This introductory volume examines the relationship between same-sex legal issues, public opinion, and legislation since the late 1800s and explores...

The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gende...

This book analyses domestic violence against women, inflicted by the woman's husband or cohabiting partner. The main focus is on physical violence ...

When women have fewer opportunities than men to develop their capacities in an egalitarian way, then we say that there is a gender gap. Although gr...

Within psychology and psychiatry, gender identity has developed at least two distinguishable meanings: awareness of anatomy and endorsing specific ...

Gender encompasses biological sex but extends beyond it to the socially prescribed roles deemed appropriate for each sex by the culture in which we...

This book deals with different aspects of gender discrimination and gender empowerment, as well as their impact on economic development in human so...

A qualitative study was conducted to investigate gender role conflict among female rugby players. The purpose of this study was to uncover gender r...

Gender encompasses biological sex but extends beyond it to the socially prescribed roles deemed appropriate for each sex by the culture in which we...

While everyone alive today is guaranteed to have ancestors, no one is born with a similar guarantee to have descendants. In a parallel truism, ever...

In 2015, the Australian federal government proclaimed that violence against women had become a national crisis. Despite widespread social and econo...

Fishing often makes an important contribution to food security in northern regions, where agriculture is impossible or marginal at best, as well as...

"Despite Canada's claim to be a gender equitable nation, militarism continues to function in ways that protect inequality." -- from the Introductio...

To aid with a serious shortage of empirical studies on generational human resource management (HRM) preferences, Chapter One aims to add to the dis...

Collectively, genetic diseases and common diseases with a genetic component pose a significant public health burden. With completion of the human g...

The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Ch...

Everything shifts in the Caucasus, blown by some of the strongest winds on earth. Even the ground moves, splintered by fault lines. In early Georgi...

From advertising and merchandising, to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls, to the images of Bill Henson, Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation a...

If you've got spooks in the neighbourhood, who are you gonna call? Believe it or not, there are real ghost hunters out there; individuals who stake...

Pack your flashlight and voice recorder; adjust your electromagnetic field sensor. You're about to explore the after-hours world of paranormal rese...

This book concerns the retracing of the steps of the colonial project beyond the binary oppositions and Manichean divisions of master and slave, co...

Read about the ghost ships that ply the Pacific Ocean, the phantom carriage of Kelowna and the legends behind the elusive sasquatch and the water m...