Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries

Volume 12 consists of fourteen original essays by multi-national and multi-disciplinary scholars. Four discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. A range of Martineau's writings are explor...

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Other Authors Segal, Marcia Texler, 1940-, Demos, Vasilikie P.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, UK : Emerald JAI, 2008.
Edition1st ed.
SeriesAdvances in gender research ; v. 12.
Subjects
Gender identity > History > 19th century.
Gender identity > History > 20th century.
Gender identity > History > 21st century.
Sex role > History > 19th century.
Sex role > History > 20th century.
Sex role > History > 21st century.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781848550278
1848550278
9781848550261
184855026X
ISSN1529-2126 ;
DOI10.1016/S1529-2126(2008)12
Physical Description1 online resource (xiii, 302 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos
  • Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem / Susan Hoecker-Drysdale
  • Harriet Martineau's Irish romance: the lady oracle and the young repealer / Deborah A. Logan
  • Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health: England and her soldiers / Mary Jo Deegan
  • Harriet Martineau: the forerunner of cultural studies / Anna Dryjanska
  • Some things are not negotiable: gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union / Alexandra Gerber
  • Breaking their way in: women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil / Miriam Adelman, Fernanda Azeredo Moraes
  • Exercising social power: the case of marriage / Kathryn A. Sweeney
  • Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender / Sally K. Gallagher
  • Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy: interpretive strategies of Israeli rabbinic court pleaders / Susan Weiss
  • Surviving widowhood: gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies / Tariqah A. Nuriddin, Carolyn C. Perrucci
  • Re-examining the meanings of childbirth: beyond gender and the "natural" versus "medical" dichotomy / Sarah Jane Brubaker, Heather E. Dillaway
  • Redefining "reproductive rights": an ecofeminist perspective on in vitro fertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood / Laura Corradi
  • How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self / Elianne Riska, Thomas Heikell.

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