Bevat begrippen, biografische gegevens en literatuurverwijzingen.
"Research on gender, sex, and crime today remains focused on topics that have been a mainstay of the field for several decades, but it has also recently expanded to include studies from a variety of disciplines, a growing number of countries, and on a wider range of crimes. The …
Verzameling artikelen over de ontwikkelingen in lesbische en homostudies. Verschillende disciplines komen aan bod: psychologie, sociologie, geschiedwetendschap, antropologie, recht, politicologie, geografie, literatuurwetenschap, culturele studies, vrouwenstudies, aids-onderzoek…
Feminist philosophy began on the margins, in the applied fields where practical concerns met with the political issues central to the women's movement. The traditional core of philosophy - including epistemology - remained intact, impervious to any inquiry that appealed to value…
Feminist philosophy began on the margins, in the applied fields where practical concerns met with the political issues central to the women's movement. The traditional core of philosophy - including epistemology - remained intact, impervious to any inquiry that appealed to value…
An examination of the nature of science from a feminist point of view. The author returns to her work on the feminist reconstruction of rationality, drawing on UK, US and Scandinavian research, and goes on to examine the Human Genome Programme. She also explores feminist science…
On political activity of women in local government and its relation with oligarchy in Indonesia; collected essays.
"Collected here are fifty-one key thinkers and fifty-one authors, recognizing that women are fifty-one percent of the population. There are actually one-hundred-and-two thinkers featured in these pages, as each author is a feminst thinker, too: scholars, writers, poets, and acti…
The papers collected in this volume address early modern female authorship from the late Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century, ranging geographically from Portugal to Russia, and from Italy to Denmark. In particular, they focus on three themes: the creation of female…
Feminist philosophers have made important strides in altering the overwhelmingly male-centric discipline of philosophy. Yet, in Nancy Bauer's view, most are still content to work within theoretical frameworks that are fundamentally false to human beings' everyday experiences. Th…
Criminological research has historically been based on the study of men, boys and crime. As a result, the criminal justice system's development of policies, programs, and treatment regimes was based on the male offender. It was not until the 1970s that some criminologists began …
Ohnuma offers a wide-ranging exploration of the complex role of maternal imagery and discourse in pre-modern South Asian Buddhism. Motherhood was sometimes extolled as the most appropriate symbol for buddhahood itself, and sometimes denigrated as the most paradigmatic manifestat…
"The rise of cultural studies has raised the profile of 'culture' as a unifying theme in contemporary social theory and research. But does it make sense to regard popular culture as coherent? Is the acceptance of 'postmodern culture' simply an excuse for neglecting to address th…
This book examines the women's movement in Iran and their role in contesting gender relations since the 1979 revolution. Looking at examples from politics, law, employment, environment, media and religion to the struggle for democracy, this book demonstrates how material conditi…
Reviews the developments within gender and women's studies, including the study of masculinity, the feminist implications of postmodernism, the 'cultural turn', and globalization. This book offers critical analyses of women's and gender studies in work, the welfare state, family…
by Campbell, Gwyn, Miers, Suzanne, Miller, Joseph C., (Joseph Calder)
Women and Slavery focuses on female slaves who probably constituted the considerable majority of those enslaved in Africa, Asia, and Europe over several millennia and who accounted for a greater proportion of the enslaved in the Americas than is customarily acknowledged. Women e…
