Alcohol, Gender and Culture

Gender, culture and imperialism

Recent years have witnessed a small avalanche of critical historical work on British imperial culture across the social sciences and not least within geography. The inspiration behind the critical interest in empire, knowledge and power was undoubtedly Edward Said’s groundbreaking and provocative Orientalism. Waves of debate have permeated throughout the social sciences and humanities in respon...

Alcohol and Culture

Gender, culture, and mathematics performance.

Using contemporary data from the U.S. and other nations, we address 3 questions: Do gender differences in mathematics performance exist in the general population? Do gender differences exist among the mathematically talented? Do females exist who possess profound mathematical talent? In regard to the first question, contemporary data indicate that girls in the U.S. have reached parity with boys...

Gender, alcohol consumption, and renal cell carcinoma.

The nature of the association between alcohol consumption and renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is not well understood, but there are indications of effect modification by gender. The authors report data from a population-based case-control study conducted in Iowa from 1986 to 1989. RCC cases (261 men and 145 women) were identified through the Iowa Cancer Registry, while controls (1,598 men and 831 wo...

Gender differences in cigarette smoking and alcohol

1 School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P.R. China; [email protected] 7 2 Department of Assisted Reproduction, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University 8 School of Medicine, Shanghai 200011, P.R. China; [email protected] 9 3 Key Lab. Of Reproduction Regulation of NPFPC, SIPPR, IRD, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China; 10 [email protected] (E....