Tag: Gendered

Free Download Christina Kenny, "Reimagining the Gendered Nation: Citizenship and Human Rights in Postcolonial Kenya "
English | ISBN: 184701299X | 2022 | 252 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 3 MB

Free Download Roxane Richter, "Medical Outcasts: Gendered and Institutionalized Xenophobia in Undocumented Forced Migrants’ Emergency Health Care"
English | ISBN: 149852544X | 2015 | 232 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
As witnessed through the firsthand experiences of a frontline activist and international medical aid practitioner, this biosocial political study gives voice to the inequities in undocumented Mexican and Zimbabwean women’s emergency healthcare access and treatment in Houston, United States of America, and Johannesburg, South Africa. As a construct of feminist transdisciplinary fieldwork, this research utilizes methodological pluralism and biosocial disparities to examine constructs of "social determinants" or "social origins" of women’s suffering, disease, and healthcare access. These variables include gender inequity, xenophobia, structural violence, political economy subjugation, healthcare access and delivery disparities, and human rights violations.

Free Download Petra M. Schweitzer, "Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life"
English | ISBN: 0739190075 | 2016 | 134 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust: Writing Life begins with the premise that writing proves virtually synonymous with survival, bearing the traces of life and of death carried within those who survived the atrocities of the Nazis. In reading specific testimonies by survivor-writers Paul Celan, Charlotte Delbo, Olga Lengyel, Gisella Perl, and Dan Pagis, this text seeks to answer the question: How was it possible for these survivors to write about human destruction, if death is such an intimate part of the survivors’ survival?

Free Download Jane Christie, "Negotiating Gendered Discourses: Michelle Bachelet and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner "
English | ISBN: 1498512348 | 2015 | 230 pages | EPUB | 1165 KB
It has been argued that the first presidential campaign of Michelle Bachelet in Chile and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in Argentina used a rhetoric of newness. Some political observers have said that as the "first women" to successfully run for the highest office in these countries, they were presented as the new faces of democracy. These observers argued that gender was not a determining factor in their electoral success, but the focus on this "first women" frame did generate heavily gendered criticisms of these two candidates. Negotiating Gendered Discourses addresses these views by asking how the gender factor is negotiated when women from the Southern Cone of Latin America run for high political office. In particular, Jane L. Christie examines how Bachelet and Fernández positioned themselves in relation to the numerous women-led social movements, and in doing so, reveals points of intersection between these contemporary political discourses and existing sources of female authority when negotiating complicated ideological debates about human rights, the economy, and women’s rights.

Free Download Brigitte Bailey, "American Travel Literature, Gendered Aesthetics and the Italian Tour, 1824-62 "
English | ISBN: 1474432840 | 2019 | 336 pages | PDF | 17 MB
Examines tourists’ aesthetic responses in the context of US nation formation

Free Download Angela Smith, "Naked Exhibitionism: Gendered Performance and Public Exposure (International Library of Cultural Studies)"
English | 2013 | pages: 204 | ISBN: 1848858523 | PDF | 5,6 mb
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture, including literature, media, film and linguistics, Claire Nally and Angela Smith offer an examination of gendered exhibitionism from the mid-twentieth century to the present day. They ask whether bodily exposure provides the liberation it professes to or restricts our most secret selves to the sanitised realm of socially-sanctioned gender roles. From the art of burlesque as a riotous kingdom of the imagination to reality TV which helps women to unearth their ‘true’ and buried feminine selves, Nally and Smith explore how the critical history and theory of exhibitionism intersects with the wider movement towards gender equality. Examining effects of second-wave feminism to problematise the naked female form, female and gender-transgressive performers from Bette Davis to Dita von Teese are placed in their cultural context.

Free Download New Women of Empire: Gendered Politics and Racial Uplift in Interwar Japanese America by Chrissy Yee Lau
English | June 14, 2022 | ISBN: 0295750510, 0295750529 | True EPUB | 206 pages | 13 MB
Strong, bold, and vivacious―Japanese American young women were leaders and heroines of the Roaring Twenties. Controversial to the male immigrant elite for their rebellion against gender norms, these women made indelible changes in the community, including expanding sexual freedoms, redefining women’s roles in public and private spheres, and furthering racial justice work. Young men also reconceptualized their ideas of manliness to focus on intellectualism and athleticism, as racist laws precluded many from expressing masculinity through land ownership or citizenry.

Free Download Karen Vieira Powers, "Women in the Crucible of Conquest: The Gendered Genesis of Spanish American Society, 1500-1600"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0826335195 | PDF | pages: 240 | 6.4 mb
The evidence of women in the Americas is conspicuously absent from most historical syntheses of the Spanish invasion and early colonization of the New World. Karen Powers’s ethnohistoric account is the first to focus on non-military incidents during this transformative period. As she shows, native women’s lives were changed dramatically.

Free Download Sanjib Kr Biswas, "The Gendered War: Evaluating Feminist Ethnographic Narratives of the 1971 War of Bangladesh"
English | ISBN: 9354359094 | 2023 | 202 pages | PDF | 1428 KB
The book rereads the historiography of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 documented by Bangladeshi, Indian, and Western historians to trace the position of women who share a negligible place in the gendered war history. It analyses how contemporary novels of South Asia have dealt with the war and highlights women’s issues like their subordination through blame, their agency in the war, and their victimization in the ethnic politics of their men. The book has also taken into account nonfictional works of contemporary women ethnographers and studies the lives of women who had engaged in the 1971 war not only as victims, but also as social workers, healthcare professionals, and fighters, and whose voice has been continuously suppressed in the post-war situation of Bangladesh. The book follows a postmodern approach to evaluate the ethnographic metanarratives in the forms of ethnographic fictions, oral history, interview, and memoirs in order to challenge women’s neglected place in the historical grand narratives of the 1971 war.

Free Download Paige Whaley Eager, "Waging Gendered Wars: U.S. Military Women in Afghanistan and Iraq "
English | ISBN: 1409448460 | 2014 | 234 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Waging Gendered Wars examines, through the analytical lens of feminist international relations theory, how U.S. military women have impacted and been affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although women were barred from serving formally in ground combat positions within the U.S. armed forces during both wars, U.S. female soldiers are being killed in action. By examining how U.S. military women’s agency as soldiers, veterans, and casualties of war affect the planning and execution of war, Whaley Eager assesses the ways in which the global world of international politics and warfare has become localized in the life and death narratives of female service personnel impacted by combat experience, homelessness, military sexual trauma, PTSD, and the deaths of fellow soldiers.