EDITORIAL: GENDER RELATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE

Editorial: Language, Cognition, and Gender

Gender inequality remains a contentious issue in many societies, despite legislative, and other less formal attempts to tackle it. It is perpetuated, in part, by gender stereotyping. Previous research indicates that language contributes to gender inequality in various ways: Genderrelated information is transmitted through formal and semantic features of language, such as the grammatical categor...

Editorial Spotlight on gender

a , b c * Peter Collins , John C. Stevenson , Lori Mosca National Heart and Lung Institute and Royal Brompton Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, St. Mary’s Hospital (Mint Wing), Praed Street, London W2 1NY, UK New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Unive...

Gender quotas, gender mainstreaming and gender relations in politics

This article seeks to reintroduce discussions on gender relations in politics back into scholarly and political debate. Many countries have adopted gender quotas, but it is unclear whether their implementation has meaningfully changed the prevalent inequalities governing gender relations in politics. This article considers whether the implementation of gender quotas could promote change, and as...

Nationalist Projects and Gender Relations

Nationalist projects are multiplex, multi-dimensional and historically specific. The main aspects looked at in this article are those relating to genealogy and origin, those related to culture and tradition and those related to citizenship and state. In all of them gender relations play crucial roles, constructing notions of femininity and masculinity, naturalize power relations and reproduce b...

Editorial Overview: Environmental Change Issues: Coral Reefs Sustainability and Its Challenges