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Judith Kleinfeld 《Gender Issues》2009,26(2):113-129
The existence of a “boy crisis” in the United States is a topic of public policy debate. This study examines the state of
American boyhood, using not only the commonly reviewed indicators of school achievement but also mental health, premature
death, injury, delinquency, and arrests. Boys are in trouble in many areas: low rates of literacy, low grades and engagement
in school, high dropout from school, and dramatically higher rates of placement in special education, suicide, premature death,
injuries, and arrests. Girls, however, suffer from other problems, especially depression, suicidal ideation and attempts,
and eating disorders, and are less likely to achieve at the very highest levels in mathematics and science. This study argues
that both boys and girls suffer from characteristic problems, but the issues affecting boys are serious and neglected.
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Jan M. Hoem Dora Kostova Aiva Jasilioniene Cornelia Mureşan 《Revue europeenne de demographie》2009,25(3):239-255
Using data from the first round of the national Gender and Generations Surveys of Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and from
a similar survey of Hungary, which were all collected in recent years, we study rates of entry into marital and non-marital
unions. We have used elements from the narrative of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) as a vehicle to give our analysis
of the data from the four countries some coherence, and find what can be traces of the SDT in these countries. The details
vary by country; in particular, latter-day developments in union formation patterns did not start at the same time in all
the countries, but in our assessment it began everywhere before communism fell, that is, before the societal transition to
a market economy got underway in 1990.
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Ming Tsui 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):1-11
This study examines the relationship between gender and mathematics achievement among students in China and the United States,
with an emphasis on the gender gap among mathematically talented students. The results show that in neither the US nor China
are there gender differences in eighth grade math-achievement test scores. In China, there are no gender differences in mean
college entrance examination math scores among high-school seniors, while in America, the mean SAT-Math score among male high-school
seniors has been consistently higher than those of their female counterparts. In both the US and China, there are gender differences
among the top math performers on college entrance examinations; boys are over-represented. The Chinese national mathematics
curriculum, well-trained teachers, beliefs by students and their parents that academic achievement is more a product of effort
than of natural ability, a gender-neutral parental expectation for children’s education, and generous family spending on the
education of girls are suggested as possible factors underlying the comparable performance of the Chinese female and male
students. The sorting system at Chinese secondary school level and a cultural stereotype favoring boys in mathematics are
suggested as possible contributors to the math-achievement gender gap found among the top Chinese high school seniors.
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Although much is known about changes in the conjugal family, little is known about trends in contact between parents and adult
(independently living) children. Using unique survey data, we study changes in contact with the mother and the father in five
western countries over a 15-year period (Austria, West Germany, Great Britain, the United States, and Italy). We describe
changes and we examine the role of compositional changes in the trend. We find no evidence for a decline in intergenerational
contact, in contrast to notions of individualism. In two countries, there has been an increase in contact with the mother
and in three countries no net trend is observed. Contact with the father has not changed. Other forms of contact (e.g., telephone
contact) have increased. Some compositional changes have had a downward pressure on the trend, leading to a decline in contact
(i.e., rising education, declining church attendance), but these pressures have been compensated by counteracting compositional
changes (declining sibsize) and by behavioral changes.
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Marco Breschi Alessio Fornasin Matteo Manfredini Marianna Zacchigna 《Revue europeenne de demographie》2009,25(3):277-296
It is well known that timing and intensity of remarriage were strictly dependent upon demographic, socio-economic, cultural
and legislative factors specific to each community. Thus, the aim of this paper is to compare the extent to which such factors
may affect the remarriage patterns of three pre-transitional Italian populations that were different in many respects. By
using micro-level data of the sharecropping communities of Casalguidi and Madregolo and the Alpine village of Treppo Carnico,
we highlighted similarities and differences in the respective remarriage patterns, in particular, the far lower intensity
in the mountain community with respect to the sharecropping ones. Our findings show that along with differences in the demographic
system, household structure and land tenure, normative elements concerning widows and the dotal system could in part explain
the differentials we found.
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Matteo ManfrediniEmail: |
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Marcella Gemelli 《Gender Issues》2008,25(2):101-113
This article explores the ideas of low-income single mothers on certain aspects of welfare reform, namely the Marriage Promotion
Act, which uses funds for the formation and maintenance of two parent families. Drawing on research with former and current
welfare recipients, the author explores how the mothers felt about certain welfare reform policies while trying to understand
their current work and family arrangements. Two main ideas behind welfare reform were to encourage paid work and two parent
families. While the mothers acknowledged that having access to a second wage earner would help themselves and their children
realize a life less complicated by monetary issues, they expressed anger and frustration at being encouraged to marry. Welfare
reform dictates that families receiving assistance take personal responsibility for their low-income lives and that paid work
is essential to moving a family out of poverty. The stories from the mothers interviewed for this study suggest that while
they valued work and wanted to work, to combine work with being a “good mother” was difficult to accomplish. Ultimately, what
these mothers suggest through their experiences is the contradiction of welfare reform—paid work does not necessarily provide
independence and marriage to another wage earner also undermines independence.
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Women and minorities have consistently experienced marginalization and inequality in the United States, with low-income, immigrant
and refugee women experiencing the most severe forms. This paper explores how we can restructure one area in which disparities
exist, the primary healthcare system, to provide respectful, compassionate, accessible and adequate care to refugee and low-income
women who are medically at-risk during pregnancy. This will be done by reviewing the Priscilla Project, an inner-city program
that serves at-risk pregnant women in Buffalo, NY, including the history and persistence of disparities in healthcare, activities
and impact of the program, and the uniquely contextualized program paradigm.
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Jimmy RoweEmail: |
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Kathryn Farr 《Gender Issues》2009,26(1):1-41
Rape in today’s civil armed conflicts is particularly widespread and brutal, constituting what I refer to as extreme war rape, in which perpetrators intentionally injure and psychologically torture their victims. Using prior research as the data source,
this article examines war rape in ongoing or recently-ended armed conflicts in 27 countries. Findings indicate that extreme
war rape is ubiquitous and that across countries, there are similarities in its perpetration as well as in the contextual
conditions that facilitate it. Based upon data that also show some variations in war rape prevalence and in the prominence
of certain features, e.g., most common perpetrators or rape sites, I introduce four patterns of war rape, along with the distribution
of conditions that differentiate them from one another.
Kathryn Farr is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University and the author of Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. Her research interest is in the organization of transnational forms of gender-based violence. In her current research project, she is examining sexual violence and other attacks on women and girls during today’s armed conflicts. 相似文献
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Kathryn Farr is Professor Emerita in the Department of Sociology at Portland State University and the author of Sex Trafficking: The Global Market in Women and Children. Her research interest is in the organization of transnational forms of gender-based violence. In her current research project, she is examining sexual violence and other attacks on women and girls during today’s armed conflicts. 相似文献
9.
Jennifer Tomlinson 《Gender Issues》2008,25(4):246-266
The paper aims to develop a framework to understand the variant use of part-time work by employed mothers in the UK and US.
In particular, this paper seeks to explore how diversity in the use of part-time work can be explained when both countries
are associated with a neo-liberal form of capitalism (Hall and Soskice, Varieties of Capitalism: the institutional foundations
of comparative advantage, 2001) and welfare regime (Esping-Andersen, The three worlds of welfare capitalism, 1990). It is
argued here that by combining aspects of the Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) and welfare regimes literatures with Gender Regime
theory (Walby, Social Politics, 11(1):4–29, 2004), a gender centred analysis of both the causes and consequences of divergent
working-time patterns can be more adequately achieved.
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Mareile Flitsch 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(2):265-288
Knowledge organisation, embodiment of knowledge and knowledge representation are important issues for an anthropology of technology,
which seeks to explore the ways in which people find and shape everyday solutions to social and technical challenges. This
article discusses the impact of skill and of risk prevention on women’s decision-making, as well as on the domestication and
appropriation of new technologies. Particular attention is paid to non-synchronicity as a retarding factor and to the obsolescence
of skills as a critical moment in the transformation of socio-technical systems in twentieth century rural northern China
as elsewhere.
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This article examines birth control as practice and discourse in 1920s and 1930s Korea under Japanese colonial rule and explores
links with family planning and reproductive practices in post-1945 South Korea. The control of women’s reproduction held critical
implications for meanings of domesticity, marriage, sexual relations, and new womanhood. While a woman-centered position did
emerge regarding birth control, the parameters of the discourse, concerns of gynecology, and the material culture of birth
control ultimately tied the bodies and health of women to their biological and social roles as mothers.
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Sonja KimEmail: |
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Direct and indirect aggressive behaviors were studied using surveys and interviews of students in two public schools. The
variables of “sex-of-aggressor” and “sex-of-target” were included. Claims in previous research that girls engage in far more
indirect aggression than boys are not supported. Further, it was found that girls are more likely to target the opposite sex
with direct aggression than boys. This suggests more gender fluidity in the use of aggression by girls and adds to a growing
body of research that dispels the notion that direct and indirect aggression can be neatly sorted into male and female categories
of behavior.
Sibylle Artz Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the School Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on aggression and violence and girls’ use of violence. She has written two books, Feeling as a Way of Knowing (1994) and Sex, Power and the Violent School Girl, (1997) and co-edited, a third book Working Relationally with Girls, (2004), with Dr. Marie Hoskins. Diana Nicholson is a Ph.D., Candidate in the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research in the past decade has focused largely on supporting at-risk youth. She has a general interest in effective practice with children and youth, and a special interest in qualitative inquiry and relationally-based educational initiatives. Dr. Douglas Magnuson is Associate Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. He is working on a study in child protection, including (a) the use of influence methods and mandated authority, (b) professional judgment and decision-making, and (c) the use of solution-focused methods in domestic violence cases. In recent years he has published articles on the pedagogy of spirituality in child and youth care. He is the editor of Working with Youth in Divided and Contested Societies and has a forthcoming article in Youth and Policy. 相似文献
Sibylle ArtzEmail: |
Sibylle Artz Ph.D., is a Full Professor in the School Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on aggression and violence and girls’ use of violence. She has written two books, Feeling as a Way of Knowing (1994) and Sex, Power and the Violent School Girl, (1997) and co-edited, a third book Working Relationally with Girls, (2004), with Dr. Marie Hoskins. Diana Nicholson is a Ph.D., Candidate in the Centre for Cross-Faculty Inquiry in Education at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research in the past decade has focused largely on supporting at-risk youth. She has a general interest in effective practice with children and youth, and a special interest in qualitative inquiry and relationally-based educational initiatives. Dr. Douglas Magnuson is Associate Professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria. He is working on a study in child protection, including (a) the use of influence methods and mandated authority, (b) professional judgment and decision-making, and (c) the use of solution-focused methods in domestic violence cases. In recent years he has published articles on the pedagogy of spirituality in child and youth care. He is the editor of Working with Youth in Divided and Contested Societies and has a forthcoming article in Youth and Policy. 相似文献
13.
Emma Bayne 《Gender Issues》2009,26(2):130-140
Sweden is often hailed as a pioneering country regarding gender equity, but it still has gender equity issues to deal with,
and gender stereotyping is sometimes mentioned as one of them. Since the 1990s, Sweden has seen the emergence of many gender
pedagogy projects, not least in pre-schools. With gender equity projects among adults yielding limited results, the focus
has shifted to children to see if gender stereotypes can be countered in childhood. This article aims to provide an overview
of the gender pedagogy projects that have been carried out in Swedish pre-schools. The article covers background, methods
and insights gained.
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In Korea, scientific excellence has been perceived as one of the key elements of modern nation-building. Moreover, from the
late 1990s to the early 2000s, the government represented biotechnology as the future engine of the economy. Hwang succeeded
in representing himself as the hero of Korean science by appropriating the public eagerness for scientific achievement. However,
he relied on nationalist rhetoric too often against criticisms, which eventually made a considerable part of the public turn
skeptical about his integrity. Although various forms of techno-nationalism are still pervasive in Korea, Hwang’s scandal
has given a valuable chance for reflection on the relationship of science and nationalism.
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Keri Weber Sikich 《Gender Issues》2008,25(3):147-156
International female homelessness is a difficult subject to address for a number of reasons. First, understanding what defines
homelessness poses a problem because female homelessness often takes on a different form than that of male homelessness. Also,
homelessness in industrialized countries looks different from that of developing nations where women are more likely to have
inadequate housing in temporary shelters or live as squatters. Both of these factors affect the visibility of female homelessness
as well as the ability to garner an accurate account of the number of homeless women around the world. Understanding the causes
of female homelessness from a global perspective is no less difficult to comprehend because it encompasses so many other multifaceted
issues. Women in developing nations face a different set of issues than their counterparts in the industrialized world because
of differences in property rights, women’s rights generally, access to education, and access to social services. Finally,
immigrant women face a unique set of circumstances of being a foreigner without an adequate social support network.
Keri Weber Sikich is a Ph.D. student at American University in the Justice, Law and Society Department. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. 相似文献
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Keri Weber Sikich is a Ph.D. student at American University in the Justice, Law and Society Department. She has a Master’s Degree in International Relations from the University of Chicago. 相似文献
16.
Adele E. Clarke 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(3):303-326
This special issue of EASTS examines reproductive technoscience, gender, and the formation of East Asian modernities across the twentieth and into the
twenty-first century. We begin our introduction with a brief overview of social science scholarship to date on reproductive
topics. We then turn to emergent trends: going to and coming from beyond the West, complicating the issues, and intensive
localizing and comparative research. Next, we discuss themes that cut across considerations of gender, reproductive technologies,
and related issues in East Asia: issues of imperialisms and colonialisms as roots and contexts, postcolonial and nationalist
forms of embeddedness, feminist theories of gender and transnationalism, and relations of gender and reproductive technologies
to biological citizenship. Last is an introduction to the articles in this special issue.
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Adele E. ClarkeEmail: |
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Race-Class-Gender Theory: An Image(ry) Problem 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Ivy Ken 《Gender Issues》2007,24(2):1-20
For over 100 years, but particularly since the 1980s, scholars have heavily relied on images of race, class, and gender as
“intersecting” and “interlocking” forms of oppression and disempowerment. This imagery has helped feminists develop the empirically
grounded theoretical premises that (1) race, class, and gender are social structural locations, (2) structural locations shape
perspectives, (3) no individual is all-oppressed or all-oppressing, (4) the meanings of race, class, and gender are localized,
and (5) race, class, and gender depend on and (6) mutually constitute each other. In this article I synthesize these premises
to reveal some opportunities for theoretical development that may inspire a new generation of race-class-gender scholarship.
I argue that while intersection is fairly limited as a conceptual image, the interlocking imagery can help us identify how
the relationships among these structures of oppression have become institutionalized.
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Lisa Shawn Hogan 《Gender Issues》2008,25(2):63-79
The World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 is remembered most as the event that inspired Lucretia Coffin Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton to organize the Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention. Few scholars, however, have analyzed the debate proceedings
that ultimately resulted in women’s exclusion from the convention. An analysis of the convention proceedings questions Wendell
Phillips’ strategy of speaking on behalf of the women, arguing instead that William Lloyd Garrison’s strategy of silence was
the more rhetorically astute response to the exclusion of women. Garrison’s silent protest not only attracted more attention
to the women’s rights cause, but also inspired women to speak on their own behalf.
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Lisa Shawn HoganEmail: |
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Sima Zalcberg 《Gender Issues》2007,24(3):13-34
Women’s modesty norms are often perceived as governing women’s bodies and as patriarchal oppression. This study challenges
these perspectives, offering a deeper, multi-dimensional picture showing that the reality of the women’s life is much more
complicated. The article chose to discuss aspects of modesty among women of one of the most extreme Jewish ultra-Orthodox
groups, and in particular, to investigate how they experience an extremely demanding requirement—shaving off the hair on their
head upon marriage and covering their head with a black kerchief. The findings show that there are a variety of voices among
the women, ranging from the view that these practices are desirable, through the view that they empower the women, to the
view that they damage one’s attractiveness and are quite painful.
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Choong-Hwan Park 《East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal》2008,2(2):235-264
The peasantry is probably the last social category that researchers of technology and society readily associate with the use
of high technologies such as the Internet. But in China recently, tens of thousands of peasant entrepreneurs, engaged in a
unique form of rural tourism popularly called nongjiale (delights in farm guesthouses), have adopted the Internet as a medium for advertising their farm guesthouses. This paper
is an anthropological study of how Chinese peasant entrepreneurs’ adoption of the Internet is engrained in the broader material
and symbolic orders of contemporary Chinese society. By exploring the way in which the Chinese peasants are idiosyncratically
involved with the Internet, it also questions whether STS (Science, Technology, and Society) concepts such as users and non-users,
developed essentially within Euro-American contexts, are adequate to explain the symbolic appropriations of high-tech in pursuit
of modernity in China today.
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Choong-Hwan ParkEmail: |