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Crossing borders in gender and culture /

While gender issues are almost always multidimensional and complex, this book discusses them from a cultural angle and with a focus on crossing borders, to represent their concepts meaningfully and to illuminate their realities as sharply as possible. Its five parts detail specific aspects and issue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gunesch, Konrad (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Literary Representations of Gender; "All in Her Head"; Scandinavian Models for Female Emancipation in Britain; Gender Representation in a Report to an Academy and Its Adaptations; Part 2: Gender Equality and Violence against Women; Tears No More? Gender Violence in Juarez City; Securitization, Women's Reproductive Rights, and Gender Equality in Japan; Part 3: Gender and Communication; The Universality and Variety of the Women Are Animals Conceptual Metaphor Across European Languages; 'I Don't like Women'; Matka Polka and D'evka-Branka
  • Part 4: Gender Roles in Work and PoliticsThe Increasing Role of Female Top Managers in Banks on the Russian Market; Determinants and Patterns of Gender Wage Discrimination in Pakistan; Women's Political Representation in Post-Communist Romania; Equality of Opportunities and Interest of Professional Male and Female Soldiers in Individual Types of Military Professions in the Armed Forces of the Slovak Republic; Part 5: Gender and Culture; Forms of Cultural Representation and Power of Females in Adventure and Action Films; Homosexuality and Contemporary Social Stance; Failure of Masculinity