Gender, Religion, and American Encounters

The Voluntary Sector and American Religion

There are nonprofits whose assets exceed those of several nations, such as the Ford Foundation, Harvard University, and the J. Paul Getty Trust, and there are nonprofits that conduct intense civic campaigns out of someone's kitchen with volunteer labor and never more than $500 in the bank. There are associations dedicated to saving the world from nuclear war and associations dedicated to promot...

Brief Encounters: Impact of Gender, Sex-Role Attitudes, and Partner's Gender on Interaction and Cognition i

Research on sex differences in dyadic interactions has largely neglected the effects of sex-role attitudes and has focused on overt behavior to the relative omission of information-gathering and affective responses. In addition to behavioral observations, individuals in sameor opposite-sex pairs completed questionnaires on recall and descriptions o f the partners, as well as ratings o f liking....

Religion, Politics and Gender Equality Public Religions Revisited

Introduction: Gender, Rights and Religion at the Crossroads

The introduction to this IDS Bulletin captures why this is the moment for re-engaging with the politics of gender and religion in a securitised post-9/11 context in which ‘Muslim communities’ have emerged as a political category in their own right. The article traces and exposes how religion has been deployed by international actors, donors, states, feminists, development practitioners, and hum...

Let's address sensitive issues head-on: health, gender and religion.