Seductive Snakes and Asexual Angels: Queer Undercurrents in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s “Desert Sands” by H.J.E. Champion

“…This article proposes a palimpsestic reading of the short story, one which attempts to underline the queer nature of the relationship between the muses Eos and Vespasia and goes on to pose questions about gender roles, deviant sexuality and transgression as related to women in the nineteenth century.…”
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Editorial by Sarojini Nadar

“…Drawing on a range of inter-disciplinary methods, the articles in this issue invite us to consider how literature, film, poetry, and ancient texts act as a mirror for, and a window to religiously and culturally sanctioned gendered roles, behaviours, and attitudes. …”
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Women and Kula by Susanne Kuehling

“…Key words: Kula exchange, Melanesia, gender roles, women, hospitality, ethnography, power relations …”
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MODELATOR FACTORS OF RELATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND PERSONALITY AT ADOLESCENTS by PLEȘEA Andreea Cristina

“…The obtained results highlight the fact that the impositions due to social density (fewer but stronger relation in the rural environment, more frequent but inconsistent relation in the urban environment) and the process of assuming gender roles are modelator factors of the formation process of personality profile as well as in the process of adolescents emotional maturity. …”
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Oscillations et réaffirmations du genre dans les petites annonces de l’Intermédiaire Discret 1921-1939 by Claire-Lise Gaillard

“…They provided a space in which traditional gender roles were powerfully reaffirmed by making explicit the rules of selection following the logic of a competitive market.…”
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Reconfiguring Gender Through Digital Narratives: Multiliteracies and Social Justice in Additional Languages Teacher Education by Margarida Castellano Sanz, Agustín Reyes-Torres

“…Drawing on the Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, which emphasizes the need to engage with diverse modes of meaning construction, the text discusses how digital resources contribute to challenge traditional gender roles and foster inclusive learning environments. …”
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Les trans comme parias. Le traitement médiatique de la sexualité des personnes trans en France by Karine Espineira, Maud-Yeuse Thomas

“…At times ordinary and at times exotic figures, at times hyper-sexualized and at times de-sexualized, trans people are presented in the mass media in a manner that tends to foster gender roles and the heteronormative regime.…”
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De l’iconoclasme à la censure by Liliane Inés Cuesta Davignon

“…Traditionally a hetero-patriarchal institution, the museum helps to maintain gender roles, stereotypes and the rendering of women invisible in history. …”
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Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood by John Michael Corrigan, Justin Prystash

“…Rather than or in addition to presenting a left-wing or right-wing critique of contemporary gender roles, the film positions this contest within the vexed relationship between the ideal and the real. …”
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Spiriti e riti ebraici a Meknes. Seduti alla “tavola di David” by Silvia Bruni

“…The case study examined here is an evocation rite, and the analysis seeks to highlight the role of possession in the refashioning of personal identity, human relationships and gender roles.…”
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Façonner les rôles sexués et discipliner le corps féminin : les discours de distribution de prix en Guadeloupe et en Martinique, 1905-1920 by Clara Palmiste

“…This study proposes to explore, on the basis of prize-giving speeches, the role of the republican school in shaping gender roles during the period following the secularisation of schools, in the 'old colonies', where school policy was closely linked to colonial policy, and both meant to educate and civilise populations deemed morally and intellectually inferior. …”
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Zur Bildung von Personenbezeichnungen nach den Vorstellungen von einer gendergerechten Sprache. Kritische Bemerkungen zum deutschen und zum polnischen Sprachgebrauch by Edyta Błachut

“…The change of social, political and professional gender roles has affected the way gender distinctions are expressed in language in different social groups including the scientific community. …”
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Unterzakhn, Dirty Laundry, and the Map of Lost New York: An Interview with Leela Corman by Jaime Cleland

“…Finally, she discusses her desire to tell a story about women’s lives from a female perspective, as well as the ways her characters’ lives are circumscribed by gender roles.…”
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Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991), le récit d’esclave revisité by Delphine Letort

“…Whilst allowing women to address their most intimate dilemmas (rape, skin colour, pregnancy, sexuality, gender roles), the director tries to undermine Hollywood stereotypes of black women. …”
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Dire le genre dans la presse magazine féminine et masculine by Aurélie Olivesi

“…Therefore, even if editorialists provide similar perspectives on the evolution of gendered roles, they also offer different definitions of femininity (as the result of a fight) and masculinity (as the result of an heritage). …”
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Public Spending on Childcare as an Indicator of Gender Sensitivity of Budget by Ana Marija Sikirić, Josip Čičak

“…Results confirm significant positive correlation between specified variables and highlight the need to take into account different gender roles of men and women in the decision-making during the budgeting process in order to ensure equal opportunities to male and female labour force in the labour market as a precondition for greater gender equality.…”
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Le temps d’une vie bourgeoise : la construction des rôles genrés dans les livres de comptes de la famille Guérin-Borel au XIXe siècle by Camille Cordier

“…In this respect, the longue durée, belies the permanence of gender roles in accounting.…”
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La sexualité des filles et des garçons dans le Paris d’après-guerre : du Code pénal de 1810 aux lois du genre by Véronique Blanchard, Régis Revenin

“…These social and legal norms are strongly gendered and complement each other, the law serving in practice the gender morality which assigns to each sex a specific (gendered) role. The case of young gays and lesbians will also be studied in a period when certain forms of relations between individuals of same sex, including minors, are criminally reprehensible.…”
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Gender Revolution in a Malthusian Utopia: Harriet Martineau’s world of Garveloch by Catherine Heyrendt-Sherman

“…The paper shows how Martineau set up a colourful Malthusian utopia that also challenged traditional gender roles. Her Autobiography suggests that she knowingly took a calculated risk, incurring the wrath of the Tory press. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…Based on the novels (most of them semi-autobiographical) of some of these authors, as well as unpublished interviews, this paper aims to instruct the strategies of resistance and transgression of traditional gendered roles that these authors – and their characters – implement (sometimes with ambivalence and using orientalist and/or gendered stereotypes) speaking publicly on this topic related to intimacy.…”
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