Gender Identity & Sex Roles

This Encyclopedia is the comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world and across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations...

This Encyclopedia is the comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world and across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations...

This ethnography examines the relationship between development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and understandings of Islam in Morocco. It shows how female patients at reproductive health clinics appropriate medical practices aimed at crafting modern citizens to create new religious identit..

This ethnography examines the relationship between development policies, women’s reproductive practices, and understandings of Islam in Morocco. It shows how female patients at reproductive health clinics appropriate medical practices aimed at crafting modern citizens to create new religious identit..

This text offers an exploration of changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes towards sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. It is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996...

This text offers an exploration of changing concepts of marriage and gender relationships and attitudes towards sex in a rural Chinese community over the past five decades. It is based on a study of an industrialized peasant village in Guangdong Province from 1994 to 1996...

In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media cove..

This book examines how popular media re-constructs ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore how post-socialist women have engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation, and what the consequences are of ..

This book examines how popular media re-constructs ideas and ideals of femininity in the post-socialist cultural space. The authors explore how post-socialist women have engaged with media as media producers and consumers, as well as objects of media representation, and what the consequences are of ..

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book analyzes media coverage of women who kill their children, examining contemporary news stories in the United States and exploring how those stories shape our views of motherhood, caretaking, and feminine behavior...