Constructing and Reconstructing Gender
Constructing and Reconstructing Gender

Author: Linda A. M. Perry

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1992-07-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1438415931

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Constructing and Reconstructing Gender is an excellent compendium of current research, and will be appealing and useful to those interested in gender issues in a wide variety of disciplines. This book cuts across disciplines and scholarly methods, drawing from many backgrounds, including Communication, Linguistics, English, Business, Law, and Psychology. The interweaving of rhetorical, critical, phenomenological, and statistical methods gives readers a multifaceted analysis of gender. At the same time that this book shows the value of gender research in provoking new currents of thought, it also brings into focus two aspects of gender that are often confused: how gender operates as a cultural category that affects communication behavior, and how communication and language function to create gender categories.

Painting Gender, Constructing Theory
Painting Gender, Constructing Theory

Author: Marcia Brennan

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780262523363

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"Focusing on the key historical criticism and art-works, Brennan shows how the identities of all five Stieglitz circle artists were presented in terms of the masculinity and femininity, and the heterosexuality and homosexuality, thought to be embedded in their work. Brennan also discusses Stieglitz's relation to competing artistic and critical movements, including Thomas Hart Benton's regionalist art and Clement Greenberg's reformulation of formalism."--Jacket.

Gender, Pleasure, and Violence
Gender, Pleasure, and Violence

Author: Agnieszka Kościańska

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2021-01-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 0253053102

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Behind the Iron Curtain, the politics of sexuality and gender were, in many ways, more progressive than the West. While Polish citizens undoubtedly suffered under the oppressive totalitarianism of socialism, abortion was legal, clear laws protected victims of rape, and it was relatively easy to legally change one's gender. In Gender, Pleasure, and Violence, Agnieszka Kościańska reveals that sexologists—experts such as physicians, therapists, and educators—not only treated patients but also held sex education classes at school, published regular columns in the press, and authored highly popular sex manuals that sold millions of copies. Yet strict gender roles within the home meant that true equality was never fully within reach. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival work, Kościańska shares how professions like sexologists defined the notions of sexual pleasure and sexual violence under these sweeping cultural changes. By tracing the study of sexual human behavior as it was developed and professionalized in Poland since the 1960s, Gender, Pleasure, and Violence explores how the collapse of socialism brought both restrictions in gender rights and new opportunities.

Making a Difference
Making a Difference

Author: Rachel T. Hare-Mustin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780300052220

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Drawing on postmodernist scepticism about what we know and how we know it and on recent developments in the philosophy of science and feminist theory, this book offers a new perspective on the meaning of gender, one that is not determined by the traditional focus on male-female differences.

Gendered Talk at Work
Gendered Talk at Work

Author: Janet Holmes

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1405178450

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Gendered Talk at Work examines how women and men negotiate their gender identities as well as their professional roles in everyday workplace communication. written accessibly by one of the field’s foremost researchers explores the ways in which gender contributes to the interpretation of meaning in workplace interaction uses original and insightfully analyzed data to focus on the ways in which both women and men draw on gendered discourse resources to enact a range of workplace roles illustrates how a qualitative analysis of workplace discourse can throw light on the many ways in which workplace discourse provides a resource for constructing gender identity as one component of our complex socio-cultural identity

Making Miss India Miss World
Making Miss India Miss World

Author: Susan Dewey

Publisher: Syracuse University Press

Published: 2008-04-07

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780815631767

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For almost half a century, the Miss India competition has been a prominent feature of Indian popular culture, influencing, over time, the conventional standard for female beauty. As India participates increasingly in a global economy, that standard is gradually being shaped by forces beyond the country’s borders. Through the unexpected lens of the 2003 beauty pageant, Susan Dewey’s Making Miss India Miss World examines what feminine beauty has come to mean in a country transformed by recent political, economic, and cultural developments.

(Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice
(Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice

Author: Juliet Langman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-04-30

Total Pages: 95

ISBN-13: 1482269554

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The articles in this special issue examine the relationship between gender identity and second language learning from a variety of perspectives, all of which share a basic grounding in sociocultural theories of learning and poststructural theories of language. (Re)constructing Gender in a New Voice presents a range of approaches to questions regarding the role of gender identity in a set of distinct local contexts. In this issue, Guest Editor Juliet Langman contends that an examination of the tensions between past and current ways of expressing identity will allow for continued theorizing on the nature of gender identity and its role in multiple language learning and use.

Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland
Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland

Author: S. Sheehan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1137076380

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Medieval Irish texts reveal distinctive and unexpected constructions of gender. Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland illuminates these ideas through its fresh and provocative re-readings of a wide range of texts, including saga, romance, legal texts, Fenian narrative, hagiography, and ecclesiastical verse.