This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist fables'. In doing so, it explores how bowdlerised and impoverished representations of gender relations have simultenously come to be…
Bevat begrippen, biografische gegevens en literatuurverwijzingen.
This book seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include: the construction of narratives; how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience; the use of the body to represent femininity, masc…
Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history. Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings--the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Northern Ireland --international advocates for women's rights have focused bringing issues of sexual vi…
De auteur is van Italiaanse afkomst en bracht 4 jaar in een Amerikaans klooster door, voordat zij in GB een carrière als socioloog begon; dit werk is een uitw. van haar proefschr. en behandelt o.a.: 'social lesbianism', lesbisch(e) bewustzijn, praktijk en feminisme; bevat enquêt…
The authors describe through the lens of gender how notions of maleness and femaleness have influenced the built environment and the ways people live, work, travel and explore.
The main message of this year's World development report: gender equality and development is that these patterns of progress and persistence in gender equality matter, both for development outcomes and policy making. They matter because gender equality is a core development obj…
Geschiedenis van de representatie van en het discours over sekse en gender in de medische wetenschap. History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
"Men's Friendships" offers an analysis of the differences within each of the genders and the social forces that shape the ways friendship is organized. Through varying perspectives the contributors show that a variation exists within as well as between the genders. They focus on…
This volume contributes to the growing literature on women, conflict and peacebuilding by focusing on the moments after a peace accord, or some other official ending of a conflict, often denoted as 'post-conflict' or 'post-war'. Such moments often herald great hope for holding t…
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins a…
