"This volume is about gender, health and medicine broadly defined. From the essays in it, it is abundantly clear that medicine is a gendered and class-structured institution. Taken as a whole the volume offers a critique of exclusively biomedical approaches to personal and public health and calls for more sociological input, qualitative research and an intersectional approach to help us understand various aspects of health and illness. A ..."
Advances in Gender Research Social Production and Reproduction at the Interface of Public and Private Spheres Vol. 16 : Advances in Gender Research vol.16 by Marcia Texler Segal, VasilikieP. Demos, Marcia Segal Digital, 350 Pages, Published 2012 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-78052-875-5, ISBN: 1-78052-875-2
"Some results of this extended fieldwork have been published: Joaquın Beltran
Antolın and Amelia Saiz Lopez: Els xinesos a Catalunya. Familia, educacio ́ i
integracio ́ (Alta Fulla, Barcelona, 2001); ''La inmigracion china y la educacion:
entre la excelencia y la instrumentalidad'', in Silvia Carrasco, coord., Inmigracio ́n
, contexto familiar y educacio ́n. Procesos y experiencias de la poblacio ́n
marroquı ́, ecuatoriana, china y s ..."
"This innovative collection puts forward how women are able to challenge oppression through circumventing rules, roles, obligations and prejudice through a powerful agency. Chapters cover the experiences of women in different global settings related to education, political activism, corporeal violence, identity, sexuality, and poverty."
"This volume offers feminist perspectives on the social, cultural and medical aspects of women as sexual beings and of their fertility, pregnancy and child bearing. It serves as a companion to "Advances in Gender Research volume 7, Gender perspectives on Health and Medicine: Key Themes". As in the previous volume, the authors critique and transcend conventional biomedical approaches to the subject matter. The seven essays raise questions ..."
"Previous research has found that fathers have considerable effects over gender
beliefs of children (Davis & Wills, 2010). ... and Kevin Nazar, Shannon Davis, and
James C. Witte (George Mason University) for their feedback and commentary."
"Steve Glovinsky stresses that most UN agencies describe themselves as
knowledge units. However, few ... Glovinsky argues that this could perhaps be
because of the transformations that a successful KM initiative requires. In the
following ..."
"Marcia Texler Segal, Kristy Kelly and Vasilikie Demos ABSTRACT This
introduction provides the history and rationale for this volume on gender and
practice. The editors' broad conception of practice, especially gender practice,
and the ..."