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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"SEXUAL DIVISION"”.
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Foraging and Menstruation in the Hadza of Tanzania
… maintain a foraging lifestyle characterised by a sexual division of labour. Studies of their foraging and food sharing habits serve as the foundation to numerous hypotheses of human behaviour and evolution. Data from the Hadza have featured heavily in debates on the sexual division of labour. …
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Interpersonal violence and fracture patterns in 18th and 19th century London.
… that the patrilineal society and the subsequent sexual division of labour had a profound effect on the results especially when comparing the prevalence of fractures between men and women. Therefore, this thesis provides a comprehensive overview of fracture patterns and the presence of …
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A Brasília oculta das candangas : o direito à história da cidade
… records. By questioning the effects of the sexual division of labor, the research seeks to understand the concrete contributions of these women to the city’s construction. It argues that they performed a wide range of roles — including secretaries, telephone operators, typists, civil …
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Making it work : aspects of marriage, motherhood and money-earning among white South African women 1960-1990
… male dominated business world, combined with a sexual division of labour that persisted in defining the home and the family as women's work, saw many women leave the work place to start up home-based businesses.
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Homeless women: A social, economic and historical analysis
… and capitalist relations in our society, and the sexual division of labour. Second, to consider the nature of-homelessness amongst women, that is, whether the single female homeless constitute a homogeneous or heterogeneous group. Third, to evaluate the usefulness of the term of homelessness in …
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Body size, skeletal biomechanics and habitual behaviour: a bioarchaeological approach to social and economic change in the Neolithic and Copper Age central Mediterranean
… of the humerus also found no evidence for sexual division of labour in the Copper Age, contrasting with the widely accepted models of social change that have been proposed for the period. The analysis of the lower limb observed a decline in robusticity following the Neolithic, indicating …
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A comparative study of activity-related skeletal changes in 3rd-2nd millennium BC coastal fishers and 1st millenium AD inland agriculturists in Chile, South America
… for these markers. Thus suggesting a more marked sexual division of labour among the former group compared to the latter. Inter-group sex comparisons revealed that males from both groups were generally similarly affected by the MOS whereas females displayed a more varied pattern. Assuming that …
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Changing patterns of female employment in rural England, c. 1790-1890
… available to women varied significantly. The sexual division of work and wages, the importance of the family economy, the role of ideology and the significance of the lifecycle are all considered using farm and estate accounts, local newspapers, census enumerators books and autobiographical …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… of caste systems as well as norms around the sexual division of labor. Caste systems may have developed partly due to a particularly great difficulty in finding out one’s place in the talent distribiution in different sectors. In such circumstances, a caste system, by decreasing uncertainty, …
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The patriarchal theory: some modes of explanation of kinship in the social sciences
… aspects of the history of the theorisation of sexuality and kinship in the period between 1860 and 1930. The history presented here' is selective. It is organised around a problem of contemporary relevance. This problem is why it has become difficult to produce a historically specific account …
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Questões de gênero na vida de mulheres mães de crianças com deficiência
… relations of gender, expressed mainly in the sexual division of labor, determine the place of women in the domestic sphere, their responsibility for the care of the offspring and maintenance of the family needs, corroborating for the construction and perpetuation of inequalities between the …
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She stays and she pays: Rural Women’s Labour and Empowerment in Atakora, Northern Benin
… and women. This prompts a reconsideration of the sexual division of labour in the rural African household in Atakora, and presents the potential to expand the concept of women's `double burden’ to include the reputational burden of covering for economically inactive husbands in public. Secondly, …
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… class structure with its particular colour and sexual division of labour, where the majority of domestic workers were and are Black women were examined. It was felt that an emphasis on women's oppression only would obscure a broader understanding of domestic service in a class society where …
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Gender and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1890-1990
… of the African husbandman depended on this sexual division of labour in farming. The study also examines the impact of colonialism on these gender roles in farming. It is argued that within a few years of the British South Africa’s Company occupation of the territory in 1890, certain …
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Gender and Agricultural Development in Zambia, 1890-1990
… of the African husbandman depended on this sexual division of labour in farming. The study also examines the impact of colonialism on these gender roles in farming. It is argued that within a few years of the British South Africa’s Company occupation of the territory in 1890, certain …
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The Australian Football League and the closet
… players has ever publicly declared his homosexuality in a biographical text or media interview. Despite the absence of openly gay AFL players, this thesis accesses other significant sources such as the coming-out narratives of professional players in other football codes and of other …
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