Coping with Tensions Between Tradition and Change, Renegotiating Patriarchal Structures, and Reconfiguring Multiple Gendered Identities
Author: Elizabeth Brannon-Patel
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 208
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Masculinities
Author: R. W. Connell
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0745634265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an exciting new edition of R.W. Connell's ground-breaking text, which has become a classic work on the nature and construction of masculine identity. Connell argues that there is not one masculinity, but many different masculinities, each associated with different positions of power. In a world gender order that continues to privilege men over women, but also raises difficult issues for men and boys, his account is more pertinent than ever before. In a substantial new introduction and conclusion, Connell discusses the development of masculinity studies in the ten years since the book's initial publication. He explores global gender relations, new theories, and practical uses of mascunlinity research. Looking to the future, his new concluding chapter addresses the politics of masculinities, and the implications of masculinity research for understanding current world issues. Against the backdrop of an increasingly divided world, dominated by neo-conservative politics, Connell's account highlights a series of compelling questions about the future of human society. This second edition of Connell's classic book will be essential reading for students taking courses on masculinities and gender studies, and will be of interest to students and scholars across the humanities and social sciences.
Handbook of Studies on Men and Masculinities
Author: Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9780761923695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe handbook provides a broad view of masculinities primarily across the social sciences, but including important debates in areas of the humanities & natural sciences.
Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures
Author: Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780415114820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of original essays explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. Topics cove- red include anthropology, history, literature.Gender reversal is a perennial theme in the cultures of both East and West. It emerges in classical Chinese theatre, in the ceremony consecrating the Japanese emperor, and in Hindu mythology; in the ancient Greek rites of Dionysos, in medieval Christian thought and in the culture of the American Indians.The original essays in Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures explore the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range. The contributors bring a unique mixture of perspectives to bear on the subject, with backgrounds in anthropology, history, literature, political science, comparative religion and women's studies. They reveal the complex relation of gender reversal to taboo, and show how differing attitudes reveal much about particular cultures.
Feminist Solutions for Ending War
Author: Nicole Wegner
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2021-11-20
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745342863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWill war ever end? Women across the world are proving that they can oppose patriarchal capitalist violence
Intersectionality
Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0745684521
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe concept of intersectionality has become a hot topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exactly does it mean, and why has it emerged as such a vital lens through which to explore how social inequalities of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability and ethnicity shape one another? In this new book Patricia Hill Collins and Sirma Bilge provide a much-needed, introduction to the field of intersectional knowledge and praxis. They analyze the emergence, growth and contours of the concept and show how intersectional frameworks speak to topics as diverse as human rights, neoliberalism, identity politics, immigration, hip hop, global social protest, diversity, digital media, Black feminism in Brazil, violence and World Cup soccer. Accessibly written and drawing on a plethora of lively examples to illustrate its arguments, the book highlights intersectionality's potential for understanding inequality and bringing about social justice oriented change. Intersectionality will be an invaluable resource for anyone grappling with the main ideas, debates and new directions in this field.
Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Author: Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Published: 2019-08-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781478005421
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory Patricia Hill Collins offers a set of analytical tools for those wishing to develop intersectionality's capability to theorize social inequality in ways that would facilitate social change. While intersectionality helps shed light on contemporary social issues, Collins notes that it has yet to reach its full potential as a critical social theory. She contends that for intersectionality to fully realize its power, its practitioners must critically reflect on its assumptions, epistemologies, and methods. She places intersectionality in dialog with several theoretical traditions—from the Frankfurt school to black feminist thought—to sharpen its definition and foreground its singular critical purchase, thereby providing a capacious interrogation into intersectionality's potential to reshape the world.
Feminist Studies
Author: Nina Lykke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010-04-05
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1136978984
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, feminist scholar Nina Lykke highlights current issues in feminist theory, epistemology and methodology. Combining introductory overviews with cutting-edge reflections, Lykke focuses on analytical approaches to gendered power differentials intersecting with other processes of social in/exclusion based on race, class, and sexuality. Lykke confronts and contrasts classical stances in feminist epistemology with poststructuralist and postconstructionist feminisms, and also brings bodily materiality into dialogue with theories of the performativity of gender and sex. This thorough and needed analysis of the state of Feminist Studies will be a welcome addition to scholars and students in Gender and Women’s Studies and Sociology.
Why Does Patriarchy Persist?
Author: Carol Gilligan
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-10-15
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1509529152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe election of an unabashedly patriarchal man as US President was a shock for many—despite decades of activism on gender inequalities and equal rights, how could it come to this? What is it about patriarchy that seems to make it so resilient and resistant to change? Undoubtedly it endures in part because some people benefit from the unequal advantages it confers. But is that enough to explain its stubborn persistence? In this highly original and persuasively argued book, Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider put forward a different view: they argue that patriarchy persists because it serves a psychological function. By requiring us to sacrifice love for the sake of hierarchy, patriarchy protects us from the vulnerability of loving and becomes a defense against loss. Uncovering the powerful psychological mechanisms that underpin patriarchy, the authors show how forces beyond our awareness may be driving a politics that otherwise seems inexplicable.
TechnoFeminism
Author: Judy Wajcman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-20
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 0745638058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely and engaging book argues that technoscientific advances are radically transforming the woman-machine relationship. However, it is feminist politics rather than the technologies themselves that make the difference. TechnoFeminism fuses the visionary insights of cyberfeminism with a materialist analysis of the sexual politics of technology.
