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What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java, Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity? Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Ma……続きを見る

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting equality, yet women’s experiences on the ground are in many ways at odds……続きを見る

Girls and boys are different. So why do our schools insist on treating them as identical? Could this misguided equality have anything to do with the increasing dissatisfaction among women that is re……続きを見る

In the densely populated urban neighbourhoods of Java, women manage their houses and their communities through daily exchanges of food, childcare, and labour. Their domestic work is based on local i……続きを見る

Trans-Pacific Japanese American Studies is a unique collection of essays derived from a series of dialogues held in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Los Angeles on the issues of racializations, gender, communities……続きを見る

How can we prevent intimate partner violence (IPV)? And how do we define and measure “success” in preventing it? This book brings together researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields t……続きを見る

In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and again……続きを見る

Women’s status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture. In some ways, women have high status and broad access to resources, but other situations suggest t……続きを見る

AfroLatinas as a subject of scholarship are woefully underrepresented, and this edited volume, AfroLatinas and LatiNegras: Culture, Identity, and Struggle from an Intersectional Perspective, offers ……続きを見る

This book examines queer activism and queer social movements (QSMs) in Indonesia and Malaysia, broadly engaging with these topics on three different levels: macro (global and national discourses), m……続きを見る

Raadgeefster, vraagbaak, ‘beste vriendin’. Ga terug in de tijd met de twee meest toonaangevende vrouwenbladen in Nederland ooit: Libelle en Margriet. In Je beste vriendin schetst Marjan van Marle de……続きを見る

El Acuerdo de Paz suscrito por el gobierno colombiano y las FARC en diciembre de 2016 materializa los esfuerzos locales y transnacionales porque el "género cuente" en la transición. Este libro enriq……続きを見る

Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and questions the neoliberal emphasis on individ……続きを見る

The first edition of The Archaeology of Childhood has been credited by many as launching an entire new area of scholarship in archaeology. This second edition, published 17 years later, retains the ……続きを見る

This volume focuses on the literary and artistic exploration of female friendship in various geographical contexts, spanning the centuries from the medieval period until the present. The essays addr……続きを見る

El presente libro es parte de este primer ciclo del Programa de investigación asociativa de Género y Diversidad Sexual -GEDIS- de la universidad Alberto Hurtado de Chile. Su propósito es poner a dis……続きを見る

Gender Equity: Global Policies and Perspectives on Advancing Social Justice provides an in-depth analysis of global perspectives on advancing public and social gender policy. Shedding new light on i……続きを見る

Seventeenth-century New Englanders were not as busy policing their neighbors’ behavior as Nathaniel Hawthorne or many historians of early America would have us believe. Keeping their own households ……続きを見る

Why is there so little HIV education at present directed towards bisexual men and women? This book offers a critical analysis of the issues in public health research and education that prevent adequ……続きを見る

In this fascinating study the lives and mores of women in one of the least understood but most densely populated areas of the world are unveiled through the eyes of generations of court poets. For m……続きを見る

Fashionable Masculinities explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance as the third decade of the new millennium begins: a contradictory ……続きを見る

Este libro presenta los resultados del proyecto de investigación "Reconstrucción de la memoria histórica de la Asociación Campesina del Valle del río Cimitarra, con enfoque de género", que contó con……続きを見る

Este livro reúne mais de 20 textos que são o resultado de palestras e comunicações proferidas durante a I Jornadas do Laboratório de Estudos de Gênero e História - LEGH, intitulada Gênero, Poder e S……続きを見る

Easily the leading and most engaging voice of her era and generation, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has bridged gaps and introduced new motifs and narrative styles which have energized contemporary Afric……続きを見る

A critical examination of the engaging voice and multiple stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on war, feminism, art, ideology, hair, complex human identities and the challenges of multicultural exis……続きを見る

The collection of essays outlines how feminists employ a variety of online platforms, practices, and tools to create spaces of solidarity and to articulate a critical politics that refuses popular f……続きを見る

Premodern History and Art through the Prism of Gender in East-Central Europe is a representative collection of current Czech research in premodern history and art history, using gender as a tool of ……続きを見る

This book looks at social representations of romantic love as portrayed in films and interpreted by their audiences, using cinema as a means for analysing the state of romantic love today, and the t……続きを見る

This book explores the role and experience of African American women scholars and educators in the field of human, family, and consumer sciences. Its five sections cover careers in education, the ro……続きを見る

Mucho se ha escrito sobre las luchas feministas, sobre qué es el feminismo y sobre los tipos de feminismos existentes. Los discursos proliferan y hemos deconstruido bastante las categorías típicas y……続きを見る