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Tairora - From The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of World Folklore And Folklife, Terence Hays
Tairora - From The Greenwood Encyclopedia Of World Folklore And Folklife, Terence Hays
Terence Hays
Encyclopedia entry regarding the geography, history, and culture of Tairora located in the Kainantu District of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papau New Guinea.
Introduction: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke
Introduction: This Bridge We Are Building: “Inner Work, Public Acts”, Chris Bobel, Tim Sieber, Karen Suyemoto, Shirley Tang, Ann Torke
Timothy Sieber
The symposium for which this is an introduction arose like a flower out of soil usually not known for nourishing vibrant, critical intellectual reflections: routine university governance committee work. All authors have been co-members for two years of the Diversity Committee, of the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Sciences and Mathematics, at the University of Massachusetts Boston. While it is true that most of us share wider intellectual and programmatic collaborations outside this committee, it was genuinely the task of doing our committee work that gave impetus to this panel. For this symposium, we used as an …
The Female Fear / Book Review, Emily Adler
The Female Fear / Book Review, Emily Adler
Emily S. Adler
These four books written by feminists with both academic and activist credentials contribute to our understanding of how violence against women forms an integral aspect of male dominance. They challenge the myths of home as haven and of men as protectors of women.
Culture, Gender, And Labor Force Participation, Roger Clark, Thomas Ramsbey, Emily Adler
Culture, Gender, And Labor Force Participation, Roger Clark, Thomas Ramsbey, Emily Adler
Emily S. Adler
This report assesses the impact of culture on women's share of the labor force. Measuring both economic factors and cultural milieu, we found that culture was related not only to levels of women's share of the labor force but, in some instances, to changes in those levels. A secondary finding of the study was that the economic development of a nation had a strong positive association with increases in women's share of the labor force and that one measure of dependency (commodity concentration) had a strong negative association with such change.
Victimology, Emily Adler
Victimology, Emily Adler
Emily S. Adler
Until recently, the family sociology literature has been characterized by a conspicuous absence of research on marital violence. Efforts to fill this gap are evidenced by a growing body of material in the area. It is in this context that Victimology's Special Issue on Spouse Abuse and Domestic Violence makes a worthwhile contribution to the effort to expose the problem and propose solutions.
Neonatal Euthanasia, David Sugarman, Robin Montvilo, Colette Matarese
Neonatal Euthanasia, David Sugarman, Robin Montvilo, Colette Matarese
Robin K Montvilo
An attributional analysis of neonatal euthanasia was undertaken in two studies to compare the responsibility attributions of nursing and non-nursing students (Study 1) and nurses (Study 2) toward a physician for a critically ill neonate's death. In both studies, vignettes about a newborn's death differed with respect to the physician's treatment of the critically ill newborn. In the student study, the physician was attributed the least responsibility for the newborn's death when cardiopulmonary resuscitation was attempted but failed, followed by the physician's issuance of either a "Do Not Resuscitate" order or an order to turn off the infant's respirator. Greatest …
Balancing Yin And Yang, Roger Clark, Angela Lang
Balancing Yin And Yang, Roger Clark, Angela Lang
Roger D. Clark
The first three-quarters of the semester flew by. We learned about quantitative data analysis and I loved it. I really enjoyed the numerical manipulations and seeing how it all related to people. Everything was there in front of me. Not too much imagination on my part was really needed. Then it all ended. Professor Clark introduced qualitative methods and the anxiety began. I soon realized I had to reinvent my creative side, which is something that as an undergraduate I am not required to do very often. I was nervous that I would discover that I was not creative at …
Culture, Gender, And Labor Force Participation, Roger Clark, Thomas Ramsbey, Emily Adler
Culture, Gender, And Labor Force Participation, Roger Clark, Thomas Ramsbey, Emily Adler
Roger D. Clark
This report assesses the impact of culture on women's share of the labor force. Measuring both economic factors and cultural milieu, we found that culture was related not only to levels of women's share of the labor force but, in some instances, to changes in those levels. A secondary finding of the study was that the economic development of a nation had a strong positive association with increases in women's share of the labor force and that one measure of dependency (commodity concentration) had a strong negative association with such change.
Economic Dependency And Gender Differences In Labor Force Sectoral Change In Non-Core Nations, Roger Clark
Economic Dependency And Gender Differences In Labor Force Sectoral Change In Non-Core Nations, Roger Clark
Roger D. Clark
This study examines two versions of how economic dependency has affected relative gender positioning in non-core nations' labor forces since the 1960s. A "new dependency" version asserts that multinational corporate investment in manufacturing has transformed the labor forces of such nations, permitting women unusual access to relatively high-paying, if ephemeral, light manufacturing positions. A "traditional trade dependency" version suggests that, despite the aforementioned transformation in some non-core nations, the dominant form of dependency in most remains traditional: they export primary goods in return for manufactured imports. This version claims that some structures not only deter women's entry into the labor …
A Multicultural Feminist Analysis Of Picture Books For Children, Roger Clark, Heather Fink
A Multicultural Feminist Analysis Of Picture Books For Children, Roger Clark, Heather Fink
Roger D. Clark
The authors provide a multicultural feminist analysis of picture books for children by looking at the illustrations and listening carefully to themes of oppression and resistance in 33 picture books that focus on characters that are on the powerless side of some powerless/powerful social dichotomy. The authors find many images that either depict oppression or celebrate difference. They also find stories that extol the virtues of cooperation among similarly oppressed others, cooperation among differently oppressed others, and escape. They annotate the books to provide some sense of the themes of oppression and resistance that appear in each of them.
Of Caldecotts And Kings, Roger Clark, Rachel Lennon, Leanna Morris
Of Caldecotts And Kings, Roger Clark, Rachel Lennon, Leanna Morris
Roger D. Clark
The authors mark the twentieth anniversary of the classic study by Weitzman et al., which found considerable gender stereotyping in picture books for preschool children, by replicating and extending their study with an updated sample that includes books by Black illustrators. The authors find evidence that female characters and female relationships receive considerably more attention in recent books by both conventional illustrators and Black illustrators than they did in the late 1960s. They also find, consistent with the liberal feminist aims of Weitzman et al., evidence that male and female characters are shown in a more egalitarian fashion than they …
The Face Of Society, Roger Clark, Alex Nunes
The Face Of Society, Roger Clark, Alex Nunes
Roger D. Clark
We have updated Ferree and Hall's (1990) study of the way gender and race are constructed through pictures in introductory sociology textbooks. Ferree and Hall looked at 33 textbooks published between 1982 and 1988. We replicated their study by examining 3,085 illustrations in a sample of 27 textbooks, most of which were published between 2002 and 2006. We found important areas of progress in the presentation of both gender and race as well as significant areas of stasis. The face of society we found depicted in contemporary textbooks was distinctly less likely to be that of a white man, very …
Contrasting Perspectives On Women's Access To Prestigious Occupations, Roger Clark
Contrasting Perspectives On Women's Access To Prestigious Occupations, Roger Clark
Roger D. Clark
This paper identifies three theoretical perspectives on women's relative access to relatively prestigious, influential occupations: a modernization perspective, an economic discrimination perspective, and a dependency/world system perspective. It draws a set of contrasting hypotheses from these perspectives and tests them, through panel regression, with data from 57 nations. The empirical evidence offers support for the dependency/world system and the modernization views, but contradicts the economic discrimination perspective.
Adherence Among Women With Hiv Infection In Puerto Rico, Desiree Ciambrone, Helen Loewenthal, Lauri Bazerman, Carmen Zorilla, Brenda Urbina, Jennifer Mitty
Adherence Among Women With Hiv Infection In Puerto Rico, Desiree Ciambrone, Helen Loewenthal, Lauri Bazerman, Carmen Zorilla, Brenda Urbina, Jennifer Mitty
Desiree A Ciambrone
Women are the fastest growing segment of the adult population acquiring HIV, and most women infected with HIV are in their reproductive years. The success of HAART is highly dependent upon the ability and willingness of the individual to adhere to complex antiretroviral regimens. Improved adherence among HIV-infected pregnant women will delay disease progression in the mother and should also reduce HIV transmission to the baby. Modified directly observed therapy (MDOT), may benefit this population. MDOT has been shown to be an acceptable and feasible intervention among HIV substance users; however, no-one has yet evaluated the use of MDOT in …