San Antonio College Library

The author examines the view that women feel they must act like men to succeed and how this behavior is reshaping American society.

"Anthropologists and historians have shown us that "male" and "female" are variously defined historically and cross-culturally. The contributions to this volume focus on the voluntary or involuntary, temporary or permanent transformation of gender identity. Overall, this volume provides powerful and compelling illustrations of how, across a wide range of cultures, processes of gender transformation are shaped within, and ultimately constrained by,...

"Although modern Japanese history has not yet been restructured by a foregrounding of gender, historians of Japan have begun to embrace gender as an analytic category. The sixteen chapters in this volume treat men as well as women, theories of sexuality as well as gender prescriptions, and same-sex as well as heterosexual relations in the period from 1868 to the present. All of them take the position that history is gendered; that is, historians invariably,...

This book introduces the concept of how gender shapes our understanding of every aspect of crime. Moving beyond criminological theories and research that have often neglected gender, this book shows that gender is central to the definition, prosecution, and sentencing of crimes, that it shapes how victimization is experienced and understood, and that it structures the institutions of the criminal justice system and the experiences of workers within...

Nawal El Saadawi is well-known the world over as a writer and feminist. She is one of the most important champions of the women's movement in her Egyptian homeland and indeed in the whole of the Arab world. In almost fifty novels, plays, and short stories, her writing opposes violence against women, sexual oppression, and poverty. Nawal El Saadawi has often been touted as a likely candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature and in America she has...

Did women have an Enlightenment? Historians have long excluded women from the Enlightenment orbit. But images of 'Woman' loomed large in Enlightenment thought, and women themselves---as scientists and salonnières, bluestockings and governesses, polemicists and novelists---contributed much to enlightened intellectual culture. From Edinburgh to Naples, from Paris to Philadelphia, innovative minds of both sexes challenged conventional assumptions about...

For much of history, sexuality has been an ever-present shadow on the lives of women. Even today, their own true sexuality is distorted by a genitally-fixated world, and among feminists, explorations of sexuality have remained too narrowly focused. Too little emphasis has been placed on motherhood, and the implications of biology have often been dismissed. Disagreements about sexuality have caused serious rifts among feminists, obscuring the fact...

Publisher's description: From respected academics like Carol Gilligan to pop-psych gurus like John Gray, the message has long been the same: Men and women are fundamentally different, and trying to bridge the gender gap can only lead to grief. Generations have bought into the idea that women are uniquely primed to be "relational," men innately driven toward achievement-even when these "truths" are contradicted by what's happening in our daily lives....

"The twenty-first century has seen the emergence of a new style of man: the metrosexual. Overwhelmingly straight, white, and wealthy, these impeccably coiffed urban professionals spend big money on everything from facials to pedicures, all part of a multibillion-dollar male grooming industry. Yet as the innovative study reveals, even as the industry encourages men to invest more in their appearances, it still relies on women to do much of the work....