Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-

Demos, Vasilikie P.

Series:

Advances in gender research ; v. 12.

Advances in gender research, 1529-2126 ; v. 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--History--19th century.

Gender identity.

Gender identity--History--20th century.

Gender identity--History--21st century.

Sex role--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--History--20th century.

Sex role--History--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Advancing gender research from the 19th to the 21st centuries

Place of Publication:

Bingley, UK : Emerald Jai, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 explored including her critical review of the Salem witch hunts and her letters to a young Irishman. Several essays focus on gendered implications of the state, for example, the European Union or the Eastern European Bloc. A third set focus on gender and social institutions and some investigate family-related issues including power relations regarding race, childbearing, the impact of religious fundamentalism, issues related to aging, health and medicine, and sport. Some are based on presentations given at the International Sociological Association Congress in Durban, South Africa in July, 2006. Others are drawn from the Martineau Society Working Seminar at National University of Ireland at Maynooth in May, 2007. Continuing in the tradition established by the "Advances in Gender Research" series, it explores gender as a social institution and social construct. The essays complement one another in their topic examination, issues and themes, adding nuance to contemporary Gender Studies.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613681676

9781280770906

1280770902

9781848550278

1848550278

OCLC:

609843620