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"Why do some TV genres have the label feminine or masculine? Why do we worry about boys playing video games too much while girls play just as often? Is the TV show Sex and the City empowering or not? Why are recent television shows like Desperate Housewives post-feminist televis…
"As a field of scholarly investigation, the history of sexuality is about as old as gender history in its modern, social constructionist form, dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Unlike gender history, whose roots reach back into a variety of disciplines and scholarly fields, the h…
Recoge: 1. Introduction. - 2. The national focus of 'make work pay' debates en relation to social protection and social inclusion-an evaluation from a gender pespective. - 3. The impact of maternity and parental leave on employment. - 4. The impact of parental leave or extended …
'Making work pay' debates from a gender perspective: a comparative review of some recent policy reform…
by Hebson, Gail, Fagan, Colette, Meulders, Danièle, (Danièle E.), Group of Experts on Gender, Social Inclusion and Employment, European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Unit G.1
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Recoge: 1. Introduction. - 2. The national focus of 'make work pay' debates en relation to social protection and social inclusion-an evaluation from a gender pespective. - 3. The impact of maternity and parental leave on employment. - 4. The impact of parental leave or extended …
"Throughout history, many myths concerning the capabilities of women have received the stamp of approval from the world of science. Meanwhile, the scientific community itself has been notoriously slow in welcoming the work of women scientists. Is there a connection?" "Women, Sci…
Surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages, the people, experiments, and impact, of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large.
"This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri - a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy - as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly underst…
"This book reveals Epizephyrian Locri - a Greek colony on the Adriatic coast of Italy - as a third way in Greek culture, neither Athens nor Sparta. Drawing on a wide range of literary and archaeological evidence, James Redfield offers a fascinating account of this poorly underst…
This text examines a broad corpus of written texts in English and French, concentrating on those texts which problemise the traditional functioning of the linguistic gender system.
Controversy over gendered pronouns, for example using the generic "he," has been a staple of feminist arguments about patriarchal language over the last 30 years, and is certainly the most contested political issue in Western feminist linguistics. Most accounts do not extend bey…
Identifies a growing dissonance between men and women, citing statistics that identify disparities between the experiences and attitudes of each gender, while noting the pervasiveness of crimes against women.
Identifies a growing dissonance between men and women, citing statistics that identify disparities between the experiences and attitudes of each gender, while noting the pervasiveness of crimes against women.
In 16 articles, avant-garde scholars of African-American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black masculinity and mixed-race identity.
An ethnography in which the author's fieldwork with transgendered and transsexual individuals in New York City demonstrates the creation and confusion of gender identity labels.