Gender Studies

Gender studies is a field of interdisciplinary study which analyses race, ethnicity, sexuality and location. In gender studies, the term "gender" is used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities.

See also women's studies.
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New Releases Tagged "Gender Studies"

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
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Love in Exile
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Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women
Who’s Afraid of Gender?
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Réinventer l'amour: Comment le patriarcat sabote les relations hétérosexuelles
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender
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Dysphoria Mundi
Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism
The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way
Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry
A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
We Should All Be Feminists
The Second Sex
The Handmaid's Tale
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
A Room of One’s Own
Bad Feminist
The Feminine Mystique
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
Men Explain Things to Me
The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity
Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
Yes Means Yes!: Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape
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