Gender studies, gender groups Books

Book SynopsisThis accessible guide for clinicians and clinical students working in the fields of eating disorders and transgender health psychology offers useful tips, constructive case studies and reflective questions that enable readers to feel better equipped in supporting their clients' needs.The book addresses the clinical challenges a therapist may encounter, and provides advice on the key issues involved in therapeutic work with transgender, non-binary and gender-expansive clients, including trauma, minority stress, coming out, family support, appearance and body changes. This book will inspire clinicians to bridge the disconnect between the clinical criteria for eating disorders and the type of eating disorder manifesting in a client with co-occurring gender dysphoria.Trade ReviewThrough detailed clinical case examples coupled with thoughtful theory, Dalzell & Protos have provided an essential resource on the relationship between gender identity and body image. Leading from both personal and strong clinical backgrounds, Dalzell & Protos have crafted the new go-to resource needed for all clinicians to better educate ourselves on the intersection of eating disorders, body image and gender expansive life. -- Melissa Orshan Spann, PhD, CEDS-S, Chief Clinical Officer of Monte Nido & AffiliatesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Meet Our Gender-Expansive, Transgender, Nonbinary Clients; 2. Gender Identity: An Overview; 3. Body Image: An Overview; 4. Developmental Perspectives on Gender Identity and Body Image; 5. Gender-Based Coming Out Process; 6. Trauma, Identity, and Body Image; 7. Challenges for Gender-Expansive Clients; 8. Eating Disorders, Gender Identity, and Minority Stress; 9. Treating Eating Disorders, Gender Identity, and Minority Stress; 10. Gender Affirmation, Body Changes, and Their Effects (Transitioning); 11. Family Support; 12. Barriers to Treatment; References; Appendix 1: Gender Dysphoria Criteria; Appendix 2: Guidelines for Clinicians; Appendix 3: Resource Guide; Appendix 4: Glossary

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Book SynopsisPractical advice for therapists and other professionals on developing culturally sensitive practices with trans clients regardless of race, ethnicity or religion, including older trans people. Includes case studies, tips, self-assessment checklists and further resources.Trade ReviewThis book is essential reading for anyone, cis or trans, who works or wants to work therapeutically with trans, gender expansive and/or Two Spirit clients. The author covers transgender care across the lifespan within an anti-racist, intersectional framework. I know I will recommend this book to all my supervisees and to anyone interested in transgender care!" -- Alex Iantaffi, PhD, MS, LMFT, SEP, CST, co-author of 'How To Understand Your Gender' and 'Life Isn't Binary'

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Book SynopsisForty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why?In fact, while women are making slow but steady gains on gender disparities in the workplace, at home the gap is widening - in the UK, the average heterosexual British woman puts in 12 more days of household labour per year than her male companion, while young American men are now twice as likely as their fathers to think a woman's place is in the home. And when 'having it all' so often means hiring a nanny or cleaner, is it something to aspire to? Sally Howard joins up with a cohort of feminist separatists, undertakes a day's shift with her Lithuanian cleaner, lives in a futuristic model home designed to anticipate our needs and meets latte papas and one-percent parents in this lively examination which combines history and fieldwork with her personal story. The Home Stretch is a fascinating investigation into how we got here and what the future could look like for feminism's final frontier: the domestic labour gap.Trade ReviewAn impassioned and compelling case for why housework is fundamental...the kind of book you'll want to pass between friends. * New Statesman *A funny, enraging look at feminism's toughest battle. -- Helen Lewis, author of DIFFICULT WOMEN[P]ersonal experience warms a narrative that braids history with sharp reportage, managing to feel invigorating even if the truths it conveys are profoundly frustrating. -- Hephzibah Anderson * Observer *An astute, sharp-edged and frequently witty analysis of gender inequalities in childcare and other forms of domestic labor...Expertly blending careful research and frank personal reflections, this call for change rings true. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents1: Coming Clean 2: Battles on the Home Front, a Recent History 3: Paint it Pink and Blue: Naturalizing Gendered Chores 4: The Mother of All Reality Checks (aka the Parent Labour Trap) 5: The Domestic Backlash 6: Power, Money, Willingness to Mop 7: The Outsourced Wife 8: Mrs Robot 9: Marketing Yummy Mummy (or The New Sexed Sell) 10: A Case for the Commons (and Why Separatists Still Struggle with Who Scrubs the Loo) 11: Don't Iron While the Strike is Hot! Conclusion: Home Truths

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Book SynopsisEve tells the story of a child raised as a boy, when she knew all along that was wrong. That child grew up to be one of the 10 Outstanding Women in Scotland in 2017. With trans rights again under threat, legendary playwright, performer, father and grandmother Jo Clifford tells a story both gentle and passionate, intimate and political, to remind us that the journey towards our real selves is one we all need to make.

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Book Synopsis'Looking out over the country, this country, where I was born and raised, I wonder what's going to become of us. Because this can't be the future, can it? Everyone just... changing the rules?' Roger thinks the world's gone mad. He hates his job, his ex-wife torments him and to top it all, his girlfriend just discovered feminism. Roger's about to lose his shit. Until he discovers Angry Alan: online activist and "voice of reason"... A darkly comic new play about masculinity in crisis from award-winning Penelope Skinner.

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Book Synopsis‘He was a boy, she was a girl. Can I make it any more binary?’ When friends die and pronouns change, what’s left of the memories that don’t fit anymore? Brought to life with storytelling, an original pop music score, and way too many America’s Next Top Model references, Since U Been Gone is a moving and powerful autobiographical account about childhood co-stars, teenage rebellion, growing up queer in the mid-noughties, and finding yourself while losing a friend.Trade Review‘Bold, honest and swollen with love’ – The Guardian * The Guardian *

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Book SynopsisEvery year in England and Wales alone, one in twenty adults suffer domestic abuse, two thirds of them women. Every week, two men kill a woman they were intimate with. And still we ask the wrong question: Why didn't she leave? Instead, we should ask: Why did he do it? Investigative journalist Jess Hill puts perpetrators -- and the systems that enable them -- in the spotlight. Her radical reframing of domestic abuse takes us beyond the home to explore how power, culture and gender intersect to both produce and normalise abuse. She boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, but can't seem to protect their victims, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. 'See What You Made Me Do' is a profound and bold confrontation of this urgent crisis and its deep roots. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse.Trade Review'A shattering book: clear-headed and meticulous, driving always at the truth' -- Helen Garner'[Offers] a clinical view on why domestic abuse happens, why it's so prevalent across the world and what the psychology is behind it.' -- Joanne Froggatt, Harper’s Bazaar UK'A much-needed, thought-provoking exploration of how victims can be blamed or disbelieved, and their experiences dismissed, whilst their abusers are often excused. Hill asks difficult questions about perpetrators and their need to exert power and control. A must-read.' -- Rosie Duffield MP'An absolute must-read for anyone concerned about domestic abuse. It is well-researched, well-written and raises the voices of survivors everywhere. An important contribution to our understanding in the UK.' -- Sarah Hill, Chair of Women's Aid'A widely researched and incisive analysis of domestic abuse, its multiple behaviours and harms, and possible solutions. Powerful and important.' -- Dame Vera Baird, Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales'A vital step forward. This is required reading for all politicians, and all who wish to better understand the diverse, complex nature of domestic terrorism.' -- David Challen, domestic abuse campaigner and Freedom Programme ambassador'Should be compulsory reading for politicians at every level' -- The Sydney Morning Herald'A call for action . . . unlike any that has yet been written . . . capture[s] the visceral feeling of domestic terror.' -- Sydney Review of BooksShortlisted for General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 2020 Australian Book Industry AwardsFinalist for the 2019 Walkley Book Award'At a time when misogyny and male violence appear to be unbridled, this book gives hope to women everywhere. Its pages are a call to arms: Hill has outlined a manifesto that will contribute to ending male brutality in all its forms.' -- Julie Bindel, journalist and feminist campaignerLonglisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards, AustraliaFinalist for the 2019 Australian Human Rights Commission Media AwardShortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

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Book SynopsisMoonbeam Children's Book Awards Gold Medal WinnerThis is an illustrated children's book for ages 7-11 that makes gender identity, sexual orientation and family diversity easy to explain to children. Throughout the book kids learn that there are many kinds of people in the world and that diversity is something to be celebrated. It covers gender, romantic orientation, discrimination, intersectionality, privilege, and how to stand up for what's right. With charming illustrations, clear explanations, and short sections that can be dipped in and out of, this book helps children think about how to create a kinder, more tolerant world.Trade ReviewYou Be You! is a much needed honest, inclusive and respectful guide that should be read by all kids and adults alike! The author's comprehensive approach including discussions about discrimination, intersectionality and privilege make this book an exceptional and timely resource. -- Kimberly Zieselman, JD, Executive Director, interACT: Advocates for Intersex YouthA great book of real power, this will be useful in schools, at home, and just about anywhere.We learn the meaning of words like: gender and gender identity, intersex, cisgender, asexual, gay and lesbian, straight (hetrosexual), bisexual (pansexual), orientations (sexual or romantic), discrimination, sexism, transgender and transphobia, and homophobia. All these are described in simple but truthful terms with easily understood and enjoyable vignette picture to go with them. I must say, I learned a lot! -- Branfman, Jonathan and Benbassat, Julie * healthyBooks *This conversational primer on gender, sexuality, and family supports and affirms all identities, urging readers to see, human experiences. The author posits that the narrow and conventional ideas many children are taught-born a boy or girl, marry someone of the "opposite" sex, have children, conform to gender roles-are untrue, and "that's great news!" Instead, a world of possibility is open to all children. Full of joyful, bright, comic-style illustrations, this brief guide touches on assigned sexes, people who are intersex, stereotypes, and gender identity. The author clarifies that marriage and children are a choice, not an expectation, and explains discrimination (looking specifically at sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and biphobia), privilege, intersectionality, and what it means to be an ally. Readers learn definitions for identities and orientations like genderqueer, nonbinary, gender-fluid, transgender, cisgender, asexual, aromantic, bisexual, and pansexual. This supportive, educational look at identities offers constant reminders that no matter your chosen identity, whoever you love is great. A varied depiction of ethnicities, races, abilities, ages, and body shapes are shown in the vibrant illustrations. This guide could easily be read together with younger readers; certainly many older readers, including adults, could benefit from this quick and easy look at acceptance. VERDICT This inclusive and respectful guide should be part of all curricula about family, gender, and sexuality. Short, accessible, and important. -- School Library Journal

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Book Synopsis"A heartfelt manual for those seeking to understand their transgender parent." - KirkusMaybe you just found out your mom, or your dad, is transgender, or maybe you've known for a while. But now what?This guide covers everything you need to know. With chapters on navigating the changes in your family, finding community, going through the transition as a family, and much, much more, you'll see how other people have handled these experiences, and learn how you can too. From definitions to names and pronouns, you'll find all you need to support yourself and your family through the transition and beyond.Including real-life stories from people whose parents have also transitioned, and practical advice throughout, this essential book will be your companion every step of the way.Trade ReviewA heartfelt manual for those seeking to understand their transgender parent. -- KirkusHeather Bryant is the wiser older sister that children of all ages need when their parent transitions. Filled with practical advice and personal stories, My Trans Parent reassures, nurtures, and inspires, providing space and permission to process any and all feelings you may experience. -- Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian HomeGrowing up with queer moms I longed for a 'how to' book like this. Instead of asking and answering the basic questions all queerspawn have been asked about bullying, sexual/gender identity, and the general 'did you turn out okay?,' Heather Bryant delves into the messy feelings, complicated joys and unanswerable questions that only someone raised by a trans parent can access. -- Sadie Epstein-Fine, editor/author of Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents

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Book SynopsisIn the Margins Book Awards - WinnerA reflective workbook aimed at teachers and support staff of students who are transitioning or questioning their gender. This book provides insights, practical tools, and opportunities for self-reflection. It discusses the unique needs of teachers and schools as they navigate supporting the gender journeys of their transgender, non-binary, or gender questioning students by enabling staff to identify, understand, and incorporate the needs of this population. The chapters of this essential resource offer guidance on how to implement appropriate school policies and inclusive curriculum, learn topical terminology, address bullying, and develop bathroom guidelines. This book will help school staff ensure that students feel safe, included, and respected, while creating a judgment-free space for teachers, support staff, and administrators' own self-exploration as they embark on the process of acquiring new and relevant information. Personal anecdotes from real-life educational experiences heighten awareness and perspective, alongside interactive activities, enjoyable quizzes, answers to common questions, and positive affirmations.Table of Contents1. Your Private Space: An Introduction2. Unfamiliar and Concerned3. Self-Reflection 4. Viewing Practices and Curriculum 5. It Can Be a Foreign Language6. Medical and Social Changes: Sorting It Out!7. Behaviours, Bullying, and Bathrooms!8. It Takes a Village 9. Parents and Students: What Do I Say? 10. Let's Talk About Therapy 11. Creating a Culture of Inclusion 12. Privilege: Loss or Gain? 13. Celebrations Come in Different Sizes 14. Passing on the Message 15. Resources, Answer Keys, and Glossary...Oh, My!

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Book SynopsisWhen a child goes through transition, the dynamics of the family unit can start to shift. It is not uncommon for one family member to feel one way about the transition, while another may feel quite differently. This innovative workbook discusses the unique needs of parents and families as they navigate their child's gender exploration. Providing a safe space for them to work through their own uncertainties and necessities, it gives specifically tailored guidance and support, with sections on school life, language and terminology, finding a therapist, possible grief, social/medical intervention options and more. Personal anecdotes from parents and other family members offer insight and understanding, alongside reflective activities, quizzes and positive affirmations throughout.Table of Contents1. Your Private Space: An Introduction; 2. Unexpected and Confused; 3. Who Are You?; 4. Grief May Apply; 5. It Can Be a Foreign Language; 6. Medical and Social Options: Sorting It Out; 7. Friends and Family: Will They Stay, or Will They Go?; 8. Work: In or Out?; 9. Insurances, Gender Markers, and Documents... Oh My!; 10. Privilege: Loss or Gain?; 11. Let's Talk about Finding a Therapist; 12. The World of Schools; 13. Celebrations Come in Different Sizes; 14. Where Are You Now?

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Book Synopsis'We don't just come out once. We have to come out continually throughout our lives. And as we grow and change and reach a newfound understanding of who we are, we come out once again in a whole new way.'Following the interconnected lives of a diverse queer community - including asexual, polyamorous, trans and autigender people - this empowering graphic novel explores the multitude of ways a person's identity and relationships can be expressed and can change over time. From Lily coming out as a lesbian after coming out as a trans woman, to Leanne embracing their genderqueer identity in later life, to Ty navigating their queerness with their autistic identity, these stories illustrate how life lived at the intersection of gender, sexuality, race and class is often a journey with many chapters.Full of love and pride - as well as tips and advice - these witty, tender and inspiring narratives prove there is no wrong way to be who you are, so long as you are being true to yourself.Trade ReviewComing Out, Again is a brilliant mix of the whimsical and serious sides of LGBT+ and neurodiverse identities, breaking through the polite façade we often wear and exposing how wonderful and silly we can be in private spaces. It's a privilege to read and to love the characters, they spring off the page, and it is all too easy to find yourself within them. Handled with obvious care and love, this book is a breath of fresh air." -- Poe Charlotte, author of 'How to Be Autistic'I Highly recommend this beautifully crafted and intelligently scripted novel of so many diverse and divergent experiences that many autistic individuals face, daily. This graphic novel is both entertaining, enlightening, inclusive and challenging. It's all too easy to stay hidden in one's arrogance and preconceived notions of 'Other'. -- Wenn B. Lawson (PhD) CPsychol AFBPsS University of Birmingham, UK. Honorary Researcher, Macquarie University & Curtin University, AustraliaI absolutely loved this book. It covers a range of issues around gender, sexuality, race and neurodiversity in an inclusive, affirming and engaging way. This book would be great for Queer and questioning young - and not so young - people. As an autistic and non-binary person I found the book very empowering. Highly recommended. -- Yenn Purkis, non-binary and autistic advocate and authorThrough the eyes of a diverse cast of characters, Sabrina Symington proves once again how much of a great storyteller and communicator she is. You won't be able to put that book down! -- Sophie Labelle, author and cartoonistThis is a striking graphic novel filled with engaging characters which leap off the page and remind us of the importance of private silliness in our queer lives * Scene *

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Book SynopsisAfter the granting of the vote to women in 1918, the struggle for women's rights intensified with a nationwide campaign for the right to birth control. This campaign was met with a great deal of hostility; it threatened to overturn Victorian ideas about female sexuality, female empowerment and the traditional roles within the family. The most well known of the campaigners, scientist and early feminist Marie Stopes, opened clinics across England which fitted 'contraception caps' to women for free. The first history of this grassroots social movement, After the Suffragettes offers a window into the social and cultural history of the period, and features new archival material in the forms of memoirs, personal papers and press cuttings. This is an essential contribution to the influential field of women's history and a vital addition to the history of feminism.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Rediscovering the Post-suffrage Birth Control Campaign 2. The Emergence of the Birth Control Movement 3. Birth Control- a Feminist Issue? 4. Anatomy of the Birth Control Clinics 5.Challenging the Opposition 6. Shifting Ideologies: Birth Controllers, Feminists, the Malthusian League and Eugenics Society 7. Working the Political Parties 8. The End of the Campaign? Appendix: Collective Biography of Birth Control Activists Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book argues for the importance of age as a source of diversity and difference amongst women. It compares three generations of women’s accounts of a range of gender issues, including the domestic division of labour, equality, abortion and sexuality. It also compares their understandings of and orientations toward the feminist movement. Drawing on Karl Mannheim’s argument that an individual’s location in historical time shapes their social outlooks or world views, it is shown that women of different ages do not share the same gendered life courses due to differing cohort memberships. Consequently, women of different ages interpret, define and give meaning to gender issues and to feminism in varied and contrasting ways. A key concern of the book is to show that findings from qualitative studies are an important supplement to surveys of cohort differences in women’s gender attitudes, in that they are more revealing of the complex ways cohort influences the construction of gender issues, including the very language used to do so.Trade Review’...a fascinating analysis of changing attitudes to the domestic division of labour, social issues and feminism during the twentieth century ...This study is unique and provides considerable insight into the everyday lives of families across the generations. It deserves to be widely read and enjoyed by academics and students alike.’ Teresa Rees, Professor of Labour Market Studies, University of Bristol, UK ’The overwhelming learning’s towards individualism found in this study have important implications for a feminist perspective based on women as a collectivity. Pilcher proves that women’s accounts of gender issues are important in their own right and must be adhered to if a future feminist politics is to thrive and be relevant to women of all ages.’ Work, Employment and SocietyTable of ContentsContents: Gender, generation and world views; Househusbands and bread winning wives: accounts of role reversal; A man’s world? accounts of equality and discrimination; A woman’s right? accounts of abortion; Freaks and normal people: accounts of homosexuality; Just a bit of fun for the men?: accounts of page three; Making things better for women or going over the top?: accounts of feminism; Conclusions; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisWhile there is a growing list of publications devoted to the AIDS epidemic, Africa, with two-thirds of the world's cases, still receives scant attention. This book may change the way we think about AIDS and how it is being addressed in Africa and the rest of the world.The book draws on first-hand research and in-depth investigations carried out by a team of researchers from Britain, Zambia and Tanzania, and focuses on the gendered aspect of the struggle against AIDS.The authors study the severity of the epidemic and the threat it poses to the population and society in Tanzania and Zambia. They argue that the success of strategies against the spread of AIDS in Africa rests on their recognition of existing gendered power relations and that this success might be enhanced if the strategies are built on existing organisational skills and practices, especially among women. Their conclusions have repercussions for all countries around the world, and especially the rest of Africa.Trade Review'...this book is certainly essential reading for all those working in the fields of development, African Studies and Health.' - Social Science and Medicine'This book is certainly essential reading for all those working in the fields of development, African Studies and Health.' -Social Science and MedicineTable of Contents1. Perspectives on Gender and AIDS in Africa 2. Responses to the AIDS epidemic in Tanzania and Zambia 3. AIDS in Kapulanga, Mongu: Poverty, Neglect and Gendered Patterns of Blame 4. Sinners and Outsiders: The Drama of AIDS in Rungwe 5. AIDS in Kanyama: Contested Sexual Practice and Gendered Dynamics of Community Interventions 6. Target Practice: Gendered and Generational Struggles in AIDS Prevention Work in Lushoto 7. Reconciling Individual Costs with Collective Benefits: Women Organising Against AIDS in Mansa 8. AIDS Activism in Dar es Salaam: Many Struggles - a Single Goal 9. The Struggle Continues: Some Conclusions

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Book SynopsisI once believed that we only had to put in place the conditions for equality for the remnants of old-fashioned sexism in our culture to wither away. I am ready to admit that I was wrong.'Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. Drawing on a wealth of research and personal interviews, LIVING DOLLS is a straight-talking, passionate and important book that makes us look afresh at women and girls, at sexism and femininity - today.Trade ReviewThis book marked a real feminist awakening for me . . . it might make you rage, but in a good, important way -- Laura Bates * Elle *If anyone doubts the need to protect girls from the toxic, hyper-sexualised, disempowering environment they're now growing up in, they should read LIVING DOLLS * Maggie Hamilton, author of WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR GIRLS? *** 'In LIVING DOLLS, Walter makes a compelling case that we need feminism more than ever...this book makes a disturbing, passionate and compelling case for revisiting our notions of equality...Everyone who cares anything about the kind of society we are curre * Sunday Business Post *** 'Walter does a brilliant job of demolishing their (scientists') arguments * Mail on Sunday, Susie Orbach *** 'Required reading for everyone who cares about our humanity, and that means all of us * Katherine Sheridan, Irish Times *

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the changing ways in which male-male sex and love have been perceived and experienced from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the present. Celebrated figures, such as Richard Lionheart, whose love for Philip Augustus of France was so well-documented, Oscar Wilde, gubject of the most explosive scandal of the Victorian period, and Derek Jarman, the great artist and chronicler of the age of AIDS, are examined alongside little-known figures: Eleanor/John Rykener, a cross-dresser in Chaucer's England, the mollies of eighteenth-century London, the habituants of underground gay bars and cafes in 1930s Manchester and Brighton, and the newly-confident gays of contemporary Britain, who marry, adopt children and command the increasingly powerful 'pink pound'. Drawing on a fabulous wealth of research, the authors - each an expert in his field - have worked closely together to deliver a powerful, highly-readable and eye-opening history of love and desire between men in Britain.Trade ReviewThe authors are professors of history and English at Birbeck and Kings Colleges in London and Baruch College in New York. In chapters focusing on six British eras from the Middle Ages to the present, they examine through literature and other primary documents how intimate emotional and/or sexual relationships between men were understood and defined by those involved and their societies. Among other things, they demonstrate that it was not until the 1700s that the notion of a gay identifying minority of men existed and separated them from the rest. The final chapter catalogs gay reform in Britain and its modern legacy. * Reference & Research Book News *[A] very worthwhile project, which brings together some of the best insights of modern scholarship. Here we have a very readable history that refuses simple categorisations while providing vivid insights into the complex ways in which sexuality and intimacy are organised. Mills asks for a 'more unruly understanding of sex and love' than is usually allowed by historians of sexuality. This offers an unruly history at its best. * Times Higher Education Supplement *[A] thorough and fascinating glimpse back at gay life in the UK over the last 1,000 years….a landmark achievement, shedding light on a section of history too often ignored or overlooked. * Out in the City *It is next to impossible to offer a continuum gay history, whether in Britain or elsewhere. Nevertheless, the four authors assembled here (Cook, Robert Mills, Randolph Trumbach and HG Cocks) do a largely good job. Professional historians, they manage not to over-enunciate recent ritualistic assumptions in the field. Foucault appears twice….Fundamentally, the story of gay Britain becomes narratable from the mid-19th century onwards. It is a substantial, moving and significant one, well captured in an impressive book whose watershed moment remains the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895. * The Independent (London) *A valuable, long-overdue addition to the canon of gay history. * Gay Times *"In their separate histories of gay and lesbian Britain, Matt Cook and Rebecca Jennings have produced not only impressive historiographical summaries of recent scholarship but also compelling narratives of same-sex desire in Britain." Reviewed with A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex between Women since 1500 * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Matt CookChapter 1 Male–Male Love and Sex in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500 Robert MillsChapter 2 Renaissance Sodomy, 1500–1700 Randolph TrumbachChapter 3 Modern Sodomy: The Origins of Homosexuality, 1700–1800 Randolph TrumbachChapter 4 Secrets, Crimes and Diseases, 1800–1914 H. G. CocksChapter 5 Queer Conflicts: Love, Sex and War, 1914–1967 Matt CookChapter 6 From Gay Reform to Gaydar, 1967–2006 Matt CookIllustrations Further Reading Notes Author Biographies Index

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Book SynopsisThis progressive handbook for Chinese medicine students and practitioners looks at gender, physiology, relationships and sexual attraction from the Chinese medicine perspective. Many standard diagnostic and treatment techniques are gender-based and do not work with clients who identify as LGBT or gender/sex/relationship fluid and so these communities are currently often underserved.Catherine Lumenello accesses the Daoist, Buddhist and Confucianist roots of the medicine and explores the energetic pathways, the Three Treasures and other theories in order to understand the emotional etiology and treatment concerns prevalent within these client groups. The topics covered in the book include transgender issues, asexuality, sex addiction, sexual realignment surgery and polyamory. Incorporating client examples, illustrations, and an assortment of treatment approaches, this book is a radical re-examination of the potential of Chinese medicine.Trade ReviewCatherine brings much needed information on gender and sexuality to the field of Chinese medicine in this comprehensive text. Blending classical theory and modern applications, she presents a text appropriate for both the beginning practitioner and the seasoned clinician. I look forward to utilizing her compassionate wisdom in my practice. -- CT Holman, author of Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese MedicineCombining the sage wisdom of the Yellow Emperor with the street-wise savvy of Dr. Ruth, Lumenello applies her comprehensive scholarship to developing a profound understanding of sexuality through the lens of Chinese Medicine. Her work is a significant contribution to the literature and fills a void in our modern interpretation of the classics. -- Elizabeth Sommers PhD, MPH, LAcTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Disclaimer; Notes on the Text; Preface; SECTION I:A PRACTICE OF LOVE - Terminology: Basic Definitions; 1. Healing from Within; 2. A Welcoming Practice; SECTION II: THE YIN-YANG OF GENDER - Terminology: Gender Identity & Gender Expression; 3. Negating the Binary; 4. A Spiritual Journey; 5. Special Topic: Transgender Health Concerns; SECTION III: THE SEXUAL JOURNEY - Terminology: Sex, Sexual Identity, & Relationship; 6. Energetic Physiology of Sex; 7. Special Topic: Sexual Health; 8. Attraction & Exploration; 9. Special Topic: Power Exchange; SECTION IV: The Emotional Landscape; 10. Standing Guard: Living in Chronic Fear; 11. Disintegration: The Impact of Emotional Trauma; 12. Being Judged: Guilt & Shame; 13. Tied in Knots: Secrecy & Repression ; 14. Scorching the Self: Desire & Craving; 15. Descent into Darkness: Self-Loathing & Suicide; Appendix I: Five Element Chart; Appendix II: Emotion Chart; Appendix III: Qigong Exercises; References

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Book SynopsisThis fresh collection of essays examines the continued significance of gender as a marker of inequality in the lives of women across diverse contexts in Irish society. It is a cliche to say that we live in a knowledge society, but exactly whose knowledge sets the economic, political, social, and cultural parameters in any given society? Contributors tackle this question by taking the reader on a gender knowledge journey through the contemporary workplace, the state and civil society and into the education and wider cultural domains. The essays demonstrate the persistence of power differentials, the resilience of gender stereotypes and the ongoing reproduction of specific kinds of gender exclusions. Ideas about gender (often outdated and ill conceived) continue to maintain existing power imbalances in tech work, finance, education, and media. Those ideas also frame public policy debates about sex work, homelessness, women's activism and reproductive rights. Finally, a gender knowledge perspective reveals the downstream impact of gender and others forms of difference and inequality in relation to the teaching profession, game culture, book reviewing and access to archival materials on historical abuse. Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender: power, production and practice in Ireland will appeal to those interested in gender studies, political sociology and the sociology of knowledge.Trade Review‘”The deep-structured gender divisions .. that almost imperceptibly frame our institutions, processes and practices remain largely intact,” according to Producing Knowledge, Reproducing Gender, an important collection of well-researched essays for UCD Press’. Martina Devlin, Irish Independent, August 2020 |||| ‘Crowe makes the case that both church and State need to hugely improve access to their archives, for the sake of survivors who need personal information and for the sake of scholarship, which can help us to make sense of this extraordinary story. In this extract she shares two stories which display both the unreliable way archives have been managed and the importance of making sure archives survive.’ Catriona Crowe, writing in the Irish Times July 2020 |||| "This work represents a significant and original contribution to the field by bringing together diverse scholarly work that is connected through an understanding of the ways in which gender knowledge is produced and/or functions". "A key strength of the collection is its weaving together of hot off the press research findings with contemporary debates in gender and feminist theory and the politics of knowledge".....Table of Contents Introduction Speaking gendered knowledge to power Pauline Cullen and Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 3 I Gender, Knowledge and Work 1. Incompatible Logics: The Gendered Structures of Autonomy in Information Technology John Paul Byrne, University College Dublin 21 2. Film, Television and Gendered Work in Ireland Anne O Brien, Media Studies, Maynooth University 44 3. Banking on masculinity: gendered segregation, gendered normative practices and social closure in the Irish investment management sector Corina Sheerin, School of Business, National College of Ireland 62 4. The Academic Career Game and Gender Related Practices in STEM Pat O’Connor & Clare O’Hagan, University of Limerick 87 II The politics of knowledge production: gender and the state 5. Guilt, Shame, Acknowledgment and Redress: Some Reflections on Ireland's Institutional Treatment of Women and Children Catriona Crowe, Independent Scholar 109 6. The Politics of Sex Work & Prostitution Policy Research in Ireland Paul Ryan, Maynooth University 129 7. Gendering homelessness policy knowledge through participatory research. Rory Hearne and Mary P. Murphy, Maynooth University 155 III The politics of knowledge production: gender and civil society 8. From self-entrepreneurs to rights-bearers: varieties of gender knowledge production in activism for women in Ireland Pauline Cullen, Maynooth University 178 9. The Right to Know: Gender, Power, Reproduction and Knowledge Regulation in Ireland Sinéad Kennedy, Maynooth University 202 IV Gender Knowledge and the reproduction of gendered cultures 10. Gender and College Entrants to the Teaching Profession Delma Byrne & Cliona Murray, Maynooth University 221 11. Hacking at the techno-feminist frontier: gendered exclusion and inclusion in technology cultures Aphra Kerr and Joshua Savage, Maynooth University 236 12. Marking your cards: gender distinction in the broadsheet book review Mary P. Corcoran, Maynooth University 255

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Book SynopsisWe live in a world that is unequal by nature. One could even say that its diversity is essential to all the world's survival. However, inequality among human beings is one of society's biggest problems. This book is about opportunities. It is about being at the forefront of a paradigm change and a win-win situation. And it is about leading one of the most compelling and exciting shifts in our society: women's empowerment. Company leaders are used to dealing with radical changes in markets, technology and customer behaviour as an important part of their job. They are accustomed to interpreting these changes and adding innovative solutions for them together with their teams. How they do this makes all the difference. But there is a story that corporations all over the globe have chosen to ignore. This story is the sum total of millions of lost opportunities, because over half the potential workforce was left behind. Although half the population is made up of women, only 50% of them can earn a decent living. The Other Half sets out to change just that.

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Book SynopsisLeslie Tate is a non-binary author and University of East Anglia graduate who interviews creative and community-active people weekly on radio and in writing at https://leslietate.com. Leslie played the lead role in Heaven's Rage, a film that was screened and won prizes at 34 international film festivals. Leslie hosts Extinction Rebellion stages, has been shortlisted for the Bridport, Geoff Stevens and Wivenhoe poetry prizes, was British under-21s Chess Champion and is a Quaker. Ways to be Equally Human is Leslie's fourth novel.

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Book Synopsis"Muench's lush figures give great pleasure to both ear and eye, and her imaginative leaps can feel both mysterious and inevitable, in a way that recalls not only Desnos, but also Neruda."—The New York Times Book Review "Her language is refreshing, musical, attenuated."—Anne Waldman Simone Muench lives in Chicago.Trade ReviewPoetry, American Poet, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times Book Review (covered her previous book), Booklist, Diagram, Rain Taxi, Denver Quarterly, Time Out Chicago, Iowa Review, Barn Owl Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Ecotone, POOL, Boston Reivew, Midwest Book Review

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Book SynopsisFÃr Frauen, die mit dem Tod ihres Lebenspartners zurechtkommen mÃssen.

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Book SynopsisAnhand ausführlicher Fallstudien arbeitet die Autorin unterschiedliche Bedeutungen physischer Gewaltausübung für weibliche Jugendliche heraus. Dabei werden zwei Gruppen unterschieden. Manche Mädchen üben Gewalt aus, um dadurch einen Gewinn zu erlangen. Sie erleben sich als stark, unabhängig und gerecht, wenn sie Gewalt anwenden. Zusätzlich erhalten sie in einer gewaltbereiten Bezugsgruppe Anerkennung für ihr Tun und schaffen ein Gefühl der Zugehörigkeit. Andere Mädchen sehen sich von einer feindseligen Umwelt bedroht. Durch Gewalt schützen sie sich. Da sie sich von ihren aggressiven Emotionen überwältigt fühlen, bestätigt und vertieft ihr Handeln ein negatives Selbstkonzept. Die Autorin erläutert die unterschiedlichen Motive und subjektiven Gewinne von physischer Gewalt für weibliche Jugendliche und verdeutlicht deren Sinnhaftigkeit im Rahmen familiär gelernter Interaktionslogiken. Trade Review"Eine interessante und gut lesbare Doktorarbeit, die sich ausführlich einem Aspekt der Gewalttätigkeit von Mädchen widmet. Sie bietet neue Ausgangsüberlegungen für präventive und intervenierende Arbeit mit gewaltbereiten Mädchen und deren Bezugspersonen. Besonders die Zusammenfassung im neunten Kapitel kann wie eine Handreichung für PraktikerInnen gelesen werden. Sie macht aber auch neugierig auf die gesamte Studie. Für nicht wissenschaftliche Arbeitende gibt die Lektüre einen interessanten Einblick in Forschungsarbeit." www.socialnet.de, 17.05.2010Table of ContentsTheoretische Perspektiven auf Geschlecht - Mädchen und Gewalt: empirische Ergebnisse - Methodologische Grundlagen - Durchführung der Studie - Empirischer Teil: Einstieg - Exkurs: Mädchen und Jungen - Dimension Selbstwahrnehmung in der Gewaltinteraktion - Dimension Gruppe - Verwebung der Dimensionen Gruppe und Selbstwahrnehmung - Dimension familiäre Desintegration - Zusammenfassung

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Book SynopsisDie hier versammelten Beiträge spiegeln den aktuellen Stand der Debatte um Intersektionalität 20 Jahre nach Prägung des Begriffes im Schwarzen Feminismus in den USA. Bei seiner transatlantischen Reise durchlief der Ansatz Metamorphosen und fiel in Europa auf vorbereiteten Boden, insbesondere in anglophonen und deutschsprachigen feministischen Diskursen. Klasse, Geschlecht, Ethnizität und „Rasse“, Sexualität, Behinderung, Alter und andere Dimensionen von Ungleichheit und Identität werden inzwischen in intersektioneller Perspektive untersucht. In diesem Band wird der Ansatz vorgestellt und in transdisziplinären und transnationalen Analyseperspektiven wie Diskurstheorie, Biographieforschung, Wissenssoziologie, Rahmenanalyse und Sozialstrukturanalyse verortet; auch werden kritische Interventionen zu Problemen und Grenzen dieses Konzepts diskutiert.Table of ContentsI. Die transatlantische Reise von Intersektionalität – Geografi en und Räume der Debatte.- Mit Beiträgen von Kimberlé W- Crenshaw, Kathy Davisund Myra Marx Ferree.- II. Neue Forschungsfelder der Intersektionalität: Männlichkeiten und Heteronormativität.- Mit Beiträgen von Mechthild Bereswill und Anke Neuber, Jeff Hearn, Dubravka Zarkov, Kira Kosnick, Ann Phoenix.- III. Intersektionalität vorantreiben: Potentiale, Grenzen und kritische Fragen.- Mit Beiträgen von Nira Yuval-Davis, Paula-Irene Villa, Gudrun-Axeli Knapp, Katharina Wagenbach.

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Book Synopsis​Forschung zu Gewalt in Paarbeziehungen und zu sexualisierter Gewalt steht, will sie nicht Ausblendungen reproduzieren und Artefakte erzeugen, vor besonderen methodischen Herausforderungen. Dies betrifft z.B. den Zugang zu Befragten, ethische Anforderungen und das empirische Erfassen des Forschungsgegenstandes. Der Band vermittelt auf der Basis langjähriger praktischer Erfahrungen der Autorinnen und Autoren grundlegendes Wissen über die Gestaltung von Forschungsprozessen zu Gewalt und stellt bewährte Strategien für standardisierte und qualitative Studien sowie für die sozialpsychologisch-historische Aufarbeitung von Gewalt vor. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt bei der Befragung von Kindern.Table of ContentsGrundlagen.- Forschungsethische Aspekte der Gewaltforschung. - Methodologie standardisierter und qualitativer Gewaltforschung.- Besonderheiten der Befragung von Kindern und Männern.

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Book SynopsisHat die Täter-Betroffenen-Dyade in der Diskriminierungsforschung ausgedient? Die Studie zeichnet anhand einer umfassenden Betrachtung des „Bystander-Experience“ nach, dass nicht nur die Verursachenden und die Betroffenen von Diskriminierung und Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz betrachtet werden sollten, sondern auch die umstehenden Zuschauenden: Auch sie sind von negativen Auswirkungen auf körperliche und geistige Gesundheit, Produktivität und Arbeitsplatzzufriedenheit betroffen, sobald sie Diskriminierung und Belästigung am Arbeitsplatz wahrnehmen oder beobachten. Dieser Effekt äußert sich am gravierendsten in männerdominierten Teams, Abteilungen und Berufsfeldern, ohne jedoch nach Geschlecht der Zuschauenden zu unterscheiden. Worin besteht die Ursache für dieses Phänomen? Die vorliegende Studie nimmt zur Beantwortung dieser Frage besonders die „Bystander“ beider Geschlechter in männerdominierten Berufsfeldern aus einer akteurszentrierten Machttheorie-Perspektive in den Blick und macht damit den prozess- und figurationssoziologischen Zugang nach Norbert Elias fruchtbar zugänglich zur Erforschung von Diskriminierungsprozessen und Interventionsverhalten in männerdominierten Berufsfeldern.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Soziale Segregation zwischen den Geschlechtern.- Frauen und Arbeit.- Frauen in der Physik.- Das Bystander-Experience.- Forschungsdesign.- Analyse.- Fazit.

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