Feminist HCI and transgender studies are natural allies, as they share a focus on gender embodiment and advocacy, and both are important arenas for technology research and design. Explicit transgender inclusion in feminist HCI could bring about important future collaborations, theories, and insights. We draw from feminist HCI literature, briefly discuss online identity and intersectionality, an...

There are different theories about language evolution. Some authors claim that language evolved from monkey vocalization, others from gestural communication. Others even denies a direct evolution of language from some monkey precursor, considering the former as a completely new acquisition of the human gender, with characteristics that are completely different from any other animal cognitive fu...

INTRODUCTION........................................................................1299 I. THE QUEST FOR “CURES” ......................................................1303 II. FAILED EFFORTS TO MAKE “HOMOSEXUALS” SICK......1311 A. WHAT MAKES A PERSON MENTALLY ILL .............................1313 B. THE DEPATHOLOGIZATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY.................1316 C. CAUSAL THEORIES OF DISORDER........

Anterior cruciate ligament injury occurs with a 4to 6-fold greater incidence in female athletes compared with male athletes playing the same landing and cutting sports. The elevated risk of ACL injury in women, coupled with the 10-fold increase in high school and 5-fold increase in collegiate sport participation in the past 30 years, has led to a rapid rise in ACL injuries in female athletes. T...

Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories. Feminists also posed many questions worthy of being addressed by psychological science. This call for research preceded the emergence of a new and influential body of research on gender and women that grew especially rapidly...

Starting in the 1960s, feminists argued that the discipline of psychology had neglected the study of women and gender and misrepresented women in its research and theories. Feminists also posed many questions worthy of being addressed by psychological science. This call for research preceded the emergence of a new and influential body of research on gender and women that grew especially rapidly...

This article has two goals, an intellectual history of gender as a concept, and to outline a framework we suggest for moving forward theory and research on gender conceptualized as a structure of social stratification. Our first goal is to trace the conceptual development of the study of sex and gender throughout the twentieth century to now. We do this from a feminist sociological standpoint, ...

The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a historical case study of Switzerland this paper examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and inco...

We highlight practical lessons from policy theories on how to promote equity through transformational changes in policymaking. Health, education and gender are at the heart of such agendas. Their advocates seek to: , reject a ‘neoliberal’ paradigm address social economic causes unfair inequalities, policymaking foster collaboration holistic government. However, they also report wide gap between...