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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"gender relations"”.
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The Economics of Gender Relations in London City Comedy
… examines the influence of nascent capitalism on gender interactions in three London city comedies—Thomas Dekker’s The Shoemaker’s Holiday, Dekker and Thomas Middleton’s The Roaring Girl, and Middleton’s A Chaste Maid in Cheapside— to reveal men’s commodification of women as a defining feature of …
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Female Farm Operators, Gender Relations And The Restructuring Canadian Agricultural System
… that the practice of agriculture is a highly gendered activity, with traditional roles for women centring around the concept of the agricultural helpmate. The most non-traditional role played by women is that of a farm owner or operator, directing a farming venture. This group has become more …
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Gender relations and teacher-pupil interaction in four northern primary schools
… in which the classroom practices of teachers use gender as a means of categorisation, organisation and control and help to create and/or perpetuate particular perceptions and expectations of gender behaviour and relations in children.Within this context. the thesis will explore the extent to which …
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Feminist issues in education: developing a theory of class and gender relations
… project of developing a theory of class and gender relations in education. Three stages in the construction of this theory are identified. These are: (a) a critical evaluation of theories concerning the social and cultural reproduction of class relations in terms of their applicability to the …
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Seaweed Farming and Intra-Household Gender Relations on Songo Songo Island, Tanzania
Abstract This study examines gender relations within a highly dynamic social and ecological context. It focuses on how men and women use marine resources for their livelihoods and how the rise of seaweed farming and its decline due to plant disease have affected intra-household gender relations on …
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Mill wives: a study of gender relations, family and work in a single-industry town
… establishing a household, and the complementary relationship between spouses is central to creating a home. This complementarity is expressed through male employment, for many involving shiftwork, and the primary involvement of women with domesticity. Those women who were also employed modified …
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“It’s not banter, it’s called sexual harassment!” Symbolic violence and gender relations in UK horseracing
… to combat this violence in order to bridge the gender gap in competitive UK horseracing.
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Hidden power: gender relations in export-oriented tasks and access to resources for Uganda's horticulture sector
The aim of the study is to investigate gender relations in the production and export marketing of horticulture produce in Uganda. The study uses gender as an analytical tool in critiquing the Neoliberal reforms that advocate trade liberalization. This is done through examining the construction and …
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It Takes a Village to Do Microfinance Right: Effects of Microfinance on Gender Relations in Bali
… has long term effects on the reconstruction of gendered roles and relations. This study employed participation observation and semi-structured interviews for data collection because each method allowed the exploration of multi layered information and tacit values that other data collection …
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The economics of social subordination : gender relations and market failure in the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… economic and social discrimination facing women. Gender based discrimination occurs within the context of dualistic modes of social relations of production: (1) the pre- incorporation social order, which was patriarchal; (2) capitalist market exchange relations which followed the widespread …
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'One of the boys?' : an ethnographic study of gender relations, co-education, and initial teacher education in physical education
… institutions constructed, confirmed or contested gender identities in secondary Physical Education (PE). The study centred on an indepth ethnographic study of two case study institutions, chosen to reflect the male and female history of PE initial teacher education (ITE) in Britain. Data was …
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Impacts of rural-urban migration on family relationships and gender relations in mother-migrant and father-left-behind families in Vietnam
… the link between rural-urban migration and relationship breakdown and cohesion in conjugal and parent-child relationships in mother-migrant/father-left-behind families. It also seeks to understand how gender roles, gender identities and social norms shape the experiences of migrant mothers …
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