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The evolution of American women's studies
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- Ginsberg, Alice E. > [ed]
The evolution of American women's studies
This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day, tracing experiences in the classrom and in the university over a forty-year span.The reflections in this book address the many questions that have been raised about women's studies over the years, including: whether women's studies should be considered a 'discipline' given its interdisciplinary nature: how to adress differences among women: what is the role of males in the study of gender and many others.- Creator
- Ginsberg, Alice E. > [ed]
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Deleuze and gender
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- Colebrook, Claire > (ed.)
- Weinstein, Jami > (ed.)
Deleuze and gender
Unlike other philosophers whose work can be applied to questions of sex and gender, Deleuze's philosophy was motivated by the problem of desire and difference. Over the last three decades, feminist theory, gender theory and queer theory have been revolutionised and rejuvenated by Deleuze's provocation to consider sexual difference beyond the paradigm of the Oedipal family and Western humanism. In this volume, a series of theorists extend Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference and gender politics.- Creator
- Colebrook, Claire > (ed.)
- Weinstein, Jami > (ed.)
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Gender and everyday life
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- Holmes, Mary
Gender and everyday life
This introduction to gender provides an exploration of how society divides people into feminine women and masculine men. It explores gender as a way of seeing women and men as not just biological organisms, but as people shaped by their everyday social world. Examining how gender has been understood and lived in the past: how it is understood and done differently by different cultures and groups within cultures: Mary Holmes considers the strengths and limitations of different ways of thinking and learning to ‘do’ gender. Key ideas about gender are covered from Christine Pisan to Mary Wollstonecraft: from symbolic interactionism to second wave feminism through to the work of Judith Butler.- Creator
- Holmes, Mary
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Sexualized brains
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- Karafyllis, Nicole C. > (ed.)
- Ulshöfer, Gotlind > [ed]
Sexualized brains
The idea that emotions have an intelligent core (and the reverse, that intelligence has an emotional core) comes from the neurosciences and psychology. Similarly, the fundamental sexualization of the brain—the new interest in 'essential differences' in male and female brains and behaviors—is based on neuroscience research and neuroimages of emotions. In this book scholars from different disciplines reflect on the epistemological claims that emotional intelligence can be located in the brain and that it is legitimate to attribute distinct kinds of emotions to the biological sexes. The brain has colonized the humanities and social sciences, leading to the emergence of such new disciplines as neurosociology, neuroeconomics, and neurophilosophy. Neuroscience and psychology now have the power to transform not only the practice of science but also contemporary society. These developments, the essays in this volume show, will soon affect the very heart of gender studies.- Creator
- Karafyllis, Nicole C. > (ed.)
- Ulshöfer, Gotlind > [ed]
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The making of European women's studies
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- Waaldijk, Berteke > (ed.)
- Peters, Mischa > (ed.)
- Tuin, Else van der > (ed.)
The making of European women's studies
Contains: a dossier about equal opportunities: a dossier about tuning: a dossiers on the making of European women's studies: a dossier on the uses and abuses of the sex/gender distinction in different European languages: a report of ATHENA3 activities and projects: results of curriculum development that has taken place withing ATHENA.- Creator
- Waaldijk, Berteke > (ed.)
- Peters, Mischa > (ed.)
- Tuin, Else van der > (ed.)
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Refiguring the ordinary
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- Weiss, Gail
Refiguring the ordinary
This book examines the ways in which individuals' bodies, habits, environments, and abilities function as horizons that underpin their understandings of the ordinary. These features of experience, according to the author are never neutral, but are always affected by gender, race, social class, ethnicity, nationality, and perceptions of bodily normality. While no two people will experience the ordinary in exactly the same way, the multiplicities, possibilities, overlaps, and limitations of day-to-day horizons are always intersubjectively constituted. Weiss turns her attention to changing the conditions and experiences of oppression from ordinary to extraordinary.- Creator
- Weiss, Gail
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Gendering the nation-state
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- Abu-Laban, Yasmeen > (ed.)
Gendering the nation-state
Study of social and political life must attend to gender as a category of analysis. This book explores the gendered dimensions of a central organizing unit in social and political science: the nation-state. Contributors rescue gender from the margins of theoretical discussions on the nation, the state, public policy, and citizenship by bringing the insights of feminist analysis to bear on three relationships central to popular and policy discussions in contemporary Canada and other countries: gender and nation, gender and state processes, and gender and citizenship. The book employs a comparative framework and builds upon three decades of work in the multidisciplinary areas of women's studies, gender and politics, and political science.- Creator
- Abu-Laban, Yasmeen > (ed.)
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Sex differences
- Creator
- Ellis, Lee
- [et al.]
Sex differences
This volume is the first to aim at summarizing all of the scientific literature published so far regarding male-female differences and similarities, not only in behavior, but also in basic biology, physiology, health, perceptions, emotions, and attitudes. Results from over 18,000 studies have been condensed into more than 1,900 tables, with each table pertaining to a specific possible sex difference. Even research pertaining to how men and women are perceived (stereotyped) as being different is covered. Throughout this book's eleven years in preparation, no exclusions were made in terms of subject areas, cultures, time periods, or even species. The book is accompanied by a CD containing all 18,000+ references cited in the book.- Creator
- Ellis, Lee
- [et al.]
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