Gender & Society promotes feminist scholarship and the social scientific study of gender. Gender & Society publishes theoretically engaged and methodologically rigorous articles that make original contributions to gender theory. The journal takes a multidisciplinary, intersectional, and global approach to gend...
mostcultureshave constructed their societies around two distinct gender roles corresponding to the biological male and female sexes. However, roles could vary significantly cross-culturally. For example, theArapesh people ofNew Guineasaw men and women as having similar roles in society and being equally...
Infanticide is seen to be a horrific act, and yet this article finds that a growing body of literature on the topic is proving that infanticide is tied to human history. It provides a synthesis of the literature and identifies new directions in the scholarship since William L. Langer. These...
Gender is the structure of social relations that centres on the reproductive arena, and the set of practices (governed by this structure) that bring reproductive distinctions between bodies into social processes. To put it informally, gender concerns the way human society deals with human bodies, a...
(including those from biological reductionism and evolutionary psychology), whereby an individual’s experience in society is a reflection ofdiscriminationbased on innate biological or physiological and psychological sex differences. Cultural accounts of gender inequality generally claim that individuals are ...
Genderisacomplexandmultifacetedtopicthathasbeenwidelydiscussedanddebatedinvariousfields,includingsociology,psychology,andanthropology.Itreferstothesociallyconstructedroles,behaviors,activities,andexpectationsthataparticularsocietyorcultureassignstoindividualsbasedontheirsex.Whilesexisabiologicalconceptthatdistinguishesbetweenmalean...
gardens and raising pigs. During the Australian colonial period in highlands Papua New Guinea more men than women had opportunity for education, occupations and travel. Men's elite society retains its competitive style as it becomes stratified; political and economic success depend upon rural support...
People with genders outside of the binary prefer using language that matches and affirms their identities. This can pose a challenge to translators who are translating into gendered languages like Arabic or who are from cultures where such identities do
Are men and women equal? Why is that men perform better in some tasks than women? Why is that women perform better in some roles than men? Are some genders naturally prepared to take on inferior or superior roles in the society? From this, you can come up with amazing topic on gender...
The analysis of any topic related to language and gender or sex tends to give rise to a range of somewhat diverse material. The core of the problem is not so much the bias of an approach to such a matter (which is obvious and can be easily identified), as how bias itself may organiz...