Search results for "Gender studies"

Symbiosis of cosmopolitan identities in Turkey and Roman London: The role of literary tradition in Bernardine Evaristo’s revision of Euro-Mediterrane…

2009

Femminile e maschile nel Settecento

2018

Proceedings of the conference organized by the Italian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in 2013. The dialectic between male and female principles is examined with a multi- and interdisciplinary approach, so as to underline continuity and change, distinctions and ambiguities.

A study of temporal estimation from the perspective of the Mental Clock Model.

2009

M. Cardaci's (2000) Mental Clock Model maintains that a task requiring a low mental workload is associated with an acceleration of perceived time, whereas a task requiring a high mental workload is associated with a deceleration. The authors examined the predictions of this model in a musical listening condition in which musical pieces were audible in several structural complexities. To measure the effects of musical complexity on time estimation, the authors used retrospective and prospective time-estimation paradigms. For the retrospective paradigm, the authors invited participants to listen to a musical piece and then estimate its duration. For the prospective paradigm, the authors invit…

Does family of origin make a difference in occupational outcomes?

2022

Disadvantages faced by parents adversely affect their children’s chances of success in the labour market. We study the influence of intergenerational transmission of parental socio-economic background on the educational attainment and occupational outcome of children, also considering gender differences. To tackle such a complex system of relationships across the outcome variables (both exogenous and endogenous), we adopt a path analysis model. In particular, we study the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage using the innovative and rich AD SILC database, which shows the evolution of occupational outcomes over eight years (measured by wages in 2011 and 2018). Our findings indicate…

Sex and Sexuality

2021

Abstract Symbolic interactionist approaches to sexuality state that human beings become sexual as they become whatever else and learn sexual definitions and sexual meanings just like they learn any other kind of meaning. Therefore, interactionist analysis shifts the focus of inquiry into sex from being sexual towards becoming sexual, which takes into account how sexualities are produced, organized, and negotiated, rather than tracing their sources in an immutable (conception of) nature. Sociosexual meanings give people the chance to define themselves and others sexually, to construct their sexual self and doing sexual things together in the shaping of more complex sexual choreographies and …

Dentro le mafie: donne, violenza, potere

2016

Attraverso il filtro di un'antropologia asimmetrica, il saggio presenta alcune riflessioni sulle donne di mafia. Proponendo l’ascolto delle loro parole; riconoscendo il potere e il ruolo del linguaggio femminile nei processi di fuoriuscita dai contesti mafiosi e ribaltando il punto di osservazione che ha contraddistinto a lungo gli studi e le riflessioni: dalla prospettiva maschile a quella femminile, dall’etero all’auto rappresentazione. È un universo femminile variegato. Difficile da raccogliere in un’unica definizione; che registra profonde differenze, quando incrocia contesti territoriali e criminali differenti (quelli di Cosa Nostra, della ‘Ndrangheta, della Camorra, della Sacra Corona…

Sexual dimorphism in primates: Where are we and where do we go from here?

1986

There are currently several debates taking place in palaeoanthropological circles in which the issue of sexual dimorphism is crucial. During the 60th Jubilee of the discovery of the TaungAustralopithecus skull, the authors concurred that much of the debate was due to differences in perception concerning dimorphism, and it was suggested that a study session dealing principally with sexual dimorphism in Primates should be organised with a view to determining what, if anything, could be observed in extant primates that might be utilised for determining the existence of dimorphism in fossil species. An advertisement was placed in the Journal of Human Evolution, calling for papers. Response was …

Looking back into trans persons’ experiences in heteronormative secondary physical education contexts

2017

ABSTRACTBackground: School is one of the primary settings where non-gender conformer children and adolescents emerge as vulnerable groups at high risk of suffering violence and harassment. Within schooling contexts, embodied experiences in physical education (PE) may become particularly problematic for trans students. However, there is little research focusing on trans persons’s experiences in PE. The purpose of this paper is to gather memories and impressions of a group of adult trans persons on their experiences in secondary PE.Theoretical framework: The concept of heteronormativity is used as a theoretical framework to provide insights and understanding to trans persons’s experiences in …

Opening up to trans persons in Physical Education–Sport Tertiary Education: two case studies of recognition in queer pedagogy

2018

ABSTRACTBackground: In western societies, commitment to social justice claims for politics of recognition when referring to gender diversity. Gender non-conforming people, such as trans persons, re...

The Gender diverse and the Genderless Conceptions of Marriage and Children’s Right to Develop their Sexual Identity

2016

The article is a philosophical analysis of the meaning structure of two competing conceptions of marriage with regard to children’s right to develop their sexual identity. These two conceptions of marriage make different metaphysical assumptions about human nature, which lead to different conceptions about the preconditions of children’s sexual development. The gender diverse conception assumes that human beings are born with a biological sex and they can be integrated persons only when living in terms with it. In order to develop their sexual identity they benefit from male-female interaction within the nuclear family. The genderless conception assumes that children are free to construct t…