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Exploring the Toxicity of Lateral Violence and Microaggressions - Poison in the Water Cooler (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018):... Exploring the Toxicity of Lateral Violence and Microaggressions - Poison in the Water Cooler (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Christine L. Cho, Julie K. Corkett, Astrid Steele
R3,627 Discovery Miles 36 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examining the subtle forms of aggression, violence, and harassment that occur in our society and manifest in institutions and places of work, the expert contributors collected here describe the experience of social marginalization and expose how vulnerable individuals work to navigate exclusionary climates. This volume explores how bodies disrupt the status quo in multiple contexts and locations; provides insights into how institutions are structured and how practices that may cause harm are maintained; and, finally, considers progressive and proactive alternatives. This book will be a key resource for academics and professionals in education, sociology, nursing, law, business and political science, as well as organizations and policymakers grappling with aggression in the workplace.

Distance Relationships - Intimacy and Emotions Amongst Academics and their Partners In Dual-Locations (Hardcover): Mary Holmes Distance Relationships - Intimacy and Emotions Amongst Academics and their Partners In Dual-Locations (Hardcover)
Mary Holmes
R2,599 R1,923 Discovery Miles 19 230 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Drawing on interviews with UK couples in distance relationships, this book seeks to explain, evaluate and advance sociological debates about intimate life. It provides a rich and human perspective on how bodies, emotions and connections to others are key in maintaining intimate relationships.

The Sexual Life of Children (Hardcover): Floyd M. Martinson The Sexual Life of Children (Hardcover)
Floyd M. Martinson
R2,750 Discovery Miles 27 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book traces the development of sexuality in the child from the prenatal, through birth and up to puberty and adolescence. Very little has been written about children's sexuality in spite of a large literature on child abuse. Western society has been slow to recognize sexual experiences and conceptualizations as an important part of a child's development. This is the only work that has been written in a frank and open manner about the many sexual encounters that children have on a daily basis as part of their normal psychological development. Martinson's study is unique in that children speak for themselves in telling about their explorations, confusions, fears, and satisfactions. The book traces the life of children in their day-to-day encounters as they grow and develop. It complements and rounds out Robert Coles's important works on "The Moral Life of Children," "The Political Life of Children," and "The Spiritual Life of Children."

Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship - Towards a Politics of Difference (Hardcover): S Hines Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship - Towards a Politics of Difference (Hardcover)
S Hines
R1,866 Discovery Miles 18 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The question of 'recognition' motivates a range of contemporary social movements and forms the backdrop to legal and policy change, and theoretical and political debate. This timely book draws on original research to examine the meanings and significance of, and contestations around, recognition in relation to the aptly named UK 'Gender Recognition Act'. Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship: Towards a Politics of Difference considers changing UK law and policy around gender diversity within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political, theoretical, and policy shifts concerning gender and sexuality. In bringing together a wide range of critical interdisciplinary perspectives, and by addressing key debates about inclusion, equality, diversity, human rights and citizenship, the book examines gaps between law and policy, and everyday experiences and understandings of social justice. Through a critical engagement with a politics of recognition, Gender Diversity, Recognition and Citizenship instates the value of a 'politics of difference'.

Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality - Fathers on Leave Alone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Margaret... Comparative Perspectives on Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality - Fathers on Leave Alone (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Margaret O'Brien, Karin Wall
R2,047 Discovery Miles 20 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book portrays men's experiences of home alone leave and how it affects their lives and family gender roles in different policy contexts and explores how this unique parental leave design is implemented in these contrasting policy regimes. The book brings together three major theoretical strands: social policy, in particular the literature on comparative leave policy developments; family and gender studies, in particular the analysis of gendered divisions of work and care and recent shifts in parenting and work-family balance; critical studies of men and masculinities, with a specific focus on fathers and fathering in contemporary western societies and life-courses. Drawing on empirical data from in-depth interviews with fathers across eleven countries, the book shows that the experiences and social processes associated with fathers' home alone leave involve a diversity of trends, revealing both innovations and absence of change, including pluralization as well as the constraining influence of policy, gender, and social context. As a theoretical and empirical book it raises important issues on modernization of the life course and the family in contemporary societies. The book will be of particular interest to scholars in comparing western societies and welfare states as well as to scholars seeking to understand changing work-life policies and family life in societies with different social and historical pathways.

Sexual Harassment - A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Lynne Eisaguirre Sexual Harassment - A Reference Handbook, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Lynne Eisaguirre
R1,969 Discovery Miles 19 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work addresses the ongoing focus on sexual harassment in the United States, an issue that remains at the forefront of contemporary American society. In the 2nd edition of Sexual Harassment, compelling cases of sexual harassment in the 1990s are examined, including the highly publicized lawsuit against President Bill Clinton brought by Paula Jones, a former employee of the state of Arkansas. Conversely, readers are asked to assess a recent national debate over whether grade school children should be disciplined for "sexual harassment" when they kiss a playmate. Sexual Harassment contains an overview, a detailed chronology, biographical sketches, primary source material, lists of print and nonprint resources, and a directory of organizations and agencies. Includes a detailed chronology of the history of sexual harassment Provides biographical sketches of key figures

The Evolution of Sexuality (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen The Evolution of Sexuality (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen
R4,207 R3,614 Discovery Miles 36 140 Save R593 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Attraction, mating, reproduction: it is a given that as a species, human beings are concerned with sex. And whether the study compares sexual behaviors of men and women or considers the proportions between nature and nurture, most roads lead back to our distant ancestors and/or our fellow animals. The Evolution of Sexuality collects stimulating new empirical findings and theoretical concepts regarding both familiar themes and emerging areas of interest. Following earlier titles in this series, an interdisciplinary panel of contributors examines topics specific to the whys of male and female sex-related behavior, here ranging from biological bases for male same-sex attraction to the seemingly elusive purpose of the female orgasm. This vantage point between biology and psychology gives readers profound insights not just into human differences and similarities, but also why they continue to matter despite our vast understanding of culture and socialization. And intriguing dispatches from the humanities review sexual themes in classic works of literature and explore the role of parent-offspring conflict in the English Revolution of the seventeenth century. Among the topics covered: Sexual conflict and evolutionary psychology: toward a unified framework. Assortative mating, caste, and class. The functional design and phylogeny of female sexuality. Is oral sex a form of mate retention behavior? Two behavioral hypotheses for the evolution or male homosexuality in humans. Sperm competition and the evolution of human sexuality. The Evolution of Sexuality will attract evolutionary scientists across a variety of disciplines. Faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, and researchers interested in sexuality will find it a springboard for discussion, debate, and further study.

Couples' Transitions to Parenthood - Analysing Gender and Work in Europe (Hardcover): Daniela Grunow, Marie Evertsson Couples' Transitions to Parenthood - Analysing Gender and Work in Europe (Hardcover)
Daniela Grunow, Marie Evertsson
R3,874 Discovery Miles 38 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

It is common for European couples living fairly egalitarian lives to adopt a traditional division of labour at the transition to parenthood. Based on in-depth interviews with 332 parents-to-be in eight European countries, this book explores the implications of family policies and gender culture from the perspective of couples who are expecting their first child. Couples' Transitions to Parenthood: Analysing Gender and Work in Europe is the first comparative, qualitative study that explicitly locates couples' parenting ideals and plans in the wider context of national institutions. This unique analysis of transitions to parenthood in contemporary Europe focuses on Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, the Czech Republic and Poland. It explores how parents' agency varies along with policy-culture gaps in their countries and provides evidence of their struggle to adapt to, or resist, socially desired paths and patterns of change. In fact, the ways in which institutional structures limit possible choices and beliefs about motherhood and fatherhood are linked in ways that often go unnoticed by social scientists, policy makers and parents themselves. This cutting-edge book will be of interest to social scientists, political scientists, journalists and policy-makers. Parents-to-be will also find value in this analysis of gender in parenthood. Contributors include: P. Abril, J. Alsarve, P. Amigot, S. Bertolini, C. Botia-Morillas, K. Boye, F. Buhlmann, A. Dechant, M. Dominguez Folgueras, M. Evertsson, N. Girardin, D. Grunow, M.J. Gonzalez, D. Hanappi, T. Jurado-Guerrero, I. Lapuerta, J.-M. Le Goff, T. Martin-Garcia, J. Monferrer, R. Musumeci, M. Naldini, O. Nesporova, M. Reimann, A. Rinklake, C. Roman, M. Seiz, R. Stuchla, P.M. Torrioni, I. Valarino, G. Veltkamp, M. Verweij

Male Homosexualities and World Religions (Hardcover): P. Hurteau Male Homosexualities and World Religions (Hardcover)
P. Hurteau
R2,024 Discovery Miles 20 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the last 25 years, homosexuality has played an important role in public debates in Western societies. With globalization, the civil protection of gay rights is spreading rapidly outside the Northern hemisphere and many non-Christian religious traditions are taking public positions on the issues. Favoring a dialogue among various religious systems and an in-depth review of their positions, Pierre Hurteau offers readers new insights into how each of the traditions studied - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Afro-American religions - articulates its own regulatory mechanisms of male sexuality in general, and homosexuality. Moving away from a Eurocentric view, this book reminds readers that sites of non-heterosexual identity are multiple.

The Entrepreneurial University - Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impacts (Hardcover): Y Taylor The Entrepreneurial University - Engaging Publics, Intersecting Impacts (Hardcover)
Y Taylor
R3,539 Discovery Miles 35 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The entrepreneurial university has been tasked with making an impact. This collection presents professional-personal reflections on research experience and interpretative accounts of navigating fieldwork and broader publics, politics and practices of (dis)engagement primarily through a feminist, queer and gender studies lens.

Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Dan A Peterson, Vanessa R. Panfil Handbook of LGBT Communities, Crime, and Justice (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Dan A Peterson, Vanessa R. Panfil
R8,754 R6,960 Discovery Miles 69 600 Save R1,794 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Contemporary scholars have begun to explore non-normative sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression in a growing victimization literature, but very little research is focused on LGBTQ communities' patterns of offending (beyond sex work) and their experiences with police, the courts, and correctional institutions. This Handbook, the first of its kind in Criminology and Criminal Justice, will break new ground by presenting a thorough treatment of all of these under-explored issues in one interdisciplinary volume that features current empirical work.

The Trinity & Subordinationism - The Doctrine Of God & The Contemporary gender Debate (Paperback): Kevin Giles The Trinity & Subordinationism - The Doctrine Of God & The Contemporary gender Debate (Paperback)
Kevin Giles
R893 R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Save R123 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Kevin Giles traces the historic understanding of subordination in relation to the doctrine of the Trinity and investigates the closely related question of whether women are created to be permanently subordinated to men. The concept has been vigorously debated in relation to the doctrine of the Trinity since the fourth century. Certain New Testament texts have made it part of discussions of right relations between men and women. In recent years these two matters have been dramatically brought together. Today the doctrine of the Trinity is being used to support opposing views of the right relationship between men and women in the church. At the center of the debate is the question of whether or not the orthodox view of the trinitarian relations teach the eternal subordination of the Son of God. The author masterfully traces the historic understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity from the patristic age to our own times to help resolve this important question. Giles goes on to provide an illuminating investigation of a closely related question--whether or not women, even in terms of function or role, were created to be permanently subordinated to men. By surveying the church's traditional interpretation of texts relating to the status of women and inquiring into the proper use of the doctrine of the Trinity, Giles lays out his position in this current debate.

Gender and Social Psychology (Paperback): Perry R. Hinton Gender and Social Psychology (Paperback)
Perry R. Hinton; Vivien Burr
R1,343 Discovery Miles 13 430 Ships in 9 - 17 working days


Explaining theory and research in an accessible but thorough manner, Gender and Social Psychology critically evaluates the contribution that psychology has made to th study of gender, examining key issues such a family roles and parenting, inequalities in education, jobs and pay, and the effects of media representation of the sexes.

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An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States - Intersections of Race and Sexuality (Hardcover, 1st ed.... An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States - Intersections of Race and Sexuality (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Antonio (Jay) Pastrana, Jr., Juan Battle, Angelique Harris
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday strengths and strategies employed by this extraordinary population to navigate and negotiate their daily lives.

Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature - Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017):... Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature - Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Melina V Vizcaino-Aleman
R1,767 Discovery Miles 17 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a study of gender and place in twentieth-century Chicana/o literature and culture, covering the early period of regional writing to contemporary art. Remapping Chicana/o literary and cultural history from the critical regional perspective of the Mexican American Southwest, it uncovers the aesthetics of Chicana/o critical regionalism in the writings of Cleofas Jaramillo, Fray Angelico Chavez, Elena Zamora O'Shea, and Jovita Gonzalez. In addition to bringing renewed attention to contemporary writers like Richard Rodriguez and introducing the work of Chicana artist Carlota d.Z. EspinoZa, the study also revisits the more recognized work of Americo Paredes, Mario Suarez, Mary Helen Ponce, and Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales to reconsider the aesthetics of gender and place in Chicana/o literature and culture.

Sexual Pathways - Adapting to Dual Sexual Attraction (Hardcover, New): Mark J. Williams Sexual Pathways - Adapting to Dual Sexual Attraction (Hardcover, New)
Mark J. Williams
R2,219 Discovery Miles 22 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Sexual Pathways" introduces the topic of bisexuality--a subject largely misunderstood. Persons who display dual sexual attraction experience some form of erotic fulfillment with both same-sex and opposite-sex partners. They may or may not identify themselves as bisexual, but during significant periods of their life span they act bisexually. Studies of human sexuality world-wide indicate the incidence of bisexuality ranges from high to low prevalence in all literate and many nonliterate societies. To better understand the bisexual perspective, the author presents interviews with 30 men and women. Each describes his or her sexual pathway from birth to adulthood, portraying the construction of a lifestyle that incorporates a bisexual perspective.

Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Petra Ahrens Actors, Institutions, and the Making of EU Gender Equality Programs (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Petra Ahrens
R4,945 Discovery Miles 49 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is an actor-centred sociological study of the EU-level processes that produce gender equality policy. Based on interviews and documentary analysis, the study unpacks the process of the "Roadmap for Equality between Women and Men 2006-2010" to explain the different roles of actors in the making of EU gender equality policies. By analysing policy processes inside institutions and among institutions, the study focuses on the internal working logics in and between EU-level institutions. It highlights the shifting spaces, openings, and constraints for the development of gender equality policies. Concentrating on EU policy programmes helps shed light on the invisible aspects of EU gender equality policy-making and how this process changed regarding actors, structure and content in the late 2000s. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of EU politics, gender politics, and public policy, as well as to institutional and non-governmental actors in the area of gender politics in Europe and the working of EU politics.

Struggles In (Elderly) Care - A Feminist View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Hanne Marlene Dahl Struggles In (Elderly) Care - A Feminist View (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Hanne Marlene Dahl
R3,096 Discovery Miles 30 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book provides a critical engagement with the intensified struggles to be found within elderly care provision. Various social and political processes, including the forces of globalisation and the de-gendering of care, have changed how we might understand this national and global political concern. Emerging discourses such as neoliberalism have also reframed elderly care to increase existing tensions at the individual, national, and transnational level. Dahl argues that in order to grasp these new realities of care we need a new analytical framework that redirects us to new sites of contestation. Dahl approaches these issues from a post-structuralist and radical feminist position, while drawing from feminist sociology, feminist political science, nursing philosophy and feminist history. In particular, Struggles In (Elderly) Care highlights how the predominantly feminist theorization of care has been dominated by a sociological bias that could be improved using insights from political science concerning concepts of power and struggle, and the importance of the state and governance. This book will be of interest to researchers in sociology, gerontology, nursing, and feminist studies.

Handbook on Risk of AIDS - Injection Drug Users and Sexual Partners (Hardcover, New): Barry S. Brown, George M. Beschner Handbook on Risk of AIDS - Injection Drug Users and Sexual Partners (Hardcover, New)
Barry S. Brown, George M. Beschner
R2,550 Discovery Miles 25 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Intravenous drug users account for nearly one-third of the current AIDS cases in the United States--second only to gay males--and are responsible for 72 percent of female and 59 percent of pediatric cases of AIDS. Thus the National Institute of Drug Abuse launched a major effort in 1987 to locate hidden users and to see how they function and to evaluate strategies and community-based programs in 50 cities and 60 nearby communities around the country in order to lower risks to IV users and to reduce the dangers that they pose to others in the population. Brown and Beschner present the very latest findings and come to well-tested conclusions about how to change behaviors positively. This handbook is written for use in college, university, and professional libraries and for students, teachers, policymakers, and practitioners in public health service and in public policy at all governmental levels to study carefully. Brown and Beschner open with an introduction showing how injection drug users and their sexual partners are at risk for aids. Part I describes the spread of AIDS in the United States and Puerto Rico. Part II depicts patterns of injection drug and crack use and their effect on sex partners. Part III deals with gender issues. Part IV goes into demographic and background factors. Part V discusses key issues in the use of drug abuse treatment. Part VI analyzes outreach and behavior change strategies. And Part VI looks into how risk can be reduced as a result of outreach and specific intervention strategies. The final chapter comes to some conclusions about the effectiveness of various interventions by the National AIDS Demonstration Research Project. Background readings also add to the importance of this major reference.

Warrior Princess - A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender (Hardcover): Kristin Beck, Anne Speckhard Warrior Princess - A U.S. Navy Seal's Journey to Coming Out Transgender (Hardcover)
Kristin Beck, Anne Speckhard; Foreword by William Shepherd
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Chris Beck played high school football. He bought a motorcycle, much to his mother's dismay, at age 17. He grew up to become a U.S. Navy SEAL, serving our country for twenty years on thirteen deployments, including seven combat deployments, and ultimately earned a Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. To everyone who saw him, he was a hero. A warrior. A man. But underneath his burly beard, Chris had a secret, one that had been buried deep inside his heart since he was a little boy-one as hidden as the panty hose in the back of his drawer. He was transgender, and the woman inside needed to get out. This is the journey of a girl in a man's body and her road to self-actualization as a woman amidst the PTSD of war, family rejection and our society's strict gender rules and perceptions. It is about a fight to be free inside one's own body, a fight that requires the strength of a Warrior Princess. Kristin's story of boy to woman explores the tangled emotions of the transgender experience and opens up a new dialogue about being male or female: Is gender merely between your legs or is it something much bigger?

Religion, Women's Health Rights, and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe: Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Sophia... Religion, Women's Health Rights, and Sustainable Development in Zimbabwe: Volume 1 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise, Ezra Chitando
R4,574 Discovery Miles 45 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume brings to the fore the interface of religion, women's sexual reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Zimbabwe. It emphasizes that empowering African women is a pivotal pillar for attaining sustainable development. Contributors discuss the need for implementing structural changes as a prerequisite for social progress and development to occur in Southern Africa. They interrogate the extent to which religious beliefs and practices either promote or impede women's SRHR. The contributors also proffer several ways in which addressing the themes of health for all and equality for all women and girls can make a meaningful contribution towards the fulfillment of the goals set for Agenda 2030.

Responding to Women Migrant's Needs - Gender and Integration Sensitivity of Legislation in Germany and Sweden (Hardcover,... Responding to Women Migrant's Needs - Gender and Integration Sensitivity of Legislation in Germany and Sweden (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Muhammad Wajid Tahir
R1,890 Discovery Miles 18 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines gender- and integration-specific needs of women migrants by using a unique analytic framework, covering both qualitative and quantitative methods and techniques. Case studies from Sweden and Germany are presented, investigating how the gender and integration-neutral or integration-blind nature of the reviewed legislation can disadvantage migrant women in the labor market. The book contributes to the discourses of liberal and post-colonial feminism through new methodological and empirical insights. It, therefore, is a must-read for everybody interested in a better understanding of migrant women's chances to enter the labor market, as well as gender and integration studies in general.

Sex and Sexuality in Early America (Hardcover, New): Merril D. Smith Sex and Sexuality in Early America (Hardcover, New)
Merril D. Smith
R3,120 Discovery Miles 31 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What role did sexual assault play in the conquest of America? How did American attitudes toward female sexuality evolve, and how was sexuality regulated in the early Republic?

Sex and sexuality have always been the subject of much attention, both scholarly and popular. Yet, accounts of the early years of the United States tend to overlook the importance of their influence on the shaping of American culture. Sex and Sexuality in Early America addresses this neglected topic with original research covering a wide spectrum, from sexual behavior to sexual perceptions and imagery. Focusing on the period between the initial contact of Europeans and Native Americans up to 1800, the essays encompass all of colonial North America, including the Caribbean and Spanish territories.

Challenging previous assumptions, these essays address such topics as rape as a tool of conquest; perceptions and responses to Native American sexuality; fornication, bastardy, celibacy, and religion in colonial New England; gendered speech in captivity narratives; representations of masculinity in eighteenth- century seduction tales, the sexual cosmos of a southern planter, and sexual transgression and madness in early American fiction. The contributors include Stephanie Wood, Gordon Sayre, Steven Neuwirth, Else L. Hambleton, Erik R. Seeman, Richard Godbeer, Trevor Burnard, Natalie A. Zacek, Wayne Bodle, Heather Smyth, Rodney Hessinger, and Karen A. Weyler.

Gender and the Science of Difference - Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine (Hardcover, New): Jill A. Fisher Gender and the Science of Difference - Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine (Hardcover, New)
Jill A. Fisher; Literary editing by Jill A. Fisher
R3,154 Discovery Miles 31 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How does contemporary science contribute to our understanding about what it means to be women or men? What are the social implications of scientific claims about differences between ""male"" and ""female"" brains, hormones, and genes? How does culture influence scientific and medical research and its findings about human sexuality, especially so-called normal and deviant desires and behaviours? Gender and the Science of Difference examines how contemporary science shapes and is shaped by gender ideals and images. Prior scholarship has illustrated how past cultures of science were infused with patriarchal norms and values that influenced the kinds of research that was conducted and the interpretation of findings about differences between men and women. This interdisciplinary volume presents empirical inquiries into today's science, including examples of gendered scientific inquiry and medical interventions and research. It analyses how scientific and medical knowledge produces gender norms through an emphasis on sex differences, and includes both U.S. and non-U.S. cases and examples.

Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure - Women, Labour, Leisure and Family in Lianhe Village, Central... Transforming the Gendered Organisation of Labour and Leisure - Women, Labour, Leisure and Family in Lianhe Village, Central China, 1926-2013 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Yuqin Huang
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores how the labour and leisure lives of people in contemporary rural China have been structured and transformed, discussing the changing dynamics of power relations both between and within genders, and in local (village and family/household) and remote (the state and market) contexts. It combines perspectives from sociology, gender studies, social history and demography to investigate the changes and continuities in the lives of women and men in Lianhe, a rural village in central China, examining the period from 1926 to 2013 through the lens of labour and leisure. Employing methods from the field of ethnography, the research focuses on the life stories of three generations, including 57 women in Lianhe. The book develops a 'double comparison' analytical framework to compare the organisation of labour and leisure in the three respective generations, proceeding, on the one hand, diachronically along the historical time, that is, the pre-collective era, collective era and reform era, and synchronically along the women's life stages on the other. In so doing, the book links women's shifting role in changing family/household forms with broader socio-economic, political, demographic and cultural changes. Moreover, it employs a holistic perspective to reflect changing patterns in women's labour and leisure by disrupting the remunerated/unremunerated, home/labour, within/outside household and labour/leisure dichotomies, and exploring the interrelations between them. Based on this, the book then identifies the determinants of rural women's labour and leisure and reveals the women's experiences of their changing identities, particularly concerning their relationships with their parents (-in-law), sisters (-in-law), husbands and children. Particularly highlighting the interdependence and inequality among women, it also reveals their own perception of their identities and relationships, and their understanding of husband-wife fairness and gender equality. Lastly, it demonstrates that the prevalent androcentrism in the remote world does not match the increasing husband-wife fairness in the local world and argues that this mismatch has caused the complex and paradoxical experiences and subjectivities of these women. Given its scope, the book is of interest to scholars, students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, gender and development, as well as a general audience looking to explore contemporary rural China.

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