Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security
... The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998 and entering into force on 1 July 2002, has considerably extended international criminal law around sexual violence in conflict. In its drafting, a concerted effort was made to ensure that a range of sexually violent acts ...
... The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, adopted on 17 July 1998 and entering into force on 1 July 2002, has considerably extended international criminal law around sexual violence in conflict. In its drafting, a concerted effort was made to ensure that a range of sexually violent acts ...
Gender in Philosophy and Law
... gender is exemplified by the queer theory. The gender category is replaced with queer to denote ...
... gender is exemplified by the queer theory. The gender category is replaced with queer to denote ...
The Gendered Character of Higher Education
... women); Judith Plaskow, Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective, in WEAVING THE VISIONS, supra, at 39, 39-50 (stating that women are traditionally seen as not being “shapers of tradition and actors” in the Jewish faith); Barbara F. Stowasser, Women’s Issues in Modern Islamic Thought, in ARAB WOMEN ...
... women); Judith Plaskow, Jewish Memory from a Feminist Perspective, in WEAVING THE VISIONS, supra, at 39, 39-50 (stating that women are traditionally seen as not being “shapers of tradition and actors” in the Jewish faith); Barbara F. Stowasser, Women’s Issues in Modern Islamic Thought, in ARAB WOMEN ...
Gender in Philosophy and Law
... gender is exemplified by the queer theory. The gender category is replaced with queer to denote ...
... gender is exemplified by the queer theory. The gender category is replaced with queer to denote ...
The Effects of Socialization on Gender Discrimination and
... A number of scholars single out socialisation and culture as the most important factors explaining men’s VAW (El Sanousi, 2004; Bruce et al. in Berkowitz, 2002). The Social Learning Theory studies gender socialisation and asserts that people learn through observation, imitation, and modelling (Bandu ...
... A number of scholars single out socialisation and culture as the most important factors explaining men’s VAW (El Sanousi, 2004; Bruce et al. in Berkowitz, 2002). The Social Learning Theory studies gender socialisation and asserts that people learn through observation, imitation, and modelling (Bandu ...
Notes Sports for Boys, Wedding Cakes for Girls
... 1. Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments.—Title IX was passed as a part of the 1972 Education Amendments; its controlling provision reading as follows: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to dis ...
... 1. Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments.—Title IX was passed as a part of the 1972 Education Amendments; its controlling provision reading as follows: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to dis ...
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... Men have a limited supply of semen. Sexuality depletes this supply and saps male vitality. Heterosexual intercourse is seen as a necessary to reproduce, but unpleasant because it will lead to a man's eventual death. Heterosexual sex is discouraged and limited to only about 100 days a year. H ...
... Men have a limited supply of semen. Sexuality depletes this supply and saps male vitality. Heterosexual intercourse is seen as a necessary to reproduce, but unpleasant because it will lead to a man's eventual death. Heterosexual sex is discouraged and limited to only about 100 days a year. H ...
Gender and Sexuality
... girls are supposed to be delicate and like girl things—tea parties, things like that. But I like to do guy stuff. It doesn’t match” (quoted in Colapinto, 1997: 66; our emphasis). As this quotation suggests, being male or female involves not just biology but also certain “masculine” and “feminine” fe ...
... girls are supposed to be delicate and like girl things—tea parties, things like that. But I like to do guy stuff. It doesn’t match” (quoted in Colapinto, 1997: 66; our emphasis). As this quotation suggests, being male or female involves not just biology but also certain “masculine” and “feminine” fe ...
Population and changes in Gender Inequalities in Latin
... only for women’s lives, but also for broader development processes. To the extent that control over women’s childbearing has been a defining basis for gender inequality in the first place, a shift to lower fertility levels can set the stage for reducing the motivation for such control, and thus radi ...
... only for women’s lives, but also for broader development processes. To the extent that control over women’s childbearing has been a defining basis for gender inequality in the first place, a shift to lower fertility levels can set the stage for reducing the motivation for such control, and thus radi ...
Generation M - Media Education Foundation
... objects, or beings that should care principally about their looks, is to marginalize women into a second-class of citizen that is not given the same respect and authority as men. The film unfolds by demonstrating how the devaluing of women by media and our culture that financially supports media is ...
... objects, or beings that should care principally about their looks, is to marginalize women into a second-class of citizen that is not given the same respect and authority as men. The film unfolds by demonstrating how the devaluing of women by media and our culture that financially supports media is ...
Prejudice: The Ubiquitous Social Phenomenon by E. Aronson, T.D.
... It goes without saying that there are male cheerleaders, women doctors who are Jewish, and black classical musicians. Deep down, we know that New York cab drivers come in every size, shape, race, and gender. But we tend to categorize according to what we regard as normative. And within a given cultu ...
... It goes without saying that there are male cheerleaders, women doctors who are Jewish, and black classical musicians. Deep down, we know that New York cab drivers come in every size, shape, race, and gender. But we tend to categorize according to what we regard as normative. And within a given cultu ...
Interview with Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri
... had to pay mandatory tributes to him after saluting Ayatollah Khomeini, the martyrs of the Iraq-Iran war and chanting death slogans to Khomeini’s declared “axis of evil” foes at the time (Unites States, Britain, France, Israel etc). As I negotiated my way through the streets and alleys of Qom toward ...
... had to pay mandatory tributes to him after saluting Ayatollah Khomeini, the martyrs of the Iraq-Iran war and chanting death slogans to Khomeini’s declared “axis of evil” foes at the time (Unites States, Britain, France, Israel etc). As I negotiated my way through the streets and alleys of Qom toward ...
Madam President: Progress, Problems, and Prospects for 2008
... last three-and-one-half decades, fewer than twenty percent of candidates seeking state legislative office were women and the numbers for women running for Congress and executive offices have remained in the single digits. (8) Why? A number of complex factors are at play from sexism and stereotypes t ...
... last three-and-one-half decades, fewer than twenty percent of candidates seeking state legislative office were women and the numbers for women running for Congress and executive offices have remained in the single digits. (8) Why? A number of complex factors are at play from sexism and stereotypes t ...
Diversity in Engineering - TARA
... increasingly non-technical. Rather they are concerned with the broader context in which the road is being built and its impact on the environment and people. It is the engineer who has the knowledge and skills to address the environmental, regulatory, economic and human constraints and to put forwar ...
... increasingly non-technical. Rather they are concerned with the broader context in which the road is being built and its impact on the environment and people. It is the engineer who has the knowledge and skills to address the environmental, regulatory, economic and human constraints and to put forwar ...
Chapter 8, Gender Inequality
... fashion and the impact of such portrayals. For example, Levin and Kilbourne (2009), in So Sexy So Soon, document the sexualizing of young girls and boys. Advertising, books, cartoons, songs, toys, and television shows create: – [a] narrow definition of femininity and sexuality [that] encourages girl ...
... fashion and the impact of such portrayals. For example, Levin and Kilbourne (2009), in So Sexy So Soon, document the sexualizing of young girls and boys. Advertising, books, cartoons, songs, toys, and television shows create: – [a] narrow definition of femininity and sexuality [that] encourages girl ...
Women in sport - University of Leeds
... of Arts in Gender Studies. An exploratory, qualitative method was used (Patton, 1990). Semi-structured interviews were conducted over two months in the summer of 2008 with six women active in recreational football in the south-east UK. The openended interview questions were developed around the foll ...
... of Arts in Gender Studies. An exploratory, qualitative method was used (Patton, 1990). Semi-structured interviews were conducted over two months in the summer of 2008 with six women active in recreational football in the south-east UK. The openended interview questions were developed around the foll ...
Muscular, Bruised, and - Canadian Woman Studies
... for female athletes, doing sport involves the physical body; the same body that is held up for comparison to idealized bodies found ubiquitously in popular culture. Invoking the concept of physicality, McDermott has suggested that female athletes actively resist dominant notions of femininity throug ...
... for female athletes, doing sport involves the physical body; the same body that is held up for comparison to idealized bodies found ubiquitously in popular culture. Invoking the concept of physicality, McDermott has suggested that female athletes actively resist dominant notions of femininity throug ...
Aalborg Universitet REPRESENTING MASCULINITY Niss, Hanne
... picture of how ads have come to encode masculinity (and, correspondingly, femininity) in the 1990s, it is important to consider how advertising has revised its gender codings in general over the past 30 years. How have appeals to male vanity ...
... picture of how ads have come to encode masculinity (and, correspondingly, femininity) in the 1990s, it is important to consider how advertising has revised its gender codings in general over the past 30 years. How have appeals to male vanity ...
navigating the winds of social change for female elite athletes in asia
... In 1993 there was an inauguration of a special international sporting competition named ‘Women Islamic Games’ to optimise the sport participation of Muslim women sport participation. This mega world sporting competition is organised by the Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) under the patrona ...
... In 1993 there was an inauguration of a special international sporting competition named ‘Women Islamic Games’ to optimise the sport participation of Muslim women sport participation. This mega world sporting competition is organised by the Islamic Federation of Women’s Sport (IFWS) under the patrona ...
Securing the Civilian: Sex and Gender in the Laws of War
... presence of evidence to the contrary, and in Zarkov’s work, the detailing of the sheer force and persistence of a discourse of gender in shaping the visibility, and the meaning, of male rape. This underscores Butler’s (1990: 7) most salient point: “gender is not to culture as sex is to nature, gende ...
... presence of evidence to the contrary, and in Zarkov’s work, the detailing of the sheer force and persistence of a discourse of gender in shaping the visibility, and the meaning, of male rape. This underscores Butler’s (1990: 7) most salient point: “gender is not to culture as sex is to nature, gende ...
Patriarchal Demographics? China`s Sex Ratio
... central-level attention. In the early 1990s, just as the party-state was winding up its last nationwide mass birth control campaign, some Beijing-based demographers took advantage of the political opening provided by the decline in fertility to replacement level, and energetically pressed then–Popul ...
... central-level attention. In the early 1990s, just as the party-state was winding up its last nationwide mass birth control campaign, some Beijing-based demographers took advantage of the political opening provided by the decline in fertility to replacement level, and energetically pressed then–Popul ...
UNH-Nonsexist Language Guidelines-President`s
... When using this handbook, keep in mind that attempting to introduce nonsexist language at the cost of awkwardness, obscurity, or euphemism does not improve communication. The use of nonsexist language is not simply a matter of avoiding specific words or phrases, and these guidelines are not prescrip ...
... When using this handbook, keep in mind that attempting to introduce nonsexist language at the cost of awkwardness, obscurity, or euphemism does not improve communication. The use of nonsexist language is not simply a matter of avoiding specific words or phrases, and these guidelines are not prescrip ...
What is Gender Equality?
... Is not taking into account the circumstances of each country – such as the share of n/a employment as a percentage of total employment. Is of limited use for low-income countries where wage employment is not a main source of jobs. Does not capture the dimensions of job quality/ability of women to wo ...
... Is not taking into account the circumstances of each country – such as the share of n/a employment as a percentage of total employment. Is of limited use for low-income countries where wage employment is not a main source of jobs. Does not capture the dimensions of job quality/ability of women to wo ...
Sex and the cardiovascular system: the intriguing tale of how women
... in the womb, and that, beyond behavioral differences, prepubertal differences exist between the cardiovascular systems of boys and girls. History Before going further, it is important to understand historically how we have failed to recognize more widely that the physiology of males and females migh ...
... in the womb, and that, beyond behavioral differences, prepubertal differences exist between the cardiovascular systems of boys and girls. History Before going further, it is important to understand historically how we have failed to recognize more widely that the physiology of males and females migh ...
The Effects of Gender on First and Second
... comfortable, confident, and to make sure they realize that their opinions are valued. In both mainstream and ESL classrooms in the United States males receive more class time and talk and participate more than their female classmates. This occurs in all grade levels from kindergarten to college. Res ...
... comfortable, confident, and to make sure they realize that their opinions are valued. In both mainstream and ESL classrooms in the United States males receive more class time and talk and participate more than their female classmates. This occurs in all grade levels from kindergarten to college. Res ...