Ökonomien der Geschlechter

In this volume, connections between education, power and economy are discussed and problematized from a gender-theoretical perspective

Ökonomien der Geschlechter

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Vol. 01-Mar-2007

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T 305.3 BOR o c

Odd Couples; Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation

Odd Couples examines friendships between gay men and straight women, and also between lesbians and straight men, and shows how these "intersectional" friendships serve as a barometer for shifting social norms, particularly regarding gender and sexual orientation.

Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlan…

Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state re…

Tranformations of Gender in Melanesia

Despite the plethora of research on gender and the many projects designed to improve their status in the Pacific region, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalised in social, economic and political spheres. How are we to understand this and what does it mean for researchers, policy-makers and development practitioners? This book examines these questions, partly by looking back but also…

Enlaçando sexualidades, uma tessitura interdisciplinar no reino das sexualid…

O livro reúne textos que compõem a interdisciplinaridade dos estudos sobre sexualidade e gênero por meio da visão de pesquisadores de diversas áreas do conhecimento, que tratam de assuntos recorrentes da vida cotidiana analisados na perspectiva da educação e da sexualidade, da moralidade e outros temas que permeiam a temática da sexualidade e das relações de gênero

Cohabitation and Marriage in The Americas: Geo-Historical Legacies and New Tr…

This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina. Using an extensive sample of individual census data for nearly all countries on the continent, it offers a cross-national, comparative view of this recent demographic trend and its impact on the family. The book offers a tour of the historical legacies and regional…

This Was Not Our War Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace

"Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how."—William Jefferson Clinton This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following years of devastating warfare. A university student working to resettle refugees, a paramedic who foun…

Claiming Union Widowhood Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emanc…

In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of historical sources, she outlines how the mothers, wives, and widows of black Union soldiers struggled to claim pensions in the face of evidentia…

Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge…

Marginal People in Deviant Places revisits early- to mid-twentieth-century ethnographic studies, arguing that their focus on marginal subcultures—ranging from American hobos, to men who have sex with other men in St. Louis bathrooms, to hippies, to taxi dancers in Chicago, to elderly Jews in Venice, California—helped produce new ways of thinking about social difference more broadly in the U…