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Gender Threat : American Masculinity in the Face of Change
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ISBN: 1503629902 Year: 2022 Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press,

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Against all evidence to the contrary, American men have come to believe that the world is tilted – economically, socially, politically – against them. A majority of men across the political spectrum feel that they face some amount of discrimination because of their sex. The authors of Gender Threat look at what reasoning lies behind their belief and how they respond to it. Many feel that there is a limited set of socially accepted ways for men to express their gender identity, and when circumstances make it difficult or impossible for them to do so, they search for another outlet to compensate. Sometimes these behaviors are socially positive, such as placing a greater emphasis on fatherhood, but other times they can be maladaptive, as in the case of increased sexual harassment at work. These trends have emerged, notably, since the Great Recession of 2008-09. Drawing on multiple data sources, the authors find that the specter of threats to their gender identity has important implications for men's behavior. Importantly, younger men are more likely to turn to nontraditional compensatory behaviors, such as increased involvement in cooking, parenting, and community leadership, suggesting that the conception of masculinity is likely to change in the decades to come.


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The Gender Regime of Anti-Liberal Hungary.
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ISBN: 3030853128 303085311X Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,

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This Open Access book explains a new type of political order that emerged in Hungary in 2010: a form of authoritarian capitalism with an anti-liberal political and social agenda. Eva Fodor analyzes an important part of this agenda that directly targets gender relations through a set of policies, political practice and discourse—what she calls “carefare.” The book reveals how this is the anti-liberal response to the crisis-of-care problem and establishes how a state carefare regime disciplines women into doing an increasing amount of paid and unpaid work without fair remuneration. Fodor analyzes elements of this regime in depth and contrasts it to other social policy ideal-types, demonstrating how carefare is not only a set of policies targeting women, but an integral element of anti-liberal rule that can be seen emerging globally.


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Home Care Fault Lines
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ISBN: 1501749269 1501749285 9781501749278 9781501749285 1501749277 9781501749254 1501749250 9781501749261 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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This revealing look at home care illustrates how elderly and disabled people and the immigrant women workers who assist them in daily activities develop meaningful relationships even when their different ages, abilities, races, nationalities, and socioeconomic backgrounds generate tension.


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Moral Commerce
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ISBN: 1501706624 1501706071 9781501706073 9780801452086 0801452082 9781501706622 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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How can the simple choice of a men's suit be a moral statement and a political act? When the suit is made of free-labor wool rather than slave-grown cotton. In Moral Commerce, Julie L. Holcomb traces the genealogy of the boycott of slave labor from its seventeenth-century Quaker origins through its late nineteenth-century decline. In their failures and in their successes, in their resilience and their persistence, antislavery consumers help us understand the possibilities and the limitations of moral commerce.Quaker antislavery rhetoric began with protests against the slave trade before expanding to include boycotts of the use and products of slave labor. For more than one hundred years, British and American abolitionists highlighted consumers' complicity in sustaining slavery. The boycott of slave labor was the first consumer movement to transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and race in an effort by reformers to change the conditions of production. The movement attracted a broad cross-section of abolitionists: conservative and radical, Quaker and non-Quaker, male and female, white and black.The men and women who boycotted slave labor created diverse, biracial networks that worked to reorganize the transatlantic economy on an ethical basis. Even when they acted locally, supporters embraced a global vision, mobilizing the boycott as a powerful force that could transform the marketplace. For supporters of the boycott, the abolition of slavery was a step toward a broader goal of a just and humane economy. The boycott failed to overcome the power structures that kept slave labor in place; nonetheless, the movement's historic successes and failures have important implications for modern consumers.


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Deux grandes dames
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ISBN: 2760335674 9782760335677 9780776636719 0776636715 0776636685 9780776636689 Year: 2021 Publisher: Ottawa

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"Bertha Wilson et Claire L’Heureux-Dubé ont été les premières femmes juges à la Cour suprême du Canada. L’une représentait le Canada anglais, l’autre le Québec. De milieux et de tempéraments opposés, les deux femmes ont affronté des défis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les années 1980 ont ravi les féministes et bousculé l’establishment juridique. Constance Backhouse plonge ici au coeur des obstacles sexistes que les deux femmes ont affrontés en éducation, en pratique du droit et dans les cours de justice. Elle explore les divers moyens que celles-ci ont utilisés pour les surmonter, de même que les décisions marquantes qu’elles ont prises pour défendre les droits des femmes et leur traitement mitigé de la question raciale. Explorer les vies et les carrières de ces deux pionnières, c’est s’aventurer dans un monde de sexisme légal appartenant à une époque passée. Quand L’Heureux-Dubé a voulu s’inscrire à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval (défiant ainsi son père), un fonctionnaire de l’université lui a répondu que le droit était une discipline « réservée aux hommes ». Quand Bertha Wilson est entrée à la Faculté de droit de Dalhousie University, le doyen lui a suggéré de « retourner à la maison et se mettre au crochet ». Rappeler leurs efforts que ces deux femmes ont déployés pour naviguer dans une tempête de sexisme révèle les fondements des inégalités de genre dans notre passé. La question est maintenant : quelle part de ce sexisme a été relégué aux poubelles de l’histoire et quelle part continue de nous hanter ?"--


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Sunstroke = Insolación : (a love story) = historia amorosa
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ISBN: 1800345305 Year: 2020 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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Emilia Pardo Bazán, the most prolific and influential Spanish female writer of the nineteenth century, was a very controversial figure, vilified for her embracement of naturalism and her robust feminist stance.When Insolación was published in 1889 it provoked a litany of negative comments and personal insults. This subtle, psychological novel, drawing on many aspects of its author's personal life, deals with the relationship between Asís, a respectable Galician widow, and Pacheco, a feckless womaniser from Andalucía. Although they scarcely know each other, Asís accepts Pacheco's invitation to visit the San Isidro Fair, where a heady cocktail of sun, alcohol and revelry causes her to behave in an uncharacteristic manner.Insolación explores the conflict between Asís's self-recrimination and concern for the 'qué dirán' and her nascent sexuality. Finally, despite her determination to banish Pacheco from her mind and her intention to go back to Galicia, the couple sleep together and decide to marry.The perceived promiscuity of this work of fiction scandalised the reading public as well as many leading critics. Pereda considered Asís's behaviour reprehensible and Clarín dismissed the novel as a pseudo-erotic boutade. Nowadays, Insolación is recognised as an important novel.


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Tax, social policy and gender : rethinking equality and efficiency
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ISBN: 1760461482 9781760461485 9781760461478 1760461474 Year: 2018 Publisher: ANU Press

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"Gender inequality is profoundly unjust and in clear contradiction to the philosophy of the 'fair go'. In spite of some action by recent governments, Australia has fallen behind in policy and outcomes, even as the G20 group of nations, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the International Monetary Fund are paying renewed attention to gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender presents new research on entrenched gender inequality in a comparative framework of human rights and fiscal sustainability. Ground-breaking empirical studies examine unequal returns to education for women and men, decision-making about child care by fathers and mothers, the history and gendered effects of the income tax and family payments, and women in the top 1 per cent. Contributors demonstrate how Australia's tax, social security, child care, parental leave, education, work and retirement income policies intersect to compound gender inequality. Tax, Social Policy and Gender calls for a rethinking of equality and efficiency in tax and social policy and provides new policy solutions. It offers a pathway to achieve gender mainstreaming for women's economic security and the wellbeing of all Australians"--Back cover.


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The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
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ISBN: 9811506140 9811506132 Year: 2020 Publisher: Springer Nature

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This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.


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A Precarious Game : The Illusion of Dream Jobs in the Video Game Industry
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ISBN: 1501746545 1501746529 1501746553 1501746537 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca : Baltimore, Md. : ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, Project MUSE,

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"This book reveals the unequal politics of game development as a dream job, which only privileged subjects can enjoy, while many others have to face significant social and individual costs"---


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More than medicine
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ISBN: 1501748165 1501748173 1501748157 1501748149 9781501748165 9781501748172 9781501748141 9781501748158 Year: 2020 Publisher: Ithaca

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In More Than Medicine, LaTonya J. Trotter chronicles the everyday work of a group of nurse practitioners (NPs) working on the front lines of the American health care crisis as they cared for four hundred African-American older adults living with poor health and limited means. Trotter describes how these NPs practiced an inclusive form of care work that addressed medical, social, and organizational problems that often accompany poverty. In solving this expanded terrain of problems from inside the clinic, these NPs were not only solving a broader set of concerns for their patients; they became a professional solution for managing "difficult people" for both their employer and the state. Through More Than Medicine, we discover that the problems found in the NP's exam room are as much a product of our nation's disinvestment in social problems as of physician scarcity or rising costs.

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