BARBARA DUDEN, The woman beneath the skin: a doctor's patients in eighteenth-century Germany, transl. Thomas Dunlap, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1991, pp. viii, 241, £19.95 (0-674-95403-3). Readers of German will already be familiar with Barbara Duden's pathbreaking study of the female patients of an eighteenth-century provincial medical man of Saxony (it was publish...

abstract  the discovery of cave paintings made by upper paleolithic artists in western europe was an astonishing find about the human past. they were discovered in the late nineteenth century and involved the scientific community with the new subject under the title of prehistory art. since the discovery of the astonishing relics, several theories proposed by different specialists with special ...

ed from society, and often in opposition to it. When medieval texts speak of onna no mi they mean more than the physical and sexed body that makes for womanhood; for both her mental and emotional attributes as well as her relationship to others as a social being are involved in the constitution of what we might call the female body/self. The body in the medieval context was not something set in...

Turner's suggestive analysis of African ritual symbolism (1) enhances one's appreciation of the complexity of expressive phenomena. There are, however, methodological and theoretical cautions to be raised. First, the approach he advocates attacks the problem of representations at the most difficult point of analysis. Symbols of the kind singled out by this method are repositories of many, highl...

Male or female? How genes send a developing embryo down one path or the other varies substantially among species. In honeybees, it boils down to whether a particular chromosomal location has the same version of a gene (called homozygous) or two different versions (heterozygous). Honeybees that have two different versions of the sex determination locus (SDL) develop female traits. Those that hav...

Respondents' Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI; S. L. Bem, 1974) classifications may differ considerably on the basis of the form and scoring method used. The BSRI was reexamined with respect to past and present relevance. Article: The 1970s heralded a new concept in masculinity and femininity research: the idea that healthy women and men could possess similar characteristics. Androgyny emerged as a...

This is a follow-up on two previous articles on WarpPLS and e-collaboration. The first discussed the five main steps through which a variance-based nonlinear structural equation modeling analysis could be conducted with the software WarpPLS (Kock, 2010b). The second covered specific features related to grouped descriptive statistics, viewing and changing analysis algorithm and resampling settin...

In 1980, LDS authorities used the term “transsexual” for first time publicly when they prohibited “transsexual operations” in their official General Handbook of Instructions. They made clear that “members who have undergone transsexual operations must be excommunicated” and “after excommunication such a person is not eligible baptism.”1 Such harsh policies were rooted broader ambience strict bo...

This special issue had its origins in the spring and summer of 2020, a moment which stakes food, gender sovereignty were particularly visible. Pandemic-related shortages, shutdowns restaurants, marketplaces stores sudden food insecurity for millions people – all inescapably changed daily experience eating provisioning. To get by, created new networks to bypass systems they counted on past, some...

Across two experiments the present research examined the use of social-consensus feedback as a strategy for overcoming spontaneous gender stereotyping when certain social role nouns and professional terms are read. Participants were presented with word pairs comprising a role noun (e.g. surgeon) and a kinship term (e.g. mother), and asked to decide whether both terms could refer to the same per...