Gender Studies - Soc Sci Products

Edited by Johanna Niemi, Lourdes Peroni, Vladislava Stoyanova

This book offers an in-depth and critical analysis of the Istanbul Convention, along with discussions on its impact and implications. The work highlights the place of the Convention in the landscape of international law and policies on violence against women and equality. The authors argue that…

Hardback – 2020-04-15 
Routledge

By Richard R. Randolph

This book examines gang rape, clitoridectomy, abduction of women, ritual belittling of men, modern feminist criticism, and the "war between the sexes". It deals with the politics of large state-sized units and conflict in the form of overt war between Indians and colonial powers.…

Paperback – 2020-04-02 
Routledge

By Melanie Ilic

Based on an extensive reading of a broad range of women’s accounts of their lives in the Soviet Union, this book focuses on many hidden aspects of Soviet women’s everyday lives, thereby revealing a great deal about how the Soviet Union operated on a day to day basis and about the place of the…

Hardback – 2020-03-31 
Routledge
Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

By Susan E. Searing

This annotated bibliography evaluates the traditional reference aids available in most college libraries in terms of their usefulness in women's studies research, highlighting issues and problems of central concern to researchers in women's studies.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

By Hans Buechler

This book is the product of a long, manifold involvement with life in Bolivia in general and productive processes in particular. It conveys a sense of the myriad decisions that Bolivian small-scale producers have to make in the extraordinarily fluid situations they must cope with.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

Edited by Valentine M. Moghadam

This book explores the relations of culture, identity, and women, providing vivid illustrations from around the world of the compelling nature of Woman as cultural symbol and Woman as political pawn in male-directed power struggles.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

By Natalie Kaufman Hevener

This book demonstrates the broad range of economic, social, and political concerns they cover and evaluates contemporary patterns and future needs they reveal. It analyzes the agreements and assesses its likely impact on the legal status of women.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

By Lisa Gilad

This book focuses on women in development and the effects of the development process on women's roles and status. By considering women in the full context of their cultures, the book offers new insights on sociocultural, political, and economic change cross-culturally.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

By Tamsin E. Lorraine

This book explains an open-ended theory of self that delineates 'masculine' and 'feminine' self-strategies on the basis of the Hegelian tradition of theorizing self/other relations and contemporary feminist theory. It proposes the possibility of combining the gender differentiated self strategies.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

Edited by Irene Zahava

This book is a collection of short stories by third generation feminists, covering major issues in a young woman's life: awakening sexuality, biological and psychological landmarks, family rejection and rebellion, child abduction and abuse, gender identification, and sexual harassment.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

Edited by Sneja Gunew

This book addresses a broad international and multi-cultural audience with the key questions of cultural specificity, its social representations and its theoretical and political power in the context of key 1990s' debates in contemporary feminist and postmodern theory.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge

By Marilyn G. Gelber

This book examines the relationship between the sexes, especially the attitudes and behavior of men toward women, as a result of the economic, political, and structural constraints of New Guinea Highland social organization.…

Paperback – 2020-03-30 
Routledge