Abstract The literature on the metaphysics of gender is partially marked by a tension between conceptions that understand categories as importantly at least partly self-determined identities and those them social or cultural imposed upon others tool oppression. I argue this can be mediated understanding essentially contested. then draw “radical functionalism” to that, while, divorced context, c...

The article is devoted to the study of language representations of the concept of “woman” in the minds of the Russian and Chinese people based on a comparison of associative experiments of two languages, identifying the dynamics of the concept in the language consciousness of the people, establishing the specificity of the concept in the Russian language picture of the world referring to the Ch...

A commercial medium often assumed to exist solely for a juvenile and "lowbrow" audience, comic books have been largely ignored by academic scholarship. There are some exceptions within the fields of American studies-for instance, the work of Thomas Inge-popular culture studies, where writers gather in a Comic Arts subdivision of the Popular Culture Association, and cultural studies, with work b...

• Evidence of effectiveness: This intervention has been evaluated in six well-conducted randomized controlled trials, and found to produce a sizable increase in the quit rate: 13.9% of women assigned to the intervention quit smoking in the last 4-5 months of their pregnancy, compared with 8.3% of the women assigned to the control group. In almost all cases, these effects were statistically-sign...

This article is devoted to the concept of "woman" in world culture. The study examines icons female image different cultures peoples world. In a where there no science, biological characteristics woman, many aspects relationship between men and women remain dark, behind screen shyness. However, as scientific way thinking spreads culture, untimely constraints decrease. From this point view, topi...

This work presents the analysis of the body movement of male participants, while talking with a life-size virtual woman in a virtual social encounter within a CAVE-like system. We consider independent and explanatory variables including whether the participant is the centre of attention in the scenario, whether the participant is shy or confident, and his relationship status. We also examine wh...