Des îles et des lunes by Arthur Ségard

“…These queer heterotopias experiment with alternative identities and practices, as they propose another political organization of the world, and new, freer, more harmonious relationships between beings, bodies and genders. If they often have an ambiguous and precarious dimension, stressed by the works themselves, they can however have concrete political effects, as the fiction interacts with the reader’s affects and social imaginary.…”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…Situating the premature burial of a thriving global feminism in the context of a gendered history of live burial practices, the paper suggests that recurrent pronouncements of the death of feminism should be interpreted as a form of damage, an effort to undermine and erase feminist struggles for social justice while covering the traces of the erasure.…”
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Quand un pluriel cache un singulier : le cas de they by Jean ALBRESPIT

“…As English does not have an epicene pronoun, the pronoun selected has the advantage of including both genders but the disadvantage of transferring referential values towards genericity. …”
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The Boston Women’s Educational and Industrial Union: When Business Undergirded Claims to Political Participation (1877-1920) by Jeanne Boiteux

“…Before the Nineteenth Amendment, at a time of municipal reform, female reformers—even those who were not suffragists—used their shared social background with politicians in a show of gendered class interests. Using Derrick Spire’s framework of “performative citizenship,” we take a look at the way college-educated women constructed an economic and political identity as businesswomen.…”
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« But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate » : la peur de l’autre dans The Beetle de Richard Marsh by Catherine Lanone

“…Exploring unstable areas, The Beetle is a striking example of suburban Gothic, pitting the supernatural creature against the vagrant, the lady, the politician or the scientist, in order to challenge social but also gendered boundaries.…”
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Can Group Coaching Support The Career Advancement Of Women? by Priscila Filleti, Rebecca J. Jones

“…Qualitative studies demonstrate increased self-esteem, courage and resilience, aiding women in navigating gendered career challenges. This study quantitatively assesses the impact of women-only group coaching on social capital, self-esteem, resilience, courage and career advancement. …”
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Coursebook Dependency in Secondary and Tertiary-Level EFL Teachers by Ozlem Ozen Tosun, Emrah Cinkara

“…It further aims to study how dependent English language teachers are on coursebooks and whether there are any relationships between teachers’ coursebook dependency levels and their genders, experiences, and academic backgrounds. Data collected from 324 language teachers working in secondary and tertiary-level EFL programs revealed that the scale is a valid and reliable instrument with five sub-scales to measure the dependency construct; the majority of the participants were medium dependent while high and low dependent teachers comprised less than half of the participants in total.…”
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Coursebook Dependency in Secondary and Tertiary-Level EFL Teachers by Ozlem Ozen Tosun, Emrah Cinkara

“…It further aims to study how dependent English language teachers are on coursebooks and whether there are any relationships between teachers’ coursebook dependency levels and their genders, experiences, and academic backgrounds. Data collected from 324 language teachers working in secondary and tertiary-level EFL programs revealed that the scale is a valid and reliable instrument with five sub-scales to measure the dependency construct; the majority of the participants were medium dependent while high and low dependent teachers comprised less than half of the participants in total.…”
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Au cœur des services : les larmes au travail by Angelo Soares

“…Differences between male and female crying, at least at work, may be explained not only by a gendered socialization of individuals, but also by the sexual division of emotional labour. …”
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Femininity, Humor, and TV Comedies: The Wit of Fran Fine, Lorelai Gilmore, and Mrs. Maisel by Aileen Behrendt

“…In this article, I bring these shifting, often contradictory, gendered meanings of humorous wit into conversation with the often conflicting representational strategies that have informed the construction of femininity in contemporary mainstream TV comedies, such as Fran Drescher’s The Nanny, and Amy Sherman-Palladino’s Gilmore Girls and The Marvelous Mrs. …”
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Social Trauma and Suicide in Historical Perspective by Howard I. Kushner

“…Building on the often cited but rarely read work of Jack Douglas (Social Meanings of Suicide), I suggest an alternative approach to the etiology of suicide that relies on social meaning and that challenges the essentialist assumptions that human aspirations, successes, and failures have the same meaning and definition everywhere and that assumes cultural uniformity of the motives and the understanding of suicide among different genders, ethnicities, and classes.…”
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A estética contemporânea: nova poética, novo olhar by Cid Ottoni Bylaardt

“…This text intends to make a reflection on some renowned poems of the contemporary brazilian literature, and on how this condition seems to determine a new look to this literature,subverting the knowledge, the forms, the genders, the concepts that at a certain point were sufficient to explain the literary text.…”
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Pour une histoire de l’enseignement agricole féminin durant les années 1950-60 : les écoles ménagères agricoles du Loir-et-Cher ou l’éducation contrariée au rôle de femme d’exploit... by Jérôme Pelletier

“…This involved an increasingly gendered definition of what constituted a woman farmer’s area of expertise. …”
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Être femme et écrire en langue minorée : la double marge by Jean-François Courouau, Cécile Noilhan

“…Evolving in a very masculine universe, these often forgotten women authors of Oc occupy a double margin, linguistic and gendered.…”
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De la violence au cadavre : étude d’une mort genrée by Anaelle Lahaeye

“…This persistence derives in part from the gendered representation of corpses, which renders the motif suitable for expressing stereotypes and their implications regarding different relationships to violence. …”
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L’engagement des femmes catholiques dans des associations familiales en France et au Portugal by Sophie Rétif

“…In these associations, the “natural” differences between genders are constantly reasserted and there is a strict sexual division of political labour. …”
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Women geographers and the International Geographical Union by Joos Droogleever Fortuijn

“…The participation of women in the governance of the IGU reflects the gendered nature of subdisciplines in geography as an integrative natural sciences-social sciences-humanities discipline, with a higher share of female representation in human geography than in physical and technical subdisciplines. …”
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Women, Migration and Activism in Europe by Jane Freedman

“…This paper will focus on the activism of women migrants in contemporary Europe, analysing the ways in which gendered patterns of migration have placed women in particular situations with regard to migration and integration into European societies, and how these women have become activists to claim their rights within these societies. …”
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Travail enseignant et transmission scolaire by Bernard Rey

“…However, it turns out that each of these solutions, while partially solving a problem, genders new ones, which makes the work of teachers ceaselessly theatrical.…”
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Writing under the 'Auto/biographical Demand' in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015) by Szidonia Haragos

“…It argues that Feldman writes under the 'auto/biographical demand' as the grandchild of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and redeploys the inherited story of gendered suffering during the Holocaust in order to reconfigure her own Jewish American identity. …”
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