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Book Gendered Visions

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  • Author : Salah M. Hassan
  • Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book Gendered Visions written by Salah M. Hassan and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of work by six prominent artists accompanied by critical essays which place the work in the context of the artists' socio-cultural backgrounds. All six artists are of African origin but work in the West: Ethiopian painter Elisabeth T Atnafu; US fibre and mixed-media artist Xenobia Bailey; Jamaican photographer Renee Cox; Cameroon photographer Angele Essamba; painter Houria Niati from Algeria; and Ethiopian sculptor Etiye Dimma Poulsen.

Book Gendered Voices  Feminist Visions

Download or read book Gendered Voices Feminist Visions written by Susan M. Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Voices, Feminist Visions: Classic and Contemporary Readings, Seventh Edition, is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. Accessible and student-friendly, the readings reflect the great diversity of women's experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, while features like learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical structure for the readings.

Book Gendered  re visions

Download or read book Gendered re visions written by Marion Gymnich and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2010 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores gender stereotypes and the transgression of these gender stereotypes in recent films, television series and music videos. Films that are cited include Pride and Prejudice, Bridget Jones' Diary, Bride and Prejudice, Magnolia, American Beauty, Fight Club, High Noon, Brokeback Mountain and the Shrek movies. Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives, and the music videos of 50 Cent and the G Unit are also explored."--Source inconnue.

Book Sexual Visions

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  • Author : L. J. Jordanova
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780299122942
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Sexual Visions written by L. J. Jordanova and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that gender as a metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of biological and medical sciences.

Book Women s Voices  Feminist Visions

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  • Author : Susan Maxine Shaw
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780072822427
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Women s Voices Feminist Visions written by Susan Maxine Shaw and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory women's studies reader offers a wide range of classic, conceptual, and experiential writings. Chapter introductions provide background information on each chapter's topic, including explanations of key concepts and ideas and references to the subsequent reading selections. The anthology also offers numerous pedagogical features designed to engage students in active learning.

Book Women s Voices  Feminist Visions  Classic and Contemporary Readings

Download or read book Women s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings written by Susan Shaw and published by McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a leading introductory women’s studies reader, Shaw and Lee’s Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions offers an excellent balance of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections including new contemporary readings. This student-friendly text provides short and accessible readings reflecting the diversity of women’s experiences. With each new edition, the authors keep the framework essays and selections of readings fresh and interesting for students.

Book Gendered States

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  • Author : V. Spike Peterson
  • Publisher : Lynne Rienner Pub
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9781555873288
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Gendered States written by V. Spike Peterson and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1992 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While IR theorists are increasingly critical of neorealist assumptions about the state and the international system, few have explored the gendered construction of the state and its implications for IR. Recognizing this, the authors of this collection explore how core concepts of political and IR theory - the state, sovereignty, power - are reframed through feminist lenses.

Book Gendered Paradoxes

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  • Author : Fida J. Adely
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2012-08-28
  • ISBN : 0226006905
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Gendered Paradoxes written by Fida J. Adely and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005 the World Bank released a gender assessment of the nation of Jordan, a country that, like many in the Middle East, has undergone dramatic social and gender transformations, in part by encouraging equal access to education for men and women. The resulting demographic picture there—highly educated women who still largely stay at home as mothers and caregivers— prompted the World Bank to label Jordan a “gender paradox.” In Gendered Paradoxes, Fida J. Adely shows that assessment to be a fallacy, taking readers into the rarely seen halls of a Jordanian public school—the al-Khatwa High School for Girls—and revealing the dynamic lives of its students, for whom such trends are far from paradoxical. Through the lives of these students, Adely explores the critical issues young people in Jordan grapple with today: nationalism and national identity, faith and the requisites of pious living, appropriate and respectable gender roles, and progress. In the process she shows the important place of education in Jordan, one less tied to the economic ends of labor and employment that are so emphasized by the rest of the developed world. In showcasing alternative values and the highly capable young women who hold them, Adely raises fundamental questions about what constitutes development, progress, and empowerment—not just for Jordanians, but for the whole world.

Book Gendered Voices  Feminist Visions

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  • Author : Director of the Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Susan M Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07
  • ISBN : 9780190924881
  • Pages : 720 pages

Download or read book Gendered Voices Feminist Visions written by Director of the Women Gender and Sexuality Studies Program Susan M Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2019-07 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling introductory women's and gender studies reader is a balanced collection of classic, conceptual, and experiential selections. The readings are accessible and student-friendly, and reflect the diversity of women's experiences. Framework essays provide context and connections for students, and features such as learning activities, ideas for activism, and questions for discussion provide a strong pedagogical structure for the readings.

Book Women Mobilizing Memory

Download or read book Women Mobilizing Memory written by Ayşe Gül Altınay and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations? Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.

Book Gendered Paradoxes

Download or read book Gendered Paradoxes written by Amy Lind and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its &“free market&” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country&’s poor, including women&’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses on women&’s participation in the political and economic restructuring process of the past twenty-five years, showing how in their daily struggle for survival Ecuadorian women have both reinforced and embraced the neoliberal model yet also challenged its exclusionary nature. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic fieldwork and employing an approach combining political economy and cultural politics, Amy Lind charts the growth of several strands of women&’s activism and identifies how they have helped redefine, often in contradictory ways, the real and imagined boundaries of neoliberal development discourse and practice. In her analysis of this ambivalent and &“unfinished&” cultural project of modernity in the Andes, she examines state policies and their effects on women of various social sectors; women&’s community development initiatives and responses to the debt crisis; and the roles played by feminist &“issue networks&” in reshaping national and international policy agendas in Ecuador and in developing a transnationally influenced, locally based feminist movement.

Book Expanding the Gaze

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  • Author : Emily van der Meulen
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2016-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442628960
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Expanding the Gaze written by Emily van der Meulen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of the gendered dynamics of surveillance.

Book Gendered Lives

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  • Author : Nadine T. Fernandez
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2022-01-01
  • ISBN : 1438486960
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Gendered Lives written by Nadine T. Fernandez and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors' ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book's central themes of globalization and intersectionality. An OER version of this course is freely available thanks to the generous support of SUNY OER Services. Access the book online at https://milneopentextbooks.org/gendered-lives-global-issues/.

Book The Rights of Women

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  • Author : Erika Bachiochi
  • Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
  • Release : 2021-07-15
  • ISBN : 0268200807
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book The Rights of Women written by Erika Bachiochi and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erika Bachiochi offers an original look at the development of feminism in the United States, advancing a vision of rights that rests upon our responsibilities to others. In The Rights of Women, Erika Bachiochi explores the development of feminist thought in the United States. Inspired by the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Bachiochi presents the intellectual history of a lost vision of women’s rights, seamlessly weaving philosophical insight, biographical portraits, and constitutional law to showcase the once predominant view that our rights properly rest upon our concrete responsibilities to God, self, family, and community. Bachiochi proposes a philosophical and legal framework for rights that builds on the communitarian tradition of feminist thought as seen in the work of Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Jean Bethke Elshtain. Drawing on the insight of prominent figures such as Sarah Grimké, Frances Willard, Florence Kelley, Betty Friedan, Pauli Murray, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Mary Ann Glendon, this book is unique in its treatment of the moral roots of women’s rights in America and its critique of the movement’s current trajectory. The Rights of Women provides a synthesis of ancient wisdom and modern political insight that locates the family’s vital work at the very center of personal and political self-government. Bachiochi demonstrates that when rights are properly understood as a civil and political apparatus born of the natural duties we owe to one another, they make more visible our personal responsibilities and more viable our common life together. This smart and sophisticated application of Wollstonecraft’s thought will serve as a guide for how we might better value the culturally essential work of the home and thereby promote authentic personal and political freedom. The Rights of Women will interest students and scholars of political theory, gender and women’s studies, constitutional law, and all readers interested in women’s rights.

Book Visions of Annihilation

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  • Author : Rory Yeomans
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2014-07-30
  • ISBN : 0822977931
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Visions of Annihilation written by Rory Yeomans and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascist Ustasha regime and its militias carried out a ruthless campaign of ethnic cleansing that killed an estimated half million Serbs, Jews, and Gypsies, and ended only with the defeat of the Axis powers in World War II. In Visions of Annihilation, Rory Yeomans analyzes the Ustasha movement's use of culture to appeal to radical nationalist sentiments and legitimize its genocidal policies. He shows how the movement attempted to mobilize poets, novelists, filmmakers, visual artists, and intellectuals as purveyors of propaganda and visionaries of a utopian society. Meanwhile, newspapers, radio, and speeches called for the expulsion, persecution, or elimination of "alien" and "enemy" populations to purify the nation. He describes how the dual concepts of annihilation and national regeneration were disseminated to the wider population and how they were interpreted at the grassroots level. Yeomans examines the Ustasha movement in the context of other fascist movements in Europe. He cites their similar appeals to idealistic youth, the economically disenfranchised, racial purists, social radicals, and Catholic clericalists. Yeomans further demonstrates how fascism created rituals and practices that mimicked traditional religious faiths and celebrated martyrdom. Visions of Annihilation chronicles the foundations of the Ustasha movement, its key actors and ideologies, and reveals the unique cultural, historical, and political conditions present in interwar Croatia that led to the rise of fascism and contributed to the cataclysmic events that tore across the continent.

Book Paul and Gender

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  • Author : Cynthia Long Westfall
  • Publisher : Baker Academic
  • Release : 2016-11-15
  • ISBN : 1493404814
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book Paul and Gender written by Cynthia Long Westfall and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Coherent Pauline Theology of Gender Respected New Testament scholar Cynthia Long Westfall offers a coherent Pauline theology of gender, which includes fresh perspectives on the most controverted texts. Westfall interprets passages on women and men together and places those passages in the context of the Pauline corpus as a whole. She offers viable alternatives for some notorious interpretive problems in certain Pauline passages, reframing gender issues in a way that stimulates thinking, promotes discussion, and moves the conversation forward. As Westfall explores the significance of Paul's teaching on both genders, she seeks to support and equip males and females to serve in their area of gifting.

Book Gothic  Re Visions

Download or read book Gothic Re Visions written by Susan Wolstenholme and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gothic fiction usually has been perceived as the special province of women, an attraction often attributed to a thematics of woman-identified issues such as female sexuality, marriage, and childbirth. But why these issues? What is specifically "female" about "Gothic?" This book argues that Gothic modes provide women who write with special means to negotiate their way through their double status as women and as writers, and to subvert the power relationships that hinder women writers. Current theories of "gendered" observation complicate the idea that Gothic-marked fiction relies on composed, individual scenes and visual metaphors for its effect. The texts studied here--by Ann Radcliffe, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Eliot, and Edith Wharton--explode the authority of a unitary, centralized narrative gaze and establish instead a diffuse, multi-angled textual position for "woman." Gothic moments in these novels create a textualized space for the voice of a "woman writer," as well as inviting the response of a "woman reader."