With the present article an extension of doing gender concept by another important dimension, body, is proposed. Butler showed that sex results from materialization and we argue not only emerges interactive doing, but also does sex. This process called Doing GenderBody interestingly it done gender. After inactive production a gender/sex, follows evaluation this produced probation. Moreover, gen...

iolence is gendered: it is in considerable measure a problem and consequence of masculinity. Contemporary state interventions to control violence are no less gendered: structures of response, from arrest through imprisonment, glorify tough cops, celebrate adversarial relations, and construct a virtuous "protective" state by incarcerating or, in some countries, killing "the bad guys". What alter...

We examine the wider social knowledge domain that complements technical and environmental knowledge in enabling adaptive practices through two case studies in Tanzania. We are concerned with knowledge production that is shaped by gendered exclusion from the main thrusts of planned adaptation, in the practice of irrigation in a dryland village and the adoption of fast-maturing seed varieties in ...

Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content analysis of parents' responses revealed that the most ...

This paper addresses the translation divergencies of pronouns from English to French, specifically it and they, which have several gendered and non-gendered possible translations into French. Instead of using anaphora resolution, which is error-prone, we build a target language model that estimates the probabilities of a tuple of consecutive nouns followed by a pronoun. We bring evidence for th...

The authors examined social capital, self-esteem, popularity, need for accessibility to friends, and stress as gendered predictors of cyber technology use in 149 undergraduates. The authors investigated four kinds of cyber technology use: social networking, texting, internet surfing, and MP3 player listening. Stress was the most consistent predictor of cyber technology use in men (social networ...

Gendered identity is often assumed to be predicated on the prior existence of dichotomously sexed bodies: penis equating to maleness and vagina (or the absence of a penis) equating to femaleness. But is it experienced in this way? We analyse talk about the vagina and female gendered identity in focus group (and interview) data collected from 55 women that explores this very issue. Women talked ...

Morgan Stanley has been hit, yet again, with a gender discrimination lawsuit. ... The suit comes two years after former Morgan broker Allison Schieffelin was awarded $12 million in her sexual discrimination suit against the firm. ... According to this latest complaint, ... ‘‘Morgan Stanley has engaged in a pattern and practice of gender discrimination with respect to compensation and promoting ...

This study examines gendered characteristics in four female Japanese language learners’ discourse practices in a communicative setting, where they interact with native Japanese speaking friends in a JFL context. Focusing on the relationship between gender ideologies and discourse practices, I explore the extent to which learners are aware of gender ideologies in the Japanese community and how t...