Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P.
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Bingley, UK : Emerald JAI, 2008.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed.
• Σειρά: Advances in gender research ; v. 12.
• Θέματα: Gender identity > History > 19th century.; Gender identity > History > 20th century.; Gender identity > History > 21st century.; Sex role > History > 19th century.; Sex role > History > 20th century.; Sex role > History > 21st century.; Gender studies, gender groups.; Social Science > Gender studies.

Volume 12 consists of fourteen original essays by multi-national and multi-disciplinary scholars. Four discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. A range of Martineau's writings are explor...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos
• Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
• Harriet Martineau's Irish romance: the lady oracle and the young repealer / Deborah A. Logan
• Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health: England and her soldiers / Mary Jo Deegan
• Harriet Martineau: the forerunner of cultural studies / Anna Dryjanska
• Some things are not negotiable: gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union / Alexandra Gerber
• Breaking their way in: women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil / Miriam Adelman, Fernanda Azeredo Moraes
• Exercising social power: the case of marriage / Kathryn A. Sweeney
• Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender / Sally K. Gallagher
• Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy: interpretive strategies of Israeli rabbinic court pleaders / Susan Weiss
• Surviving widowhood: gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies / Tariqah A. Nuriddin, Carolyn C. Perrucci
• Re-examining the meanings of childbirth: beyond gender and the "natural" versus "medical" dichotomy / Sarah Jane Brubaker, Heather E. Dillaway
• Redefining "reproductive rights": an ecofeminist perspective on in vitro fertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood / Laura Corradi
• How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self / Elianne Riska, Thomas Heikell.