Flowers for Mom, a Tie for Dad: How Gender is Created on Mother’s and Father’s Day

Mother’s and Father’s Day celebrations were investigated to understand how gender is created on these two occasions. Fifty-three heterosexual couples were interviewed about family holidays. Mother’s Day was given more attention than Father’s Day. Families spent more time celebrating; they were more likely to eat out, and were more likely to celebrate with others. Mothers were also more likely to receive gifts than fathers. The gendering of the holidays was reflected in the more stereotypical gifts received on Mother’s and Father’s Day than on birthdays, and in that mothers were more likely to report relief from chores on Mother’s Day than fathers were on Father’s Day (p < .01). Families in which women worked full-time and whose husbands contributed substantially to domestic labor were as likely to celebrate in gendered ways as traditional families were. These holidays reflect and promote hegemonic notions of the gendered nature of motherhood and fatherhood.

川北评书Northern Siohuan’s Storytelling

评书，又称评话，以说为主，故又称之为说书。评书始于隋唐盛行于宋，明代传入四川，逐步形成具有地方特色的评书。     

Similar Faults Different Endings--A Comparison between the Origins of Tess’s and Hester’s Tragedy

Hester Prynne and Tess Durbeyfield were two eminent female figures in the world by Thomas Hardy and Nathaniel Hawthone.Although the two female leading characters were in different time and place,their tragic experiences were almost the same.However,they were separated in the end.From the comparison of their personalities and the social situation they involved in,we would try to explore the origins of their similarity and ending by this article with the aim of alerting the world.     

The Effect of Children on Men’s and Women’s Chances of Re-partnering in a European Context

This work examines what role children play in the re-partnering process in five European countries (Norway, France, Germany, Romania, and the Russian Federation) by addressing the following research questions: (1) To what extent do men and women differ in their re-partnering chances?; (2) Can gender differences in re-partnering be explained by the presence of children?; (3) How do the custodial arrangements and the child’s age affect the re-partnering chances of men and women? We use the partnership and parenthood histories of the participants in the first wave of the Generations and Gender Survey (United Nations, Generations and Gender Programme: Survey Instruments. United Nations, New York/Geneva, 2005) to examine the transition to moving in with a new partner following the dissolution of the first marital union, separately for men and women. The story that emerges is one of similarities in the effects rather than differences. In most countries, men are more likely to re-partner than women. This gender difference can be attributed to the presence of children as our analyses show that childless men and women do not differ in their probability to re-partner. Mothers with resident children are less likely to re-partner than non-mothers and a similar though often non-significant effect of resident children is observed for fathers. In most countries we find that as the child ages, the chances to enter a new union increase. In sum, our study indicates that children are an important factor in re-partnering and a contributor to the documented gender gap in re-partnering, and this holds throughout distinct institutional and cultural settings.     

Like Mother(-in-Law) Like Daughter? Influence of the Older Generation’s Fertility Behaviours on Women’s Desired Family Size in Bihar,India

This paper investigates the associations between preferred family size of women in rural Bihar, India and the fertility behaviours of their mother and mother-in-law. Scheduled interviews of 440 pairs of married women aged 16–34 years and their mothers-in-law were conducted in 2011. Preferred family size is first measured by Coombs scale, allowing us to capture latent desired number of children and then categorized into three categories (low, medium and high). Women’s preferred family size is estimated using ordered logistic regression. We find that the family size preferences are not associated with mother’s fertility but with mother’s education. Mother-in-law’s desired number of grandchildren is positively associated with women’s preferred family size. However, when the woman has higher education than her mother-in-law, her preferred family size gets smaller, suggesting that education provides women with greater autonomy in their decision-making on childbearing.     

Knowledge, Embodiment, Skill and Risk: Anthropological Perspectives on Women’s Everyday Technologies in Rural Northern China

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.

雇主品牌塑造中的4P’s策略

“雇主品牌”概念最早于20世纪90年代初由英国资深管理专家赛蒙．巴洛与伦敦商学院提姆·安博拉教授提出。他们将营销学中的“产品品牌”概念应用于人力资源管理领域,倡导企业找到自己在人力资源市场中的定位,从而在目标群体中建立独特的雇主形象,以更好地吸引、激励和挽留优秀人才,实现竞争优势。“雇主品牌”因而成为继‘（产品品牌”、‘企业形象品牌”之后的“第三种品牌”。     

Children’s Sex and the Happiness of Parents

Demographers are interested in sex preferences for children because they can skew sex ratios and influence population-level fertility, parenting behavior, and family outcomes. Based on parity progression ratios, in most European countries, there are no sex preferences for a first child, but a strong preference for mixed-sex children. We hypothesize that mixed-sex preferences also influence parental happiness. Parents’ disappointment with a second child of the same sex as the first could have negative effects for parents and children. We use longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Study to examine parental happiness by the children’s sex and analyze whether these effects differ by parent’s sex, age, nativity, and educational attainment. The results are only partially consistent with predictions from parity progression ratios. As expected, parental happiness does not depend on the sex of the first child. We find weak evidence suggesting that two boys decrease happiness, but the findings are not consistent across German and British data or across subpopulations. Moreover, two girls do not reduce happiness. Although sex preferences influence fertility, they appear to have little impact on happiness, perhaps because of unobserved positive factors associated with having same-sex children.     

’2003,你好!

岁月老人挥动巨手, 时光的长河掀起大潮,又一个美好的新年,乘着飞雪,迎着祝福,扑面来到。日历上那鲜红的“1”,像火炬般快乐地燃烧。伴着高高升起的五星红旗, 伴着元旦悠远的钟声,我们——新世纪的少先队员,欢呼跳跃着向你问候:2003年,你好!     

“I Never Wanted to Be an Ashley!” Androcentrism and Gender Entitlement in Disney’s <Emphasis Type="Italic">Recess</Emphasis>

The commercially successful Disney animated television series Recess featured a bold and physically active tomboy character in a leading role. Ashley Spinelli (referred to only by her surname) vocally disdained all things feminine. Spinelli’s nemeses were a clique of snobbish, scheming girly-girls, all of whom were also named Ashley. This dynamic is significant when read against the Walt Disney Company’s overall investment in discourses of normative femininity. It is also historically contingent with the ways in which North American popular culture has used the tomboy to address various perceived societal needs, including healthy lifestyles, masculine dominance and childhood innocence. The Recess episode “First Name Ashley” displays an androcentric and gender-entitled representation of girlhood, predicated upon the understanding that normative femininity is synonymous with cruelty. The liberatory possibilities in this representation are thereby compromised by the representation of female agency as dependent upon maintaining distance from femininity.     

Women’s Wages and Fertility Revisited Evidence from Norway

The prediction of New Home Economics of a negative effect of female wages on fertility has been tested in a number of studies, but the results are far from unanimous. This article contributes with new evidence based on registry data covering all Norwegian women born in 1955–1974 and a simultaneous hazard model of transitions to first, second and third birth. We find a U-shaped relationship between wages and the log hazard for all cohorts, however, varying in strength and across parity. In transitions to first birth, most women are likely to be on the downward slope of the curve, implying that the wage effect is mainly negative. In transitions to second and third birth, most women are likely to be on the upward slope of the curve, where the wage effect is positive. The results are not very sensitive to the omission of education and income of the spouse.     

试析The Third Knight’s Speech的语言特色

培养学生驾驭英语语言文学知识和对文学作品的独立赏析能力是英语专业高年级阶段阅读课的主要教学任务．本文从演讲稿的特点出发,结合词汇、句式、篇章结构、修辞手段、逻辑推理等因素,时T．S．Eliot的《第三骑士的演说》的语言特色进行了分析,为英语专业学生鉴赏T．S.Eliot的作品的严谨结构、考究用词和精巧构思提供了一个例子。     

Children’s Learning Mother Tongue Versus Foreign Language Teaching

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Unit6《It’s raining》教学设计

【教材简析】 本节课是人教版《新目标》七年级下册第六单元section B 3a-3c的内容。本单元主要学习如何描述天气和谈论正在发生的事情,承接上个单元继续学习现在进行时态,是本学期教学任务中非常重要的部分,在日常口语中运用频率相当高。     

别了,马克斯&#183;雅可布

他是我们这一代人心目中的了不起的小诗人,马克斯&#183;雅可布,法国人,1944年去世.死于集中营中.……