Gender and agency versus communion at the threshold of adulthood
... gender (58 sex-typed individuals and 70 androgynous individuals). In the study the Psychological Gender Inventory was used, as well as a scale measuring Agency and Communion, a scale measuring Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion, lists of sentences containing stereotypes of the male sex and ...
... gender (58 sex-typed individuals and 70 androgynous individuals). In the study the Psychological Gender Inventory was used, as well as a scale measuring Agency and Communion, a scale measuring Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion, lists of sentences containing stereotypes of the male sex and ...
Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want
... the inquiry we must allow that the criteria for distinguishing “colors” or “sexes” differ across time and place, and that the boundaries are at least partly political; but in spite of this variation, we are still dealing with an overarching phenomenon of racial and sexual subordination. III. WHAT IS ...
... the inquiry we must allow that the criteria for distinguishing “colors” or “sexes” differ across time and place, and that the boundaries are at least partly political; but in spite of this variation, we are still dealing with an overarching phenomenon of racial and sexual subordination. III. WHAT IS ...
Jessie Fauset`s Plum Bun and the City`s Transformative Potential
... in the ongoing debate about “the embeddedness of African American women in consumer culture and in the city” (97, emphasis added). Because Plum Bun engages in important ways with both urban aesthetics and the concerns of urban sociology, I will demonstrate that the novel can be read as raising cruci ...
... in the ongoing debate about “the embeddedness of African American women in consumer culture and in the city” (97, emphasis added). Because Plum Bun engages in important ways with both urban aesthetics and the concerns of urban sociology, I will demonstrate that the novel can be read as raising cruci ...
Gender Issues in Agricultural Extension and Rural
... revealed that agricultural extension services had not targeted women as important clienteles, in spite of the indispensable role played by women in agriculture. The research also revealed that most of the messages from the extension agents emphasized their domestic role with topics on child care and ...
... revealed that agricultural extension services had not targeted women as important clienteles, in spite of the indispensable role played by women in agriculture. The research also revealed that most of the messages from the extension agents emphasized their domestic role with topics on child care and ...
“A Sea Captain in Her Own Right”: Navigating the Feminist Thought
... referred to as “the Angel out of the House,” performed by a woman who ministered to the needs and aspirations of Egyptian women at large through philanthropy and social service. Shaarawi actively supported women’s education and suffrage and dared to examine and discuss the concepts or institutions o ...
... referred to as “the Angel out of the House,” performed by a woman who ministered to the needs and aspirations of Egyptian women at large through philanthropy and social service. Shaarawi actively supported women’s education and suffrage and dared to examine and discuss the concepts or institutions o ...
Gender issues reflected within nature in Jane Austen`s novel
... Berglund also discusses this subject, ‘Marriage was after all almost the only way for a woman of the eighteen century to acquire a house of her own’ (159). Berglund claims that the men in Austen’s novels are aware that they are the ones that provide women with a home (168). One realizes the amount o ...
... Berglund also discusses this subject, ‘Marriage was after all almost the only way for a woman of the eighteen century to acquire a house of her own’ (159). Berglund claims that the men in Austen’s novels are aware that they are the ones that provide women with a home (168). One realizes the amount o ...
Introduction - The University of Michigan Press
... without the other. This ‹eld has also demonstrated that, no less than femininity, masculinity is not solely the product of the two-gender binary, even if that binary is a central de‹ning feature. Accordingly, scholars have been diligent in pointing out the intersections of masculinity with categorie ...
... without the other. This ‹eld has also demonstrated that, no less than femininity, masculinity is not solely the product of the two-gender binary, even if that binary is a central de‹ning feature. Accordingly, scholars have been diligent in pointing out the intersections of masculinity with categorie ...
Men, Masculinity, and the Contexts of Help Seeking (PDF
... can vary among persons and groups and may also change over time. At the same time, it is recognized that some ideologies are more powerful than others in determining what members of a culture take to be normative masculinity (e.g., White, middle-class, heterosexual definitions of masculinity in the ...
... can vary among persons and groups and may also change over time. At the same time, it is recognized that some ideologies are more powerful than others in determining what members of a culture take to be normative masculinity (e.g., White, middle-class, heterosexual definitions of masculinity in the ...
Changes in the gender relations after the fall of the Soviet Union: the
... The intention of the research is to look at gender relations in Azerbaijan and thus it is better to define gender, prior to the literature background and research analysis. Gender has various definitions, however, this research will use the term “gender” as a system that defines “being man” and “bei ...
... The intention of the research is to look at gender relations in Azerbaijan and thus it is better to define gender, prior to the literature background and research analysis. Gender has various definitions, however, this research will use the term “gender” as a system that defines “being man” and “bei ...
Amartya Sen`s Concept of Human Rights: Agency`s Vital Role
... that go beyond not being well sheltered.5 This has nothing to do with Plato’s psychic condition of the agent.6 Nor does the situation merely demand E.P. Thompson’s humanistic balance between the immediate and the potential.7 Sen’s contention is that due recognition can be given to the social choice, ...
... that go beyond not being well sheltered.5 This has nothing to do with Plato’s psychic condition of the agent.6 Nor does the situation merely demand E.P. Thompson’s humanistic balance between the immediate and the potential.7 Sen’s contention is that due recognition can be given to the social choice, ...
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 ...
Disabled Peoples Organizations – Denmark (DPOD)
... the risk of deepening inequality between women and men. By accepting the gender differences but not the inequality in organisations and in the everyday life it might be possible to reach more sophisticated goals. DPOD and its member organisations provide support to umbrella organisations of PWD and ...
... the risk of deepening inequality between women and men. By accepting the gender differences but not the inequality in organisations and in the everyday life it might be possible to reach more sophisticated goals. DPOD and its member organisations provide support to umbrella organisations of PWD and ...
Housework - Oxford Academic
... Second, we became convinced that analyses focused on individual or couplelevel factors were missing a big part of the story: how contextual factors influence housework levels and gender differences. Cross-national trends in housework mirror U.S. trends: more substantial declines in women’s housework ...
... Second, we became convinced that analyses focused on individual or couplelevel factors were missing a big part of the story: how contextual factors influence housework levels and gender differences. Cross-national trends in housework mirror U.S. trends: more substantial declines in women’s housework ...
Ending gender stereotyping and sexist portrayales in
... women’s studies in academia in the 1970s and 1980s, a research interest in gender roles in advertising emerged. the images of women and men were analysed with a specific interest in body language, stereotypes and sexism in magazines, newspapers and tv. through advertising gender images and gender-ro ...
... women’s studies in academia in the 1970s and 1980s, a research interest in gender roles in advertising emerged. the images of women and men were analysed with a specific interest in body language, stereotypes and sexism in magazines, newspapers and tv. through advertising gender images and gender-ro ...
Political Morality and Culture: What Difference Do Differences Make
... ways of life, the pressures on members of the group to conform to traditional gender roles can also be enormous. Shachar shows that family law, goveming matters of marriage, divorce, custody, and inheritance, is most often the site where the customs of religious and cultural minorities clash with th ...
... ways of life, the pressures on members of the group to conform to traditional gender roles can also be enormous. Shachar shows that family law, goveming matters of marriage, divorce, custody, and inheritance, is most often the site where the customs of religious and cultural minorities clash with th ...
Research in the Sociology of Sport
... which transform intentional human action into unintended, unplanned patterns of relationships which take place over longer and shorter periods of time; (2) human beings only exist in interdependent relationships with others; (3) human social life is characterized by a diverse set of shifting relati ...
... which transform intentional human action into unintended, unplanned patterns of relationships which take place over longer and shorter periods of time; (2) human beings only exist in interdependent relationships with others; (3) human social life is characterized by a diverse set of shifting relati ...
Rich Text (Authors` post-print)
... Pringle and Sayers, 2006). For example, public health campaigns have used involvement in football as a practice to endorse the importance of physical exercise to healthy living (Robertson, 2003; White and Witty, 2009) and other recent initiatives have used football to engage men who may be marginal ...
... Pringle and Sayers, 2006). For example, public health campaigns have used involvement in football as a practice to endorse the importance of physical exercise to healthy living (Robertson, 2003; White and Witty, 2009) and other recent initiatives have used football to engage men who may be marginal ...
View/Open
... The aim of this research is to establish if and in what way Woolf’s ideas on gender and gender roles, which were very strongly conveyed in A Room of One’s Own, are expressed in her other works. Previous research mainly discusses Virginia Woolf as a modernist writer and as a feminist, and the three w ...
... The aim of this research is to establish if and in what way Woolf’s ideas on gender and gender roles, which were very strongly conveyed in A Room of One’s Own, are expressed in her other works. Previous research mainly discusses Virginia Woolf as a modernist writer and as a feminist, and the three w ...
The Self and Others in 1950s England
... Pym’s comedy may be just as disarming but it is more ruthless than Austen’s. Pym and Austen were both Christian writers. However, where Austen satirised the snobbery and religious hypocrisy of her world, Pym emphasises the male egoism and the spiritual hollowness of hers. At one point she breaks her ...
... Pym’s comedy may be just as disarming but it is more ruthless than Austen’s. Pym and Austen were both Christian writers. However, where Austen satirised the snobbery and religious hypocrisy of her world, Pym emphasises the male egoism and the spiritual hollowness of hers. At one point she breaks her ...
HASLANGER-Gender and Race
... In an analytical project we must begin by considering what we want the concept in question for. Someone might argue, however, that the answer is simple: our concepts must do the work of enabling us to articulate truths. But of course an unconstrained search for truth would yield chaos, not theory; t ...
... In an analytical project we must begin by considering what we want the concept in question for. Someone might argue, however, that the answer is simple: our concepts must do the work of enabling us to articulate truths. But of course an unconstrained search for truth would yield chaos, not theory; t ...
Chapter 2 - Dr. Adam M Volungis
... – Eagly & Wood (1999) re-analyzed Buss’s crosscultural data and proposed an alternative to his sexual strategies theory – Social-structural theory: a theory of the origin of psychological gender differences that focuses on the social structure, particularly the division of labor between men and wome ...
... – Eagly & Wood (1999) re-analyzed Buss’s crosscultural data and proposed an alternative to his sexual strategies theory – Social-structural theory: a theory of the origin of psychological gender differences that focuses on the social structure, particularly the division of labor between men and wome ...
chapter eighteen - Pearson Education
... Swedish children (compared to one-third in the United States) are born to unmarried parents. Average household size in Sweden is also the smallest in the world (2.0 persons, versus 2.6 in the United States). Finally, Swedish couples, whether married or not, are more likely to break up than partners ...
... Swedish children (compared to one-third in the United States) are born to unmarried parents. Average household size in Sweden is also the smallest in the world (2.0 persons, versus 2.6 in the United States). Finally, Swedish couples, whether married or not, are more likely to break up than partners ...
Gender and Industrialism
... • Increased Gender StratificationPatrilineal-Patrilocal Societies – The spread of patrilineal-patrilocal societies has been associated with pressure on resources and increased local ...
... • Increased Gender StratificationPatrilineal-Patrilocal Societies – The spread of patrilineal-patrilocal societies has been associated with pressure on resources and increased local ...
... Today, the main concern in the archaeology of the Middle Stone Age is with the earliest stages of symbolic thought, and with the dawn of language, which may or may not coincide with it. At least on the former (symbolic thought), we have some good evidence. The clearest comes from South Africa. For ...
Applications Of Social Norms Theory To Other Health And Social
... but thought that most other men would. All of these misperceptions encourage men to suppress their discomfort with other men’s behavior and may result in men feeling pressure to be sexually active whether or not they want to. Muehlenhard and Cook (1988), for example, found that over two-thirds of me ...
... but thought that most other men would. All of these misperceptions encourage men to suppress their discomfort with other men’s behavior and may result in men feeling pressure to be sexually active whether or not they want to. Muehlenhard and Cook (1988), for example, found that over two-thirds of me ...