While normative Hebrew distinguishes between atem/hem ‘you/they-msc-plural’ and aten/hen ‘you/they-fem-plural’, many current speakers use the masculine forms for both feminine and masculine plural referents, and it has been claimed that the masculine/feminine distinction has disappeared from the spoken language (Borochovsky Bar-Aba 2002). However, corpus examination shows many cases where the s...

[1] The relationship of gender and the environment is a uniquely modern question fraught with an underlying essentialism that women have a special relationship with nature. Nature, for example, is viewed as feminine – compare such expressions as “mother earth” or “mother nature,” “virgin soil,” and “rape of the land” – and women’s lived experiences, especially those involving birth and childcar...

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrinopathy affecting up to one in every five women of reproductive age. The majority of researches on PCOS focus on its biomedical aspects, often overlooking and neglecting women's own perceptions and experiences. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to explore women's perception and experiences that influence their personal gender rol...


 When I became aware of the emergent body legal scholarship on menstruation related topics which this Symposium builds, thought that authors these articles were very brave.1 I’m an imperfect but life-long feminist and accepted emotional challenge writing Essay posed for me out gratitude to those authors. Because my principal scholarly focus is intellectual property law, approached topic t...

The authors examined feminine charm, an impression management technique available to women that combines friendliness with flirtation. They asked whether feminine charm resolves the impression management dilemma facing women who simultaneously pursue task (i.e., economic) and social goals in negotiations. They compared women's social and economic consequences after using feminine charm versus a...

Past research demonstrates that heterosexuals perceive gay men to have traditionally feminine characteristics. Guided by Social Role Theory (Eagly, 1987), we predicted that this stereotype would differ depending on a gay man’s specific social role. To test this idea, participants rated five gay targets (father, single man, hairdresser, truck driver, typical gay man) on stereotypically masculine...

this paper is an attempt to explain the form and components of iranian female painters artworks in the 70s and80s hijri. it seeks to assess women’s paintings of two decades ago in comparison with current iranian artworks. undoubtedly, the growth in the number of those who produce artworks motivates the researcher to study women’s produced paintings to identify iran’s current art field. to achie...