The last thirty years of intellectual and artistic creativity in the twentieth century have been marked by gender issues. Translation practice, translation theory and translation criticism have also been powerfully affected by the focus on gender. As a result of feminist praxis …
Translation and Gender places recent work in translation against the background of the women's movement and its critique of "patriarchal" language. It explains translation practices derived from experimental feminist writing, the development of openly interventionist translation…
Men and women's distinctive roles in productive activity affect their economic independence. The book uses basic economic principles to analyze the differences between men and women who are in employment, are unemployed or are non-participant in labour markets. The extent to whi…
"Women in Britain account for fifty per cent of all employed workers yet the role which they play in economic activity is distinct and different from that of men. Women are more likely than men to work part-time, to experience career breaks, and to be excluded from official stat…
Many scholars and political analysts assume that thriving kin and non-kin social support networks continue to characterize minority family life. Policy recommendations based on these underlying assumptions may lead to the implementation of harmful social policy. No More Kin exam…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
No More Kin examines extended kinship networks among African American, Chicano, Puerto Rican, and non-Hispanic white families in contemporary America and seeks to provide an integrated theoretical framework for examining how the simultaneity of gender, race, and class oppression…
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; linkages between rationa…
An examination of the ways in which gender intersects with informal and formal education in England, Germany, Indonesia, South Africa, USA and the Netherlands. The book looks at various issues including: citizenship; authority; colonialism and education; linkages between rationa…
First published in 1996.
Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality. [from publisher's advertisement].
Met bijdragen over de verslaggeving van vrouwensport(ers), vrouwen in de Amerikaanse sportjournalistiek, economie en de promotie van (vrouwen)sport, culturele constructie van gendernormen in de sportjournalistiek en het archetype van de sterke vrouw in de sport.
This title links women, sports, and the mass media with feminist perspectives from history, psychology, women's studies, sociology, kinesiology, and mass communication. The volume is divided into three parts: overview and definitions (7 chapters) cultural contexts and gender val…
Women, media, and sport: challenging gender values
This book -- the first to link feminism, sport and media theory -- provides a broad cultural studies orientation. In addition to a theoretical analysis, it provides a practical look at models of sport, media effects and the construction of the sportswoman and women2 sports. Divi…