1. A Social Urgency -- 2. An Intersectionality of Islam, Women, and Conversion -- 3. Islamophobia and the Talking Heads -- 4. Prejudice, Privilege, and Hate -- 5. Methodological Considerations -- 6. Findings -- 7. Discussion, Limitations, and Implications -- 8. Appendix.This text aims to discover the shared lived experiences of white American female converts to Islam in post- 9/11 America. It e…
Women in Taiwanese Families— A Personal History -- Western Theories on Same-sex Intimacies -- Methodology -- Individual Sexual Stories -- Lesbian Daughters in Their Families -- Relationships over Time -- Egalitarian Lesbian Relationships? -- Conclusion.This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain wo…
Chapter 1: Why it´s important to look at gay natives’ history? -- Chapter 2: “Between the cross and the crown”: Missionaries and indigenous sexuality -- Chapter 3: Becoming “useful citizens”: the control over natives and their sexualities -- Chapter 4: Race, Sex and Civilization: The colonization of indigenous sexualities -- Chapter 5: When to exist is to resist.This book unveils an …
LITERA Vol 18 No 2 Juli 2019 (Rak 8 - O : Bahasa, sastra & budaya)
1. Behavioural contraception methods: An introduction.-2. Methodological issues -- 3.Ultra-modernism, or son preference? Analysis of NFHS data -- 4. Current contraception use: A survey of currently married graduates in Kolkata -- 5. Method, or methods? What happens over the life span -- 6. Contraception in a risk society: A new approach to studying reproductive behaviour -- 7. Behavioural Contr…
Gender and the divine pleasures of the cinema -- Dakwah at the cinema: identifying the generic parameters of Islamic films -- Visualising Muslim women and men: a longue durée -- Gender, Islam and the nation in New Order Islamic films -- Empowered Muslim femininities?: representations of women in post-New Order film Islami -- Poor, polygamous but deeply pious: Muslim masculinities in post-New O…
The Human-Computer Interface -- Semiotic Mirrors: The Interface as a Place of Sign/Signal Mediating -- Embodiment: The Role of the Body, Gaze Behavior and Emotions -- Counting as Machine, Counting as Human.Claude Draude analyzes embodied software agents – interface solutions that are designed to talk back and give emotional feedback – from a gender and media studies perspective. She address…
1. Global Epicenters of Care Migration -- 2. Intersections of Migrant Care Work: An Overview -- 3. Immigrant Women and Home-based Elder Care in Oakland, California’s Chinatown -- 4. Home Care for Elders in China's Rural-Urban Dualism: Care Workers' Fractured Experiences -- 5. How Mexican Immigrant Mothers Experience Care and the Ideals of Motherhood -- 6. Responses to Abuse against Migrant Do…
1. Introduction -- 2. Beyond Body-Centrism: Contemporary Food Discourses and Feminist Research -- 3. A Smorgasbord of Food Femininities: Analysing Gender in Popular Food Discourses -- 4. Femininities-Lite: Feminist Empowerment and Diet Culture -- 5. Cooking Up Femininities: The Conflict Between Motherhood and Pleasure -- 6. Flavours of Feminism: The Personal is Personal -- 7. Unveiling a Patho…
Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Wave Narrative -- Chapter 2. What is feminist time-keeping? -- Chapter 3. Affective Temporalities -- Chapter 4. Why fourth wave now? -- Chapter 5. Feminist Futurities -- Conclusion.This book examines the fourth wave of feminism within the United Kingdom. Focusing on examples of contemporary activism it considers the importance of understanding affect and temporali…