Social Groups

This book explores the ways that women combine motherhood with paid work in contemporary Ireland and the consequences for individual women, familie...

Why do women live longer than men? Does ownership of paired X chromosomes confer more prolonged survival on females, or is the gender difference in...

From language and clothes, to toys and the media, society inflicts unwritten rules on each gender from birth. Aiming to make people aware of the wa...

This book examines the relationship between gender and crime and explores both the gendered nature of crime alongside the gendered nature of crimin...

This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how str...

*WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017**AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET* 'Opens minds, breaks down myths an...

GENDER and CHILD WELFARE in Society This excellent and internationally relevant book provides a range of pertinent material that explores the compl...

Handy and Ó Conchubhairs collection demonstrates the breadth and depth of Celtic studies as a vibrant, multifaceted, interdisciplinary subject. Com...

The five queens of Navarre were the largest group of female sovereigns in one European realm during the Middle Ages, but they are largely unknown b...

We find ourselves at an exciting moment in history. For the first time, trans and gender diverse people are being seen and heard. Thanks to tireles...

This volume documents the experiences of, and reflections on, gender from undergraduate students in the field of Communication. It is the product o...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Until recently, higher education in the UK has largely failed to recognise gender-ba...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our understanding of how social div...

Elite leaderships of Iran, Iraq and the US operate within a male-centric system of international relations. Iran and Iraq have been accused of suff...

Using testimonies, Nazi documents, memoirs, and artistic representations, this volume broadens and deepens comprehension of Jewish women''s experie...

LONGLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2021'Beautiful, heart-breaking and hilarious.' SCARLETT CURTIS'A love-letter to our non-binary siblings....

Gender equality is a modern ideal, which has only recently, with the expansion of human rights and feminist discourses, become inherent to generall...

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the priv...

The fourth edition of Gender and Elections offers a systematic, lively, multi-faceted account of the role of gender in the electoral process throug...