Aalborg Universitet REPRESENTING MASCULINITY Niss, Hanne
... power, while women are passive, expressive, caring and dependent on others. According to the new code, male and female are mobile categories, occupying equivalent if not identical places in the world. At one level, this code of equivalence in the promotional representation of men and women may be sa ...
... power, while women are passive, expressive, caring and dependent on others. According to the new code, male and female are mobile categories, occupying equivalent if not identical places in the world. At one level, this code of equivalence in the promotional representation of men and women may be sa ...
the sociology of gender - Rutgers University Libraries
... masculine or feminine. Sex is an ascribed status because a person is born with it, but gender is an achieved status because it must be learned. This relatively simple distinction masks a number of problems associated with its usage. It implies that all people can be conveniently placed into unambigu ...
... masculine or feminine. Sex is an ascribed status because a person is born with it, but gender is an achieved status because it must be learned. This relatively simple distinction masks a number of problems associated with its usage. It implies that all people can be conveniently placed into unambigu ...
GEOGRAPHIES OF GENDER: FEMINISM AND MASCULINITIES
... subjected to sexual or physical abuse during her lifetime. Twothirds of the world’s illiterates are female. Women, particularly young women, have higher unemployment rates than men, earn less money than their male counterparts, and hold positions of little or no authority in the formal economy. They ...
... subjected to sexual or physical abuse during her lifetime. Twothirds of the world’s illiterates are female. Women, particularly young women, have higher unemployment rates than men, earn less money than their male counterparts, and hold positions of little or no authority in the formal economy. They ...
Gender and Medicine: a conceptual guide for medical educators
... much of the social inequity in the world is centred on access to health care, the terminology became integrated into language in health service reform more generally and is now pervasive throughout international health literature. Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective During the mid-late 1990’s gender ...
... much of the social inequity in the world is centred on access to health care, the terminology became integrated into language in health service reform more generally and is now pervasive throughout international health literature. Mainstreaming a Gender Perspective During the mid-late 1990’s gender ...
Shifting Feminisms in the Jewish Renewal Movement
... Friday nights after I light my Sabbath candles, has become a constant presence, challenging me to bring it into daily activities and work in the cities.” Novick’s experiences of Shekhinah were incremental, growing over time. There is a sense in which, for her, Shekhinah was waiting to be discovered, ...
... Friday nights after I light my Sabbath candles, has become a constant presence, challenging me to bring it into daily activities and work in the cities.” Novick’s experiences of Shekhinah were incremental, growing over time. There is a sense in which, for her, Shekhinah was waiting to be discovered, ...
Gender and Sexuality
... of their biological sex. When this occurs, negative sanctions are often applied to get them to conform or to punish them for their deviance. Members of society are often eager to use emotional and physical violence to enforce conventional gender roles. The second half of the chapter examines one of ...
... of their biological sex. When this occurs, negative sanctions are often applied to get them to conform or to punish them for their deviance. Members of society are often eager to use emotional and physical violence to enforce conventional gender roles. The second half of the chapter examines one of ...
Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration
... exclusion of women and girls in their camps. It is often left to initiatives by international organisations and local NGOs to care for women and child ex-combatants. For example, in Sudan, UNICEF ran a program to disarm young children—many of whom had been abducted—and reintegrated them into schools ...
... exclusion of women and girls in their camps. It is often left to initiatives by international organisations and local NGOs to care for women and child ex-combatants. For example, in Sudan, UNICEF ran a program to disarm young children—many of whom had been abducted—and reintegrated them into schools ...
Invisible Masculinity
... American history cannot be fully understood without an understanding of American men’s ceaseless quest for manhood in the evolution of those economic, political, social, and cultural experiences and events. Such a perspective should shed new light on the events that dot our history and the lives of ...
... American history cannot be fully understood without an understanding of American men’s ceaseless quest for manhood in the evolution of those economic, political, social, and cultural experiences and events. Such a perspective should shed new light on the events that dot our history and the lives of ...
Gender differences in mental health
... themselves without access to healthcare more often than men from the same social group, even in rich countries like the United States.(17) In many developing countries, women complain about lack of privacy, confidentiality and information about options and services available.(18) Another barrier is ...
... themselves without access to healthcare more often than men from the same social group, even in rich countries like the United States.(17) In many developing countries, women complain about lack of privacy, confidentiality and information about options and services available.(18) Another barrier is ...
Muscular, Bruised, and - Canadian Woman Studies
... they are held accountable as individuals (or as females) for not beingmore involved in sport. Second, if they do excel in sport their femininity may be called to question. Clearly, for female athletes, doing sport involves the physical body; the same body that is held up for comparison to idealized ...
... they are held accountable as individuals (or as females) for not beingmore involved in sport. Second, if they do excel in sport their femininity may be called to question. Clearly, for female athletes, doing sport involves the physical body; the same body that is held up for comparison to idealized ...
`What Works`: masculinities, crime, and cognitive
... researched as ‘gendered beings’ (Naffine, 1997:2) on an increasingly regular basis. Many researchers such as James Messerschmidt (1993) have drawn on Connell’s theory of gender in order to develop new theoretical tools for understanding why crime is committed disproportionately by men. Messerschmidt ...
... researched as ‘gendered beings’ (Naffine, 1997:2) on an increasingly regular basis. Many researchers such as James Messerschmidt (1993) have drawn on Connell’s theory of gender in order to develop new theoretical tools for understanding why crime is committed disproportionately by men. Messerschmidt ...
Running head: FEMALE PERFORMANCE
... subservience to their husbands and children as a wife and/or mother. However, the whore is also portrayed negatively for being sexual, for selfishly following her own desires, and by not devoting her entire life to their family. For Korean women, the “devout Madonna” image is one that actresses, and ...
... subservience to their husbands and children as a wife and/or mother. However, the whore is also portrayed negatively for being sexual, for selfishly following her own desires, and by not devoting her entire life to their family. For Korean women, the “devout Madonna” image is one that actresses, and ...
What do I want to know about gender? Want to know if these traits
... I don't understand why it seems to be more okay when women are gay – men always seem to go through rough times when they are gay. Why? ...
... I don't understand why it seems to be more okay when women are gay – men always seem to go through rough times when they are gay. Why? ...
Diversity in Engineering - TARA
... perspectives and expertise which individuals from different ethnicity, culture and gender can bring to problem-solving. Furthermore promoting diversity in the workforce provides greater access to talent by increasing the pool of qualified and skilled professionals. This chapter focuses on gender div ...
... perspectives and expertise which individuals from different ethnicity, culture and gender can bring to problem-solving. Furthermore promoting diversity in the workforce provides greater access to talent by increasing the pool of qualified and skilled professionals. This chapter focuses on gender div ...
No Response - Sociologists for Women in Society
... mentoring program for junior faculty in 2009 and 2010 (previous programs were denounced because they targeted only women). This program has been credited for a significant improvement in the experience of junior faculty (women in particular) documented in Harvard’s institutional climate surveys. It ...
... mentoring program for junior faculty in 2009 and 2010 (previous programs were denounced because they targeted only women). This program has been credited for a significant improvement in the experience of junior faculty (women in particular) documented in Harvard’s institutional climate surveys. It ...
Susan Okin - Westmont homepage server
... Political theorists usually distinguish between the private and public realms in a way that does not indicate that there is or ought to be a relationship between them. They do not realize that the nature of inequality between men and women in family—the private realm—also affects the inequality betw ...
... Political theorists usually distinguish between the private and public realms in a way that does not indicate that there is or ought to be a relationship between them. They do not realize that the nature of inequality between men and women in family—the private realm—also affects the inequality betw ...
The Collapse of the Nuclear Family
... underlying irony of the 1950s. The decade’s expectations for domestic perfection exuded the image of a healthy, organized home life, but often women’s crushing burdens actually caused the decay of the family’s strength. Because Mrs. Penmark cannot single-handedly maintain the house and keep Rhoda u ...
... underlying irony of the 1950s. The decade’s expectations for domestic perfection exuded the image of a healthy, organized home life, but often women’s crushing burdens actually caused the decay of the family’s strength. Because Mrs. Penmark cannot single-handedly maintain the house and keep Rhoda u ...
Blurred lines: Exploring contemporary attitudes to gender portrayal
... A sense of a growing contemporary culture of sexually offensive or abusive language and behaviour towards females – e.g. from misogynistic lyrics in pop songs (e.g. Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines) to rape jokes on social media to real world examples of sexual harassment on public transport ...
... A sense of a growing contemporary culture of sexually offensive or abusive language and behaviour towards females – e.g. from misogynistic lyrics in pop songs (e.g. Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines) to rape jokes on social media to real world examples of sexual harassment on public transport ...
Patriarchal Demographics? China`s Sex Ratio
... women in which women are invariably the victims and men the unnamed perpetrators of gender wrongs.1 In this literature, the term often implies not just gender inequality in social resources, but also an essential, biologically based difference between men and women. Perhaps precisely because it is n ...
... women in which women are invariably the victims and men the unnamed perpetrators of gender wrongs.1 In this literature, the term often implies not just gender inequality in social resources, but also an essential, biologically based difference between men and women. Perhaps precisely because it is n ...
Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
... The Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security will respond to the need for a more coordinated and coherent whole-of-government approach and framework to implement Australia's commitments under UNSCR 1325 and the broader Security Council agenda on women, peace and security. The Nat ...
... The Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security will respond to the need for a more coordinated and coherent whole-of-government approach and framework to implement Australia's commitments under UNSCR 1325 and the broader Security Council agenda on women, peace and security. The Nat ...
The effect of cartoon movies on children`s gender development
... According to a research report in 1981, Barcus (1983) “realized that 75% of characters in children’s TV shows are male while 21% are female”. Thompson and Zerbinos examined 175 cartoon movies in the cable and normal TV and reported that “the number of males among protagonists is more than females by ...
... According to a research report in 1981, Barcus (1983) “realized that 75% of characters in children’s TV shows are male while 21% are female”. Thompson and Zerbinos examined 175 cartoon movies in the cable and normal TV and reported that “the number of males among protagonists is more than females by ...
“Several Paradise Ladies Are Visiting in Town
... In like manner, the broad redefinition of labor and family and the reorganization of household economies in the expansion of 19th-centuryindustrialization are equally familiar to historical archaeologists working in this period (Handsman 1984;Beaudry and Mrozowski 1987; LeeDecker et al. 1987). So is ...
... In like manner, the broad redefinition of labor and family and the reorganization of household economies in the expansion of 19th-centuryindustrialization are equally familiar to historical archaeologists working in this period (Handsman 1984;Beaudry and Mrozowski 1987; LeeDecker et al. 1987). So is ...
Maddy Coy Children Childhood and Sexualised Popular
... attempts to repress expressions of sexuality. However, these critiques are not rooted in disapproval of sexual enjoyment, but of how it is constructed. It is for this reason that Rosalind Gill (2011) suggests that perhaps we should be referring to ‘sexist’ rather than ‘sexualised’ popular culture, a ...
... attempts to repress expressions of sexuality. However, these critiques are not rooted in disapproval of sexual enjoyment, but of how it is constructed. It is for this reason that Rosalind Gill (2011) suggests that perhaps we should be referring to ‘sexist’ rather than ‘sexualised’ popular culture, a ...
Pacheco Egalia Preschool and its Effects on Gender Performativity
... that Butler discusses. Butler quotes Foucault when he says, “It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within, the body by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those ...
... that Butler discusses. Butler quotes Foucault when he says, “It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within, the body by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those ...
Strategies for Promoting Gender Equity in
... Grounded in feminist theoretical frameworks and intended to make mainstream institutions agents of social change, gender mainstreaming refers to a wide set of strategies and processes. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) defines gender mainstreaming as “…the process of acc ...
... Grounded in feminist theoretical frameworks and intended to make mainstream institutions agents of social change, gender mainstreaming refers to a wide set of strategies and processes. The Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) defines gender mainstreaming as “…the process of acc ...