Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
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Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

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  2. English
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Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries

About this book

Volume 12 consists of fourteen original essays by multi-national and multi-disciplinary scholars. Four discuss and analyze the 19th Century writings of Harriet Martineau (British Author), considered to be early examples of sociology and gender studies. A range of Martineau's writings are explored including her critical review of the Salem witch hunts and her letters to a young Irishman. Several essays focus on gendered implications of the state, for example, the European Union or the Eastern European Bloc. A third set focus on gender and social institutions and some investigate family-related issues including power relations regarding race, childbearing, the impact of religious fundamentalism, issues related to aging, health and medicine, and sport.Some are based on presentations given at the International Sociological Association Congress in Durban, South Africa in July, 2006. Others are drawn from the Martineau Society Working Seminar at National University of Ireland at Maynooth in May, 2007. Continuing in the tradition established by the "Advances in Gender Research" series, it explores gender as a social institution and social construct. The essays complement one another in their topic examination, issues and themes, adding nuance to contemporary Gender Studies

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Table of contents

  1. Advancing Gender Research from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries
  2. Copyright page
  3. Contents
  4. List of contributors
  5. Acknowledgment
  6. Information to Authors
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction: Advancing gender research from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries
  8. Chapter 2. Witch hunts and enlightenment: Harriet Martineau’s critical reflections on Salem
  9. Chapter 3. Harriet Martineau’s Irish romance: The Lady Oracle and the Young Repealer
  10. Chapter 4. Harriet Martineau and the sociology of health: England and her soldiers (1859) and health, husbandry, and handicraft (1861)
  11. Chapter 5. Harriet Martineau: The forerunner of cultural studies
  12. Chapter 6. Some things are not negotiable: Gender, sovereignty, and Poland’s integration into the European Union
  13. Chapter 7. Breaking their way in: women jockeys at the racetrack in Brazil
  14. Chapter 8. Exercising social power: The case of marriage
  15. Chapter 9. Evangelicals, invested individualism and gender
  16. Chapter 10. Fundamentalist feminists spar with the patriarchy: Interpretive strategies of Israeli rabbinic court pleaders
  17. Chapter 11. Surviving widowhood: Gender and race effects on health-related coping strategies
  18. Chapter 12. Re-examining the meanings of childbirth: Beyond gender and the ‘‘Natural’’ versus ‘‘Medical’’ dichotomy
  19. Chapter 13. Redefining ‘‘reproductive rights’’: An ecofeminist perspective on in vitro fertilization, egg markets and surrogate motherhood
  20. Chapter 14. How advertising for psychotropics constructs an enhanced gendered self
  21. About the authors
  22. Subject Index