The observation of the psychological makeup of leaders has taken place within organizations and groups of all kinds for several decades. What was considered a psychologically adapted leader at the turn of the twentieth century is now considered rigid, patriarchal, and unnecessarily oppressive. Different models of psychological attributes and characteristics have evolved just as the practice of ...

Screen images of old lesbians combine modes of representing female gender, lesbian sexuality, and old age, all of which contain layers of otherness within a hetero-patriarchal and youth-centered society. Analyzing a range of films, from independent to mainstream cinema, this article explores how the ghosted lesbian paradigm intersects with narratives of aging as decline in representations of le...

In his celebrated book, The Meanings of Macho (1992), anthropologist Matthew C. Gutmann explores the changing character of masculinity in Mexico City. Buffeted by economic crisis in the late 1980s, middleclass men and women increasingly had to pool personal incomes to support families. Unable to sustain long-held patriarchal expectations, men made virtue out of necessity. “Women are becoming in...

This paper reports the use and non-use of health care facilities in the Hill villages in central Nepal. The health behaviour model (HBM) is applied to test the significance of socioeconomic variables on the use of the modern health care system. The study finds that all three characteristics of the HBM model, predisposing, enabling and need, are significantly related to use and non-use of the mo...

Since Mary Queen of Scots’ execution in 1587, she has become a symbol Scottish identity, failed female leadership, and Catholic martyrdom. Throughout the twentieth century, was regularly depicted on screen (Ford, 1936; Froelich, 1940; Jarrott, 1971) as thrice-wed queen, unable to rule her country due feminine nature roots. However, with rise third wave feminism postfeminism media, coupled incre...

In the 19th century, hegemonic masculinity and patriarchal system were part of society even became norms that people believed obeyed. Emily Dickinson, a female character in Dickinson series, had to deal with gender discrimination practiced by society, specifically masculine figure. This research aims investigate experienced main season 1, how she challenged notion masculinity. The writer uses d...

The Westernization of black women in the US and throughout diaspora, via ideological apparatuses such as education labour market, is symptomatic West’s attempt to interpellate embourgeois them, post 1970s, fit, converge, with their role professional managers service workers globalization efforts, for equality opportunity, recognition, distribution white male counterparts, spite some obstacles r...