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The book deals with the problems of media communication and its formation in the Slovak Republic in and after 1993. It focuses on the social function of the media in the sense of journalistic commun……続きを見る

An Introduction to Indigenous Feminisms introduces important concepts and approaches for understanding what Indigenous feminisms are, why we use the term in plural, and why Indigenous feminisms are ……続きを見る

Unmarried Black mothers in the United States face a precarious existence. Their precarity reflects the deep-seated ills of anti-Black racism, systemic poverty, disenfranchisement, and state violence……続きを見る

Wedding, Gender, and Performance in Ancient Greece traces the wedding song tradition, its imagery, and its tropes as a genre that became crystallized throughout the ages. It explores how wedding poe……続きを見る

Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century. In Religion and Women in India, Tanika……続きを見る

While women’s cricket, and women’s sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, an……続きを見る

India produces an impressive number of films each year in a variety of languages. Here, Monika Mehta breaks new ground by analyzing Hindi films and exploring the censorship of gender and heterosexua……続きを見る

This book uses everyday consumption as a lens to analyze how South Asian Muslim American women negotiate racial, religious, gendered, classed, and often political identities. In particular, Ternikar……続きを見る

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and quee……続きを見る

This book explores the children of Chinese single-child families who go to study abroad and in particular the increase in Chinese familial investment in daughters' education within the wider socio-m……続きを見る

Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when yo……続きを見る

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Note: 1,7, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Sozialwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 'Ich war Mann und Frau'. Der Buch……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Note: 1,7, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In Karlsruhe stach eine 16-J……続きを見る

While higher education is still far from universal in the United States, it plays an increasingly large role in shaping our collective understanding of what knowledge counts as legitimate and import……続きを見る

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Women Studies / Gender Studies, grade: 1,7, Ruhr-University of Bochum (Sozialwissenschaft), course: Geschlecht und Internationalisierung, language: En……続きを見る

The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalise……続きを見る

What influences political behavior more -- one's gender or one's gendered personality traits? Certain gendered traits have long been associated with particular political leanings in American politic……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Note: 1,3, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die folgende Arbeit soll sich mit der Analyse von Mac……続きを見る

This book explores how rural gender relations are changing in a globalising world that fundamentally impacts on the structure of agricultural life in rural areas and urban-rural relations. It analys……続きを見る

Gender and Sexuality in Critical Animal Studies explores nonhuman animals’ experiences of gender, physiological sex, and sexuality while in nature and captivity. The contributors analyze nonhuman op……続きを見る

What happens when the parents of migrants age and need care in mobile and aging societies? Ethnomorality of Care acts as a window in sharing how physical distance challenges family-centered elderly ……続きを見る

This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India – the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute – against the socio-r……続きを見る

This book assesses the transformation of football fan culture from a gender perspective. Referring to the notions of homosociality, hegemonic masculinity and performative perspectives on gender and ……続きを見る

The first autobiography in Bengali was written by an upper-caste rural housewife called Rashundari Debi (18091899). Published when she was 88 years old, Amar Jiban (My Life) is a fascinating first-h……続きを見る

Africa as a continent, which holds strong to its patriarchal cultural principles and practices, is known for its blatant display of violent abuse of women, including state-sanctioned violence, and i……続きを見る