Gender justice and social norms – processes of change for
... contexts; and the processes by which gender norms change. This section includes a discussion of adolescent girls’ agency in challenging discriminatory gender norms, and processes of resistance and backlash against changing gender norms. While a comprehensive survey of relevant literature on all thes ...
... contexts; and the processes by which gender norms change. This section includes a discussion of adolescent girls’ agency in challenging discriminatory gender norms, and processes of resistance and backlash against changing gender norms. While a comprehensive survey of relevant literature on all thes ...
Galtung, Violence, and Gender: The Case for a Peace Studies
... Johan Galtung formulated a theory of violence based on the recognition that direct, personal violence (from bar brawls to international wars) is only one of three shapes which violence assumes. The other two categories of violence, namely structural (or indirect) and cultural violence are present in ...
... Johan Galtung formulated a theory of violence based on the recognition that direct, personal violence (from bar brawls to international wars) is only one of three shapes which violence assumes. The other two categories of violence, namely structural (or indirect) and cultural violence are present in ...
Introduction - The University of Michigan Press
... painted by patriarchal ideologies (and assumed by Orgon), masculinity is always potentially at risk of being destabilized precisely because it occupies the dominant position within the sex/gender system. I argue furthermore that it is through positions of marginality, such as the one occupied by Org ...
... painted by patriarchal ideologies (and assumed by Orgon), masculinity is always potentially at risk of being destabilized precisely because it occupies the dominant position within the sex/gender system. I argue furthermore that it is through positions of marginality, such as the one occupied by Org ...
Feminist Theory
... Lorber argues that “it has been very difficult, if not impossible, to get mainstream sociology to use the concept of gender as a building block and organizational principle of social orders and social institutions...” (p. 449). She attributes this resistance to the persistent belief in mainstream so ...
... Lorber argues that “it has been very difficult, if not impossible, to get mainstream sociology to use the concept of gender as a building block and organizational principle of social orders and social institutions...” (p. 449). She attributes this resistance to the persistent belief in mainstream so ...
Gender Training for Security Sector Personnel – good practices and lessons learned
... 3.1 Effective delivery of security and justice services The security sector must be able to respond to the different security needs of men, women, boys and girls, many of which are determined by differences in gender roles, norms and behaviour. For instance, gender-based violence (GBV), including hu ...
... 3.1 Effective delivery of security and justice services The security sector must be able to respond to the different security needs of men, women, boys and girls, many of which are determined by differences in gender roles, norms and behaviour. For instance, gender-based violence (GBV), including hu ...
Assessing the feminist revolution: The presence and absence of
... mobilized to change gender relations in and outside academia, and sociology was one of the many social institutions that they changed. In this paper, we trace the process of these transformations in the United States. We argue that the dramatic increases of women in sociology since the early 1970s h ...
... mobilized to change gender relations in and outside academia, and sociology was one of the many social institutions that they changed. In this paper, we trace the process of these transformations in the United States. We argue that the dramatic increases of women in sociology since the early 1970s h ...
