Gender and Sexuality

Gender and Sexuality
Author: Momin Rahman
Publisher: Polity
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-12-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0745633773

This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality provides fresh insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities, relating the study of gender and sexuality to recent research and theory, and wider social concerns throughout the world.

Redoing Gender

Redoing Gender
Author: Helana Darwin
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2022-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030836177

Redoing Gender demonstrates how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a society that selectively acknowledges those two genders. Gender nonbinary people—who identify as other genders besides simply “man” or “woman”—have begun to disrupt this binary system, but the limited progress they have made has required significant everyday labor. Through interviews with 47 nonbinary people, this book offers rich description of these forms of labor, including “rethinking sex and gender,” “resignifying gender,” “redoing relationships,” and “resisting erasure.” The final chapter interrogates the lasting impact of this labor through follow-up interviews with participants four years later. Although nonbinary people are finally managing to achieve some recognition, it is clear that this change has not happened without a fight that continues to this day. The diverse experiences of nonbinary people in this book will help cisgender people relate to gender minorities with more compassion, and may also appeal to those questioning their own gender. This text will also be of keen interest to academics across Sociology and Gender Studies.

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power

Gender, Social Change and Spiritual Power
Author: Jane E. Soothill
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004157891

Against a backdrop of debate concerning the role of Pentecostalism as a mediator of 'modernity', this book examines the interaction between charismatic Christianity, spiritual power and gendered social change in contemporary Ghana.

Gender Reckonings

Gender Reckonings
Author: James W. Messerschmidt
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2018-02-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1479837350

Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding gender and sexuality within a more pragmatic, dynamic, and socially relevant framework. It shows how gender relations must be understood on a large scale as well as in intimate detail. The contributors return to the basics, questioning how gender patterns change, how we can realize gender equality, and how the structures of gender impact daily life. Gender Reckonings covers not only foundational concepts of gender relations and gender justice, but also explores postcolonial patterns of gender, intersectionality, gender fluidity, transgender practices, neoliberalism, and queer theory. Gender Reckonings combines the insights of gender and sexuality scholars from different generations, fields, and world regions. The editors and contributors are leading social scientists from six continents, and the book gives vivid accounts of the changing politics of gender in different communities. Rich in empirical detail and novel thinking, Gender Reckonings is a lasting resource for students, researchers, activists, policymakers, and everyone concerned with gender justice.

Islam, Gender, & Social Change

Islam, Gender, & Social Change
Author: Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998
Genre: Gender identity
ISBN: 0195113578

The essays collected in this book place this issue in its historical context and offer case studies of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia. These fascinating studies shed light on the impact of the Islamic resurgence on gender issues in Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan, Oman, Bahrain, the Philippines, and Kuwait. Taken together, the essays reveal the wide variety that exists among Muslim societies and believers, and the complexity of the issues under consideration.

Gender Roles in Ireland

Gender Roles in Ireland
Author: Margret Fine-Davis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317629345

Gender Roles in Ireland: three decades of attitude change documents changing attitudes toward the role of women in Ireland from 1975 to 2005, a key period of social change in this society. The book presents replicated measures from four separate surveys carried out over three decades. These cover a wide range of gender role attitudes as well as key social issues concerning the role of women in Ireland, including equal pay, equal employment opportunity, maternal employment, contraception etc. Attitudes to abortion, divorce and moral issues are also presented and discussed in the context of people’s voting behaviour in national referenda. Taken together, the data available in these studies paint a detailed and complex picture of the evolving role of women in Ireland during a period of rapid social change and key developments in social legislation. The book brings the results up to the present by including new data on current gender role issues from Margret Fine-Davis' latest research.

Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe

Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe
Author: Mary Daly
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1788111265

Gender equality has been one of the defining projects of European welfarestates. It has proven an elusive goal, not just because of political opposition but also due to a lack of clarity in how to best frame equality and take account of family-related considerations. This wide-ranging book assembles the most pertinent literature and evidence to provide a critical understanding of how contemporary state policies engage with gender inequalities.

Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940

Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940
Author: Asuncion Lavrin
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803279735

Feminists in the Southern Cone countries?Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay?between 1910 and 1930 obliged political leaders to consider gender in labor regulation, civil codes, public health programs, and politics. Feminism thus became a factor in the modernization of theseøgeographically linked but diverse societies in Latin America. Although feminists did not present a unified front in the discussion of divorce, reproductive rights, and public-health schemes to regulate sex and marriage, this work identifies feminism as a trigger for such discussion, which generated public and political debate on gender roles and social change. Asunci¢n Lavrin recounts changes inøgender relations and the role of women in each of the three countries, thereby contributing an enormous amount of new information and incisive analysis to the histories of Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

Social Change

Social Change
Author: Roxanne Friedenfels
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781882289592

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Women in College

Women in College
Author: Mirra Komarovsky
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780759107267

In Women In College, Mirra Komarovsky followed her groundbreaking works on gender roles to focus on the essentialist debate. Komarovsky interviewed post-WWII generation female students about their feelings about gender inequality and domesticity. She makes a strong case for the role of society over biology in shaping gender roles.