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Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa
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- Falola, Toyin > (ed.)
- Amponsah, Nana Akua > (ed.)
Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa
A collection of writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women in Africa. It addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important roles in the control and appropriation of African women's bodies. The chapters draw on history, literature, political science, journalism, sociology, comparative studies, and women and gender studies to offer multidisciplinary perspectives from which to understand the diversity of women's experiences, gender issues, and sexualities as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity, and nationality. This volume not only shows how the macro-narratives of colonialism and post-colonialism provide frameworks for understanding the micro-narratives of empowerment and disempowerment of women, but also considers resistance strategies women have used to guard against the subjugation of their bodies and sexualities. Themes covered include constructions of African motherhood and womanhood, femininity and health, gender and sexual representations and contestations, and gendered nationalism and culture.- Creator
- Falola, Toyin > (ed.)
- Amponsah, Nana Akua > (ed.)
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Family patterns, gender relations
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- Fox, Bonnie > (ed.)
Family patterns, gender relations
In this volume, the author explores the complex dynamics and patterns of family life, build on a range of material from Canada, the US, and the UK. Some of the topics include same-sex marriage and parenting, finances and child-birth, and the ‘immigrant family’.- Creator
- Fox, Bonnie > (ed.)
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Razor wire women
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- Lawston, Jodie Michelle > (ed.)
- Lucas, Ashley E. > (ed.)
Razor wire women
This book puts incarcerated women in dialogue with scholars, artists, educators, and activists who live outside of prisons but work on issues connected to the prison industrial complex. Women make up the fastest-growing group within the U.S. prison population, yet prison scholarship largely overlooks the struggles of incarcerated women, and their voices are often silenced both in and out of the prison infrastructure. From the vantage points of those both inside and outside of prisons, this collection of essays and art illuminates many of the experiences and concerns of incarcerated women, including abuse and rape: the policing of women: incarcerated motherhood: mental health issues in prisons: incarcerated women’s artistic and cultural production: and prisons’ impact on families, health, and sexuality.- Creator
- Lawston, Jodie Michelle > (ed.)
- Lucas, Ashley E. > (ed.)
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Women in antiquity
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- Budin, Stephanie Lynn > (ed.)
- Turfa, Jean MacIntosh > (ed.)
Women in antiquity
This volume gathers essays from scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine focusing on a particular area, and also includes almost 200 images, maps, and charts. The sections cover Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Cyprus, the Levant, the Aegean, Italy, and Western Europe, and include many lesser-known cultures such as the Celts, Iberia, Carthage, the Black Sea region, and Scandinavia. Women's experiences are explored, from ordinary daily life to religious ritual and practice, to motherhood, childbirth, sex, and building a career. Forensic evidence is also treated for the actual bodies of ancient women.- Creator
- Budin, Stephanie Lynn > (ed.)
- Turfa, Jean MacIntosh > (ed.)
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Gendered bodies
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- Lorber, Judith > [ed]
- Moore, Lisa Jean > [ed]
Gendered bodies
This book focuses on key themes that reveal how gendered relations, ideologies, and practices shape human bodies. At the same time, it shows how human bodies are linked to other significant axes of inequality based on racial ethnic group, disability, sexuality, class, culture, religion, age, and nation. This second edition incorporates sixteen new selections on such topics as evolution and motherhood: breastfeeding: breast cancer: the effects of height on men: job discrimination and transgendered people: world champion runner Caster Semenya and sex verification: disability, gender, and embodiment: and Palestinian female suicide bombers.- Creator
- Lorber, Judith > [ed]
- Moore, Lisa Jean > [ed]
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The essential handbook of women's sexuality
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- Castaneda, Donna > [ed]
The essential handbook of women's sexuality
The chapters in this work review and question the utility of standard sexuality frameworks, addressing purely biological models, heteronormative definitions of sexuality, and others: and provide new insights and approaches to understanding women's sexuality.- Creator
- Castaneda, Donna > [ed]
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The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe
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- Poska, Allyson M. > (ed.)
- Couchman, Jane > (ed.)
- McIver, Katherine A. > (ed.)
The Ashgate research companion to women and gender in early modern Europe
This volume presents a review of current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women's lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The companion not only offers an examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.- Creator
- Poska, Allyson M. > (ed.)
- Couchman, Jane > (ed.)
- McIver, Katherine A. > (ed.)
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