Drawing upon feminist analyses of double jeopardy and the cult of true womanhood, we examine race, rank, sexual harassment frequency, and psychological distress for Black and White female military personnel (N = 7,714). Results indicated that White women reported more overall sexual harassment, gender harassment, and crude behavior, whereas Black women reported more unwanted sexual attention an...

In a society, gender ideology is created and refl ected in multiple ways. Among the myriad ways, language and culture play great role in creating and refl ecting gendered culture in a society. This paper examines the representation of women in Oromo folk-proverbs and folk-religion, and analyses the position of women in the traditional Oromo cultural practices. Despite all the barriers of patria...

Racial variations in preterm birth (PTB) outcomes are well described, but causal mechanisms linking race and PTB are not. In clinical research, race is typically treated as representing fixed biological traits. In reality, race is a social construct that approximates lived experiences of historical and ongoing systematic discrimination and, in the case of PTB, particular stressors of black woma...

Issues related to women constituted some of the most significant debates in modern Iran especially following Constitutional Revolution 1906. Women’s education, working conditions, as well their civil and political rights were also among widely discussed subjects periodicals published early-twentieth century later. This article explores Sayyid Ashrafu’d-Din Hosayni Gilani’s women-related poems w...

Whogets called “emotional?”Andwhat does itmeanwhen that happens?What tellsus that aperson is “speaking fromtheheart?” The prevailing stereotype is that she is emotional, while he is not. In Speaking from theHeart Stephanie Shields draws on examples from everyday life, contemporary culture, and the latest research, to reveal how culturally shared beliefs about emotion shape our identities aswome...