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Women and power in the Middle East

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The seventeen essays in Women and Power in the Middle East analyze the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that shape gender systems in the Middle East and North Africa. Published at different times in Middle East Report, the journal of the Middle East Research and …

Gender and language: theory and practice

by Litosseliti, Lia

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Gender and Language offers a broad and accessible introduction to the study of language and gender for those new to the subject.

Gender and language: theory and practice

by Litosseliti, Lia

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"Gender and Language: Theory and Practice offers a broad and accessible introduction to the study of gender and language for those new to the subject. The book introduces both theoretical and applied perspectives, identifying and explaining the relevant frameworks and drawing on…

Slavic gender linguistics

by Mills, Margaret H.

fromPragmatics & beyond

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This edited volume offers the first comprehensive collection devoted to the study of Slavic gender linguistics by a team of international Slavic linguists. It features eleven highly-original, data-driven contributions representing a variety of approaches to this understudied and…

On the edge of empire: gender, race, and the making of British Columbia,…

by Perry, Adele

fromStudies in gender and history

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"On the Edge of Empire is a book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the rewriting of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilizing feminist and post-colonial filters, Adele Perry designs a case study of B…

Men's health and illness: gender, power, and the body

by Men's Studies Association (U.S.), Sabo, Donald F., Gordon, David, (David Frederick)

fromResearch on men and masculinities series

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Gift to King's University College Library from The London Grief Resource Centre, 2006.

Empowering women: land and property rights in Latin America

by Deere, Carmen Diana, León de Leal, Magdalena

fromPitt Latin American series

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The expansion of married women's property rights was a main achievement of feminism in Latin America. This study argues that property ownership is directly related to women's bargaining power within the household and community and points out changes resulting from gender-progres…

Masculinities, Gender Relations, and Sport

by Messner, Michael A, McKay, Dr. Jim, SABO, DONALD

fromSAGE Series on Men and Masculinity

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Exploring the more sophisticated and nuanced perspective in the era of sports dominance in America, athletics have become both a metaphor and reality of American masculinity. Edited by three of the leading scholars at the intersection of masculinity and sports studies, this volu…

Masculinities, gender relations, and sport

by McKay, Jim, Messner, Michael A, Sabo, Donald F.

fromResearch on men and masculinities series

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The papers in this collection consider how the study of masculinities in sport can be integrated with critical feminist studies, how to deal with the tendency to over-emphasize negative outcomes and the increasing trend to violence in sport.