Women , Gender , and Religion Edited by Susan Calef and Ronald A . Simkins Gender , the Environment , and Sin in Genesis

Susan Calef and Ronald A . Simkins The Ambiguously Gendered Ideal of a Seventeenth Century Community of Women Religious

Obstacles and Challenges of Policy-making based on Gender Equity

Gender equity is a controversial social issue and now with its incorporation into the Sixth Development Plan, policy-making for gender equity is essential. To this end, allocation of more resources and opportunities and implementation of affirmative action policies to achieve gender equity are not sufficient. Women's empowerment in various fields, and not just the economy and employment, is ess...

Protection of Environment and women’s social position in Iran (A Community Level Study)

The article addresses the mutual relationship between environmental improvements and improvement in social status of women. The main question of this article is: Are there any relationships between improvement in environment protection and promotion in the situation of women? The theoretical framework includes Hatfield’s view about the existence of communities between the public and private sph...

Investigating the Relationship between Gender and Perception of Environment and Its Effect on Design from Gestalt Perspective

Human communication and interaction with architectural spaces need unders tanding andinformation from their surroundings. Since there is a difference between males' and females' attitudes towards the universe, their priorities lie in unders tanding the environment as well as the process of perceiving and recognizing them. This s tudy aims to inves tigate the relationship between space per...

The Impact of Women on the Middle class Houses of the Qajar Era (Case Study: Northern Cities of Iran)

Gender expresses the social and cultural identity of men and women in society. It has balance or not, considering various factors such as cultural, religious and social beliefs, norms and values, the level of women and men's liberties in the family and society, the structure of power (patriarchy and maternity) and the degree of their cooperation in providing livelihoods. The purpose of this pap...