Gendering Caste

Caste in Itself, Caste and Class, or Caste in Class

A fter the British conquered Bengal and eventually the whole of India, they set out to administer the colony. In this context they encountered two phenomena with which they were not familiar: (1) the relation of people to land for production (and not for revenue receiving, household living, etc.), and (2) the caste system of India, viz. the jati stratifi cation of society. Soon they realized th...

Gendering the Job:

Gender segregation of jobs plays a central role in current research on gender and labor markets, and understanding the mechanisms driving the gender segregation has become a key focus of study. While the literature on gender segregation of jobs often invoke gender sorting mechanisms that operate pre-hire, the data that are used to empirically examine these processes are almost always collected ...

Gendering Socialist Popular Cultures

Gendering the Internet

j In this article the mutual shaping of the Internet and gender is analysed. Common claims that the Internet constitutes a masculine or contrarily a feminine environment are critically discussed, as well as the cyberfeminist contention that the Internet enables new identities not limited by gender. It is argued instead that gender and the Internet are multidimensional concepts that are articula...

Re-gendering Data: Quantifying Qualitative