Suchergebnisse

chapter Introduction: Making meanings -- part Part I Methodology matters -- chapter 1 The local context: Archaeology of women's research activism -- chapter 2 A paradigm: Women – a paradigm in global knowledge production -- part Part II Aspects of feminist research methodology -- chapter 3 Subjectivity: Reflecting on the self as / in making meaning -- chapter 4 An ontology: Research realities in meaning-making -- chapter 5 An epistemology: Making meanings of being / doing gender -- chapter 6 A method: Literature reviewing as making meaning -- chapter 7 Theory: Making and unmaking meaning in theory -- chapter 8 Ethics / politics: Feminist ethics / politics in meaning-making.

Examines feminist research methodology, including its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology and ethics and politics, and analyses research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka.

Trans is usually defined as the set of practices and identities outside of the binary gender system and includes individuals who identity as genderqueer, transgender or transsexual. Trans theories refer to a range of approaches including medical and psychiatric theories, performativity and social constructionist theories, and queer theory, that are used to explain transgender practices and identities.

The concept of work-family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work-leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role pressures between the work and family domains that leads to role conflict. The conflict is driven by the organizations' views of the "ideal worker" as well as gender disparities and stereotypes that ignore or discount the time spent in the unpaid work of family and community. Solutions for balance include legislation, flexible workplace arrangements, and the market care services.

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with paid work it is called emotional labor. Such employment occurs in contemporary service economies where the provision of services is often related to "selling feelings," which is mainly performed by women.

The dual labor market theory is one of the primary explanations for the gender differences in earnings. It shows that gender inequality and stereotypes lead to employment of men and women in different segments of the labor market characterized by various incomes. This theory is based on the hypothesis that such markets are divided into segments, which are divided by different rules of conduct for workers and employers. Differences also include production conditions, terms of employment, productivity of employees, and the characteristics of the workers' jobs. This labor division is related to employee characteristics such as gender, age, and race that define their work environment and lifestyle.