...This chapter examines the transformation of the culture of birthing in Iran. These changes significantly affected gender relations, and the development of modern nursing manifested the authority of modern (male) physicians, as well as the indispensable participation of women in public health...

...This chapter discusses the inequality between men and women in India. Topics covered include: the female-male ratio; women's agency and child survival; fertility and women's emancipation; gender bias in natality; widowhood and gender relations; and gender equality and social progress. Africa...

... untouchables were excluded, thus creating a large space for the low castes. Women of the Guru’s household came forth to provide leadership in Sikh affairs. Other women too took part in politics and administration, and held property. Gender relations, however, were not free from tension between the egalitarian...

... women human rights sexual violence gender relations On July 11, 2004, at 3:30 p.m., Havildar Suresh Kumar in Imphal (Manipur) signed a memo stating that he was arresting Thangjam Manorama Devi, thirty-two years old, a suspected insurgent, explosives expert and hard core member of the banned People’s...

... far reaching in their scope and instead rest in the minutiae of the stories themselves are taken up include the everyday ways these women manage identities, gender relations, technology, and trees. Finally, attention is returned to the relationships forged by this book itself between mothers...

..., and gender relations, it considers the ways in which Caribbean authors have sought to rethink and re-narrate the traumatic past and often problematic “postcolonial” present of the region’s peoples. The book pays particular attention to the role cultural practices such as stickfighting and Carnival, as well...

....” It argues that many non-elites were fully engaged in producing ideas about politics, manners, gender relations, and a host of other topics. Drawing on two scholarly literatures, both of which have drawn on Jürgen Habermas's conceptions of an “authentic public sphere” in which individuals discussed...

... of the dance to surrender herself to her male partner. The second assumption concerns the relationship between gender and tango. Women and men who dance Argentinean tango seem to be locked in the performance of the most traditional and hierarchical gender relations imaginable. The third assumption concerns...

... of various vestiges of American culture such as music, dance, gender relations, and consumption patterns. African American soldiers Campt Tina Americanization Marshall Plan Eltern schwarze Kinder Berlin capitalism Hollywood Louis Joe Owens Jesse Riefenstahl Leni Schmeling Max Destined to Witness...

... how potentially seismic social change in gender relations – increased contact between men and women as a result of war – has been subsequently made less socially disruptive through interviewees’ insistence on a pseudo-familial language of ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ when describing interactions between...

... gender identities gender relations community Some of my earliest memories are of my father playing softball. He manned third base, the hot corner, for a local team in a sixteen-inch ball, no-gloves league. The son of Italian immigrants, my father grew up in a working-class suburb of Chicago...

...This chapter discusses in detail gender and power in urban Buenos Aires. It looks at the implications of existing culturally constituted gender relations for effective reproductive health service provision. The chapter also analyzes the cultural and psychosocial forces that construct STDs...

... in Sāo Paulo. It shows the many ways structural forces impact upon, and limit the choices available to boys and girls. This chapter also presents a conceptual framework for the deconstruction and reconstruction of gender relations and sexual experience through a dialogical and dialectical methodology...

...This chapter uses two extended case studies to show how uncertain Primitive Baptist selves—the merchant and elder C. B. Hassell and the polemicist Joshua Lawrence—navigated the currents of the antebellum marketplace and the rapids of antebellum gender relations. It argues that for Primitives...

... that address the nexus of gender, imagery, and religious imagination, and how each field has spawned studies of historical women before studies of gender relations. These include Gender and Art, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Studies, Religious Studies, and Women’s Studies. art Catherine of Siena...

... and gender relations in tobacco agriculture and manufacture from early Spanish colonization to the present. contraband Dutch merchants import substitution medicinal properties monopoly pipes tobacco Winston cigarettes wrapper tobacco concentration of tobacco firms Cuban tobacco paradigm gender...

...This examines the longer effects of the strike, including deindustrialisation, the economic and social loss of employment in the coalfields, and the limited but perceptible reconstruction of gender relations. The book's core conclusions are then detailed. accidents and fatalities Bilston Glen...

... Dalton Kenneth Vanderbilt Ricky Watts Paul anti rape activism black feminist movement race relations sexual violence gender relations victim advocacy services anti-rape movement interracial feminism racial violence gender oppression urban race relations second-wave feminists On a summer day...

...This chapter critiques Western feminist narratives of gender and Third World women's reproduction. Partial life table estimates by gender provide a window into gender disparities in Bedouin infant and child mortality. Ethnographic observations provide further insight into Bedouin gender relations...

... negotiate gender and gender relations, how they tease apart and analyze the various elements of the cultural ideal of biological parenthood, and how they assess the biomedical system in which they ambivalently participate. It traces how that experience becomes increasingly politicized as they confront...