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



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Titolo: Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bingley, UK, : Emerald Jai, 2008
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
Disciplina: 305.3
Soggetto topico: Gender identity - History - 19th century
Gender identity - History - 20th century
Gender identity - History - 21st century
Sex role - History - 19th century
Sex role - History - 20th century
Sex role - History - 21st century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: SegalMarcia Texler <1940->  
DemosVasilikie P  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgment; Information to Authors; Chapter 1. Introduction: Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries; References; References; Chapter 2. Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem; Introduction: The present examination of Martineau's interest in Salem ''witchcraft''; The context: Martineau's early interest in demonology and the background for her articles on the Salem witch hunts
Martineau's article on Upham's Lectures on WitchcraftMartineau's article on Upham's major work on the Salem witch hunts; Preconditions: The context of the Salem tragedy; ''Deviant'' behavior and social relations; The community response; Martineau's interpretation of the witch hunts; The meaning of the Salem tragedy for later centuries; Notes; References; Chapter 3. Harriet Martineau's Irish romance: The Lady Oracle and the Young Repealer; Acknowledgments; References
Chapter 4. Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health: England and her soldiers (1859) and health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861)The intellectual alliance of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876) and Florence Nightingale (1820-1910); England and her soldiers (1859a); The sociology of public health; Mapping; Gender and the English soldier; Health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861); Gender, health, and labor; Martineau's further contributions to the sociology of health, medicine, and occupations; Martineau and female sociologists at Hull-House and the University of Chicago, 1889-1935; Conclusion
NotesAcknowledgements; References; Chapter 5. Harriet Martineau: The forerunner of cultural studies; The politics of life; Ethnographical aspects; Socio-cultural change as the tool for emancipation; The emancipation of women; The emancipation of blacks; The emancipation of low social class; Summary; Notes; References; Chapter 6. Some things are not negotiable: Gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union; Introduction; The changing nature of nation-states; Gender, sovereignty, and European practice; Gender and Polish identity; Implications for European integration
ConclusionNotes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 7. Breaking their way in: women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil; Introduction; Women in sport: bodies and subjectivities; Places, spaces and gendered practices at the racetrack: past and present; Women as jockeys and gender in an interactional context at the JCP; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 8. Exercising social power: The case of marriage; Introduction; Research design; Findings: Structural inequality & controlling decisions; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References
Chapter 9. Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender
Sommario/riassunto: Consists of essays that discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British Author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. Continuing in the tradition established by the ""Advances in Gender Research"" seri
Titolo autorizzato: Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-77090-2
9786613681676
1-84855-027-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910455016203321
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Serie: Advances in gender research ; ; v. 12.