VOLUME 8(2) • 2018
GENDER STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS PUBLISHED IN SPANISH JOURNALS INDEXED IN THE JOURNAL CITATION REPORTS (JCR) AND THE SCIMAGO JOURNAL RANK (SJR) (1988–2017)
ABSTRACT. This paper describes the evolution of gender-related research in indexed communication journals in Spain, on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of all those papers relating to gender studies that were published between 1988 and 2017. Specifically, it analyses the scientific production o..
BEYOND MASCULINITY, THE FEMALE GAZE, AND THE GREEK CRISIS: EXPLORING ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARIS’S CHEVALIER AND ITS PARTICULARIZING RECEPTION
ABSTRACT. Greek cinema has been in the limelight of the international film world mainly from 2009, a date that coincided with the beginning of a new wave brought about by the rise of a new generation of filmmakers and the international success of their films, against the backdrop of the Greek econom..
WHY ARE WOMEN MORE VULNERABLE IN DEVELOPING ALZHEIMER DISEASE DEMENTIA? THE EFFECT OF GENDER ON INCIDENCE, RISK FACTORS, AND RESULTS
ABSTRACT. This article reviews recent literature (e.g. Biasibetti et al., 2017; Bonsang, Skirbekk, and Staudinger, 2017; de Oliveira et al., 2018; Lee, Lee, and Kim, 2017; Malpetti et al., 2017; Mosconi et al., 2017) concerning how sex and gender generate risk and resilience for dementia. Using data..
THE INSTRUMENTAL FUNCTION OF GENDERED CITIZENSHIP AND SYMBOLIC POLITICS IN THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF LABOR RIGHTS FOR MIGRANTS
ABSTRACT. Following Choo (2016), this article advances the notion that the rules regulating gendered citizenship may function as a tool of exclusion, isolating outsiders from individuals whom the state and society consider deserving of rights and respectability. We are interested in how prior resear..
REFUSING TO SERVE LGBT PEOPLE: AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF COMPLAINTS FILED UNDER STATE PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS NON-DISCRIMINATION LAWS
ABSTRACT. While there is increasing acceptance of a norm of non-discrimination against LGBT employees, opponents of LGBT rights are asserting a right to refuse services, particularly those related to wedding celebrations and health care, to LGBT people. While the media and court cases have focused o..
TESTING FOR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SPANISH MEN AND WOMEN ON GENDER SELF-DEFINITION ASSESSMENT
ABSTRACT. This study applied a mean and covariance structure analysis (MACS) to the data from a Spanish university sample to examine the invariance of the factor structure of the Hoffman Gender Scale (HGS) across gender. The findings indicated that the hypothesized second-order model structure of th..
THE CONSEQUENCES OF BLURRED BOUNDARIES BETWEEN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPHERES IN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETIES: EVIDENCE FROM DRUZE WOMEN IN ISRAEL
ABSTRACT. This paper explores the complexities of the relationship between the public and private spheres and their ramifications on women’s status in the context of patriarchal societies. It utilizes the Druze society in Israel, as a patriarchal society in order to illustrate its theoretical argume..
THE IMPACT OF WITHIN-HOUSEHOLD RELATIVE INCOME ON HAPPINESS: DOES GENDER IDENTITY MATTER?
ABSTRACT. Based on a household survey from China, this paper analyzes the effect of within-household relative income on happiness, taking into account the role of gender identity. Results show that the probability of being happy decreases significantly with the wife earning more income than her husb..
STRUCTURE, AGENCY AND CURRICULAR INFLUENCES ON GIRLS’ OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATIONS: THE ZIMBABWEAN EXPERIENCES
ABSTRACT. The goal of this study was to unmask the gendered nature of the Zimbabwean school curriculum showing how structure, agency and the curriculum impact on girls’ career aspirations by predisposing them towards particular occupations. In pursuit of this aim an exploratory sequential mixed meth..
PARALLEL NARRATIVES, COLORFUL VISIONS: ENCLOSURE AND LIBERATION IN TRACY CHEVALIER’S THE VIRGIN BLUE
ABSTRACT. The following paper examines the intriguing configurations of space in Tracy Chevalier’s first novel, The Virgin Blue (1997). Focusing on the plot’s exciting, intertwining parallel narratives of two young women born four centuries apart, I will discuss the various patterns of enclosure and..