The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew?s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political, and economic activities at stake in touristed landscapes as a result of globalization. This book...
Topics: Gender studies, gender groups, Geography, Human geography,...

1 electronic resource (466 p.)
Topics: Gender studies, gender groups, medizin, sociology, körper, soziologie, medicine, biologie, queer,...

What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of...
Topics: Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Gender, Innovation Research, Science, Technology,...

1 online resource (vi, 226 pages) :
Topics: Women in development, Women's rights, Women's Rights, Femmes dans le développement, Femmes --...

1 online resource
Topics: Children and violence, Violence in children -- Prevention, Social work, Age groups: adolescents,...

1 online resource (xi, 387 pages) :
Topics: Sex role, Sex differences (Psychology), Sex discrimination, Feminist theory, Rôle selon le sexe,...

1 online resource
Topics: Quality of life -- Research, Well-being -- Research, Communities -- Social aspects -- Research,...

1 online resource (227 pages)
Topics: Women Olympic athletes, Communication, Feminist theory, Social structure, Equality, Sociology,...

Abstract This study consists of two parts. The first part offers an overview of feminism’s theory of differences. The second part deals with the textual analysis of poems about ‘mothering’ by women from India, the Caribbean and Africa. Literary criticism has dealt with the representation of ‘mothering’ in prose texts. The exploration of lyrical texts has not yet come. Since the late 1970s, the acknowledgement of and the commitment to difference has been foundational for feminist...
Topics: Gender Studies, Languages and Literatures, Linguistics, poems, mothering, new English poetry, Open...
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