Category: Gender Studies

a number of states have handed gender integration laws completely admitting ladies into their army forces. consequently, states have dramatically elevated women’s numbers, and better gender equality by way of removal a few regulations. but regardless of adjustments and projects on either household and overseas degrees to combine gender views into the army, now not all states have more suitable to an analogous volume. a few have effectively promoted gender integration within the ranks by way of erasing all varieties of discrimination, yet others proceed to hamper it through environment boundaries on equivalent entry to careers, strive against, and ranks. Why do states abandon their rules of exclusion and advertise gender integration in a manner that women’s army participation turns into an essential component of army strength? via reading twenty-four NATO member states, this ebook argues that civilian policymakers and army management now not hand over to parochial gendered department of the jobs, yet particularly help integration to satisfy the recruitment numbers because of army modernization, professionalization and technological developments. in addition, it proposes that elevated strain by means of the United international locations to combine gender into safeguard and NATO looking standardization and consistency at the foreign point, and women’s events at the family point, are contributing to bigger gender integration within the military.

Accounting for Affection examines the multifaceted nature of early sleek motherhood via targeting the guidelines and techniques of Roman aristocratic moms in the course of familial clash. Illuminating new techniques to the maternal and the familial hired by way of such ladies, it demonstrates how interventions won expanding desire in early sleek Rome.

For many years, students have many times stumbled on the inequity of gender representations in informational and leisure media. starting with the seminal paintings through Gaye Tuchman and co-workers, we have now time and again obvious a systemic underrepresentation and misrepresentation of ladies in media. analyzing the most recent learn in discourse and content material analyses trending in either household and overseas circles, Media Disparity: A Gender Battleground highlights the progress—or lack thereof—in media concerning portrayals of girls, throughout genres and cultures in the twenty-first century. mixing either unique reviews and descriptive overviews of present media systems, most sensible students review the portrayals of girls in modern venues, together with ads, videogames, political tales, wellbeing and fitness communique, and fact television.

Die hier versammelten Beiträge spiegeln den aktuellen Stand der Debatte um Intersektionalität 20 Jahre nach Prägung des Begriffes im Schwarzen Feminismus in den united states. Bei seiner transatlantischen Reise durchlief der Ansatz Metamorphosen und fiel in Europa auf vorbereiteten Boden, insbesondere in anglophonen und deutschsprachigen feministischen Diskursen. Klasse, Geschlecht, Ethnizität und „Rasse“, Sexualität, Behinderung, adjust und andere Dimensionen von Ungleichheit und Identität werden inzwischen in intersektioneller Perspektive untersucht. In diesem Band wird der Ansatz vorgestellt und in transdisziplinären und transnationalen Analyseperspektiven wie Diskurstheorie, Biographieforschung, Wissenssoziologie, Rahmenanalyse und Sozialstrukturanalyse verortet; auch werden kritische Interventionen zu Problemen und Grenzen dieses Konzepts diskutiert.

unbelievable until eventually the 20 th century, the medical perform of shifting eggs and sperm from physique to physique is now the root of a bustling industry. In Sex Cells, Rene Almeling presents an inside of examine how egg organizations and sperm banks do company. even supposing either women and men are typically interested in donation for monetary purposes, Almeling reveals that clinics inspire sperm donors to consider the funds as remuneration for a simple "job." ladies obtain more cash yet are advised to treat egg donation in female phrases, because the final "gift" from one girl to a different. Sex Cells indicates how the gendered framing of paid donation, as both a task or a present, not just affects the constitution of the industry, but in addition profoundly impacts the members whose genetic fabric is being purchased.

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Frauenstudien / Gender-Forschung, Universität Bremen, Veranstaltung: Vortrag im Rahmen eines Doktorandenkollegs, Sprache: Deutsch, summary: Beiträge zu Feminismus, Antisemitismus und
Nationalsozialismus im 19./20. Jahrhundert: Band 1

Der Vortrag wurde im Rahmen des Doktorandenkollegs "Erkenntnisprojekt Feminismus" an der Universität Bremen gehalten. Er basiert im Wesentlichen auf den Forschungsergebnissen zum Thema "Grundlagen jüdisch-feministischer Sozialethik im Deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel von Bertha Pappenheim". Im Vortrag werden Ansätze, Grundlagen, Ziele, aber auch Widersprüche und Spannungen im jüdisch-feministischen Denken der Frauenrechtlerin Bertha Pappenheim ausgeführt.

Jessie Bernard used to be one of many superior early feminist sociologists and public intellectuals in women's reviews. within the Jessie Bernard Reader, Michael S. Kimmel and Yasemin Besen have compiled her so much fascinating and influential paintings on marriage, the kin, sexuality and altering women's roles within the usa. Bernard's pioneering works bridged the distance among educational social technological know-how and public advocacy for gender equality. Her books have been landmarks in demarcating the results of the "separation of spheres." between her such a lot celebrated arguments used to be that skilled assorted marriages, "his" and "hers"-and that his was once greater than hers. This quantity will motivate a brand new new release of students, a iteration that inherits the profits for which Bernard struggled her complete career.

Scenes of Intimacy analyzes the illustration of acts and relationships of intimacy in modern literature, the impression this has upon readers, and the methods those representations resonate with, supplement, and problem the worries of latest concept. commencing with an in-depth interview with literary critic, Derridean, and novelist Professor Nicholas Royle, the quantity includes 11 additional essays that circulate from intimate scenes of familial and pedagogic legacy, directly to representations of affection, of intercourse, and eventually to scenes of dying and loss of life. The essays are textually aware of how literary options create intimacy, and draw upon new and amazing theoretical positions and critics from queer idea, have an effect on experiences, psychoanalysis, poststructualism and deconstruction to invite tough and uncomfortable questions on intimacy and its illustration. around the genres of poetry, autobiography, journals, love letters, brief tales and novels, Scenes of Intimacy indicates that modern literature poses new percentages and questions about our intimate relationalities, their disasters and their futures.

The altering nature of waged paintings in modern complicated commercial countries is likely one of the most vital facets of political and fiscal debate. it's also the topic of extreme debate between observers of gender. Capital Culture explores those adjustments focusing rather at the gender kinfolk among the lads and ladies who paintings within the monetary companies zone. The a number of ways that masculinities and femininities are built is published throughout the research of interviews with buyers, investors, analysts and company financiers.

Drawing on more than a few disciplinary techniques, a number of the ways that gender segregation is tested and maintained is explored. In interesting element, the typical stories of guys and girls operating in more than a few jobs and in numerous areas, from the dealing rooms to the boardrooms, are tested. This quantity is exclusive in targeting males in addition to girls, displaying that for males too there are a number of methods of doing gender at work.

“Despite Canada’s declare to be a gender equitable country, militarism keeps to operate in ways in which safeguard inequality.” —from the Introduction

Little has been performed to check, critique, and problem the methods ingrained societal principles of militarism and gender effect lifelong studying styles and practices of Canadians. Editor Nancy Taber and ten different members discover the explanation why Canadian educators can be taken with how studying, militarism, and gender intersect. Readers can be stunned to find how this reaches past the school room into the typical classes, attitudes, and behavior that each one Canadians are taught, frequently with out query. Pushing the bounds of schooling conception, examine, and perform, this booklet should be of specific curiosity to feminist, grownup, and instructor educators and to students and scholars of schooling, the army, and women’s and gender reports.

Contributors:
Mark Anthony Castrodale, Gillian L. Fournier, Andrew Haddow, Cindy L. Hanson, Laura Lane, Jamie Magnusson, Robert C. Mizzi, Shahrzad Mojab, Snežana Ratković, Roger Saul, Nancy Taber.