Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
By: edited by Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Advances in gender research -- v. 12
Publisher: Emerald Jai
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Bingley, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781848550261
Subjects: Gender identity; Sex role; History
Other titles: Advancing gender research from the 19th to the 21st centuries
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mode of access: Internet.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries  -- Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos; title: Witch hunts and enlightenment : Harriet Martineau's critical reflections on Salem  -- Susan Hoecker-Drysdale; title: Harriet Martineau's Irish romance : the lady oracle and the young repealer  -- Deborah A. Logan; title: Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health : England and her soldiers (1859) Health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861)  -- Mary Jo Deegan; title: Harriet Martineau : the forerunner of cultural studies  -- Anna Dryjanska; title: Some things are not negotiable : gender, sovereignty, and Poland's integration into the European Union  -- Alexandra Gerber; title: Breaking their way in : women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil  -- Miriam Adelman and Fernanda Azeredo Moraes; title: Exercising social power : the case of marriage  -- Kathryn A. Sweeney; title: Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender  -- Sally K. Gallagher; title: Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy : interpretive strategies of Israeli Rabbinic court pleaders  -- Susan Weiss; title: Surviving widowhood : gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies  -- Tariqah A. Nuriddin and Carolyn C. Perrucci; title: Re-examining the meanings of childbirth : beyond gender and the "natural" versus "medical" dichotomy  -- Sarah Jane Brubaker and Heather E. Dillaway; title: Redefining "reproductive rights" : an ecofeminist perspective on in vitro frertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood  -- Laura Corradi; title: How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self -- Elianne Riska and Thomas Heikell.