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1 online resource |
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Gale virtual reference library |
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Gale virtual reference library
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| Contents |
Vol. 1. ABANTU for Development -- Abortion -- Abzug, Bella -- Access to Justice -- Activo/Passivo Sex Roles -- ACT UP -- Addams, Jane -- Adultery -- Advertising, Gender Images in -- Affirmative Action -- Ageism -- AIDS and International Women's Health -- Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- All-China Women's Federation -- All India Women's Conference -- Alpha Male -- American Birth Control League -- American Civil Liberties Union -- American Men's Studies Association -- American Woman Suffrage Association -- Androcentrism -- Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome -- Androgyny -- Anthony, Susan B. -- Anti-Miscegenation Laws -- Anzaldúa, Gloria -- Arab Feminist Union -- Arranged Marriages -- Art, Gender Images in -- Asaf Ali, Aruna -- Assertiveness Training -- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) -- Bachelors and Spinsters -- Balch, Emily Greene -- Barbie -- Bears -- Beauty Pageants -- Bem Sex Role Inventory -- Benedict, Ruth -- Benjamin, Harry -- Berdache (Two-Spirit) -- Bifurcated Consciousness -- Biological Determinism -- Bisexuality -- Blackburn, Molly -- Black Feminist Thought -- Bloomsbury Group -- Bluestocking Society -- Bodybuilding -- Body Hair -- Body Image -- Body Politics -- Boston Marriages -- Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women -- Breastfeeding -- Breast Implants -- Bridal Industry -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer -- Butch/Femme -- Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE) -- Camp -- Cancer -- Caregiving -- Caste -- Castration -- Celibacy -- Cervical Cancer Vaccination -- Chastity -- Cheerleading -- Children's Literature, Gender Images in -- Child Support -- Chivalry -- Christian Coalition -- Christianity, Status of Women in -- Christianity and Homosexuality -- Chromosome Disorders -- Clergy Sex Scandals -- Coalition on Violence Against Women (Kenya) -- Cohabitation -- Colorism -- Comfort Women -- Commitment Ceremonies -- Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment -- Comparable Worth -- Compulsory Heterosexuality -- Concerned Women for America -- Consciousness-Raising -- Contraception -- Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women -- Cooper, Anna Julia -- Cosmetic Surgery -- Courtly Love -- Courtship -- Crime and Criminal Justice, Gender and -- Cross-Dressing -- Cybersex -- Cyborg Manifesto -- Daughters of Bilitis -- Day, Dorothy -- Deadbeat Dads -- Death Penalty, Gender and the -- de Beauvoir, Simone -- Declaration of Sentiments -- Declaration of the Rights of Women -- Defense of Marriage Act -- Deities, Gender Images and -- Depression -- Development Alternatives With Women in a New Era -- Diaries -- Dieting -- Disability -- Discursive Theories of Gender -- Divine Feminine Spirituality -- Divorce -- Domestic Labor -- Domestic Partners/Civil Unions -- Domestic Technology -- Domestic Violence -- "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" -- "Down Low," The -- Dowry/Daaj -- Dowry Prohibition Act -- Drag King -- Drag Queen -- Earhart, Amelia Mary -- Eating Disorders -- Economy: History of Women's Participation -- Education: Chilly Climate in the Classroom -- Education: Gender Differences -- Eldercare -- Ellis, Havelock -- Emotion Work -- Equal Pay Act of 1963 -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) -- Erickson, Reed -- Ethics and Moral Development, Gender Differences in -- Ethnic Cleansing -- Eugenics -- Exercise and Fitness -- Extended Families -- Family, Organization of -- Family Law -- Family Medical Leave Act -- Family Wage -- Fatherhood Movements -- Federation of South African Women -- Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation -- Female Farming Systems -- Femicide -- Feminine Mystique -- Feminism and Militarization -- Feminist Activism in Latin America -- Feminist Bioethics -- Feminist Disability Theory -- Féministes Révolutionnaires -- Feminist Ethnography -- Feminist Magazines -- Feminist Methodology -- Feminist Sex Wars -- Feminization of Labor -- Feminization of Migration -- Femocrat -- Fertility Rates -- Fetal Alcohol Syndrome -- Fetal Rights/Public Fetus -- First, Ruth -- Footbinding -- Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act -- Freud, Sigmund -- Gandhi, Indira Priyadarshini Nehru -- Gangs, Boys -- Gangs, Girls -- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation -- Gender and the Brain -- Gender and the Internet -- Gender Discrimination in Employment -- Gender Dysphoria -- Gender Identities and Socialization -- Gender Identity Disorder -- Gender Outlaw -- Gender Performance -- Gender Public Advocacy Coalition -- Genderqueer -- Gender Role Ideology and Intimacy -- Gender Roles on Television Shows -- Gender Stereotypes -- Gender Transgression -- Gender Wage Gap -- General Union of Palestinian Women -- Genetic Prenatal Testing -- Genocide -- GI Joe -- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins -- Glass Ceiling -- Global Care Chain Work -- Goldman, Emma -- Gynecology -- Hamer, Fannie Lou -- Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association -- Hay, Harry -- Health Care Systems, Hidden/Informal -- Health Disparities -- Hegemonic Masculinity -- Heterosexuality -- Heterosexual Privilege -- Hijra/Hejira -- Hip-Hop/Rap -- Hirschfeld, Magnus -- HIV/AIDS -- Homophobia -- Homosexuality -- Honor Killings -- Hormones -- Hormone Therapy -- Hostile Work Environment -- Household Livelihood Strategies -- Hull House -- Human Rights Campaign -- Hysterectomy -- Hysteria -- Immigrant Households and Gender Dynamics -- Incest -- Indian General Allotment Act -- Indigenous Women's Network -- Infant Mortality Rates -- Infertility -- Institution, Gender as -- International Women's Day -- Intersectionality -- Intersexual, Intersexuality -- Jones, Mary Harris (Mother) -- Jorgensen, Christine -- Judaism, Gender Roles and -- Kamal, Sufia -- Kinsey, Alfred C. -- Komarovsky, Mirra -- Krafft-Ebing, Richard von -- Labor Force Participation Rates by Gender -- Language, Gender Differences -- Lesbian -- Lesbian Feminism -- Lesbian Separatism -- Lesbian Stereotypes -- Lookism |
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Vol. 2. Mail-Order Brides -- Male Circumcision -- Male Feminists -- ManKind Project, The -- Maquiladora -- Marcuse, Herbert -- Marriage -- Marriage Promotion Act -- Married Women's Property Acts -- Martineau, Harriet -- Masculinity Studies -- Mastectomy -- Masturbation -- Materialist Feminism -- Maternalism -- Maternity Leave -- Mate Selection -- Matrilineal Systems -- Mattachine Society -- Mead, Margaret -- Media and Gender Socialization -- Media and Gender Stereotypes -- Menopause -- Men's Magazines -- Men's Movements -- Menstruation -- Mental Health -- Mentors in Violence Prevention Model -- Mestiza Consciousness -- Microlending -- Midwifery -- Military, Women in Relation to -- Military, Women Serving in -- Military Families -- Military Masculinity -- Million Man March -- Misogyny -- Mommy Track -- Monogamy -- Mormons, Gender Roles and -- Morning-After Pill -- Motherhood -- Mother Teresa -- Naidu, Sarojini -- National American Woman Suffrage Association -- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws -- National Association of Colored Women -- National Coalition of American Nuns -- National Congress of Mothers -- National Council of Negro Women -- National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs -- National Gay and Lesbian Task Force -- National Organization for Men Against Sexism -- National Organization for Women (NOW) -- National Woman's Party -- National Women's Political Caucus -- Nature/Nurture Debate -- New Reproductive Technologies -- NGOs and First- and Second-Generation Rights for Women -- NGOs and Grassroots Organizing -- Nightingale, Florence -- Nineteenth Amendment -- North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) -- Northern Ireland Women's Coalition -- Nuns -- Occupational Segregation -- Oedipal Conflict -- Online Dating -- Orshansky, Mollie -- Parental Leave -- Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays -- Passing -- Patriarchy -- Penile Erectile Dysfunction -- "Personal Is Political" -- Phallocentrism -- Planned Parenthood Federation of America -- Polyamory -- Polygamy -- Poor Women's Grassroots Organizations in America -- Population Control -- Pornography, Contemporary-Mainstream -- Pornography, Legal and Political Perspectives -- Postcolonial/Subaltern Feminism -- Postmodern Feminism -- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder -- Poverty, Feminization of -- Pregnancy -- Premenstrual Syndrome -- Primetime Comedy -- Primetime Drama -- Prison and Parenting -- Prison Culture and Demographics -- Private/Public Spheres -- Privilege, Male -- Promise Keepers -- Psychoanalytic Feminism -- Queer -- Queer Studies -- Quilting -- Ramabai, Pandita -- Rankin, Jeannette -- Ransome-Kuti, Olufunmilayo -- Rape -- Rape, Statutory -- Rehabilitation -- Religion, Gender Roles in -- Research, Gender Bias in -- Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan -- Rivera, Sylvia -- Romance and Relationships -- Romance Fiction -- Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Rosie the Riveter -- Sadomasochism -- Safer Sex -- Same-Sex Families -- Same-Sex Marriage -- Sanger, Margaret -- Sarria, José -- Sati -- Scientific Motherhood -- Self-Employed Women's Association -- Self-Esteem -- Seneca Falls Convention -- Sentencing, Gender Differences -- Sex Education -- Sexism -- Sexology and Sex Research -- Sex-Radical Feminists -- Sex Tourism -- Sex Toys -- Sexual Activity: Age at First Intercourse -- Sexual Harassment -- Sexual Identities and Socialization -- Sexuality and Reproduction -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Sexual Rights and Citizenship -- Sexual Slavery -- Sex Versus Gender Categorization -- Sex Work (Prostitution) -- Shaarawi, Huda -- Shakti Shanthi -- Shari'a -- Shepard, Matthew -- Single-Parent Households -- Sociologists for Women in Society -- Sodomy -- Sperm Donors -- Sports and Homosexuality -- Standpoint Theory -- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady -- Sterilization -- Steroids -- Stone Butch -- Stratified Reproduction -- Suffrage Movement -- Suicide -- Superheroes -- Surfing -- Surrogacy -- Tea Rooms -- Tearoom Trade -- Teena, Brandon -- Teen Pregnancy -- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- Theology, Feminist -- Title IX -- Tomboy/Sissy -- Torture -- Toys -- Traditional Healing -- Transgender -- Transgender Political Organizing -- Transgender Studies -- Transnational Development, Women and -- Transsexual -- Transvestite -- Truth, Sojourner -- Uniform Marital Property Act -- United Nations Commission on the Status of Women -- United Nations Decade for Women -- United Nations Development Fund for Women -- Universal Human Rights -- Veiling -- Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A -- Violence Against Women Act -- Virginity -- Voodoo -- Welfare Reform -- Wet Nursing -- Wicca -- Witches -- Wollstonecraft, Mary -- Woman's Peace Party -- Women, Food and Agriculture Network -- Women Against Violence Against Women -- Women and Islam -- Women and National Identity -- Women Artists -- Women in Science -- Women's Christian Temperance Union -- Women's Equity Action League -- Women's Health Movements -- Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- Women's Museums -- Women's Peace Society -- Women's Political Council -- Women's Social and Political Union -- Women's Social Movements, History of -- Women Studies -- Women's World Banking -- Wonder Woman -- Workfare -- Yin-Yang |
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v. 1. A-L -- v. 2. M-Z; index |
| Summary |
Covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. Offers a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Women -- Encyclopedias
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Men -- Encyclopedias
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Social history -- 1970- -- Encyclopedias
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Men.
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Social history.
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Women.
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Gesellschaft
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Geschlechterforschung
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
O'Brien, Jodi.
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Sage Publications
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| LC no. |
2008024802 |
| ISBN |
9781412964517 |
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1412964512 |
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9781849725262 |
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1849725268 |
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9781452266022 |
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1452266026 |
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