The virtually unprecedented popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) in the United States and England was no less marked in France, as evidenced among other things by the commercial success of the eleven French translations that were produced within the period of ten months after its original publication. This and other indications of the significance of Stowe's novel for ...

This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of ...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems among young people, and girls and young women in particular, are a well-known health problem. Such gendered mental health patterns are also seen in conjunction with stress-related problems, such as anxiety and depression and psychosomatic complaints. Thus, intervention models tailored to the health care situation experienced by young women within a gendered and...

Language contraction is shaped by the unequal distribution of power and resources, both between the language community and the dominant society, and within the contracting language community itself. Gender is connected to other social divisions and inequalities, rendering it central to processes of maintenance and loss. For indigenous groups struggling for recognition and rights, public acknowl...

This research investigated the variety of language styles sarcasm in Mandok Hata New Year celebration. By analyzing style language, researcher found true meaning an utterance accordance with intention speaker. In this research, writer conducted analysis celebration by four videos. The use typically lessens and sometimes enhances negativity inherent a sarcastic statement. Using realistic informa...

REQUIRED) In this paper I introduce the concept of eco-masculinities as a philosophical and critical project to understand the links between gendered and pro-environmental behaviour. The background of the feminist project, the sociology of masculinity, and the post-gendered world to which they both aspire, alongside a brief history of the project of ecofeminism, occupy the bulk of the paper. In...

This paper explores how students perceive the gender of a visually androgynous teachable agent, and if and how the perceived gender relates to the perceived personality traits of the agent. It is shown that the students’ perception of the agent’s gender was independent of their own gender. There were few significant differences in the perceived personality traits in relation to perceived gender...

Time poverty methodologies are a response to the failure of income-based measures of poverty to reflect gendered aspects of well-being. However, national time use surveys normally fail to examine issues around women and men’s qualitative evaluation of their time uses, or the extent of their control over their own time. The result could be distorted policy responses which lose sight of the origi...