity politics and reclaim identity for the self.

Shakespeare in Quebec - Nation, Gender, and Adaptation (Hardcover): Jennifer Drouin Shakespeare in Quebec - Nation, Gender, and Adaptation (Hardcover)
Jennifer Drouin
R2,047 Discovery Miles 20 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Shakespeare in Quebec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. Using postcolonial and gender theory, Drouin traces the evolution of discourses of nation and gender in Quebec from the Conquest of New France to the present, and she elaborates a theory of adaptation specific to Shakespeare studies. Drouin's book explains why Quebecois playwrights seem so obsessed with rewriting "le grand Will," what changes they make to the Shakespearean text, and how the differences between Shakespeare and the adaptations engage the nationalist, feminist, and queer concerns of Quebec society. Close readings from ten plays investigate the radical changes to content that allowed Quebecois playwrights to advocate for political change and contribute to the hot debates of the Quiet Revolution, the 1970 October Crisis, the 1980 and 1995 referenda, the rise of feminism, and the emergence of AIDS. Drouin reveals not only how Shakespeare has been adapted in Quebec but also how Quebecois adaptations have evolved in response to changes in the political climate. As a critical analysis in English of rich but largely ignored French plays, Shakespeare in Quebec bridges Canada's "two solitudes."

Sexual Harassment in Japanese Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Emma Dalton Sexual Harassment in Japanese Politics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Emma Dalton
R3,119 Discovery Miles 31 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sexual harassment in Japanese politics examines a problem that violates women's human rights and prevents a flourishing democracy. Japan fares badly in international gender equality indices, especially for female political representation. The scarcity of women in politics reflects the status of women and also exacerbates it. Based on interviews with female politicians around the country from all levels of government, this book sheds light on the sexist and sometimes dangerous environments in Japanese legislative assemblies. These environments reflect and recreate broader sexual inequalities in Japanese society and are a hothouse for sexual harassment. Like many places around the world, workplace sexual harassment laws and regulations in Japan often fail to protect women from being harassed. Even more, in the 'workplace' of the legislative council, such regulations are typically absent. This book discusses what this means for women in politics in the context of a broader culture whereby victims of sexual violence are largely silenced.

Language, Gender and Videogames - Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames (Hardcover, 1st... Language, Gender and Videogames - Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Frazer Heritage
R3,613 Discovery Miles 36 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 genre, while also zooming in to focus on diachronic changes in the representation of gender within a best-selling videogame series and a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG). The book examines gender as a social variable, making use of corpus linguistic methods to demonstrate how the language used to depict gender is complex but often repeated. This book combines fields including language and gender studies, new media studies, ludolinguistics, and corpus linguistics, and it will be of interest to scholars in these and related disciplines.

Narratives of Domestic Violence - Policing, Identity, and Indexicality (Hardcover): Jennifer Andrus Narratives of Domestic Violence - Policing, Identity, and Indexicality (Hardcover)
Jennifer Andrus
R3,108 Discovery Miles 31 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Domestic violence is an intractable social problem that must be understood in order to be eradicated. Using theories of indexicality, identity, and narrative, Andrus presents data from interviews she conducted with victims and law enforcement, and analyses the narratives of their interactions and the identities that emerge. She gives insight into law enforcement views on violence, and prevalent misconceptions, in order to create resources to improve communication with victim/survivors. She also analyzes the ways in which identity emerges and is performed via narrative constructions of domestic violence and encounters between police and victim/survivors. By giving voice to the victims of domestic violence, this book provides powerful insights into the ways that ideology and commonplace misconceptions impact the social construction of domestic violence. It will be invaluable to students and researchers in discourse analysis, applied linguistics and forensic linguistics.

Faculty Fathers - Toward a New Ideal in the Research University (Paperback): Margaret W. Sallee Faculty Fathers - Toward a New Ideal in the Research University (Paperback)
Margaret W. Sallee
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Our Witness (Hardcover): Brandan Robertson Our Witness (Hardcover)
Brandan Robertson; Foreword by Lisbeth M Melendez Rivera; Afterword by Joseph Tolton
R1,071 R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Save R166 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Wonder - An Intersex Story (Hardcover): Mac Del Ray The Wonder - An Intersex Story (Hardcover)
Mac Del Ray
R564 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A compelling story about a boy who learned that he was not like other boys...he learned early in life that he was born with both male and female genitalia...an Intersex child. Follow him on his journey of self-acceptance.

Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis (Hardcover): Nazmunnessa... Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis (Hardcover)
Nazmunnessa Mahtab, Sara Parker, Farah Kabir, Tania Haque
R5,078 Discovery Miles 50 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Misconceptions regarding gender identity and issues of inequality that women around the world face have become a predominant concern for not only the citizens impacted, but global political leaders, administrators, and human rights activists. Revealing Gender Inequalities and Perceptions in South Asian Countries through Discourse Analysis explores how an analysis of language use in the South Asian region exposes issues related to gender identity, representation, and equality. Emphasizing emerging research and case studies focusing on the concept of gender in Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Nepal, this publication is an essential resource for social theorists, activists, linguists, media professionals, researchers, and graduate-level students.

Towards Gender Equality in Law - An Analysis of State Failures from a Global Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Gizem... Towards Gender Equality in Law - An Analysis of State Failures from a Global Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Gizem Guney, David Davies, Po-Han Lee
R1,650 Discovery Miles 16 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states' failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between different levels and forms of law-namely domestic laws, local regulations, or the implementation of international law, individually or in combination. By taking off from the confirmation that the concept of law that is to be used in achieving gender equality is a multidimensional, multi-layered, and to an extent, contradictory phenomenon, this book aims to find out how different layers of laws interact and how they impact gender equality. Further to that, by including different states and jurisdictions into its analysis, this book unravels whether there are any similarities/patterns in how these states define and utilise policies and laws that harm gender equality. In this way, the book contributes to the efforts to devise holistic and universal policies to address various forms of gender inequalities across the world. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sociology, Law, and Criminology.

Allegorical Bodies - Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (Hardcover): Daisy Delogu Allegorical Bodies - Power and Gender in Late Medieval France (Hardcover)
Daisy Delogu
R2,320 Discovery Miles 23 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Allegorical Bodies begins with the paradoxical observation that at the same time as the royal administrators of late fourteenth and early fifteenth-century France excluded women from the royal succession through the codification of Salic law, writers of the period adopted the female form as the allegorical personification of France itself. Considering the role of female allegorical figures in the works of Eustache Deschamps, Christine de Pizan, and Alain Chartier, as well as in the sermons of Jean Gerson, Daisy Delogu reveals how female allegories of the Kingdom of France and the University of Paris were used to conceptualize, construct, and preserve structures of power during the tumultuous reign of the mad king Charles VI (1380-1422). An impressive examination of the intersection between gender, allegory, and political thought, Delogu's book highlights the importance of gender to the functioning of allegory and to the construction of late medieval French identity.

Through Other Eyes - 30 short stories to bring you beyond the realm of human experience (Hardcover): Geri Meyers, Rowan Rook Through Other Eyes - 30 short stories to bring you beyond the realm of human experience (Hardcover)
Geri Meyers, Rowan Rook; All Worlds Wayfarer Various Authors
R704 Discovery Miles 7 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Working Mothers in Europe - A Comparison of Policies and Practices (Hardcover): Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert Working Mothers in Europe - A Comparison of Policies and Practices (Hardcover)
Ute Gerhard, Trudie Knijn, Anja Weckwert
R3,024 Discovery Miles 30 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Working Mothers in Europe combines comparative perspectives on social policies with analyses of mothers' practices as evidenced in macro data and as explored in country based case studies. Social policy research has emphasised the impact of particular welfare systems and their policies on women's integration into the labour market and the organisation of care and work. However, the authors argue that policies are not the only factor, and, hitherto, we have very little knowledge of the precise interactions between social policies and social practices of individuals and families. In order to accurately grasp the cross-country variation of mothers' work and care arrangements in Europe, this book assembles a comparative approach towards welfare systems and social policies with an analysis of mothers' social practices in several European countries. Exploring the ways in which working mothers manage to combine care responsibilities and paid work on the basis of diverse public and private resources, this book will be invaluable to academics, researchers and students interested in the social sciences. More generally, the book will greatly appeal to those with an interest in women's employment, gender relations and the needs of children as matters that are tackled in the interaction between social policy and individuals.

Close Relations - Family, Kinship, and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Helena Wahlstroem Henriksson, Klara Goedecke Close Relations - Family, Kinship, and Beyond (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Helena Wahlstroem Henriksson, Klara Goedecke
R3,378 Discovery Miles 33 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book speaks to the meanings and values that inhere in close relations, focusing on 'family' and 'kinship' but also looking beyond these categories. Multifaceted, diverse and subject to constant debate, close relations are ubiquitous in human lives on embodied as well as symbolic levels. Closely related to processes of power, legibility and recognition, close relations are surrounded by boundaries that both constrain and enable their practical, symbolical and legal formation. Carefully contextualising close relations in relation to different national contexts, but also in relation to gender, sexuality, race, religion and dis/ability, the volume points to the importance of and variations in how close relations are lived, understood and negotiated. Grounded in a number of academic areas and disciplines, ranging from legal studies, sociology and social work to literary studies and ethnology, this volume also highlights the value of using inter- and multidisciplinary scholarly approaches in research about close relations. Chapter 11 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - An International Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Lisa French The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - An International Perspective (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Lisa French
R3,131 Discovery Miles 31 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Female Gaze in Documentary Film - an International Perspective makes a timely contribution to the recent rise in interest in the status, presence, achievements and issues for women in contemporary screen industries. It examines the works, contributions and participation of female documentary directors globally. The central preoccupation of the book is to consider what might constitute a 'female gaze', an inquiry that has had a long history in filmmaking, film theory and women's art. It fills a gap in the literature which to date has not substantially examined the work of female documentary directors. Moreover, research on sex, gender and the gaze has infrequently been the subject of scholarship on documentary film, particularly in comparison to narrative film or television drama. A distinctive feature of the book is that it is based on interviews with significant female documentarians from Europe, Asia and North America.

Perplexing Patriarchies: Fatherhood Among Black Opponents and White Defenders of Slavery (Hardcover): Pierre Islam Perplexing Patriarchies: Fatherhood Among Black Opponents and White Defenders of Slavery (Hardcover)
Pierre Islam
R1,737 Discovery Miles 17 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy (Hardcover): Maurice Hamington, Maggie Fitzgerald Feminist Care Ethics Confronts Mainstream Philosophy (Hardcover)
Maurice Hamington, Maggie Fitzgerald
R1,850 R1,586 Discovery Miles 15 860 Save R264 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Catholic Church and Modern Sexual Knowledge, 1850-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Lucia Pozzi The Catholic Church and Modern Sexual Knowledge, 1850-1950 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Lucia Pozzi
R2,860 R1,801 Discovery Miles 18 010 Save R1,059 (37%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first to present a comprehensive historical picture of the modern Catholic concern with the body and sexuality. The Catholic church is commonly believed to have always opposed birth control and abortion throughout the centuries. Yet the Catholic encounter with modern sexuality has a more complex and interesting history. What was the meaning of sexual purity? Why did eugenics matter to Catholicism? How did the Society of Jesus interpret the idea of overpopulation? Why did Pius XI decide to issue the notorious encyclical Casti connubii on Christian marriage - the first modern papal pronouncement on birth control, abortion, and eugenics? In answering these questions, Lucia Pozzi uncovers new archival and unpublished records to dig into Catholic responses to modern sexual knowledge, showing the Catholic church at times resisting, but also often welcoming, scientific modernity.

Women's Food Matters - Stirring the Pot (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Vicki A. Swinbank Women's Food Matters - Stirring the Pot (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Vicki A. Swinbank
R2,860 Discovery Miles 28 600 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation. This link, which applies cross-culturally, has seldom been fully acknowledged or celebrated. The role of women in this is usually taken for granted and therefore often rendered unimportant or invisible. This book presents a wide-ranging, interdiscplinary and comprehensive feminist analysis of women's central role in many aspects of the world's food systems and cultures. This central role is examined through a range of lenses, namely cross-cultural, intergenerational, and socially diverse.

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Hardcover): Sally Frampton Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy (Hardcover)
Sally Frampton
R1,551 Discovery Miles 15 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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