Recently, there has been a rapid increase in the production of literary works written English by female Arab writers who have brought more appreciation for women are often perceived Western reader as exotic, eccentric and complex. The article deals with 2006 novel Girl Tangerine Scarf Mohja Kahf, Syrian-American poet novelist, which presents new borderland area occupied young Arab-American Musl...

This paper reports on an ongoing project at the University of Lethbridge (Alberta) to implement an interactive online multimedia World Wide Web site for communicating research and development results. The value of multimedia for activating rich knowledge structures is documented in the literature. However, using multimedia as a communication device for publishing research has been largely unexp...

There are many reasons why the gender imbalance in computing should be of concern to the profession. Over the last 20 years there have been many intervention programs which attempt to redress this situation and encourage more women into computing. To determine whether an intervention program has made a difference requires evaluation. Program evaluation is the careful collecting of information a...

This article asks whether blogging in the United Kingdom, which started later than in the United States, reproduces the gender differences in blogging behavior and the gender inequalities in recognition that have been observed in studies based largely on U.S. bloggers. A sample of 48 female and male British bloggers answered a questionnaire about their blogging practices and attitudes; data wer...

BACKGROUND Considerable debate surrounds the influence media have on first-time pregnant women. Much of the academic literature discusses the influence of (reality) television, which often portrays birth as risky, dramatic and painful and there is evidence that this has a negative effect on childbirth in society, through the increasing anticipation of negative outcomes. It is suggested that wom...

Tishani Doshi’s Girls Are Coming out of the Woods (2017) details gender violences inflicted against women in India and world to promote consciousness-raising, resistance, subversion interlocking systems patriarchal power based on economy, ethnicity gender. In this paper I firstly propose that Doshi promotes a transformative mode resilience guarantees socio-politic change rather than acceptance ...