Gender, Power, and Emigration From Mexico

Gender, domestic violence and sickness in Mexico.

A vast social science literature exists devoted to women's health problems in developed nations..* A great deal has also been written about woraen's health in developing nations, but the majority of these investigations have centered around wo~aen's health in association with their reproductive capacities.t Little attention has been paid, however, to women's sub-acute non-life threatening condi...

Gender, Power, and Traumatic Stress in a Q’eqchi’ Refugee Community in Mexico

This paper presents ethnographic research on the relationship between gender differences in the expression of traumatic stress and emic constructions of social power relating to the humoral categories hot (q’ix) and cold (ke) in a Q’eqchi’ refugee community in Campeche, Mexico. Women disproportionately experienced four gender-specific forms of stress relative to men while residing in the refuge...

Gender and Power Dynamics

Gender and Power: How Gender and Gender Environment Affect Manifestations of Power

We investigate the interaction of power, gender, and language use in the Enron email corpus. We present a freely available extension to the Enron corpus, with the gender of senders of 87% messages reliably identified. Using this data, we test two specific hypotheses drawn from the sociolinguistic literature pertaining to gender and power: women managers use face-saving communicative strategies,...

gender and power in "siyasatnameh

the victory of tugrul in dandanghan (431 hq/1073 ad) heralded the rule of seljuks in persia. the pinnacle of this period could be said to have been the ten years reign of alp arsalan (455-65/1063-73) and twenty years reign of his son malekshah (465-85/1063-73). these thirty years of continuous rule by father and son coincided with the chancellorship of khajeh nizam al-mulk, a wise counselor to ...