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- 1From:African Journal of Disability (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Women with a disability are often characterised as a homogenous social group consigned to a cultural stereotype with assumptions of dependence, asexuality and gender neutrality. Furthermore, there is a void...
- 2From:Ahfad Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSerial No: 3-2003 Honour crimes refer to the murder of a woman by her male family members for a perceived violation of the social norms of sexuality, or a suspicion of women having transgressed the limits of social...
- 3From:Studies in the Literary Imagination (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe title of this special issue obviously owes a great deal to Mary Poovey's Uneven Developments , which was subtitled The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England . Poovey emphasizes the "ideology" aspect of...
- 4From:Canadian Woman Studies (Vol. 20, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOver 200 undergraduate college students were asked their choices if they could choose in what historical period, where, and as what gender they would live. Three-fourths preferred to retain their gender, almost half...
- 5From:Journal of Social History (Vol. 35, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the years between the ratification of the federal Constitution and the beginfling of the Civil War, American society experienced fundamental changes in family relations, the criminal law, and public attitudes towards...
- 6From:ReVision (Vol. 26, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe androgyn is a mythic image of integration. Dichotomous, Manichean thinking, whether in the figure of good and evil, true and false, traditional and modern, oppressor and oppressed, or feminine and masculine,...
- 7From:Women and Language (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOplatka, I. "'I Changed My Management Styles': The Cross-Gender Transition of Women Headteachers in MidCareer." School Leadership & Management, 21 (2) (2001): 219-233. The current article outlines the experiences of...
- 8From:Population and Development Review (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTHE 1994 INTERNATIONAL Conference on Population and Development placed issues of gender at the center of discussion of population and development (United Nations 1995). A leading theme of the conference was that, in...
- 9From:Gender & Society (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSome feminists have seen sex role theory as limited even dangerous; others see it as useful mid-range theory. This article sheds light on this debate through an examination of the discourse of the men's liberation...
- 10From:Gender & Society (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedNeither legalistic gender-neutral categories nor prior feminist theories adequately capture all of the gender dynamics of child sexual abuse. Surveys of 923 young adults, 88 of whom reported sexual contact with adults...
- 11From:Social Forces (Vol. 78, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Changes in the roles of women in 13 immigrant religious institutions in Houston, Texas, are analyzed using gender theories related to the reproduction of gender and to structural changes that enhance...
- 12From:Australian Journal of Early Childhood (Vol. 24, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn the early childhood literature good early childhood teaching is often reduced to the dominant stereotype of the sensitive, nurturing, and child-centred developmentally appropriate educator. Critics of the...
- 13From:Management Review (Vol. 80, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSexual harassment lawsuits have catapulted management's handling of harassment complaints into a Position of considerable importance. Today more than ever @ before, male and female employees work, travel, eat and...
- 14From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 305, Issue 6859) Peer-ReviewedAn agreement was made between the management of the UK's National Health Service (NHS) and the health care workers' unions to try to outlaw sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment usually affects women and...
- 15From:Management Review (Vol. 81, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMore people are conscious of, and are reporting, sexual harassment at work since the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas brought the issue to light. A New York Times and CBS News survey showed 50%...
- 16From:Victorian Studies (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCharles Darwin's 'The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex' provides evidence of the fallacies arising from interpreting contemporary social norms as historically established biological norms. Darwin and...
- 17From:Cornell Hotel & Restaurant Administration Quarterly (Vol. 37, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA company should enforce a carefully designed policy for dealing with sexual-harassment claims to elude liability and legal costs, maintain high-quality employees and retain the goodwill of customers. The 'Steiner v....
- 18From:Melbourne Journal of Politics (Vol. 24) Peer-ReviewedBodies are important to feminist theory, yet the question of which bodies matter should be the center of feminist political theory when addressing women's subordination. This can be seen through ontological and...
- 19From:Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin (Vol. 24, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedResistance to the traditional gender role expectation for modest self-presentation among women was examined in a pair of studies. In the first--which included U.S. and Polish college students of both sexes--making...
- 20From:International Journal of Reproductive Medicine (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedBackground. Globally, male involvement in maternal health care services remains a challenge to effective maternal health care accessibility and utilization. Objective. This study assessed male involvement in maternal...