Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport (Cahn Susan K.)(Paperback)

Coming on Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport (Cahn Susan K.)(Paperback)

Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often

Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality (McClary Susan)(Paperback)

A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. .' . . this is a major book . . . McClary's] achievement borders on the miraculous.' The

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy (Murray Jacqueline)(Paperback)

Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume,

The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality, and Gender (Boisvert Donald L.)(Paperback)

How do religion, gender and sexuality interact? How have they impacted, and continue to impact, human culture? The Bloomsbury Reader in Religion, Sexuality and Gender brings together, for the first time, the key texts in the field. Designed as a textbook for use in a classroom setting, it offers

Sexuality and Gender for Mental Health Professionals: A Practical Guide (Richards Christina)(Paperback)

Questions of sexuality and gender affect everyone and therefore have an inevitable relevance in the consulting room. Yet with interpretations and manifestations of both varying greatly from person to person, understanding the inherent complexities of sexuality and gender can be a daunting task for

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality (Belkin Max)(Paperback)

Intersectionality and Relational Psychoanalysis: New Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Sexuality examines the links between race, gender, and sexuality through the dual perspectives of relational psychoanalysis and the theory of intersectionality.This anthology discusses the ways in which

Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Drama (Aughterson Kate)(Paperback)

Shakespeare and Gender guides students and teachers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies

Dude, You're a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School (Pascoe C. J.)(Paperback)

High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, Dude, You're a Fag sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning

Undoing Gender (Butler Judith)(Paperback)

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer

Sexuality and Gender Now: Moving Beyond Heteronormativity (Hertzmann Leezah)(Paperback)

Sexuality and Gender Now uses a psychoanalytic approach to arrive at a more informed view of the experience and relationships of those whose sexuality and gender may not align with the heterosexual 'norm'. This book confronts the heteronormative bias dominant in psychoanalysis, using a combination

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body (Hogan Susan)(Paperback)

Gender and Difference in the Arts Therapies: Inscribed on the Body offers worldwide perspectives on gender in arts therapies practice and provides understandings of gender and arts therapies in a variety of global contexts. Bringing together leading researchers and lesser-known voices, it contains

Introducing Gender and Women's Studies (Richardson Diane)(Paperback)

At a time where, after decades of progress in gender and sexual rights, people in many parts of the world are facing new forms of resistance and opposition to gender equality, this timely publication confirms the continuing importance and relevance of gender and women's studies. The fifth edition

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People (Roughgarden Joan)(Paperback)

In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, Joan Roughgarden challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. A distinguished evolutionary biologist, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Barker Joanne)(Paperback)

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty,

Gender Violence, 2nd Edition: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (O'Toole Laura L.)(Paperback)

How gender and sexuality can be life threatening From the murder of schoolgirls in a rural Amish community to the widespread rape of women in the Sudan to sexual predators on the Internet, this volume explores the persistent, pervasive phenomenon of gendered violence in the United States and

Gaming Representation: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Video Games (Malkowski Jennifer)(Paperback)

Recent years have seen an increase in public attention to identity and representation in video games, including journalists and bloggers holding the digital game industry accountable for the discrimination routinely endured by female gamers, queer gamers, and gamers of color. Video game developers

Advancing Folkloristics (Fivecoate Jesse A.)(Paperback)

An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it

Intersections Between Feminist and Queer Theory (Richardson D.)(Paperback)

Queer ideas have unsettled other forms of exploring gender and sexuality in particular feminism and feminists have been significant critics. This book explores the debates between feminist and queer theorizing to seek out interconnections and identify new directions in thinking about sexuality and

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl (Lawlor Andrea)(Paperback)

'In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle.' --O, The Oprah Magazine 'HOT' (Maggie Nelson) - 'TIGHT' (Eileen Myles) - 'DEEP' (Michelle Tea) It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris

Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure, and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club (Allison Anne)(Paperback)

In Nightwork, Anne Allison opens a window onto Japanese corporate culture and gender identities. Allison performed the ritualized tasks of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many 'hostess clubs' pouring drinks, lighting cigarettes, and making flattering or titillating conversation with the businessmen who

Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages (Betancourt Roland)(Pevná vazba)

Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)Ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women's Speculative Fiction (Schalk Sami)(Paperback)

In Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding of bodyminds-the intertwinement of the mental and the physical-in the context of race, gender, and (dis)ability. Bridging black feminist theory with disability studies, Schalk demonstrates

Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Medicine (M. Ac Catherine J. Lumenello)(Pevná vazba)

This progressive handbook for Chinese medicine students and practitioners looks at gender, physiology, relationships and sexual attraction from the Chinese medicine perspective. Many standard diagnostic and treatment techniques are gender-based and do not work with clients who identify as LGBT or

Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer's Disease(Pevná vazba)

Sex and Gender Differences in Alzheimer's Disease: The Women's Brain Project offers for the first time a critical overview of the evidence documenting sex and gender differences in Alzheimer's disease neurobiology, biomarkers, clinical presentation, treatment, clinical trials and their outcomes,