Allmänt, Encyklopedier

Discover the Extraordinary Journey Within The Woman in Me offers an illuminating voyage through the complexities and triumphs of modern womanhood. This compelling narrative invites you to explore the …

How do different gender identities interact with the key challenge of decolonizing higher education? Editor Jan Etienne brings together a range of experiences from a diverse group of feminist scholar …

A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, f …

This slim volume contains four little-known texts by Pierre Bourdieu on the question of reflexivity, which was a key theme in his work. For Bourdieu, reflexivity was not an exercise in introspection …

This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth …

Narrative Medicine in Action: Lessons from the Maternal Mortality Project addresses the United States’s ongoing maternal health crisis by extracting findings from eighteen underrepresented women’s in …

A remarkable autobiography of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of …

Beginning with the broad theme of the Hindu widow and narrowing it down to Gujarati widows, Vatsala Mehta has made a time-sweep through three millennia of Indian social history starting with the Veda …

A critical look at the difficulties women face in the field of Jewish studies, drawing on quantitative data, personal stories, and the gendered history of the field The field of Jewish studies has ex …

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil Anidjar argues, has always been maternal. In a series of finel …