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This is a book about the multi-faceted notion of gender. Gender differences form the basis for family life, patterns of socialization, distribution of tasks, and spheres of responsibilities. The way gender is articulated shapes the world of individuals, and of the societies they live in. Gender has three faces: Linguistic Gender-the original sense of 'gender'-is a feature of many languages and reflects the division of nouns into grammatical classes or genders (feminine, masculine, neuter, and so on); Natural Gender, or sex, refers to the division of animates into males and females; and Social Gender reflects the social implications and norms of being a man or a woman (or perhaps something else). Women and men may talk and behave differently, depending on conventions within the societies they live in, and their role in language maintenance can also vary. The book focuses on how gender in its many guises is reflected in human languages, how it features in myths and metaphors, and the role it plays in human cognition. Examples are drawn from all over the world, with a special focus on Aikhenvald's extensive fieldwork in Amazonia and New Guinea

Introduction / Božidar Kante -- Verbal and physical harassment: the power of word and the word of power / Božidar Kante -- "Hawk's shadow": confronting the signs and the significance of sexual predation on U.S. college campuses and beyond / Sarah Wyman -- Gender and the polis in Aristophanes / Jeff Miller -- Women and science: feminist shifts in theory and practice / Valerija Vendramin -- The projected effect of banning public face coverings on the quality of life among veiled Muslim women in Slovenia / Maja Pucelj -- Ethnic minority women in decision-making positions in Serbian academia--illusion or reality? / Karolina Lendák-Kabók -- The female face of academia in Kazakhstan: attrition among male staff / Anastassiya Lipovka -- Gender fluidity in Ruby Rose's "break free" / Matea Lacmanović -- The absence of grey-haired women / Nataša Pivec -- Beyond patriarchal historiography: Swiss literary history before and after 1971 / Vesna Kondrič Horvat -- "Liebe is immer gut": lesbian identities and sexuality in GDR literature / Sina Meissgeier -- Body and aging: (re)lighting old age stereotypes in Dubravka Ugrešić's Baba Yaga laid an egg / Ana Penjak -- The role of women in fictional terrorist organizations / Špela Logar -- Gender issues in Roald Dahl's novel Matilda / Ester Vidović and Silvia Vidović -- Gender and political correctness in Slovenian translation / Barbara Majcenovič Kline -- Alternative personal pronouns: progress for transgender people or regression for all? / Tina Ritlop -- Less difference: taking gender critique to the non-western world / Michelle Gadpaille -- Gender-related issues in Minnan district: No more than skin by Cai Chongda and an on-line attitudes survey / Xiofang Liu -- Two women, two ways: Medea and Qin Xianglian / Yili Luo

"This catalogue...features an intergenerational group of more than forty artists working across film, video, performance, painting, sculpture, photography, and craft to explore gender beyond the binary and usher in more inclusive expressions of identity"--Page 2 of cover

This book develops a performative and relational approach to gendered and sexualised bodies conceived as distinct from the more limited individualistic idea of sexual identity and orientation that is at play within notions of progress in contemporary transnational sexual politics. Focusing on the psychosocial dimension of sexual life, Sabsay challenges accepted ideas of increased emancipation, and the steady extension of rights, offering instead a critique of the liberal imaginary that is at the base of the sexual rights-bearing subject. The book offers a notion of sexual embodiment that provides an alternative to individualism, one that is social, radically relational and psychically divided, and that implies a different conception of democratic sexual politics for our time. This book brings together political and cultural analysis of sexual rights discourse with a strong theory of the relational subject whose political investments and articulations depend on a political imaginary. This is a highly original and methodical text which will be of particular interest to academics and scholars of gender and sexuality studies, sociology, politics and psychology

Das Bild der Mutter ist sowohl traditionell geformt als auch einem stetigen Wandel unterworfen. Kulturelle Ideale und Leitbilder sowie das individuelle Selbstverständnis prägen unser Bild von Mutterschaft. Vor diesem Hintergrund ist zu fragen: Wie »natürlich« sind Muttersein und Mutterliebe? Wie wirken sich gesellschaftliche Anforderungen – zum Beispiel die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie – auf die Rolle der Frau und Mutter und die neu zu definierende Rolle des Vaters aus?Die Autorinnen gehen diesen Fragen nach und beleuchten sowohl die historische Dimension der jeweiligen Mutterbilder als auch gegenwärtige Probleme und Phänomene des Mutterschaftsmythos. Sie hinterfragen Stereotype und Familienleitbilder, untersuchen die körperlichen und psychischen Dimensionen von Mutterschaft und zeigen Handlungsspielräume und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten für selbstbestimmtes Mutter- und Vatersein auf.Mit Beiträgen von Karin Flaake, Helga Krüger-Kirn, Marita Metz-Becker, Ingrid Rieken, Elisabeth de Sotelo, Sabine Toppe und Ulrike Wagner-Rau sowie einem Beitrag des Galeristen Michael W. Schmalfuß