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Author
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 online resource (64 entries) : 5 images, digital files.
Description
This up-to-date text addresses the implications of postmodernism and post-structuralism for feminist theorizing. It identifies the challenges of this through the development of 'conceptual literacy'.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
1 online resource (201 pages)
Description
Wie ist 'Anderes' neben patriarchalen Geschlechterverhältnissen und hegemonialer Männlichkeit möglich? Wie können Geschlechterverhältnisse soziologisch erfasst werden, um Herrschaftsbeharrung und andere Aspekte zu analysieren? Verortet im Dreieck von Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Männlichkeitssoziologie und queerfeministischen Perspektiven entwickelt die Autorin eine soziologische Modellierung, die verschiedene Geschlechterrelationen...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
The book interrogates the particular and generalisable qualities of the lived experience of gender in the twentieth century across three generations of a family. It penetrates the surface appearance of change to uncover the invisible layers beneath that perpetuate the transmission of gender for both women and men. Each sex is seen as enabled or disabled, often in binary ways, in reaching their full human potential.Life stories offer a vehicle to explore...
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Description
"In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless...
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
1 online resource (234 pages)
Description
Wie blicken verschiedene Wissenschaftsdisziplinen intersektional auf trans, inter und nicht-binäre (TIN) Subjektpositionen jenseits der zweigeschlechtlichen Norm? Wie werden Geschlechtervielfalt und Geschlechterrollen(-bilder) in zivilgesellschaftlichen Einrichtungen thematisiert? Die Autor*innen erörtern hochaktuelle gesellschaftliche, rechtliche und alltagspraktische Diskurse und Forderungen: Unter anderem werden die Änderung des Personenstandsgesetzes,...
10) Gender and austerity in popular culture: femininity, masculinity & recession in film & television
Series
Library of gender and popular culture volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 215 pages)
Description
"From the gritty landscapes of The Hunger Games and The Walking Dead, to the portrayal of the twenty-first-century precariat in Girls, this book explores how transatlantic visual culture has represented and reconstructed ideas of gender in times of financial crisis. Drawing on social, cultural and feminist theory, these writers explore how men and women experience austerity differently and illuminate the problematic ways in which economic policy can...
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Publisher's description: From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. Generations have bought into the idea that women are uniquely primed to be "relational," men innately driven toward achievement-even when these "truths" are contradicted by what's happening in our daily lives....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xx, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this book the author focuses on the often neglected issue of the transformation of sexuality and gender in China, from the late imperial times to modern times. Gender and sexuality have been neglected topics in the history of Chinese civilization, despite the fact that philosophers, writers, parents, doctors, and ordinary people of all descriptions have left reams of historical evidence on the subject. Moreover, China's late imperial government...
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 online resource (306 pages)
Description
In unserer hochtechnisierten Welt verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Maschine in zahlreichen Bereichen der Wissenschaft, der Arbeit und des Alltagslebens immer mehr. Diese Verflechtungen beeinflussen unser tägliches Leben und stellen Möglichkeiten, aber auch Einschränkungen, Chancen und Herausforderungen dar. Die Beiträge des Bandes greifen diese Themen auf, indem sie eine stark interdisziplinäre Perspektive einnehmen. Wie wirken...





