Search results for "Gender Studies."

Ageing employees and human resource management – evidence of gender-sensitivity?

2014

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to identify the different research strands concerning studies related to human resource management (HRM) and ageing employees. More specifically, the paper analyses how age and gender are understood and conceptualized in these studies. Design/methodology/approach – An integrative literature review concerning ageing employees and HRM with special reference to gender is the approach taken in this paper. Findings – Recent studies relating to HRM and ageing employees were categorized and analysed. The paper concludes that there is a need for a more holistic understanding of the concept of age in studies related to ageing employees and HRM and also argues …

“Stop whining and be a badass”: a postfeminist analysis of university students' responses to gender themes

2021

PurposeThis paper critically examines how female students at a Finnish business school understand gender in management.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis is based on female students' learning diaries from a basic management course.FindingsThe findings show how students respond to the topic of gender inequality through a neoliberal postfeminist discourse. The students' discourse is structured around three discursive moves: (1) rejecting “excessive” feminism, (2) articulating self-reliant professional futures and (3) producing idealized role models through successfully integrating masculinity and femininity.Originality/valueThis article contributes to current understanding of the role of…

The rhetoric of love in religious peacebuilding

2020

Religious leaders involved in peacebuilding initiatives often refer to the religious value of love to encourage groups in conflict to live peacefully together. In this article, I suggest that references to love as a religious value might contribute to bridging social capital, meaning social bonds between groups who have experienced conflict. However, without simultaneously addressing questions of justice, which is often necessary in violent conflicts, creating social bonds through references to love constitutes a weak contribution to peace. The article uses the study of a religious peacebuilding project in Ethiopia as an example and illustrates how religious leaders failed to make a substan…

Political and relational: Autobiographical narrations of Latvian women across three generations

2005

The politics of emotion in a parenting support programmes for refugees in Norway

2022

Enhancing social skills among citizens who are considered at risk is one of the ways in which a welfare state handles marginalised groups (Prieur et al, 2020). Universalised programmes represent a common way of strengthening the social capabilities of groups deemed in need of such skills (for example, Pettersvold and Østrem, 2019). In this article, we show that emotions perform a political role in such programmes. We proffer our arguments on the basis of data from five training sessions in the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in a mid-sized Norwegian municipality. Mentors who are teaching the ICDP course use emotions to signal the superiority of the ICDP as a parenting ideal…

Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities

2012

This study, drawing upon contemporary theories in the field of migration, postcolonialism, and translation, offers an analysis of literary works by Monica Ali (of Bangladeshi origins) and Jhumpa Lahiri (of Bengali Indian parents). Ali and Lahiri epitomize second-generation immigrant literature, play with the linguistic concept of translating and interpreting as forms of hybrid connections, and are significant examples of how a text may become a space where multi-faceted identities co-habit in a process of deconstructing and reconstructing their own sense of emplacement in non-native places. Each immigrant text becomes a hybrid site, where second- and third generations of immigrant subjects …

Mafia Women: A Study on Language and Mental Representations of Women Engaged with Mafia Members

2014

For a long time, women in the Mafia were considered victims who were unaware of the activities of the men in their families. However, it has recently been demonstrated that these women may play an important role in the organisation, particularly in the transmission of Mafia values. In this study, we explored the representations of self, relationships, and the Mafia world in women engaged with Mafia members. This was done by means of in-depth interviews and computer-assisted text analysis. A cluster analysis was applied to words used by the women in the interviews. Three clusters emerged that accounted for 85% of the principal contents of the interviews. These were interpreted as “represen…

Expressing the Beauty of the World. Simone Weil and the Responsibility of Literature

2015

En el presente trabajo se abordan diferentes dimensiones de la relación con la literatura de la filósofa francesa de origen judío Simone Weil (1909-1943). En un primer momento de la exposición se atiende a sus consideraciones sobre la responsabilidad de los escritores que, aunque recorren todo su itinerario, tienen como centro neurálgico su colaboración en la revista Cahiers du Sud durante el periodo de Marsella. Posteriormente, se incide en la presencia de la literatura en su obra, gracias a la influencia de su maestro Alain, quien le enseñó a pensar a través de la escritura. Por último, se hace una breve referencia a la tragedia inacabada,Venecia salvada y a sus poemas, aludiendo a su afi…

Conhecimento pedagógico do conteúdo nas ciências: estado da arte

2017

RESUMEN En este artículo se lleva a cabo una revisión descriptiva de la literatura que permite dar a conocer qué es el Conocimiento Didáctico del Contenido -CDC- en ciencias y qué se ha investigado sobre el mismo. En concreto, se analiza: a) cómo se define, qué características tiene y cómo se ha determinado en los profesores; b) su relación con el conocimiento de la materia a enseñar y con el aprendizaje de los estudiantes; c) cómo se ha utilizado en la formación y evaluación del profesorado; y d) en qué temas científicos se ha estudiado. Se concluye que el CDC se perfila como una herramienta fundamental para mejorar la calidad de la formación del profesorado. ABSTRACT This paper gives a de…

When people in close relationships are not prepared to listen to emotional disclosures

2007

The following article comprises a presentation of  research carried out on a group of 268 adults. The survey aimed at finding answers to questions posed about the meditative role played by social constraints in the relationship between shyness and certain aspects of emotional and social functioning. The results indicate that social constraints are a destructive factor in the everyday functioning of those facing everyday problems. Many shy people experience social constraints - people in close relationships: family, relatives, and friends react inadequately and negatively, demonstrating a lack of empathy, thus discouraging people who are shy from expressing their personal thoughts and emotio…