and more intelligent than women but, strangely, it is the fate of each man to become the willing slave of some woman, without knowing how this takes place. The book is full of generalizations, most of them inaccurate. Feminine and masculine roles are sharply divided. Long hair, colourful clothes, toilet aids, and artistic interests are presented as a denial of masculinity: the feminine mind is ...

Serbian and Russian children produce fewer adjective-noun gender-agreement errors with diminutive nouns (e.g. ribica ‘little fish’) than with their simplex counterparts (e.g. riba ‘fish’). This study explores factors responsible for the diminutive advantage, using a gender-agreement task with Serbian-speaking children (N=24, mean age 4;4). Over four sessions, children were introduced to picture...

The study examined whether the sex of older siblings influences the gender role development of younger brothers and sisters of age 3 years. Data on the Pre-School Activities Inventory, a measure of gender role behavior that discriminates within as well as between the sexes, were obtained in a general population study for 527 girls and 582 boys with an older sister, 500 girls and 561 boys with a...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the impact of therapist's gender and gender roles on attitudes toward clients. Attitudes toward motivational interviewing were also a focus as MI can be hypothesized to be feminine rather than masculine in nature. The subjects (N = 246) were Finnish substance abuse therapists. Their attitudes toward clients were measured using a vignette task....

We examine how gender stereotypes affect performance in mixed-gender negotiations. We extend recent work demonstrating that stereotype activation leads to a male advantage and a complementary female disadvantage at the bargaining table (Kray, Thompson, & Galinsky, 2001). In the present investigation, we regenerate the stereotype of effective negotiators by associating stereotypically feminine s...

androgynous mind: Virginia Woolf introduced this term in A Room of One’s Own (1929) to indicate the creative mentality that partakes of both masculine (andro) and feminine (gyno) qualities. Heilbrun and Bazin see it as a balancing of “the evanescent masculine and the eternal feminine” as typical of the enlightened state, yet Showalter and others have seen it as a “sexist myth in disguise,” reif...

poor was already rampant. Alleviation (beyond rather ineffective policing laws) was, in Northern Germany, primarily in the hands of private philanthropy and protestant clergymen. Dr Weidmann surveys the establishment of poor relief in Hamburg, Oldenburg, Prague, Vienna, Hanover, Frankfurt/Main, and Berlin, with specific attention to the care of the sick poor. She shows that an effective system ...

This article explores the relations between journalism and feminist cultural studies to underscore the crucial importance of studying forms of popular knowledge that claim to foster citizenship among audiences. The article begins by examining the history of feminist cultural studies scholars’ sustained interest in feminine genres of popular culture rather than journalism. Crossing over to the o...