Gender Studies

This volume maps the intersection between war and violence from a gendered postcolonial perspective. Its unique analyses disrupt traditional notions of violence by exploring the transition from conflict to resolution. It accounts for the history of empire and its lingering influence into present-day..

Taking a social constructionist perspective, Gender, Health and Healthcare considers the ways in which gender impacts upon health in all its elements including access, technology, professionalisation, health promotion and health as an important sector of the labour market. Watts discusses gender as ..

Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the gender and language field from a psychological perspective...

Provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the gender and language field from a psychological perspective...

This book explores the gender issues associated with international migration in dual career households. Adopting a feminist approach, the author explores post-industrial managerial and professional careers...

When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?..

When so many call for inclusion of women and a gender perspective in food security, why is the status of women and girls in terms of food security not improving, and to what extent is this failure contributing to overall hunger and malnutrition?..

Gender, Sex, and Politics: In the Streets and Between the Sheets in the 21st Century includes twenty-seven chapters organized into five sections: Gender, Sexuality and Social Control; Pornography; Sex and Social Media; Dating, Desire, and the Politics of Hooking Up; and Issues in Sexual Pleasure and..

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities presents exciting new perspectives on modern colonial regimes to researchers and students in gender studies, history and cultural studies...

Gender, Sexuality and Colonial Modernities presents exciting new perspectives on modern colonial regimes to researchers and students in gender studies, history and cultural studies...

Aiming to expand the focus on changing gender roles and construction of diasporic femininities and sexualities in migration studies, Farahani presents an original analysis of first-generation Iranian immigrant women in Sweden. This book demonstrates how migratory experiences impact sexuality and how..

Adopting a feminist approach, 'Gender, Shame and Sexual Violence' offers extensive new empirical material, challenging the assumption that the deterrent effect of making rape trials more visible would reduce the occurrence of sexual violence in conflict situations. It contends instead that the manne..