In this book a leading theorist on sex and gender discusses how hidden assumptions embedded in our cultural discourses, social institutions, and individual psyches perpetuate male power and oppress women and sexual minorities. Sandra Lipsitz Bem argues that these assumptions, wh…
Discrimination has long played a part in medievalism studies, but it has rarely been weaponized as thoroughly and publicly as in recent exchanges. The essays in the first part of this volume respond to that development by examining some of the many forms discrimination has taken…
En Fixing Parental Leave, Gayle Kaufman examina en profundidad las políticas de licencia parental en los Estados Unidos (muy por detrás del resto del mundo en este tema) el Reino Unido y Suecia, y evalúa los beneficios e inconvenientes de las políticas de licencia en cada país. …
Abstract: The WDR 2012: Gender Equality and Development will focus on the evolution of gender equality across the world in the context of the development process. The report will consider gender equality as a core development goal in itself, and will argue that gender equality m…
