Gender Identity & Sex Roles

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...

First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an en..

"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and, alongside Bornstein's other work, has influenced an en..

The essays collected here theorize the relation of unconscious fantasy and perversion to discourses of nation, identity, and history in Japan. By reading a variety of cultural productions as symptomatic elaborations of unconscious and symbolic processes rather than as indexes to cultural truths, the..

This 2nd edition includes a new introductory essay highlighting the key developments in intersecting scholarship that have arisen since the book’s original publication...

This 2nd edition includes a new introductory essay highlighting the key developments in intersecting scholarship that have arisen since the book’s original publication...

Putting families of origin into the queer picture, this book provides an original insight into the ways people, with their different gender and sexual identities, "do" families across generations, and contributes to querying the very dichotomy between families of origin and families of choice. This ..

Reflective Reading and the Power of Narrative: Producing the Reader is an interdisciplinary exploration into the profound power of narratives to create—and recreate—how we imagine ourselves. It posits that the process of producing a text also produces the reader...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major practical theoretical contributions...

First published in 1936, this book surveys the changing place of women across the contemporaneous Muslim world, focusing on several nations where they constitute a demographic majority and one where they do not, namely India. It begins by outlining some of the areas of change, for example the veil, ..

First published in 1936, this book surveys the changing place of women across the contemporaneous Muslim world, focusing on several nations where they constitute a demographic majority and one where they do not, namely India. It begins by outlining some of the areas of change, for example the veil, ..