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Gender Shrapnel in the Academic Workplace
This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of national rhetoric surrounding business, education, and law to uncover underlying phenomena that contribute to discourse on privi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-1-137-51462-2
- Collation
- XV, 244
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender and Land Tenure in the Context of Disaster in Asia
This book employs the image of “shrapnel,” bits of scattered metal that can hit purposeful targets or unwitting bystanders, to narrate the story of workplace power and gender discrimination. The project interweaves stories of gender shrapnel with an examination of national rhetoric surrounding business, education, and law to uncover underlying phenomena that contribute to discourse on privi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16615-5
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- XV, 244
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender in the Vampire Narrative
Gender in the Vampire Narrative addresses issues of masculinity and femininity, unpacking cultural norms of gender. This collection demonstrates the way that representations of gender in the vampire narrative traverse a large scope of expectations and tropes. The text offers classroom ready original essays that outline contemporary debates about sexual objectification and gender norms using the…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-714-6
- Collation
- X, 196
- Series Title
- Teaching Gender
- Call Number
- 177.5
Gender-Based Violence: Perspectives from Africa, the Middle East, and India
This book offers new perspectives on gender-based violence in three regions where the subject has been taboo in everyday discourse often due to patriarchal cultural norms that limit women’s autonomy. The contributions to this book provide rare insight into not only the levels and the socio-demographic determinants of domestic violence, but topics ranging from men’s attitudes toward wife bea…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16669-8
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- XIX, 243
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- -
- Call Number
- 177.5
Comparative Perspectives on Gender Equality in Japan and Norway; Same but Dif…
This book compares perspectives on gender equality in Norway and Japan, focusing on family, education, media, and sexuality and reproduction as seen through a gendered lens.
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- 1
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- 1000528405, 9781000528404
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- -
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- -
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- 155.33 KUN c
Making Muslim Women European: Voluntary Associations, Gender, and Islam in Po…
This social, cultural, and political history of Slavic Muslim women of the Yugoslav region in the first decades of the post-Ottoman era is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of the issues confronting these women. It is based on a study of voluntary associations (philanthropic, cultural, Islamic-traditionalist, and feminist) of the period. It is broadly held that Muslim women were sil…
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- -
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- 9789633863695
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- -
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- -
- Call Number
- 297.092 GIO m
Living on the Land Indigenous Women's Understanding of Place
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types o…
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- 9781771990417.01
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- -
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- 228 pages
Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries Challenges and Opportunities
Employment and job creation are key components in achieving economic growth and sustainable development, particularly in low-income countries. The growing size of the working-age population in many developing regions underscores the need to further strengthen labour market structures in the world’s poorest countries. Despite the importance of studying emerging labour markets, and investigatin…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780192897107
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- -
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US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure
This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and queer adults.
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- -
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- 978-1-137-53526-9
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- -
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- -
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Affective Worldmaking : Narrative Counterpublics of Gender and Sexuality
What makes up a public, what governs dominant discourses, and in which ways can counterpublics be created through narrative? This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839461419
- Collation
- 238 halaman
- Series Title
- Gender Studies
- Call Number
- 305 AFF
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