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SENHORES DE SI é um estudo sobre o variedade das identidades masculinas, por um lado, e os efeitos da masculinidade hegemónica, por outro. Baseado em trabalho de campo numa aldeia Alentejana, na experiência de vida partilhada com os seus homens, apresenta uma etnografia em diálogo com teorias recentes das ciências sociais sobre "sexo e género". Partindo da teoria crítica feminista, pretende suprir a ausência dos homens nos estudos do género e fornecer uma interpretação dos discursos e práticas da masculinidade, enquanto construção social e objecto de disputa pelo seu significado cultural.

Feminism. --- Masculinity. --- Gender identity.

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SENHORES DE SI é um estudo sobre o variedade das identidades masculinas, por um lado, e os efeitos da masculinidade hegemónica, por outro. Baseado em trabalho de campo numa aldeia Alentejana, na experiência de vida partilhada com os seus homens, apresenta uma etnografia em diálogo com teorias recentes das ciências sociais sobre "sexo e género". Partindo da teoria crítica feminista, pretende suprir a ausência dos homens nos estudos do género e fornecer uma interpretação dos discursos e práticas da masculinidade, enquanto construção social e objecto de disputa pelo seu significado cultural.

Feminism. --- Masculinity. --- Gender identity.

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Cosmetic surgery is the fastest growing medical speciality in both the U.S. and western Europe. The surgical fix' belongs to the growing arsenal of practices and technologies which are aimed at transforming the female body for the sake of beauty.' Despite its increasing popularity, cosmetic surgery is controversial. It raises the question of why women are willing to put themselves under the knife for operations which are painful, expensive, risky and often leave them in worse shape than they were before. The book attempts to make sense of women's involvement in cosmetic surgery. Whereas traditional explanations have tended to look to female narcissism, lack of self-esteem and susceptibility to the lures of consumer capitalism and myths of eternal youth or perfect beauty, Kathy Davis situates cosmetic surgery in a feminist analysis of the cultural constraints of femininity. At the same time, however, she argues against the notion that women who have cosmetic surgery are victims of ideological manipulation, blindly complying with cultural definitions of feminine beauty. Cosmetic surgery is less about beauty than about being ordinary. Davis argues that, paradoxically, cosmetic surgery can be a way for some women to become embodied subjects who by reshaping their bodies can remake their lives. She cautions against condemning cosmetic surgery as inherently repressive and, therefore, politically incorrect,' arguing instead for an approach which accepts the unease which cosmetic surgery invokes, while taking seriously the reasons of women who see it as their only option under the circumstances. 'Reshaping the Female Body' sees cosmetic surgery as a dilemma: both symptom and solution, oppression and liberation, all in one

Gender --- Geneeskunde --- Gezondheidszorg --- Plastische chirurgie

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Changing Sex takes a bold new approach to the study of transsexualism in the twentieth century. By addressing the significance of medical technology to the phenomenon of transsexualism, Bernice L. Hausman transforms current conceptions of transsexuality as a disorder of gender identity by showing how developments in medical knowledge and technology make possible the emergence of new subjectivities.

Gender identity --- Heterosexism. --- Intersexuality --- Sex change --- Transsexualism --- History --- Public opinion. --- Social aspects. --- Heterosexism --- Transexualism --- Transexuality --- Transsexuality --- Gender expression --- Bisexuality (Biology) --- Hermaphroditism --- Intersex conditions --- Sex (Biology) --- Heterocentrism --- Heteronormativity --- Heterosexualism --- Sexism --- Homophobia --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Public opinion --- Social aspects --- Gender transition --- Gender transitioning --- Transition, Gender --- Transitioning, Gender --- Sex --- Gender dysphoria

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This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women's history. Covering a broad sweep of history from the American Revolution to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, "intrudes into regions of the American historical narrative from which women have been excluded or in which gender relations were not thought to play a part." State formation, power, and knowledge have not traditionally been understood as the subjects of women's history, but they are the themes that permeate this book. Individually and together, the essays explore how gender serves to legitimize particular constructions of power and knowledge and to meld these into accepted practice and state policy. They show how the study of women's history has moved from the discovery of women to an evaluation of social processes and institutions.

Women --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- History. --- History