Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries /
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...
| Інші автори: | , |
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Мова: | Англійська |
| Опубліковано: |
Bingley, UK :
Emerald Jai,
2008.
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| Редагування: | 1st ed. |
| Серія: | Advances in gender research ;
v. 12. |
| Онлайн доступ: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=512766 |
Зміст:
- Introduction : advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Marcia Texler Segal and 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 (1859) Health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861) / 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 and 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 and Carolyn C. Perrucci
- Re-examining the meanings of childbirth : beyond gender and the "natural" versus "medical" dichotomy / Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather E. Dillaway
- Redefining "reproductive rights" : an ecofeminist perspective on in vitro frertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood / Laura Corradi
- How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self / Elianne Riska and Thomas Heikell.