Gender Studies - Soc Sci

This book counteracts the notion of feminist theory as a single theory with multiple contradictions. Instead, it equips the reader with a better understanding of the many important branches of feminist theory and of each branch's own internal logic and specific applications...

McCann and Kim‘s Feminist Theory Reader anthologizes the important classical and contemporary works of feminist theory within a multiracial transnational framework. The editors have organized the readings into four sections, which challenge the prevailing representation of feminist movements as wave..

The self is a pivotal philosophical topic. This collection of papers by feminists addresses issues including sexual violence and the self, the social self and autonomy, the narrative self and integrity, self-ownership and the body, and forgetting yourself and your race...

Women and men are more alike than we might think. In this accessible and enthusiastic introduction Mary Holmes explains how sociological approaches to gender can help us understand how and why everyday life is often so different for women and men, despite their similarities...

Women and men are more alike than we might think. In this accessible and enthusiastic introduction Mary Holmes explains how sociological approaches to gender can help us understand how and why everyday life is often so different for women and men, despite their similarities...

Precarious employment presents a  challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship..

Precarious employment presents a  challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and citizenship..

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This work explores the nature of the relationship between gender, ethnicity and poverty in the context of the external and internal dynamics of household in Guyana...

Examining gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing in particular on gender relations in both the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986, this book argues that, as in the socialist era, current gender relations bear the imprint of state gender policies and discourses...

This book examines the relationship between women, gender and the international security agenda, exploring the meaning of security in terms of discourse and practice, as well as the larger goals and strategies of the global women's movement...