Mothers and Breadwinners: Gender and Working Class Identity in Alsace, 1821-1936

Gender and working class identity in Britain during the 1950s.

Mothers, Peers and Gender Identity∗

We study the formation of gender identity by looking at the labor-market decisions of young women. Specifically, we investigate whether and how a woman’s work behavior depends on the work behavior of her mother and that of her friends’ mothers. Using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers and their schoolmates followed over time, we find that both intergenerational channels positively affect...

Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

We study the formation of gender identity by looking at the labor market decisions of young women. Specifically, we investigate whether and how a woman’s work behavior depends on the work behavior of her mother and that of her friends’ mothers. Using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers and their friends followed over time, we find that both intergenerational channels positively affect a w...

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...