Gender Books

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31. Gender Trouble Makers

    Education and Empowerment in Nepal

    By Jennifer Rothchild

    Series: New Approaches in Sociology

    International development efforts aimed at improving girls’ lives and education have been well-intended, somewhat effective, but ultimately short-sighted and incomplete. This is because international development efforts often operate under a reductive understanding of the term 'gender' and how it...

    Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge
32. Home

    By Alison Blunt, Robyn Dowling

    Series: Key Ideas in Geography

    ‘Home’ is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings; home can be feelings of belonging or of alienation; feelings of home can be stretched across...

    Published August 2nd 2006 by Routledge
33. The Beauty Industry

    Gender, Culture, Pleasure

    By Paula Black

    The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of physical and even spiritual therapy. In this...

    Published May 27th 2004 by Routledge
34. For the Love of Women

    Gender, Identity and Same-Sex Relations in a Greek Provincial Town

    By Elisabeth Kirtsoglou

    This extraordinary book opens up the strange world of the 'parea' - a lesbian secret society based in a small-town bar outside Athens, whose members meet clandestinely to drink, dance and flirt. Though conducting intense sexual affairs under the noses of other customers, the parea's members - many...

    Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
35. Embodied Lives:

    Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience

    By Rosemary A. Joyce, Lynn M. Meskell

    Examining a wide range of archaeological data, and using it to explore issues such as the sexual body, mind/body dualism, body modification, and magical practices, Lynn Meskell and Rosemary Joyce offer a new approach to the Ancient Egyptian and Mayan understanding of embodiment. Drawing on...

    Published August 13th 2003 by Routledge
36. Gender in Transnationalism

    Home, Longing and Belonging Among Moroccan Migrant Women

    By Ruba Salih

    Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

    A fascinating ethnographic journey into migrant women's lives across two countries, Gender in Transnationalism highlights women's construction of 'home' between Morocco and Italy as a significant site whereby broader feelings and narratives of displacement and belonging can be grasped. Salih...

    Published June 11th 2003 by Routledge
37. Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men

    By Paul Baker

    Series: Routledge Studies in Linguistics

    Polari is a secret form of language mainly used by homosexual men in London and other cities during the twentieth century. Derived in part from the slang lexicons of numerous stigmatised and itinerant groups, Polari was also a means of socialising, acting out camp performances and reconstructing a...

    Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
38. Gender, Agency and Change

    Anthropological Perspectives

    By Victoria Goddard

    Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists

    In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Gender, Agency and Change the contributors illustrate the complexities involved in the constitution and performance of agency. Such agency may be...

    Published July 5th 2000 by Routledge
39. Food and Gender

    By Carole M. Counihan, Steven L. Kaplan

    This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This...

    Published November 25th 1998 by Routledge
40. Food and Gender

    By Counihan

    This volume examines, among other things, the significance of food-centered activities to gender relations and the construction of gendered identities across cultures. It considers how each gender's relationship to food may facilitate mutual respect or produce gender hierarchy. This...

    Published November 25th 1998 by Routledge