Encyclopedia of gender and society

Print version:

Vol. 1. ABANTU for Development

Abortion

Abzug, Bella

Access to Justice

Activo/Passivo Sex Roles

ACT UP

Addams, Jane

Adultery

Advertising, Gender Images in

Affirmative Action

Ageism

AIDS and International Women's Health

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

All-China Women's Federation

All India Women's Conference

Alpha Male

American Birth Control League

American Civil Liberties Union

American Men's Studies Association

American Woman Suffrage Association

Androcentrism

Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome

Androgyny

Anthony, Susan B

Anti-Miscegenation Laws

Anzaldúa, Gloria

Arab Feminist Union

Arranged Marriages

Art, Gender Images in

Asaf Ali, Aruna

Assertiveness Training

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)

Bachelors and Spinsters

Balch, Emily Greene

Barbie

Bears

Beauty Pageants

Bem Sex Role Inventory

Benedict, Ruth

Benjamin, Harry

Berdache (Two-Spirit)

Bifurcated Consciousness

Biological Determinism

Bisexuality

Blackburn, Molly

Black Feminist Thought

Bloomsbury Group

Bluestocking Society

Bodybuilding

Body Hair

Body Image

Body Politics

Boston Marriages

Brazilian Federation for the Advancement of Women

Breastfeeding

Breast Implants

Bridal Industry

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Butch/Femme

Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics (COYOTE)

Camp

Cancer

Caregiving

Caste

Castration

Celibacy

Cervical Cancer Vaccination

Chastity

Cheerleading

Children's Literature, Gender Images in

Child Support

Chivalry

Christian Coalition

Christianity, Status of Women in

Christianity and Homosexuality

Chromosome Disorders

Clergy Sex Scandals

Coalition on Violence Against Women (Kenya)

Cohabitation

Colorism

Comfort Women

Commitment Ceremonies

Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment

Comparable Worth

Compulsory Heterosexuality

Concerned Women for America

Consciousness-Raising

Contraception

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

Cooper, Anna Julia

Cosmetic Surgery

Courtly Love

Courtship

Crime and Criminal Justice, Gender and

Cross-Dressing

Cybersex

Cyborg Manifesto

Daughters of Bilitis

Day, Dorothy

Deadbeat Dads

Death Penalty, Gender and the

de Beauvoir, Simone

Declaration of Sentiments

Declaration of the Rights of Women

Defense of Marriage Act

Deities, Gender Images and

Depression

Development Alternatives With Women in a New Era

Diaries

Dieting

Disability

Discursive Theories of Gender

Divine Feminine Spirituality

Divorce

Domestic Labor

Domestic Partners/Civil Unions

Domestic Technology

Domestic Violence

"Don't Ask, Don't Tell"

"Down Low," The

Dowry/Daaj

Dowry Prohibition Act

Drag King

Drag Queen

Earhart, Amelia Mary

Eating Disorders

Economy: History of Women's Participation

Education: Chilly Climate in the Classroom

Education: Gender Differences

Eldercare

Ellis, Havelock

Emotion Work

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Erickson, Reed

Ethics and Moral Development, Gender Differences in

Ethnic Cleansing

Eugenics

Exercise and Fitness

Extended Families

Family, Organization of

Family Law

Family Medical Leave Act

Family Wage

Fatherhood Movements

Federation of South African Women

Female Circumcision/Female Genital Mutilation

Female Farming Systems

Femicide

Feminine Mystique

Feminism and Militarization

Feminist Activism in Latin America

Feminist Bioethics

Feminist Disability Theory

Féministes Révolutionnaires

Feminist Ethnography

Feminist Magazines

Feminist Methodology

Feminist Sex Wars

Feminization of Labor

Feminization of Migration

Femocrat

Fertility Rates

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Fetal Rights/Public Fetus

First, Ruth

Footbinding

Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act

Freud, Sigmund

Gandhi, Indira Priyadarshini Nehru

Gangs, Boys

Gangs, Girls

Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation

Gender and the Brain

Gender and the Internet

Gender Discrimination in Employment

Gender Dysphoria

Gender Identities and Socialization

Gender Identity Disorder

Gender Outlaw

Gender Performance

Gender Public Advocacy Coalition

Genderqueer

Gender Role Ideology and Intimacy

Gender Roles on Television Shows

Gender Stereotypes

Gender Transgression

Gender Wage Gap

General Union of Palestinian Women

Genetic Prenatal Testing

Genocide

GI Joe

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

Glass Ceiling

Global Care Chain Work

Goldman, Emma

Gynecology

Hamer, Fannie Lou

Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association

Hay, Harry

Health Care Systems, Hidden/Informal

Health Disparities

Hegemonic Masculinity

Heterosexuality

Heterosexual Privilege

Hijra/Hejira

Hip-Hop/Rap

Hirschfeld, Magnus

HIV/AIDS

Homophobia

Homosexuality

Honor Killings

Hormones

Hormone Therapy

Hostile Work Environment

Household Livelihood Strategies

Hull House

Human Rights Campaign

Hysterectomy

Hysteria

Immigrant Households and Gender Dynamics

Incest

Indian General Allotment Act

Indigenous Women's Network

Infant Mortality Rates

Infertility

Institution, Gender as

International Women's Day

Intersectionality

Intersexual, Intersexuality

Jones, Mary Harris (Mother)

Jorgensen, Christine

Judaism, Gender Roles and

Kamal, Sufia

Kinsey, Alfred C

Komarovsky, Mirra

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

Labor Force Participation Rates by Gender

Language, Gender Differences

Lesbian

Lesbian Feminism

Lesbian Separatism

Lesbian Stereotypes

Lookism. Vol. 2. Mail-Order Brides

Male Circumcision

Male Feminists

ManKind Project, The

Maquiladora

Marcuse, Herbert

Marriage

Marriage Promotion Act

Married Women's Property Acts

Martineau, Harriet

Masculinity Studies

Mastectomy

Masturbation

Materialist Feminism

Maternalism

Maternity Leave

Mate Selection

Matrilineal Systems

Mattachine Society

Mead, Margaret

Media and Gender Socialization

Media and Gender Stereotypes

Menopause

Men's Magazines

Men's Movements

Menstruation

Mental Health

Mentors in Violence Prevention Model

Mestiza Consciousness

Microlending

Midwifery

Military, Women in Relation to

Military, Women Serving in

Military Families

Military Masculinity

Million Man March

Misogyny

Mommy Track

Monogamy

Mormons, Gender Roles and

Morning-After Pill

Motherhood

Mother Teresa

Naidu, Sarojini

National American Woman Suffrage Association

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws

National Association of Colored Women

National Coalition of American Nuns

National Congress of Mothers

National Council of Negro Women

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

National Organization for Men Against Sexism

National Organization for Women (NOW)

National Woman's Party

National Women's Political Caucus

Nature/Nurture Debate

New Reproductive Technologies

NGOs and First- and Second-Generation Rights for Women

NGOs and Grassroots Organizing

Nightingale, Florence

Nineteenth Amendment

North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA)

Northern Ireland Women's Coalition

Nuns

Occupational Segregation

Oedipal Conflict

Online Dating

Orshansky, Mollie

Parental Leave

Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Passing

Patriarchy

Penile Erectile Dysfunction

"Personal Is Political"

Phallocentrism

Planned Parenthood Federation of America

Polyamory

Polygamy

Poor Women's Grassroots Organizations in America

Population Control

Pornography, Contemporary-Mainstream

Pornography, Legal and Political Perspectives

Postcolonial/Subaltern Feminism

Postmodern Feminism

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Poverty, Feminization of

Pregnancy

Premenstrual Syndrome

Primetime Comedy

Primetime Drama

Prison and Parenting

Prison Culture and Demographics

Private/Public Spheres

Privilege, Male

Promise Keepers

Psychoanalytic Feminism

Queer

Queer Studies

Quilting

Ramabai, Pandita

Rankin, Jeannette

Ransome-Kuti, Olufunmilayo

Rape

Rape, Statutory

Rehabilitation

Religion, Gender Roles in

Research, Gender Bias in

Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan

Rivera, Sylvia

Romance and Relationships

Romance Fiction

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Rosie the Riveter

Sadomasochism

Safer Sex

Same-Sex Families

Same-Sex Marriage

Sanger, Margaret

Sarria, José

Sati

Scientific Motherhood

Self-Employed Women's Association

Self-Esteem

Seneca Falls Convention

Sentencing, Gender Differences

Sex Education

Sexism

Sexology and Sex Research

Sex-Radical Feminists

Sex Tourism

Sex Toys

Sexual Activity: Age at First Intercourse

Sexual Harassment

Sexual Identities and Socialization

Sexuality and Reproduction

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Sexual Rights and Citizenship

Sexual Slavery

Sex Versus Gender Categorization

Sex Work (Prostitution)

Shaarawi, Huda

Shakti Shanthi

Shari'a

Shepard, Matthew

Single-Parent Households

Sociologists for Women in Society

Sodomy

Sperm Donors

Sports and Homosexuality

Standpoint Theory

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Sterilization

Steroids

Stone Butch

Stratified Reproduction

Suffrage Movement

Suicide

Superheroes

Surfing

Surrogacy

Tea Rooms

Tearoom Trade

Teena, Brandon

Teen Pregnancy

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Theology, Feminist

Title IX

Tomboy/Sissy

Torture

Toys

Traditional Healing

Transgender

Transgender Political Organizing

Transgender Studies

Transnational Development, Women and

Transsexual

Transvestite

Truth, Sojourner

Uniform Marital Property Act

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women

United Nations Decade for Women

United Nations Development Fund for Women

Universal Human Rights

Veiling

Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A

Violence Against Women Act

Virginity

Voodoo

Welfare Reform

Wet Nursing

Wicca

Witches

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Woman's Peace Party

Women, Food and Agriculture Network

Women Against Violence Against Women

Women and Islam

Women and National Identity

Women Artists

Women in Science

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Women's Equity Action League

Women's Health Movements

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

Women's Museums

Women's Peace Society

Women's Political Council

Women's Social and Political Union

Women's Social Movements, History of

Women Studies

Women's World Banking

Wonder Woman

Workfare

Yin-Yang. v. 1. A-L

v. 2. M-Z; index