Category: Gender Studies

Die Ambivalenz des Begriffs sozialer Reproduktion nimmt der vorliegende Band als Ausgangspunkt für die examine von Männlichkeiten in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Fokussiert werden gesellschaftliche Verhältnisse, in denen Männlichkeiten everlasting ritualisiert und alltäglich hergestellt werden. Der Blick auf die Verschränkungen von Männlichkeiten und Reproduktion eröffnet einen inter- und transdisziplinären Zugriff und zeigt neue methodologische Perspektiven auf.

By Claudia Henrion

"... an excellent addition to any arithmetic teacher’s expert bookshelf." ―The arithmetic Teacher

"The person biographies themselves make for mesmerizing, usually inspiring, reading... this quantity may be compelling analyzing for girls arithmetic scholars and pros. an exceptional addition to the literature on girls in science... hugely recommended." ―Choice

"... it makes an immense contribution to scholarship at the interrelations of gender, arithmetic, and tradition within the U.S. within the moment 1/2 the 20th century." ―Notices of the AMS

"Who is the viewers for this booklet? definitely girls who're drawn to learning arithmetic and ladies already in arithmetic who've turn into discouraged will locate a lot to curiosity and support them. college who educate such girls could positioned it to stable use. however it will be a loss to relegate the e-book to a shelf for infrequent connection with an scholar or starting mathematician. every person within the arithmetic neighborhood during which each one of Henrion’s topics struggled so tough to discover a spot may benefit by means of a considerate reading." ―Society for business and utilized arithmetic (SIAM) News

Mathematics is frequently defined because the purest of the sciences, the least tainted by way of subjective or cultural impacts. Theoretically, the one requirement for a lifetime of arithmetic is mathematical skill. And but we see only a few girls mathematicians. Why?

Based upon a sequence of ten extensive interviews with popular girls mathematicians during the usa, this booklet investigates the function of gender within the advanced dating among mathematician, the mathematical neighborhood, and arithmetic itself.

By Michael A. Messner

Edited through of the field's such a lot fashionable researchers, this best-selling reader on males and masculinity includes the most up-tp-date articles available.

Organized round issues that outline masculinity, this reader takes a life-course point of view, utilizing the concept that males (as good as ladies) are “gendered” and that this gendering strategy is a critical event for men.

Roger A. Sneed deals an alternate method of black homosexuality for black spiritual students who've normally seen homosexuality as an issue. in its place, through drawing on a number black homosexual writers, Representations of Homosexuality issues black non secular scholarship in the direction of an ethics of openness.

Graham-Bertolini offers the 1st research of vigilante ladies in modern American fiction. She develops a dynamic version of vigilante heroines utilizing literary and feminist concept and applies it to big texts to expand our realizing of the way legislation and tradition infringe upon women's rights.

By Frank Browning

"A bold exam of the complexities of contemporary gender." --Andrew Solomon, writer of Far from the Tree

Now with a brand new foreword from the writer.

Frank Browning takes us into human gender geographies around the globe, from gender-neutral kindergartens in Chicago and Oslo to women's masturbation periods in Shanghai, from conservative Catholics in Paris petrified of God and Nature to transsexual Mormon mom and dad in Utah. As he stocks particular and fascinating human tales, he additionally elucidates the neuroscience that distinguishes female and male biology, exhibits us how all mom and dad' brains switch throughout the first weeks of parenthood, and at last how men's and women's responses to age range around the world established no longer on biology yet on their previous existence conduct. beginning with Simone de Beauvoir's world-famous statement that one isn't really born a girl yet as a substitute turns into a lady, Browning is going directly to exhibit both that not anyone is born a guy yet learns the way to practice as a guy, and that there's no fastened approach of being masculine or female.

more and more, the kinds of "male" and "female" or even "gay" and "straight" appear outdated and reductive. simply obvious at the horizon is an international of gender and sexual fluidity that may remake our global in primary methods. Linking technology to tradition and behaviour, and delving into the lives of people not easy ancient notions, Browning questions the normal department of Nature vs. Nurture in every thing from plant technological know-how to sexual expression, arguing in spite of everything that lifestyles includes an never-ending waltz among those historical notions.

This e-book takes an in-depth examine the relationships unique dancers have with their common shoppers, and explores the boundaries of utilizing feminist idea to debate intercourse paintings. this can be an available, revealing, and new examine a perennially interesting and divisive topic - excellent instructing fabric for undergraduate classes in quite a few fields.

Erotic Coleridge charts Coleridge's prolific production of affection poems from early flirtatious verse to poems approximately marital incompatibility, the clean faces of younger women fearing for his or her reputations, the obliterating seductions of younger girls, the exaltation of falling in love, the spoken and sung voices of girls, the soreness of jealousy, and past due meditations on easy methods to reside with the waning of affection. In his prose he responds to Parliamentary debates approximately punishing adulteresses and offers suggestion approximately how marriage can warp the soul. In his sensual exuberance and his ethics of reverencing the uniqueness of alternative folks, Coleridge attends heavily to the lives of ladies.

This can be a ebook on the innovative of study on multiculturalism. With contributions from most sensible American authors at the moment operating during this quarter, the result's a textual content that not just dissects the multicultural concerns dealing with schooling within the united states at the present time, but additionally unearths the equipment and systems of study into this contentious region.