"InBetween Woman and Nation constructions such as nationalism, homeland, country, region, and locality are for the first time examined in the context of gender. The contributors--leading scholars of ethnicity, transnationalism, globalization, and feminist theory--are united in t…
« Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to jus…
"Arranged alphabetically by topic, it focuses primarily on States' and employers' obligations and workers' rights as regards equality between men and women, enshrined in the ILO's body of international labour standards (Conventions and recommendations). It also refers to other r…
The World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development argues that gender equality is a core development objective in its own right. It is also smart economics. Greater gender equality can enhance productivity, improve development outcomes for the next generation, an…
"Contesting both traditional and feminist psychology, Transforming Psychology examines how we can create knowledge once we are aware of the distortions of traditional approaches. Once we recognize bias in psychology, how do we research? In our research, how do we take into accou…
La pornographie, les discours sexologiques et médicaux du XIXe siècle ont façonné une conception d'hétérosexualité d'un côté, femmes, travesties et inverties de l'autre. C'est cette tradition de l'histoire de la sexualité que souhaite reprendre l'auteur. L'ouvrage, évoquant les …