This article investigates emic accounts of the AIDS deaths that have occurred in a village in the Bushbuckridge district of the South African lowveld. I argue that whilst AIDS was publicly hidden and shrouded in secrecy, private gossip created moral scripts about those suspected of having died of AIDS. Details of 47 AIDS deaths revealed that young women and relatively wealthy, sometimes powerfu...

in recent decades, changes can be observed around the presence of women in urban public spaces. this paper investigates on the presence of women in these spaces in terms of selectivity or necessity. method of research is survey and questionnaire is used to collect data. the statistical sample includes 128 male and 133 female residents of the city of tabriz that are studied with random sampling....

This paper investigates determinants of the probability of preferring to work less hours among parttime and full-time working women aged 16 to 59 in England and Scotland in 2005-2006, against the background of the ongoing discussion about the role of preferences and orientations to work in women!s participation in the labour market. Theoretically rooted in a Bourdieusian tradition, it investiga...

Many studies report lower academic productivity among women. But are women less likely to get their research published in the first place? The evidence for potential gender bias in publication and impact is mixed. This article examines the gender dimension of scientific publication in international relations (IR) based on submission data for Journal of Peace Research for the period 1983–2008. I...

many of the great persian poems have powerful narrative structure and they transfer ideas and concepts from the language of different real or symbolic characters. one poem that is categorized in this field is  chahar chaman, a poem by shahdaie shirzi. this article aims at answering the question that what kind of belief and thought are each of the symbolic characters going to present? and how do...