Search results for "Feminization"
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Effects of feminizing microsporidia on the masculinizing function of the androgenic gland in Gammarus duebeni
2013
Feminizing parasites enhance their vertical transmission to the host offspring by converting genetic male hosts into phenotypic females. Crustacea are the only invertebrates where sexual differentiation is controlled by a specialised endocrine organ, the androgenic gland, rather than by the gonads. We showed that a feminizing microsporidian Microsporidium sp. inhibits androgenic gland differentiation. We investigated the effect of Microsporidium sp. and a second feminizing microsporidium, Nosema granulosis, on the masculinizing function of the androgenic gland in Gammarus duebeni. Androgenic gland implants had a masculinizing effect on the sexual characteristics and sexual behaviour of reci…
Choice Feminism and Adult Worker Model in Neoliberal Era. Some Effects of Inclusive Policies
2017
In the last decade, the adult work model has been invoked, both by the EU social reformers and at an international level, to orient their respective policies on feminine work and social inclusion at different levels. Such neoliberal model assumes that feminization of work implies treating women as autonomous individuals free to choose their carrier in the job market or to decide whether to work, to take care of their family or to find time and spaces to conciliate both. In the western legal tradition and policies, the ideological approach of separation between public and private sphere is still dominant, and care has been confined in a private space concealed within the family. At the same …
Claves vertebradoras del modelo de justicia en el siglo XXI
2021
The 21st Century presents a dynamic, international, digital, changing, agile, and fast Society, that demands an adequated Justice System. The Incorporation due to Globalization of Keys such a Supranationality, Internationalization, Efficiency, Feminization, Technology, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence, are involved in the changes of the new look of Justice.
Estrogenic Modulation of Longevity by Induction of Antioxidant Enzymes
2010
In many species including humans, females live longer than males. We and others have observed that mitochondria from females of Wistar rats and of OF1 mice produce half the amount of peroxide produced by males. We attributed this to a change in the expression of antioxidant, longevity-related genes. We have found that in those species in which females live longer than males, estrogens activate longevity-related genes, particularly antioxidant ones. It should be emphasized that estrogens do not act as antioxidants because of their phenolic ring but rather they act indirectly; that is, they behave as hormones and bind to estrogen receptors, which eventually leads to the upregulation of the ex…
Amor y misoginia. A propósito de "amor fou" de Marta Sanz
2019
En este breve texto abordamos una aproximación a las relaciones amorosas, la misoginia romántica y su vinculación con las relaciones asimétricas de género en sociedades occidentales contemporáneas, a partir del análisis discursivo de la novela Amor Fou de la escritora Marta Sanz (2018). Todo discurso narrativo imaginado es, simultáneamente, producto de la realidad social e histórica en la que se inscribe y productor de las representaciones simbólicas hegemónicas que sustentan relaciones instituidas de desigualdad entre los distintos agentes sociales. Desde esta perspectiva, el análisis que proponemos de esta ficción narrativa se inscribe en el cruce de algunas renovaciones epistemológicas y…