Constructing and Reconstructing Gender

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438415931
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing and Reconstructing Gender by : Linda A. M. Perry

Download or read book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender written by Linda A. M. Perry and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing and Reconstructing Gender is an excellent compendium of current research, and will be appealing and useful to those interested in gender issues in a wide variety of disciplines. This book cuts across disciplines and scholarly methods, drawing from many backgrounds, including Communication, Linguistics, English, Business, Law, and Psychology. The interweaving of rhetorical, critical, phenomenological, and statistical methods gives readers a multifaceted analysis of gender. At the same time that this book shows the value of gender research in provoking new currents of thought, it also brings into focus two aspects of gender that are often confused: how gender operates as a cultural category that affects communication behavior, and how communication and language function to create gender categories.

Reconstructing Gender in Middle East

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Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231513913
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (139 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Gender in Middle East by : Fatma Muge Gocek

Download or read book Reconstructing Gender in Middle East written by Fatma Muge Gocek and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on gender relations, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East questions long-standing stereotypes about the traditional subordination of women in the region. With essays on gender construction in Iran, Turkey, Israel, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, and the Occupied Territories, this collection offers a wide-ranging exploration of tradition, identity, and power in different parts of the Middle East.Seeking to overcome monolithic Western notions of women's life in "the traditional society," the essays in Part I reexamine the assumption that such societies leave little room for female participation.Part II focuses on the reconstruction of identities by women in Iran, Turkey, Israel, and the Occupied Territories. The authors examine the complex variables that contribute to the development of identities—including gender, class, and ethnicity—in various Middle Eastern societies, questioning whether certain identities are more important to women than others. These essays also look at the issue of group identity formation versus the autonomy of the individual.Part III looks at the relationship between gender and power in everyday life in Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco, showing how power relations are constantly contested and renegotiated among family members and members of a community, between nations and between men and women.WIth its collection of enlightened and diverse contemporary perspectives on women in the Middle East, Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East is an important work that will have significant impact on the way we look at gender in traditional societies.

Civilization Without Sexes

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226721217
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (212 download)

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Book Synopsis Civilization Without Sexes by : Mary Louise Roberts

Download or read book Civilization Without Sexes written by Mary Louise Roberts and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-03-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War I, newly blurred boundaries between male and female created fears among the French that theirs was becoming a civilization without sexes. This book examines how, through public debates concerning female identity, French society came to grips with the horrors of the Great War.

Reconstructing Gender

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ISBN 13 : 9780767413114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (131 download)

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Feminism and Men

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Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814780776
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Book Synopsis Feminism and Men by : Steven Schacht

Download or read book Feminism and Men written by Steven Schacht and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too often feminism has been defined as a "woman only" arena, or in competitive terms of male versus female privilege, rather than as a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life for everyone. Indeed, a good deal of feminist scholarship has failed to take into account the relational nature of gender, preferring instead to focus on the ways in which men and women are irreconcilably opposed. With a view to beginning a more constructive dialogue between women and men, the contributors to Feminism and Men argue that the feminist movement can no longer stand to view with suspicion those men who have proved themselves sympathetic to issues of gender equity. Bringing together the work of scholars across various disciplines committed to maximizing the inclusion of pro-feminist men in the feminist movement, the book convincingly demonstrates how and why feminist goals cannot be realized until men and women come together to eliminate the shared harm of patriarchal realities. Contributors include R.W. Connell, Riane Eisler, Kay Leigh Hagan, bell hooks, Christine A. James, Robert Jensen, Michael S. Kimmel, Gary Lemons, Michael Messner, Matthew Shepherd, and John Stoltenberg.

Constructing and Reconstructing Gender

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791410097
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Book Synopsis Constructing and Reconstructing Gender by : Linda A. M. Perry

Download or read book Constructing and Reconstructing Gender written by Linda A. M. Perry and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multifaceted analysis of gender.

Reconstructing Dixie

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330400
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Dixie by : Tara McPherson

Download or read book Reconstructing Dixie written by Tara McPherson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA cultural studies reading of white southern femininity as seen in a range of popular sites including novels, television, and tourist attractions./div

Reconstructing the Household

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860212
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing the Household by : Peter W. Bardaglio

Download or read book Reconstructing the Household written by Peter W. Bardaglio and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own households and in the larger society during the Civil War era. Based on literary as well as legal sources, Bardaglio's analysis reveals how legal contests involving African Americans, women, children, and the poor led to a rethinking of families, sexuality, and the social order. Before the Civil War, a distinctive variation of republicanism, based primarily on hierarchy and dependence, characterized southern domestic relations. This organic ideal of the household and its power structure differed significantly from domestic law in the North, which tended to emphasize individual rights and contractual obligations. The defeat of the Confederacy, emancipation, and economic change transformed family law and the governance of sexuality in the South and allowed an unprecedented intrusion of the state into private life. But Bardaglio argues that despite these profound social changes, a preoccupation with traditional notions of gender and race continued to shape southern legal attitudes.

Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology by : Estelle Disch

Download or read book Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology written by Estelle Disch and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2009 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This United States-focused anthology on gender focuses on women and men and the multiple identities that comprise the lives of individuals across gender. Drawing from a wide range of sources including research articles, essays, and personal narratives, Disch has chosen accessible, engaging, and provocative readings that represent a plurality of perspectives and experiences. Eleven part introductions briefly identify important issues in the general ?eld of study, describe the readings, identify the central themes emerging throughout the book, and raise questions for students to consider.

Reconstructing Gender

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Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Gender by : Estelle Disch

Download or read book Reconstructing Gender written by Estelle Disch and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804727464
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (274 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts by : Linda Kay Schott

Download or read book Reconstructing Women’s Thoughts written by Linda Kay Schott and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the women who led the United States section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in the interwar years, this book argues that the ideas of these women--the importance of nurturing, nonviolence, feminism, and a careful balancing of people's differences with their common humanity--constitute an important addition to our understanding of the intellectual heritage of the United States. Most of these women were well educated and prominent in their chosen fields: they included Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch, the only two United States women to win Nobel Prizes for Peace; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress; and Dorothy Detzer, the woman who prompted the investigation of the munitions industry in the 1930's. The ideas of these women were not usually expressed in forms conventionally studied by intellectual historians. On the whole, their ideas must be teased out of organizational records, statements of principle and policy, and personal correspondence. When combined with an understanding of the personal backgrounds of the WIL leaders and placed in the context of early-twentieth-century America, these documents tell us what these women thought was important and why. The ideas of the WIL leaders are also analyzed in the context of the intellectual themes of Victorianism and modernism. Our understanding of these themes has been based largely on the work of privileged European and American men, and the ideas of women often fit uncomfortably into these traditional categories. A reconstruction of the ideas of the WIL leaders suggests that historians have overlooked an important, alternative intellectual tradition in the United States. To understand and appreciate women's thoughts, we must dissolve the old constructs and let new, multifaceted ones replace them.

Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134818769
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism written by Delia Jarrett-Macauley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism is the first British feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood and feminism within the context of `race' and ethnicity. Challenging contemporary feminist theory, the book highlights ways in which constructions of womanhood have traditionally excluded black women's experience, and proposes a reconsideration of terms such as `feminist'. The research subjects and methods of many of the contributors have been shaped by the specifics of the Black British experience and context. The collection brings together various ideas about `difference' and identity. It covers a wide range of social and cultural issues including the position of black women in the church, lesbian identity in film, contemporary African feminism, and British immigration law.

Dirt and Desire

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226944921
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Book Synopsis Dirt and Desire by : Patricia Yaeger

Download or read book Dirt and Desire written by Patricia Yaeger and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of southern writing—the Dixie Limited, if you will—runs along an iron path: an official narrative of a literature about community, about place and the past, about miscegenation, white patriarchy, and the epic of race. Patricia Yaeger dynamites the rails, providing an entirely new set of categories through which to understand southern literature and culture. For Yaeger, works by black and white southern women writers reveal a shared obsession with monstrosity and the grotesque and with the strange zones of contact between black and white, such as the daily trauma of underpaid labor and the workings of racial and gender politics in the unnoticed yet all too familiar everyday. Yaeger also excavates a southern fascination with dirt—who owns it, who cleans it, and whose bodies are buried in it. Yaeger's brilliant, theoretically informed readings of Zora Neale Hurston, Harper Lee, Carson McCullers, Toni Morrison, Flannery O'Connor, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty (among many others) explode the mystifications of southern literary tradition and forge a new path for southern studies. The book won the Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Award given by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature.

Reconstructing Woman

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271034963
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing Woman written by Dorothy Kelly and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Woman explores a scenario common to the works of four major French novelists of the nineteenth century: Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Villiers. In the texts of each author, a “new Pygmalion” (as Balzac calls one of his characters) turns away from a real woman he has loved or desired and prefers instead his artificial re-creation of her. All four authors also portray the possibility that this simulacrum, which replaces the woman, could become real. The central chapters examine this plot and its meanings in multiple texts of each author (with the exception of the chapter on Villiers, in which only “L’Eve future” is considered). The premise is that this shared scenario stems from the discovery in the nineteenth century that humans are transformable. Because scientific innovations play a major part in this discovery, Dorothy Kelly reviews some of the contributing trends that attracted one or more of the authors: mesmerism, dissection, transformism, and evolution, new understandings of human reproduction, spontaneous generation, puericulture, the experimental method. These ideas and practices provided the novelists with a scientific context in which controlling, changing, and creating human bodies became imaginable. At the same time, these authors explore the ways in which not only bodies but also identity can be made. In close readings, Kelly shows how these narratives reveal that linguistic and coded social structures shape human identity. Furthermore, through the representation of the power of language to do that shaping, the authors envision that their own texts would perform that function. The symbol of the reconstruction of woman thus embodies the fantasy and desire that their novels could create or transform both reality and their readers in quite literal ways. Through literary analyses, we can deduce from the texts just why this artificial creation is a woman.

Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

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Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719044618
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (446 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives by : Penny Summerfield

Download or read book Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives written by Penny Summerfield and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effects of World War II on women's sense of themselves forms the basis of this exploration of the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in World War II, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.

Reconstructing Lives Recapturi

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135306834
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Book Synopsis Reconstructing Lives Recapturi by : Linda A. Camino

Download or read book Reconstructing Lives Recapturi written by Linda A. Camino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing Lives, Recapturing Meaning presents the first systematic investigation of refugees' loss of their old identities and their efforts to construct new ones. Edited by the Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee on Refugee Issues (CORI) of the American Anthropological Association, it critically examines the interplay between cultural, ethnic, and gender constructions among resettled refugee populations. Each chapter is grounded in anthropological theory and method, and the book's framework demonstrates the relationship between the dynamics of forced migration and the ways in which ethnic and gender identities are reinvented in new socio-cultural settings. Unanimous in their perception of boundary maintenance as central to identity formation, these essays allow readers to view refugee resettlement as a creative, experimental process.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817305338
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Book Synopsis Sarah Orne Jewett by : Margaret Roman

Download or read book Sarah Orne Jewett written by Margaret Roman and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This comprehensive study effectively demonstrates the many ways by which Jewett's fiction subverts conventional gender dichotomies". -- Choice