This study is based on clinical sociological principles derived from Durkheim's and Weber's theories, as well as from contemporary research findings which suggest that religion and feminism can be social sources of empowerment for women. The theoretical orientation therefore incorporates social and cultural influences on behavior, as well as the intrapsychic and interpersonal decision-making pr...

Gender has long been recognised as important within environmental issues, but there has been considerable debate over how to conceptualise the gender ^ environment nexus. As feminist theorising around women and gender has changed, so have conceptualisations about gender and environment, leading to a key debate within ecofeminism and related literatures about whether there is an essential or a c...

Educating people with special educational needs (SEN) is a hot topic these days. Many multimedia educational tools have been generated with the support of ICT to assist children receiving SEN education. Teaching supported by new technologies should guarantee contents accessibility. However, these tools are not 100% suitable because the adaptation process they implement does not take into accoun...

Nowadays, we are witnessing various crises and challenges in different areas. The women's crisis is one of the most significant of these crises, and feminism is a solution for solving this crisis, according to the Westerns.The researchers have emphasized the sexual equality perspective(gender equality) to define feminism. The main purpose of the feministsforeliminating all gender differences be...

Linn Egeberg Holmgren and Jeff Hearn, Framing men in feminism: theoretical locations, local contexts and practical passings in men’s gender-conscious positionings on gender equality and feminism, 2009, JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES, (18), 4, 403-418. JOURNAL OF GENDER STUDIES is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589230903260076 Copyright: Taylor and Francis http://www....

This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, includi...

Feminism is the fire that melts, but does not destroy.

Title of dissertation: THE CULTURAL PRODUCTON OF CONTROVERSY: FEMINISM, WOMEN AUTHORS, AND THE MAPPING OF CHINA Aijun Zhu, Ph.D., 2005 Dissertation directed by: Professor Jianmei Liu, Department of Asian and East European Languages and Cultures This project deconstructs the controversy of globally located Chinese women authors trapped in a dilemma between feminism, nationalism and neocolonialis...

Although women who highly identify with other women are more susceptible to stereotype threat effects, women's identification might associate with greater leadership aspirations contingent on (1) counter-stereotype salience and (2) feminist identification. When gender counter-stereotypes are salient, women's identification should associate with greater leadership aspiration regardless of femini...

Feminism in Australia is a political movement and a published discourse. Its activities range from Equal Employment Opportunity practices in the public service to 'cultural' production in such forms as academic literature and documentary film-making. For most immigrant women of non-English speaking background, the cultural arena of feminism is foreign, in many more ways than one. Feminism repre...