according to the tradition and ferdowsi’s shāhnāma, the well-known iranian national epic, homay chehrzad is the first iranian sovereign queen of the keyanid origin. her life was an amalgamation of ancient iranian myth, epic and history. she was the daughter, wife and successor to the throne of bahman ardeshir, son of esfandiyār. the sovereignty of homay was not expected by the society. therefor...

Despite the progress in critical GIS research in recent years [1], geographical discourse is still dominated by dualist thinking that understands GIS largely as a tool for quantitative or empiricist spatial analysis. This dualist understanding of geographical methods which was partly fuelled by the fierce polemics between critical geographers and GIS users/researchers sparked off in the early 1...

No research has examined the challenges faced by lesbian women seeking to adopt from the perspective of lesbian couples themselves. The current qualitative study utilized data from 70 women (from 35 same-sex couples) who were in the process of adopting to explore how lesbian women experience and navigate the challenges they encounter during this critical life transition. Ecological, minority st...

The paper discusses two answers to the question, How to address the harmful effects of technology? The first response proposes a complete separation of science from culture, religion, and ethics. The second response finds harm in the logic and method of science itself. The paper deploys a feminist technoscience approach to overcome these accounts of neutral or deterministic technological agency...

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Teachers will: Identify different psychological perspectives on behaviour and recognise how different perspectives influence the identification of BESD and subsequent interventions Know how different psychological perspectives are reflected in school behaviour policies Consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of adopting particular psychological perspectives in differe...

This commentary is a rejoinder to the Buss and Schmitt (2011) and Eagly and Wood (2011) commentaries concerning how evolutionary psychology and feminism might fit together. This rejoinder provides one path toward uniting these perspectives in psychological literature by accomplishing three tasks. First, this rejoinder addresses and removes conceptual confusions offered by Buss and Schmitt (2011...