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A Gender Perspective On Gambling Clusters In Sweden Using Longitudinal Data, Ulla Romild, Jessika Svensson, Rachel Volberg Jan 2016

A Gender Perspective On Gambling Clusters In Sweden Using Longitudinal Data, Ulla Romild, Jessika Svensson, Rachel Volberg

Biostatistics and Epidemiology Faculty Publications Series

AIMS - This study describes five groups of gamblers and changes in their gambling involvement and gambling problems over four years with a particular focus on whether gambling problems among men and women develop differently within the five groups. DESIGN - The study sample is a subset of participants from the Swedish Longitudinal Gambling Study (Swelogs). Six different clusters of past-year gambling, based on frequency of participation in the nine most common forms of gambling in Sweden (lotteries, horses, number games, sports games, bingo, poker, slot machines, casino games or TV contests) were identified in Two-Way Cluster Analysis after the …


Beyond Dichotomies: Gender And Intersecting Inequalities In Climate Change Studies, Houria Djoudi, Bruno Locatelli, Chloe Vaast, Kiran Asher, Maria Brockhaus, Bimbika Basnett Sijapati Jan 2016

Beyond Dichotomies: Gender And Intersecting Inequalities In Climate Change Studies, Houria Djoudi, Bruno Locatelli, Chloe Vaast, Kiran Asher, Maria Brockhaus, Bimbika Basnett Sijapati

Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Faculty Publication Series

Climate change and related adaptation strategies have gender-differentiated impacts. This paper reviews how gender is framed in 41 papers on climate change adaptation through an intersectionality lens. The main findings show that while intersectional analysis has demonstrated many advantages for a comprehensive study of gender, it has not yet entered the field of climate change and gender. In climate change studies, gender is mostly handled in a men-versus-women dichotomy and little or no attention has been paid to power and social and political relations. These gaps which are echoed in other domains of development and gender research depict a ‘feminization …


Says The King, Rushing Pittman Jan 2016

Says The King, Rushing Pittman

MFA Program for Poets & Writers Masters Theses Collection

A collection of poems.