Gender Studies, Gender Groups

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

A recurrent and popular setting in American cinema, the dressing room has captured the imaginations of filmmakers and audiences for over a century...

Christine de Pizan (ca. 1364-1429) wrote more than twenty books, including poetry, defenses of women, critiques of war, Utopian visions, and genera...

As new forms of family and 'non-traditional' families grow in number, there is a need to understand these 'new' arrangements and models of parentho...

The mobility regimes in which migratory careers of highly educated women are embedded have a high impact on the invisible sway between privileges a...

During the Holocaust, amid death and violence, Jewish men were not mere powerless victims. Linking gender studies with a history of sexuality and e...

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.   From the c...

The book describes the sound system of Maaloula Aramaic, an under-researched and endangered Western Neo-Aramaic dialect. It provides solutions to p...

Manuscript cultures have frequently forgotten, neglected, or even erased womens contributions from memory. Womens agency has also been a glaring bl...

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts ...

This book explores figurative images of the womb and the simile of a woman in labor from the Hebrew Bible, problematizing previous interpretations ...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

How does sexual consent work? How do we know that another person really wants to have sex with us? Why do people sometimes give in to sex that they...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

This book addresses the standard topics of race, ethnicity, class, and gender but goes much further by engaging seriously with issues of language, ...

This book uses a constructionist approach to explore the place of women in psychology, both as participants in the discipline and as subjects of ps...

The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western...

A deep and thought-provoking examination of crisis politics and their implications for power and marginalization in the United States.   From the c...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How sho...

Feminist scholars have demonstrated how dominant discourses and master narratives frequently reflect patriarchal influence, thereby distorting and ...

Drawing on research in the fields of cognitive and developmental psychology, attachment, trauma, and neuroscience, as well as 20 years in forensic ...

This collection of essays focuses on the way blurred boundaries are represented in pre-modern texts and visual art and how they were received and p...